No. The answer is no. Giving out fake candy, or god forbid an apple or box of raisons makes you an asshole. 

I loved the comment about feeling like a chimney sweep with both Prue and Maggie around.

You can get Zweigel’s shipped now, so we order a bunch every once in a while. We’ll make up a batch of Bill Gray’s/Tom Wahl’s/Nick Tahou’s style hot sauce for them.

If you want a unique regional hot dog, I suggest trying white hots. Its a very local upstate NY thing, I’ve never met anyone who’s heard of them outside the Rochester area. They’re derived from weisswurst. 

The Terror is an obvious one. The show was uniformly great from top to bottom. The writing, acting and directing were top notch, the sets and costumes excellent. I really don’t get how it ended up with basically zero award recognition.

With a bit of Escape from New York.

Oh damn, that sounds like something my dad did. But, he wrote to King about how he could never finish Cujo because the kid dies. I had just been born recently and it made reading anything where kids die too much.

I had an edition of Old Curiosity Shop with an introduction featuring a selection of the angry letters Dickens received after killing off Nell. Its still a bad thing, but its not new. At least in Doyle and Dickens’ cases they were the creators, so at least the things that happened in the stories were their choices.…

I liked the podcast a lot, it was too bad there was never a second season. But maybe the comic can move the story forward. 

1. Less water

We’re doing Upstate Feast for the holiday weekend, which includes Cornell chicken. Its a very simple recipe, but makes really juicy flavorful chicken.

You can also just not peel the potatoes. I’ve never peeled the potatoes in potato salad.

Anything is better than water cooked. 

I get that Tony loves his kid, but not resetting time completely was an act of monstrous selfishness. 

A glass dish over a regular sauce pan is fine.

Anything that says you can caramelize onions in 5 minutes. That’s such a bullshit lie, it is simply not possible. That makes me immediately question the writer’s ability. 

You didn’t care about Grunt? I love my big space frog son. His Citadel story is adorable. 

The one with the osso buco especially. Damn that looked good.

You also would have to avoid pets. My cats are the same way. They hear anything that could be food and they’re all over it. 

I think with mint its down to the amount and how artificial or not it tastes. A lot of fake mint will absolutely taste like toothpaste.