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When my late wife was in our local hospital, she chose the turkey dinner because "nobody can screw that up" (Me: "?????"). What she got was three slices of deli/sandwich turkey breast roll, instant mashed, gravy from a powder, and three baby-cut carrots, at something just above room temperature. For the rest of her stay, I brought her meals.

Hmmm. Cetaceans are mammals. I wonder if we'll ever see aged white cheddar from whales?

Not my thing personally, but I'm all in favor of anything that makes you money and attracts attention to your business. My first step at one of my jobs, immediately after culinary school, was running the under-performing pizza station. I was utterly shameless in throwing anything we had left over onto a pizza, and finding combinations that made some kind of sense to me. My proudest moment was probably the time we found a bunch of frozen squid while doing inventory. The Athens Olympics were underway at the time, so I stewed the squid, cooled it in its sauce, and then put it on a pizza with black olives, red onion, diced tomatoes and feta. I called it "The Olympian." About half the people who looked at it made faces of disgust, and said "Oh my GOD! Squid? On a PIZZA?" The other half looked at it with faces of delighted incredulity and said "Oh my GOD! Squid... On a PIZZA!" and cleaned us out.

When I worked at Radio Shack, many moons ago, we always had a locked display case filled with various timers, clocks, watches, etc. A common prank to pull on "the new guy," opening the store for the first time, was to set *everything* in the case to start going off one device at a time, beginning about five minutes before opening time and continuing for a solid hour. It was a classic of shock and AWE.* (Applied Workplace Evil)

I switch monthly, or thereabouts. I've been doing it long enough that I can even use a right mouse left-handed, or vice-versa, without really thinking about it much.

I feel for you. A few weeks ago, stepdaughter's massive mastiff cross thought it would be funny to dash between my legs at full tilt while I was in mid-stride (and bear in mind, I'm only 5'7" and relatively short of leg, at that). Fortunately she caught me at just the right part of my stride, and I was able to three-hop my way back into equilibrium without any unscheduled gymnastics. It wouldn't happen that way again in a million years.

That's why I now have a landline again for the first time in years.

I'm in the process of adjusting to one now, having just upgraded the fridge in our new house from a 24-inch, semi-functioning unit to a massive 36-inch, 27 cubic foot behemoth (bought used but well cared for, and in excellent condition). I can definitely see the benefit of things not cascading from a top freezer to my unshod toes, but I'm not (so far) enjoying the stoop-to-get-anything aspect of it. That being said, my upright freezer will soon take its place next to the new fridge and at that point anything in the bottom-freezer section can be Somebody Else's Problem.

Nothing shows in either the Play Store or the App Store. At least, not for searches based in Canada (I don't currently use a VPN, so I didn't try it with any other setting).

I did this pretty much for the entirety of the past three years, living in a rental with a 24-inch range. That gave me three small burners and one large, which was inadequate, so I put a cheapie induction hob alongside the range. In practice, I ended up using that for the vast majority of my cooking.

This. There are times when "don't feel like it" means a piece of bread and peanut butter, or a banana and a handful of walnuts. Other times it's "breakfast for dinner," or something I can throw in the slow cooker or Instant Pot and forget about for a while. I guess the short version is that there's a spectrum.

I don't pickle a lot, but that's the one I always buy. I find the purity to be fine for my purposes, and because I always use weight rather than volume measures for this sort of thing the grain size is immaterial. I'm not even certain which other brands are available here.

A recent review of how the various macronutients affect satiety and weight gain/loss. The TL;DR version? "It's complicated," and most of the prevailing theories (such as the carbohydrate/insulin model) have sparse support in the data and plenty of contradictions. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451965021000946

It's interesting you should mention blue cheese in the context of celery, because I find them a wonderful pairing. When I was a sprout I'd eat celery with Cheez Whiz on it (I never heard of "ants on a log" until I was a grownup, and thought it a truly bizarre combination), and celery with blue cheese is basically the adult equivalent.

I've cooked the same mix on the brown rice setting in my Zo, and it came out well.

The presence of seeds is literally what defines a fruit (which includes eggplants, tomatoes and bell peppers). Seedlessness in fruits simply means they're smaller/less mature/less noticeable when harvested for human consumption. As noted by Heidi, gender in this context isn't a thing.

Tripped across this on Twitter today, because former eGer Monica Bhide retweeted an ad for it (with what feelings, I can only imagine). https://evochef.in/product/ec-flip/ Commenters on the Twitter thread had a lot of fun with it ("When the printer jams and you need to print a test idli...").

Not Anna, but it's uncooked according to the product page. https://www.presidentschoice.ca/product/pc-chicken-kiev-4-pieces/20503397_EA

Thank you for the extra info. When I bought my backup Cuise I got a tolerably full set of accessories with it, including a stem extension and a truly startling number of discs (it was a pretty nice throw-in). In truth all I was really looking for was a replacement bowl (mine was cracked), and everything else was basically a throw-in. I have yet to use a single disc, but as time goes on and my arthritis worsens I can see this being useful stuff to have. Also, though we don't entertain a lot, it seems a much faster way of prepping for a crowd than knives or even a mandoline.

I was fine with old-school analog dials, and in fact used to have a commercial Toshiba model from the ...I dunno, late 70s?...with that kind. My current one is much higher-tech. By way of illustration: Previous microwave: Punch in time (eg 1-3-0). Press Start. Current Microwave: Dial knob clockwise, not too fast or I'll miss it... Crap!...missed it... Dial knob counterclockwiseTOOFARCRAP! Dial knob clockwise, v e r r r r y slowly to 1:30 Press start. In actual practice I often just hit the "Quick minute" button, and then take it out after the number of seconds I really wanted. Yes, to be clear, I'm (slightly) exaggerating for comedic effect, but I do find the dial inconvenient to use. As you say, different strokes.

My favorites were numbers 3 and 5, but 8 gets honorable mention.

Thank you. Duh. I knew I'd feel like an idiot once I actually saw the word.