Please don’t freak out - there are plenty of coral-safe sunscreens: https://www.hawaii.com/blog/reef-safe-sunscreen/

Is there anything that isn’t bad?

I mean, they make coral-safe sunscreen. They made me buy it in Puerto Rico before I went kayaking in the bioluminescent bays. A quick google search says there are at least 12 brands available right now. This is just our corporate overlords screeching about profit margins, which they are welcome to do from the comfort…

she’s just Jenny from the block...

Demanding booze on-hand at all times

When I was in grade 7 back in the early 80s, I did a book report on Wifey, just to be a brat because I hated my teacher.

When I was younger, I liked Diane Keaton. She always seemed very cool, and her Annie Hall character (I saw it in the ‘80s, when I was a kid, and I didn’t know about Woody Allen back then) was someone I kind of aspired to be. You know, the early version of the “adorkable” young woman.

I can’t stand Diane Keaton. Woody Allen advocacy aside, I absolutely cannot tolerate her flustered, stammery “acting.”

The irony of the Sandra Brown ‘do of course being that she can write sex scenes in CIRCLES around E.L James and has been since the mid 1980s.

Okay first off:

I keep telling Olive Garden haters “I don’t want authentic Italian Food. I want all you can eat pasta for $9.99.” Real Italian restaurants are expensive!

I’m Mexican, same concept here lol. Never once went to a Mexican restaurant on my own accord. Not once did I ever think that it was as good as home cooking; the tortillas are a lie people, get over to or make friends with a Hispanic asap lol I’m sure their mom or grandma will feed you until you explode. I hear the…

So, basically, your Chinese-American parents treat Panda Express the same way my older Italian-American relatives treat Olive Garden.

I did some project management for point of sale for Panda Express years ago. I was impressed with their company. No franchisees - every restaurant is company owned. Cooks are trained by the company in the home office in Rosemead, CA. The ones that stick around get master classes, again at the home office. Veggies are…

I love Chinese food, both the more traditional variety and the Americanized variety. I usually try to have at least one Chinese meal in any foreign city I visit. I was recently in Paris and, after being unable to get into a more traditional place, which has been regarded as one of the best noodle houses in the city,…

When I was in college, I worked in the food court of the student union building for a couple of years. The Panda Express management was really nice, and they were the only chain in the place that wasn’t stingy with leftovers. At the end of the night when we closed, they let us come back and fill up a to go box. As a…

Friendly reminder that Chinese Food (as opposed to Chinese food) has a longer American history than the fudging hamburger. To hold its lack of “authenticity” against it makes as much sense as, well, holding a lack of authenticity against the similarly misleadingly named “Hamburg-er”.