I live in suburban Philadelphia, SE PA to be exact, and I’ve yet to see or hear the darn things.  My daughter loves them so she’s been waiting.

I will eat an entire bag of 30-40 shoshitos in one sitting easily.  This will make that even easier now.  I’ve never used dipping sauces with them but now I will be making those as well!!!

As a teenager I tossed my NES controllers all the time; but they were built damn tough. Tougher than the door to the NES which I broke off of two systems. As an adult I’ve been known to “slam” them down on a cushion or thick rugs from time to time but nothing approaching destruction.

I play on the Krypton community servers. They are opening up a Deer Isle server on Friday. They have a pretty active moderator/staff that I think takes care of the cheaters and griefers pretty well. Not so sure I like the trader aspect but it’s still fun.  And the loot tables are increased either 3 or 6 times so you…

I just made some schmaltz last weekend and the gribenes that were left over were excellent.  I have a whole chicken in the fridge that I’ll probably cook soon, but I cook it with the skin on so I loose much of the fat.  But I save all the fat I cut off chicken breasts and thighs for a few months to load up.

For Christmas morning brunch for the past 5-6 years (minus this past one of course) I have about 8 people over along with my family and along with the regulars: eggs, bacon, sausage, French toast casserole, prosciutto wrapped cantaloupelope, etc. I always grill two whole gutted striped bass. In both of the bass’…

I’ve gotten into DayZ lately. And while I’m sure there are cheaters in that game, the maps are so big and most servers only have up to 80 people that you can pretty much avoid them as needed. I try to find people’s bases and mess with them a bit. I don’t destroy the bases (it would take a long time and there are raids…

A spicy chicken fillet topped with creamy jalapeno cream cheese, three slices of Applewood smoked bacon, and a warm cheddar cheese sauce.

I love miso paste. Besides the obvious uses, I love to dilute a couple tablespoons or so in water for making rice.  It’s a nice change of pace from using chicken stock or bullion.  I will have to try the miso mirin sake marinade as I have all that in the pantry.  

Chips on a sandwich hell yeah. Primanti Brothers, GTFO. The fries and other stuff make up like 80% of the sandwich with the rest bread and a tiny amount of meat... for $14. And the fries are always soggy and gross as is the entire sandwich. They are nasty for any time other than drunk food or after a tailgate before a…

Yes.  The best team in each division get seeds 1-4.  Of those 4 teams one of them will be the best team in the conference and they will get the bye.

I know.  But at 45 it’s getting harder and harder for it to shed.

Yes.  Porters are the ones that have set it off in the past.  As for water, I have a 26 oz water bottle that I try to drink at least 2 if not 3 full fills of .

Purines are stored in fat so when you lose a ton of weight quickly it releases them into the blood basically giving you a spike of uric acid.

I haven’t gotten to the Allopurinol point yet, but last month I had a very low level flare that lasted 2 weeks. Just a sore toe joint that I was constantly was afraid would go nuclear. It didn’t but that got me to looking for a rheumatologist to see what the options are.

Gout is the second worst pain I’ve ever had. The worst being a herniated disk in my neck. I get gout in my big toe, either foot but thankfully never both at the same time. It literally feels like there is ground glass in the joint, it gets hot and the lightest cotton sheets feel like someone is jabbing hot needles in…

That may be the Guiness world record total, but the Preston and Steve show in Philadelphia collected 2.679 million pounds of food last year over 5 days with one company donating over 700,000 pounds on a single day. So while that may not be an “official” record, I’d say the Trash Pandas have some distance to cover over…

In my experience, after that first job no one cares about your college grades, scores, transcripts, etc. other than that the degree is real. And even if it’s not, if you’ve proven to be effective at the job they don’t really care.

We spent 3 weeks down the Jersey shore in June. We’re from the Philadelphia suburbs so it wasn’t far but still not home. I was furloughed at the time so I got a great 3 week vacation going to the beach every day with the kids, fishing with friends, happy hours starting at 1 or 2pm. My wife on the other hand is a field…

Both of my boys have had concussions; my 8 year old - 6 at the time -while riding his bike (he was wearing a helmet but the ground has zero give) and hit a rut going down a hill and went headfirst into the ground, and the other got his grabbing a rebound and coming down jaw first on a shorter kids head. Both times we…