Exactly. I make a lot of carnitas in mine. Is it as good as proper slow simmered carnitas on the stove for hours? No. But I’m also not taking the time to do that at home.

Why all the Instant Pot hate lately? “Oh, it’s for lazy millennials to make trash food.” It’s a pressure cooker. Pressure cookers are useful and can make very delicious food if you know what you are doing. Next up, mocking people for pellet grills or mandolins.

Can we just reserve that angst for mocking Thermomix?

Non-Coloradan here....and take that statement back. It’s an insult to Charles Ernest Cheese. It’s like hiring a James Beard chef to take over that former taco bell down the street that lost it franchise rights but still kept selling bad tex mex fast food made even worse by having to get substitute ingredients that…

It feels like a cop-out to mention the pandemic in relation to the original closing. That play was a dimly lit dumpster of a theme restaurant for years before that. A dingy time capsule to an era when novelty was a selling point for a restaurant (looking at you, Rainforest Cafe). But most importantly.....

The food was…

Right cheese is important, as noted in other comments, but also one other easy trick......only flip once and put the cheese on shortly after the flip. By the time you are getting that perfect medium doneness your cheese will be melted and ready to go.

This checks out.

How?  This shrine takes 30 seconds to figure out.....if you don’t notice at first (which I admittedly didn’t) you turn around to go back to the start and it is obvious the spinning platform is held on by a horizontal spike.  Maybe I’m overestimating most players ability to use logic, but it literally shows you the…

Side note....I’m from one of those places and now live in “spicy food” country. People always assume Midwesterners can’t take spice. Reality is, myself and many of my friends eat and love spicier food than a lot of southerners/southwesterners. Hell, my nephew used to have his own bottle of hot sauce for his lunch box…

Potato Oles with nacho cheese is the best fast food side dish ever.

That this trademark battle was just a Taco Bell marketing ploy to begin with?

Diner in the local mall had similar when I was a kid, but with white cheese instead of yellow.  I loved them but they disappeared as so many things did from those times.  Fast forward a few decades later and my favorite burger shop in Tulsa (Fat Guys) has a pizza burger that captures the same flavors, but in a high…

South, east, AND west? That really narrows it down. How is New Orleans lately?

My old is showing, isn’t it?

This list needs Rogue Leader.  Even today I am shocked that game is running on Gamecube.

Bribe a worker at McDonald’s......Quarter Pounder (or Double) with cheese, bacon, grilled onions, and hot mustard. You’re welcome.

But seriously, can we avoid calling a marketing campaign by a mega-corporation “the good fight”?  

Counterpoint: F*** Taco Bell. They aren’t fighting any altruistic fight. Guess what.....we use the term Taco Tuesday in my office all the time. Tex-mex joint we go to on Tuesdays has Taco Tuesday specials. No one cares. Taco Bell just wants to be able to use it to build a tik tok campaign on it to woo the youths, but…

As Torch pointed out.....always 2 years away.

Yeah, but true pros will order their quarter pounder with hot mustard instead of the standard mustard and kethup.

Oh, and can’t wait until you learn about The Quail car show and how much the caviar costs (spoiler alert: nothing). Should make for a great read when you rant about that.