Agreed. Snow tires are for people who HAVE TO drive in the snow, and for people who live in truly snowy parts of the world. For those of us in that middle area, where it snows but the roads are usually cleared by the next day (41° n latitude, NEPA here), all season tires are the best choice. Thinking back 30 years, I…

I thought the B20 engine was a 2 liter? That was what I thought was in my 144e. Yep, just checked. The 1.8 was B18, the B20 was 2.0. Makes sense.

I’m 6’2”. It’s a great car. It’s too small for me. 

You know, it might matter what part of the country you live in. Almost all of my driving is Pennsylvania/New York/New Jersey. If I lived in Texas, or Nebraska, etc I might feel differently. 

My other car is a ‘97 Miata. 

Thank you for that clarification, I thought it was on all highways. I mentioned construction zones, I knew about school zones too but we were talking freeways.

An explanation for the cruise: most of my highway driving is in PA, where the speed limit on interstates is either 65 or 70, by law the State Police can’t ticket you until you are at least 10mph over, and in practice they don’t ticket you until you are 80 or over (other than construction zones, which have no leeway…

Cruise control. I have never liked it. Every now and then I’ll turn it on while on a trip, but after 10 minutes or so I turn it off. The newer ones, with the radar that slows you down and speeds you back up when you change lanes, is better. But I still don’t like it.

IDK. Maybe if it wasn’t ugly? ND, not even close.

No new articles since last month, is Skillet dead?

Going back a few years, I picked up a select grade whole tenderloin and made chili from it. It wasn’t as good as you would have thought it should have been, though. 

I REALLY like that. I’m going to start using it. 

I’ve never had it, but it isn’t calling me, either.

Easy NP. Buy it for $6500, drive it until you get tired of answering questions about it, sell it for $6500. 

5 out of 14 downloaded into Paprika. Not bad, considering that I already have my own version of a couple of them, and that porketta is so common here in NEPA that it is easier to just buy it in the grocery or from the butcher. I did notice a lot of Allison R. She is the best. 

I use anchos and guajillos, and a couple-t’ree chiles de arbol but not too many; it’s easy to make it hotter at time of serving, but there’s no way to cool it down for the tenderfeet among us!

Beans in chili. Ketchup on hot dogs. The rules are there for fun; of course it’s your food, make it however you want and call it whatever you want to. There are people who make chili without meat, and still call it chili!

I’m actually more off sugar sodas (type 2) than I am off alcohol (rare but not never). I keep those little 4-packs of wine in the pantry, each bottle is 8 ounces. I usually have a 4 pack of red and a 4 pack of dry white. So if you absolutely have to have wine to deglaze, that would give you the option of coke ‘n vin,…

As soon as I saw the photo I knew exactly what you were writing about. Beto’s (and Danny’s, right next door; but it’s Danny’s for hoagies, Beto’s for pizza) has been serving that style since the ‘60s. It’s been probably 50 years since I’ve had it. It was good for what it was, and the circumstances under which we had…

I spent a life in the car business. Having seen and been in the middle of many disputes, I am just as skeptical of customer claims as I am of dealers trying to play innocent. But in this case, the guy got bamboozled. He didn’t understand the documents; the salesman KNEW he didn’t understand them. In fact, I would bet…