The Raisin Bran Crunch is amazing - a top-5 cereal.  And ditto on the grits - some butter and a dash of hot sauce and you are good to go. 

Aldi-brand cereal is pretty good and really cheap - especially the Aldi version of Blueberry Frosted Mini-Wheats.  Like $2 for a box, and it’s really good.  They often have Honey Nut Cheerios, the BIG box, for like $4.  Knockoff cereal in general has gotten A LOT better than the old days of bagged crap I grew up on,…

One can always find the Log Cabin Republican hahahaha

The bagels and bread are even worse...it is Midwestern “Mayo is SPICY!!!” land and I cannot wait to get out of flyover country. 

Never had Papa Murphys...I’ve fortunately always lived in places with amazing local pizza, usually many styles of local pizza.  Then...I moved to the Midwest where it’s all bad.  All of it hahaha a few local pubs make good pizza sure, but delivery options are all bad.  It’s still pizza, and it’s still better than…

When you have a choice between a chain and a locally-owned there is no choice - it is the social and community-minded choice to go local.

Of the big chains people order for work parties, kids birthday parties, or other “gotta feed a lot of people” functions and they don’t want to pay for GOOD pizza, Papa Johns is OK.  It’s not good pizza by any stretch but pizza has a pretty low bar to clear to be decent.  That’s Papa Johns.  Decent.  Adequate. Cheap.…

Wondered when that would be caught hahaha tiny bit of trolling there, for personal pleasure.  Take your star! 

Part of the article is about fine-dining restaurants and their inclusion or exclusion of a burger from the menu.  I’m arguing against it.  

I don't want to see the 5 star special occasion place become a haven for spending account lawyers 

Upscale burger joint is not the same as a 5 star French restaurant...not even close.  

Yeah but no. A restaurant that aims to be high-end and provide unique dishes needs to sell those dishes at a reasonable markup to stay open. A burger does a number of things beyond smaller check totals - it also signifies that a higher-end place might not be so special after all, driving AWAY the very clientele they…

Obviously, I don’t really give a shit...but you clearly really, really do.

Sure am!  If you actually read my post it talks about regional pride, the silliness of it all, and compliments breaded wings too.  Why are you on a food site if you don’t want to talk about food? 

Time to be pedantic...

If there’s one take-away here: increases in efficiency always go into the pockets of the guys upstairs, never into wages or better prices. Adam Smith was wrong. Can we just stop kidding ourselves about this?

Whew.  We are all relieved by your insight and wisdom.  See you at the Applebees Ayn....

We will know computers have achieved sentience not when they kill us, but instead, when they serve us a "spitter".

You are really worked up over being told WHERE and HOW you spend your money matters to people aside from yourself. Your selfish and self-centered view of life is sad.

I bet you spent a lot of money on trucks mods.