Not going anywhere near a bar any time soon. It’ll have to be airline bottles and recommendations from my booze guys if I want to try anything different in the near future. And since the state mandates what can be brought in or sold, there’s not really any advantage to going to a larger store for me. While they may…

Hmm...I love el Jimador’s anejo...you’ve got me wondering now, though if they might have an extra anejo I could try. I hated tequila with a passion until my booze guys literally dragged me in off the sidewalk for an in-store tasting when they started carrying the brand to the tune of “BeerGuy thinks you’re gonna love…

This exactly. Sometimes you just want something crunchy even when you’re not hungry/snacky, and Sonic’s ice pebbles are just right to crunch on without worrying about your teeth.

Hopefully? A lot of takeout, and no further job losses.

I’ve never noticed there being any tendency for vegans to drink less than anyone else.

Every country is full of twits, but why are ours so bizarrely experimental?

Pasties being derived from pies and predating sandwiches, though, would argue against hand pies and pasties being sandwiches. Pasties were portable food for the working classes. Sandwiches came about because someone wanted to eat and play cards at the same time (at least that’s how it’s credited.)

I’m still just stunned over the people who ate them. Who the hell eats something they got unsolicited, in the mail, with unknown provenance, labeled in a language they can’t read?

I was going to say some kind of dough softeners and some kind of stabilisers for 5 and 6. Probably a cheap corn oil for 5.

Exactly. That earned a “what the fuck” from me. The only cheeses that should be “made from” mozzarella are burrata and smoked mozzarella (which I only included because my mother’s standing over my shoulder and insists it’s its own thing. Be nice if she’d go back to her office/desk.)

It was pretty much the only thing that got me eating eggplant again, having a stuffed Asian eggplant at a friend’s house.

Asian eggplants are better on that front than the globe eggplant. They’re long and skinny, so there’s not as much mush factor, and they’re a bit thinner skinned as well. If you can find them, give them a try.

That can cause really bad diarrhea, so not really all that harmless, even if it’s a good sight better than most of the ones we generally hear about. And now I want gummy bears, or better, Starmix.

Forget so-called Cancel Culture, Challenge Culture is what really needs to end.

Uh-huh. I knew it. They’re feeding us old dish sponges.

Easy fix. Just always have an episode or two of Chopped! queued up. Doesn’t matter if you ever actually watch them, it’ll be glanced at, they’ll think “oh, so that’s what she was up to” and life will go on.

Lean into it. Make the wine or distill the ever-loving hell out of it and make something new.

This is how we end up with banana-peel “bacon”.

Dee Snider would definitely have got me to buy Slim Jims. I loved Twisted Sister as a kid!

There really needs to be a “dad joke” emoji.