The next time an anti-BC moron runs off at the mouth about how making birth control available to girls encourages sexual activity I'm going to scream. It's like saying seatbelts encourage people to drive. Making something less risky does NOT equal condoning it!

For sure, we had fresh pineapple and cantaloupe for weekend breakfast pretty much every week, and it was all from ALDI. Their pecan pinwheels are an iconic taste of my childhood! And NONE of it made us sick — can't say the same for CostCo hot dogs, unfortunately!

Same parent company, yeah — I'm hoping my little progressive berg will get a bougie enough reputation to drag a TJ's in, but until then I've got ALDI.

MUJI kind of beat you to it, although I think most of their food products (which are REALLY generic looking) are not available in the US stores. But I would totally buy Mrs. Beeton's "Generic Brands" if you could match the exact block impact font from Repo Man.

Yes! I have a cousin who was a food chemist and talked about how a lot of the "proprietary seasoning blends" for snack chips and the like would all end up shipping to the same manufacturing locations, even for wildly disparate and competing brands. I still feel a little detective-ey when I figure out a duplicate,…

It's a pretty uncomfortable lede! It reminds me of the way HuffPo / local news commenters write "knee grow" to sneak past the autocensor...

Yeah... I dunno if it's supposed to be a joke but that makes for a reaaaaaaally uncomfortable headline.

Well, ~I~ shop at ALDI. Once you get them out of the outer packaging it's pretty easy to tell which ALDI brands are the literal exact same as other store-brand counterparts. Their Pita Chips are the same ones that Target sells as Archer Farms, a lot of their granola bars are same as the Kroger store brand ones. And…

I totally know what you mean. I think it's because it's so similar to eating noises. I can't deal with that either.

I'm with you! Can you imagine a world in which it was approximately the same for a man to do a frontal scene as it is currently for a woman to do a topless/frontal? Halle Berry can win Oscars AND take her top off. But I doubt the resistance is from the actors themselves as much as the production companies and…

Absolutely! An erection has pretty much one connotation.

I think that's a really interesting point! I've never thought about that. I've seen both men and women brag about their or their wife/partner's new breasts, fully acknowledging that they are not natural. On the other hand, look at how hair dye is marketed towards men — they won't even know you dye your hair! It's…

OK, in response to why our society is all "ewww, dicks" but not "ewww, boobs / vag:"

I agree, there needs to be a term for what you're talking about and I think Mercenary is perfect. Most people understand that you don't go to the Vatican to make your big stand against Catholicism, and you don't log on to Stormfront to decry how awful White Power is. If you're looking for hearts/minds to change,…

I think it's a control issue. People with very little power or control in their immediate personal life have a crack at being "right" for a change by deconstructing another person's comment online. And sometimes you're arguing or debating online and a critique makes sense, but as tyz's comment pointed out, a lot of…

And poop!

If you like it with flavored vodkas and you drink bourbon, I recommend any of the honey bourbons (Barenjager, Honey Jack) with seltzer and lime. I got a bottle for Christmas and had no idea what to do with it, but mixed with seltzer it was good enough for me to buy another bottle!

Gin and ginger ale with citrus is a "gin buck," and is/was a pretty common cocktail and I agree, they're super good. They're especially good with a really dry ginger beer like Goslings!

Personal preference, but I'd rather see a slightly yellowed smile beaming back at me than the blue-grey, bleach-compromised tombstones I often see instead.

Considering how many animals commonly kept as companion animals (dogs and horses come to mind) masturbate, I'm surprised this isn't more common knowledge...