It’s a great article I would have never seen but for The Takeout - I can’t be on top of every new article in digital Jesuit Review publications, try as I might.

I would say paid lootboxes, pay-to-win games with armor/weapons locked behind paywalls, and microtransactions are all worse “gaming scams” but I didn’t wear any of the ponchos I unlocked in this game, either.

I am shocked that in my early 30's, I still have friends that scoff at paying for Spotify and instead use unpaid streaming services like Pandora. It is literally the cost of like one large fancy coffee at Starbucks a month (and I am on the family plan with my wife, even better).  I would cut off Netflix before Spotify.

I will have to try it.  I absolutely cannot stand most session IPAs.  Wolf Pup Session IPA from Golden Road, Founders All Day IPA and others that I can get around me have an offputting skunky flavor to them.  I would rather just drink a good lager/pilsner than have an IPA parading as low cal.

I’ve noticed a trend in my East Coast city that a lot of the really good breweries are starting to put out more and more really crisp and flavorful lagers, pilsners, kolsch, and other beer styles that are typically lower ABV and easier to drink than the big 8% DIPA yeast-bombs (that I love dearly).

It makes sense if the entire culture agrees on it, but if this guy’s single-man-crusade is just going around NYC not tipping waitstaff, servers, stylists, etc., then that is a far cry from some noble call to action.

I’ve bean wondering about this myself.

Marie Sharpe’s stuff is good, but for flavor/heat combo the absolute best is Melinda’s XXX Habanero. I am also very partial to Secret Aardvark’s habanero sauce.

Yah this is a bit of a “meh” from me because I really don’t care for NB beers, at least the ones available on the East Coast. Fat Tire and Citradelic are two of the most overrated beers that still get pushed by decent bars all the time.

It’s run to the Border, not drive to the Border.

Loath as I am to introduce memes into the comments, this one is just too spot-on to pass up:

I agree with Dick Cream (good to see you over here bud, spotting old DS commenters is like spotting a Mountain Gorilla in the wild)

We have a Wegman’s now and I like it OK, but I don’t like how much of their offerings are Wegman’s brand stuff.  I just want some damn Hunt’s ketchup, not Wegman’s Solid Gold Catsup or whatever.

“you can tell those noodles are super overcooked and soggy”

Thank you, I always get so confused about these kinds of posts and they do seem to pop up everywhere. 

Negging a recipe based on a picture (on a blog, not even in the actual cookbook), having never cooked or tasted the dish, is about as useful as people who leave 1 star movie reviews after watching a one minute trailer and not watching the actual movie.

No.

Your comment would make some sense if the ordinances were put in place with promises that it would cost less to the consumer or that it would maximize efficacy from a cook’s perspective (hint: they weren’t). User name definitely checks out.

My goodness, keep up this hyperactive hand-wringing and you’ll bleed all over your keyboard. No one is “having to stop and explain” why ordering a Negroni is not a racist ploy. Maybe you should subscribe to the rule that if you are only person in the world that thinks a totally harmless thing is actually racist, the…

“MEN ARE SO SOFT THESE DAYS! But also, I am scared to order a cocktail that is named after a 19th century boozy French general because it starts with the same letter as a racial slur.”