I dont know about the jumpsuits in only white and black versions. More utilitarian grays or browns would be the way to go I would think.

Any novel that’s really long usually gets me a question or two. “WHAT is that? WHY are you reading it???”

Wow.. I knew that the restaurant biz had low margins.. but this sounds crappy... and I’ll walk myself out for that pun.

I’d be shocked if Jeffrey’s dislike of Ina’s cooking is the biggest secret in their marriage.

This could be masochism, but I just set the box to record a Garten show tomorrow morning where she makes cupcakes. It’s your fault. Her family really don’t get Yorkshire Pudding and that bugged the hell out of me.

In Minneapolis/St Paul, the card return is commonplace for me. I wonder if I’m just hitting that perfect storm of only the minority of bars that do it, or if it’s a lot more common than the writer describes.

Speaking for the Minneapolis/St Paul metro, both things you mention are actually fairly common. Places that keep your card usually do so because they have old POS systems. It seems like a certain “type” of bar that has self-serve water, but the places that don’t do it are either more focused on food service, or just…

I had a job where one of my coworkers also worked part time at Barnes and Noble. She was talking about shelving new books and she said she came across one called How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. She said, “Who buys this book??” I sheepishly raised my hand because I had a copy.

The wars in the comments were my guilty pleasure.

I got more than a few odd looks while carrying “the Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich” through airports in Mexico. Seems there is a huge swastika on the cover.

I was reading Dostoevsky on a lunch break at work (this was in the 80's). My manager asked what I was reading and when I replied “The Possessed” he shook his head and responded with “The crap you kids read...”

if you aren’t already aware, it moved a few times, and changed names, but there’s a version still out there.

I got some looks while reading a book about D.B. Cooper on an airplane.

I imagine a version of that commercial where one girl looks up and says “Haggis!”... and all the other girls look at her saying “EEEEWWWWW”... but with one saying “what’s haggis?”

In unrelated news, today I ate was too many Snyder’s of Hanover Hot Buffalo Wing flavored pretzels. They’re so addictive!

The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinage (Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l’école du libertinage) by Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade.

Agreed. I hate all the ones that try to taste like meat. Like the reuben and the gyro and they HARD SHELL TACOS ONES that tasted like ground beef. It’s upsetting.

Ok what’s everyone’s favorite random new chip flavor?

I used to read about serial killers like it was my job. Nothing like being at B&N while reading a book emblazoned with SERIAL KILLERS in red to make people give you room.

I recently tried Sweet Heat (or something to that effect) Skittles and after that experience, I am inclined to fully agree with that GQ article.