Since I knew the bartender, on slow nights he would make upside down margaritas - that where you lay your head on the bar and the tender makes the margarita in your mouth. (punch line: “but man when he grinds your mouth in the salt dish - that can sting”

I got realigned very fast when I ordered pork in Paris (in a small 4 table restaurant next to Hotel Moliere) - my waiter told me they serve it pink so I tried it and now cook it that way myself.

Since chocolate is a colloidal solid with the cocoa powder suspended in oil. In the old days, bad chocolate was like sandpaper because they did not blend the chocolate enough to smooth the rough edges on the powder.

The vanilla plant is an orchid; there may not be any wild vanilla left in the world; there are a couple hundred VOCs given off when you let vanilla ice cream melt on your tongue - they wind their way up into your nose, to the back of your throat...sigh! Eating good vanilla ice cream can take forever. People laugh at…

My mother is French, she says that the mold is a flavor enhancer and eats the cheese anyway. The different blue-cheeses are created by leaving them in a cave to turn moldy. I do not eat the green on sharp cheese - I just thought you should hear about a lift-time cheese-eater who probably built up an immunity.

I never use powder dishwasher detergent - my repairman said that if you use just a little too much, it won’t all dissolve. The undissolved powder then begins to sandblast your glassware; I use liquid detergent and do not over use.

Some of us have no clue about how ‘best’ to do a room. I am getting rid of a forest green leather couch and want to do something but do not know what. I suppose I should call someone, sigh!

Wasn’t it “clean and well-spoken”?

I have friends who freak out when I tell them I use kosher salt to clean my c-i pans. It is a nice, soft scrubbing compound that will help remove some burnt-on crud. I am, however, smart enough not to use water when I use salt.

Seattle has Beth’s which serves 12 egg omelets on a huge platter of hash-browns (which are unlimited). I admit to eating the omelet and the hashbrowns in one sitting in under an hour - when I asked if I won anything, the server just laughed (I was hoping for a “I ate the whole thing” sign on their wall but nah).…

I prefer dogpile but doing their own research is always a good start - hell, even bing! would be worth a shot.

Start here:

Language usage changes; ‘by accident’ has seen declining usage since about 1900 with a dramatic drop in usage after 1999. People no longer speak the way I remember growing up in 1960 and, much as I hate it, usage changes (remember when patronizing had 2 different pronunciations? one for going to the store and one for…

Is this the result of male judges who buy their elections? Did the prosecutors sign-off on this? I hope there is outrage and election consequences.

One time I somehow ended up on a Polish fishing boat with a friend and a non-English speaking crew. I know no Polish but ‘No problem’ said with a smile can get you over a lot of rough spots (I think most non-English-speaking countries say ‘no problem’ like non-French speaking countries say ‘Voilà’). Poles drink vodka…

Why the fuck did you even bother to respond? Jesus H fucking Christ are you so effing up your own ass that you think anyone cares what your opinion is? Especially since you did not even comprehend what the article was about.

“Clean and well spoken” was what they called Obama

I got fired from a famous Seattle coffee maker where I was temping. My temp manager asked me if I used the word ‘labia’ somehow when describing how to take an espresso machine apart. I just stared at her, stunned - trying to imagine how one would be able to do that. Years later, I was talking with some friends in a…

I was young and ignorant when I mixed bleach with ammonia to really get the floors clean - we had to shut down the restaurant for the evening.

Shipping water from mid-Pacific has got to the stupidest waste of resources ever.