Grosse Point Blank is one of my hinted five. Minnie Driver just seems so utterly believable to me no matter what she does, but maybe I’m lust-blind because I always thought she was pretty.

Not really trying to define a norm. Cola is just cola; some citrus flavours, caramel, sweetener, mostly caffeinated, originally from a bean but I think caffeine is all synthetic now. I use the term cola when I don’t intend to indicate a specific brand like Coca-Cola or Pepsi, amongst hundreds of others. Cola is …

Seltzer is carbonated from a natural spring, soda water is water that’s become carbonated, and club soda is soda water with stuff in it to adjust mineral content, acidity, and flavour, so I think of club soda as man-made, carbonated, mineral water. I’ve never heard a distinction between spring water and mineral water…

She has been in so many great films and worked with so many big names living the no-small-parts dream, but she broke my heart in Return to Me. It was that movie where I pondered why she wasn’t headlining more often.

That is one fascinating map. Note that even the map doesn’t explain if soda, pop, and coke are equally referring to cola.

Thank you. Not necessarily cola, so maybe soda was a good choice of words while the LDS thing could have been left out.

Are you saying the term soda in this article could be any flavour of soft drink for a dirty soda, depending on who’s serving it? I’m just trying to understand a poorly-worded description.

Are you using the term “soda” in the sense of unflavoured, carbonated, clear, fizzy water, or is “soda” being used as a substitute for “cola?”

No knock-off recipe recommendation? There are many on the interweb.

Researchers observed new methods eclipsed the stratospheric operating cost of the 747SP.

Again, just a hypothetical. Has the limit always been 21?

Only hypothetically. There could be a process I’m unaware of or regional differences. Also, people lie.

Essence is the means by which something can be identified as what it is, its category. My history excludes bean sprouts or celery from that means.

A lot of commenters responded to this, but what I’ve seen are mostly financial limitations for not driving, most examples from post-secondary students.

I’ve seen this and can confirm that’s the way I’ve seen it in practice.

Bad news. Every commercial insecticide I looked up included spiders as listed victims. Call it pesticide if it helps. I’m not here to argue about mandibles, leg joints, or comic characters.

I was thinking the same. Given an infinite variety of swapped ingredients and sauces, half a Chinese restaurant menu could be called chop suey whether Americanized or not.

Potential issues with hygiene, reality for not.

It’s happening. They give it away here but I imagine the future might include a for-profit enterprise.

I’ve always wondered; if roasted sesame seeds make for great oil, is there such a thing as not-roasted sesame seed oil, and what it might be best used for?