I life in Florida. Can’t move. But we happen to live in a relatively liberal bubble area - a small one in a larger city. That has to be enough for now. Desantis is behind only Gaetz in embarrassing behavior and Desantis is more dangerous because he eats ass more convincingly.

That’s a good point. I guess most experience cooks know the water-to product ratios for rice and pasta, but it’s lazy writing to think that everyone does.

I hate this kind of “data.” Florida is several states. Upper regional pie is usually pecan pie. Lower is key lime pie. Apple pie? We don’t grow apples in Florida. I mean, almost everybody likes apple pie, but I’ve never been to a gathering where it was served. Buttermilk pie is my favorite - but I have to make it…

She used the word “choose” - well, there ya go. 

I thought corned beef and cabbage is an American semi-tradition? Plus, it’s like turkey for Thanksgiving...you can always eat corned beef and cabbage on any day of the year. I usually make my vegetarian Guinness stout “beef” stew with cabbage, smashed potatoes and soda bread. 

If you can find them, this brand also makes O-shaped pasta, like Spaghettios! I found some at a local market and have been using them to make spaghettios for my granddaughter. (Basically just carrot-forward tomato sauce with a hint of honey over the O pasta and a sprinkling of parm.)

I love me some Captain D’s (similar to LJS) - not gonna lie. But we live on the Gulf Coast and there’s a place downtown (about a mile away) that has the best fried mullet and backbone and oysters I’ve ever had in my life. When I get the itch for fried food, I usually just go there. Yeah, so any fast food fish is a…

We have always eaten those. I use them in recipes too. Specifically I make gyros by slicing the patties into strips and sprinkling on some Cavender’s seasoning, browning - serving on pita with tzatziki, feta, tomatoes and lettuce. They are also our go-to burger. The only other product of theirs I buy regularly are the…

What does that have to do with my comment? I think the fact that vegetarians only eat meat subs “occasionally” is the problem for the lack of ongoing sales. Meat eaters eat meat daily - if not multiple times a day. I don’t eat meat subs daily or even weekly, whereas you say you eat meat once a day. See the difference?…

I like meat. I just don’t eat it. So I appreciate meat-like alternatives, as does my husband (even though he does eat meat). He likes that he doesn’t feel like shit after eating a veggie burger, for example. People like us will always enjoy the meat subs, even if we only eat them occasionally.

Don’t overlook canned seafood and frozen seafood. We live along the Gulf Coast, but I often crave salmon patties like my Nannie used to make. (When it’s in a can you pronounced the “L” - SaLmon.) Also, my guilty crave is tuna mac with canned tuna and Kraft Deluxe. Oddly enough, that’s what my adult daughter craves as…

I’m a pescatarian - I just can’t give up fish! We live along the Gulf Coast and have access to some great fish. Grouper, snapper, flounder, sheephead, mahi, tuna, mackerel, mullet...This area breeds conservative asshats, but as long as they have fish we have to stay.

I loved this episode and cried, like, ugly cried. In the back of my mind I was thinking of all the homophobes who were going to lose their shit, and I hate that that thought kind of muted/mutated my emotions. 

As one does.

My mother was a first grade teacher for 36 years, so I was raised around teachers in a loving, supportive environment. I was an avid reader and after I’d exhausted our elementary school library, our librarian would borrow books from the middle school for me. I never in a million years thought we’d reach an era where…

Me too! I really do buy that brand. I just think it’s funny that by calling them “happy eggs” that makes all the other brands “sad eggs.”

This certainly outrageous! How does a judge have that much power?

I buy Happy eggs too. Because no one wants to buy sad eggs.

I just priced eggs a couple days ago at our local Publix. It was less than $8 (7.95?) for two dozen. Those are the generic eggs. The fancier brands are are around $5.50, just slightly higher than they were in the past. And of course the fancy fancy eggs have always been costly.

Yeah, we eat the Impossible meat when it’s on sale. BOGO this week at Publix! I use it to make bulgogi, but not hamburgers. We cobble together meat alternatives from various brands - Gardein for meatballs (very fennel forward!), Morningstar Farms for burgers (we don’t like thick patties), and Beyond for brats. But…