When spices were precious and expensive, the wealthy demonstrated their class by liberally spicing their food.

I recently tried making a winter stew in the Instant Pot using, among other things, some frozen cauliflower florets and frozen cubed butternut squash (very tiny cubes). Pureeing the thing wasn’t even required—the butternut squash and the cauliflower completely dissolved of their own accord from the pressure.

Perhaps we should all switch to hydroponic salad ingredients so that the “raccoon craps in a field” problem is no longer a concern for outbreak.

Buy a high-quality reusable water bottle and use it everywhere. A nice, vacuum sealed Klean Kanteen or Hydroflask is worth its weight in gold, and the fact that it will keep my stuff colder for several hours longer than plastic gives me a compelling, practical reason to use it over buying a disposable water bottle.

If you ever lived with lazy or passive-aggressive roommates, washing your dishes by hand immediately after you finished eating was an easy way of avoiding the headache of whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher.

I miss Funcoland. I seem to recall well into 2000-2001, on the cusp between the PS1/N64/DC era and start of PS2/Gamecube era, I was still able to walk into a Funcoland and look at a giant bin of NES games.

Oh good, one more reason to hate that fucking roundabout.

Can you confirm the address on the Dunkin? There’s like six in Fairfax, and I’m just curious which one it is. It would be very interesting if it’s the one on GMU campus, given the number of college kids that spend 2-4 hours there on any given night using the free wifi.

I really feel like we didn’t get the MLK/Malcom X parallels until Chris Claremont’s run in the 80's. Stan Lee’s Magneto was a fairly one-dimensional villain. In the Stan Lee era, Magneto’s dialogue was closer to this:

Still sad it’s not Danny DeVito. 

Some insurance policies don’t give two shits if you “know where the problem is.” They still won’t pay for a specialist without a referral from the PCP.

Legal: Jailbreaking/rooting smartphones

Man, your mom was harsh. Star Fox 64 only takes two hours to beat, tops.

The Chinese government is slapping their foreheads that they let an American company come up first with the idea of constantly uploading the contents of one’s clipboard into the cloud.

How have they not been sued into oblivion for this?

There are a non-zero number of 1* reviews complaining that the blanket actually caught on fire, and it seems like it would be unconscionable to continue listing it.

There are a non-zero number of 1* reviews complaining that the blanket actually caught on fire, and it seems like it…

I suppose the dish’s name should be a hint, but: curly green endive or Belgian white endive?

But is distilled white vinegar > white wine vinegar for vinadaloo?

Are you in your apartment when you film LH videos? The kitchen area looks so compact I can’t imagine being able to setup a camera in front of you.

“I am not successful and I resent other people’s success.”