Almost all highly processed foods use some kind of citric acid as a perseverative, so it’s really hard to get scurvy even if that is all you are eating. Even a thing of McDonald’s ketchup will have enough vitamin c in it to keep you from getting scurvy. 

Potatoes and ketchup will give you basically all the nutrients you really need to survive (not to be particularly healthy, but you’ll live a relatively normal life). He really did just pick the wrong foods.

I mean, if we are being critical, it didn’t even really end up working for Jo. She ended up a wife and mother who didn’t write anymore by the end of the series. 

I personally did not want any of them to marry Laurie, as I thought his obsession with being part of the family was gross

My favorite part of Beauty and the Beast is knowing that Beast gets turned back into a human member of the nobility just in time for the heads to start rolling during the Terror. Also, even as a kid (before I was a dirty red), I had to wonder how effective a monarchical system really was if the local prince could…

She’s also 12 at the beginning of the book, which I feel like people sometimes forget because she is so involved in the affairs of her much older sisters. Kids are supposed to be insufferable at 12, that’s just how they are! 

Considering that marriage was pretty much inescapable at the time once you got into it, I think Amy was also pretty smart for going with the devil she knew over the one she didn’t. Laurie might not be the brightest bulb, but he does genuinely love her family, seems willing to accept her criticisms of his character and…

I always found her to be a lot less hypocritical than her sisters, because let’s be honest, the ONLY reason they are able to act the way they do and not be total pariahs is that they are from a respectable (if now impoverished) family. If they were more firmly lower class, Jo running around with the boys wouldn’t be…

Thank goodness. Hopefully a couple other of the candidates (anyone named Joe, John, or Ryan or whatever all those random dudes on the wings of each debate were called) take the hint and leave while the going is good.

Seriously. The Marches/Alcotts were a lot of very good things (abolitionists!), but they also come across as just horribly self-righteous and self-important. You can hardly blame Amy for wanting to get away from her buzz-kill relatives every now and then.

I, too, have grown to appreciate Amy more and more as I get older. We are meant to feel bad for Jo when Amy gets to go to Paris- but honestly Jo had always been kind of nasty to her Aunt and just assumed that she would get to go to Europe anyway, despite her attitude. Amy is the only one with the good sense to keep on…

Well, I can add this to the list of reason why you won’t ever see me on one of those damn boats. I’ll put it somewhere between “they are health and safety nightmares” and “my idea of hell is being trapped with other people and no way out.”

Seriously! I mean, both my Nanas and my great-grandmother would wrap their hair up at night (a habit they’ve passed down to me: my hair is super short and prone to bedhead). The Italian/Portugese heavy town I am from had a plethora of women who would wear scarves outside to keep the wind from messing with their hair!…

Yea, I mean, I guess it’s possible it was far more common among the Italian/ Portuguese women that I’m related to than the WASP set, but I remember TONS of older women wearing them back when I was growing. Especially if they were grocery shopping super early in the morning or late at night. My Nana always said it kept…

I mean, in addition to the inherent ridiculousness of this women apparently never interacting with any black people, ever, did she never have a Nana? My family is white as hell, but both my grandmothers always wrapped their hair up in silk scarves before they went to bed to help keep it set. It is really not a new…

Yup! And every time I visit home my mom, one of her friends, or both mentions it at least once. 

As someone from New Hampshire, I assure you that nothing in the state was so exciting it would have caused the VP to not be able to go there. Not a lot happens in NH. The Old Man of the Mountain crumbled in 2003 and people are still talking about it. 

I am so excited to see this film! Everything I have seen or heard about it looks so interesting and so well-done!

If people are looking to get rid of some of their mass paperbacks, I cannot recommend enough donating them to prisons. Most prisons won’t accept hard covers, so a gently-used paperback is great. Prison libraries tend to be hugely under-funded, and incarcerated people need productive things to do to fill the long hours…

For sure! This article from the WSJ talks about how the U.S. Women’s team has brought in more money than the men’s going back to 2016. I’ve included the CNBC link in case you can’t get passed the paywall on the WSJ article, but they are based on the same sources.