Burger King knows their customer base, and accordingly they hire burnt-out stoners to do their advertising. This is the only explanation for the Burger King, for Chicken Fries, and for the Submissive Chicken.

OH MY GOD A CONSTRUCTIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION—I can hardly believe it.
This recipe looks pretty damn good. Thank you for linking to it.

I remember Pizza Hut being really good, maybe ten years ago. Recently I tried them again—two different locations—and it's so revolting that I couldn't eat it either time.

If you are overseas, every American pizza chain that you ever heard of (by which I mean see commercials for) is bloody terrible. This is mainly due to their ingredients being bland as hell.

What coryscalhoun said. Locally-owned pizza shops are the way to go. If you are lucky (we are in San Antonio), there'll be a variety of mom & pop places that will make you a truly delicious pizza. If you are extra-lucky they'll deliver it to your door.

Of all the crappy chain pizza, Little Caesar's is the most tolerable, and also delightfully cheap.

Papa John's is the goddamn worst.

My husband's high school job was as a delivery boy for Domino's. All these years later he still won't order pizza from them—not because of any horrid behind-the-scenes secrets; just because their pizza was, at least then, overpriced cardboard.
I occasionally ran across Domino's pizzas in college. They were overpriced…

Jesus Fucking Christ, AVClub, put the fucking comments back the way they fucking were. PLEASE.

Thank you.

I could have typed this exact same comment. Nobody seems to do basic maintenance on those fucking things!

I dunno for sure, but "eugenics" was a popular topic of the time, discussed and espoused by educated people. It was a kind of scientific excuse for racism.
(Kindly remember that the science of the day also found nothing wrong with transplanting animal glands into people to boost their libido, nor with encouraging…

No, I love the food articles! I'm saving the recent one on ginger beer because I love ginger beer and I haven't had time to give it the focused attention I feel the subject deserves.
Also, you haven't been in a real Internet war until you've argued about a food-related subject.

In my long-ago youth we had a milkman AND an eggman who brought us eggs every week.

I have geologist relatives who work specifically in the area of soil contamination. Fuel stations/convenience stores are their most common sites.
It's mostly just a few spilled drops of fuel every few customers; but imagine how that builds up over months and years at a busy store. Rainwater, etc. washes it off the…

Speaking for myself, I would not be at ALL surprised to hear how common it is for customers to be careless at the gas pump.

Not relevant to the subject matter, but Dachshunds were called "Liberty pups" and German Shepherds were referred to as "Alsatians." I thought Alsatians were a separate breed of dog until someone explained this to me.

I had no idea that this was how our modern version of grocery stores/supermarkets came into being. This is a fascinating piece.

Rami Malek is…sorta warmish.
By that I mean that when I watch him (he's a wonderful actor) I get urges, not to fuck him but to make him some tomato soup with milk and a cheese sandwich, and maybe a glass of milk and a cookie. I want to comfort him. I want to feed him and put him to bed with a warm puppy.

Eugene is Team Eugene.
People forget that Eugene was once at the mercy of the Saviors, on his knees with his hands bound behind his back, and clearly terrified…and then he bit Dwight full-on in the crotch so his friends could get away.
I am glad the character is mostly kept in the background, but I do love what the…