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You are discussing an interesting moral dilemma for city-folk. Whole Foods and serious "Farmer's Markets" are more or less urban things. For most of the country one or two (shitty) supermarket chains, Costco and Wal*Mart are all the grocery store that we have. I'm not really in the sticks, but the nearest Whole Foods is 45 minutes away at best. The nearest farmer's market worth the drive is an hour away and only open three days a week. H-Mart? Forget about it. CSAs are in the area, but who wants a bushel of veg that somebody else picks out for you? WTF am I going to do with all this frigging eggplant?

Except for meats and dairy, expiration dates are mostly arbitrary, I think. Some things lose flavor if too old, like coke or beer, but they don't become dangerous. Someone in my household (who will go unnamed) threw out a bunch of just-expired condiments without replacing them last year. The "for better or for worse" clause needed to be invoked.

Gilbert gottfreid has an excellent piece on the outrage epidemic in a recent playboy magazine. I'd link to it but the PC nazis at GoGo inflight internet keep blocking the link as inappropriate. The irony. I'm outraged! You can google it anyway. The F word will turn up in it so don't be outraged.

In Florida for a few days. Restaurant food followed by a big jug of G&T on the beach with fireworks and cigars.

Right on that. The PC mafia regularly uses twitter for lynchings.

Really? I would be careful not to inhale in there.

I had to look up Nick Searcy and then the twitter rant. My goodness, what a lot of noise from a group of nobodies! But back to Adam Richman. Any publicity is good publicity, I guess. Unless one is molesting Airedales.

can you scrape them without screwing up the surface?

Celebs and athletes ought never to have a twitter account that they manage themselves. Oy.

He kind of dresses like a middle school girl at times. And that unibrow... But he is Canadian, so there's that whole thing.

Yeah, he's a little creepy in an undefinable way at times. But his food looks good.

I'd be frustrated too. Crazy situation to be in, but a revealing one just the same. The guy will disappoint you. And now you know it going into the job, which is an advantage. I've never had a boss who was perfect. They're going to piss you off sometimes. But you gotta work somewhere. Might as well have a boss at a good job who pisses you off.

As sensible as he is about oil in the water, he's still way off base about using a huge volume of water to cook pasta. Wastes water, energy and time.

I think I'd buy new powder. It is only going to get weaker as it ages.

I think it was an araucana chicken. They do blue eggs.

There are some pretty good places for food to go at SFO.

You know, if you worked in that kitchen for 6 mos, you'd start to feel cramped. Basing this on the 'If you give a mouse a cookie" theorem. That old TV still work?

Italian sausage sandwich with sauteed onion and red pepper that were coated with a reduced balsamic vinegar pan sauce. Potato salad with caramelized onions

How about android?

Tell us more about microwave chips please.

That is true. But low on the likelihood scale, I think. I'd let the paint dry then run it at temp with water for a day to leach out all the potential nasties. The carcinogens in smoked meat have to dwarf whatever might be in a spot of paint by a few orders of magnitude.

Interesting post. Good points.

Manitoulin on the horizon?

If you do watch out for their lawyers.

Impressive!