Great idea, and timely too, Sam.

I’ll second your produce trepidation. I once made the comment to someone that every time I went into Aldi at least one produce bin was moldy. I was challenged on my assertion so I made a point to verify for the next two months. Every time I went, around twice a week, I snapped pics of something in the produce…

Right there with you, Sarah. I am usually forced into avoiding the fresh berries of all kinds at my local Aldi. They almost always have the fuzz, and I’m often disappointed with the non-furry stuff I get there. Most of my fruit goes into smoothies, so I rely on frozen. I do appreciate their deals on bananas. What I…

I was about to comment the same about Produce. For whatever reason, their produce just does not keep.
Bell peppers especially always go bad quicker than ones I buy from Walmart.
Onions as well, tried buying a bag because we use them frequently but they still went bad before we were halfway through the bag.

I’m a…

The Aldi’s in my area recently started accepting credit cards.

I’ve had good luck with the 8 and 12-inch T-fal Nonstick Professional Frypans. Together they can be had for around $60, if that, and can take a relative beating. My wife has used them practically everyday for the past two years, and while the bottoms are discolored from all the heating, the nonstick surface is still…

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I’ve just been buying everything online lately. The Spice House has been a great resource to me for everything I can’t find at Whole Foods or the local culinary obscura.

Not sure where you’re getting your info, but they are tree nuts and can cause severe allergic reactions.

I had no difficulty completing Sonic Mania. This is not my first rodeo. I grew up with a Genesis because I wanted to one up my NES-owning friend down the street. Sonic has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Here’s a picture of the Sonic action figure I found at my parents’ house the other day. I…

I love the pre-cut half sheet parchment paper packs from King Arthur. Among other things, I find ‘em useful for pizza—I can build a bunch of pizzas on parchment sheets, then bake them off one after the other. As opposed to constructing on my peel, and then being unable to do another until the first is removed from…

Plastic rice washing drainer thingy. Cost me like $4 on Amazon. Makes rinsing rice so much easier, it has little ridges to help with agitation, the holes don’t drain to fast and it has a nice pourer for pouring the rise into the rice cooker afterwards. Totally a one use tool but I’m a rice snob so love it.

(A former escort told me that the porn and sex work industry run on them.)

Yep. I use contraceptive sponges for this purpose, but there are warnings all over the packaging not to do that. At least those sponges are sterile.

Saving this idea for Evil Week.

I’m sure they could say “Oh, they’re military codenames.”

“...Whatever.”

and who read lighthearted internet words literally, as though he’s genuinely advocating people not to have children.

it’s always easy in these comments to tell who doesn’t have kids