“Must not be allergic to polonium.”

Poisoning is for girls. And we rarely assassinate - although I consider it daily, lately.

This is Nigella Lawson.  She can teach water pouring, toast-buttering, or anything else in life... and have an admiring audience.

If you ever find yourself thinking “that’s too much butter”, you are wrong.

As a Canadian, it hurts that this is the case. At the same time, thank you for writing this. We really can’t afford to deal with the US’s shit right now. I wish it weren’t like this, but it is.

Mexico was so easy when I get my residency visa three and a half years ago. Income requirements were so low and they gave me, a digital nomad, the visa based on retiree requirements. At last reports, digital nomads are still easily getting visas, but the income requirements have skyrocketed. I’ll be a permanent…

In tropical regions there are a wide variety of bananas. So much so that locals call the Cavendish “hotel bananas”. The other varieties are what they use for themselves.

I was asked to track down some soju for my wife’s, uncle’s birthday a few years back. He was born in Korea but has been in the States since his early 20s.

I lived in Korea for a while and can honestly say that both Soju and the Korean drinking culture are not something I’m nostalgic for.

The average red delicious sold in a megamart is grown to mature fast, store for a long time, travel a long way, and look nice. They taste terrible.

Whoever came up with the name Red Delicious has a cruel sense of humor.

I’m with you on Red Delicious apples. They may be red, but they are far from delicious.

My former mother-in-law routinely makes cobblers that she claims are for dessert, but dessert always ends up being drinks and cards and chips, and the cobbler comes out the next day for breakfast. I have tried to convince her to just admit that she makes it for breakfast, but “No, no, it’s for dessert.” No one…

I like good, robust flavors to wake me up. Kimchi, natto, salty stuff, sour stuff. Eating bland or sweet foods for breakfast is a true sign of moral lassitude, sexual repression, and continental sensibilities.

In France, a slice of apple pie is a perfectly cromulent breakfast

Accurate. These debates are absolutely pointless. They aren’t going to change anyone’s mind, and there’s not a single person sitting on any fences at this point. Everyone knows exactly who they’re voting for, despite what they might tell others.

Awe but I loved how you found your Grandfather’s name! That was very uh ... syncronistic, and happily spooky.