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It's actually "yakult swallows," which I am afraid to tell my inner 8-year-old.

Well, that's not nearly as hilarious.

Where can I get some Ham Fighter merch, is what I want to know.

Everything about this is excellent, including the team names.

It’s a little hard to tell from the picture, but this is a Mother & Child Japanese LEO. A fluffy lox & onion omelette with ikura.

I like it fine, but I'm not all that excited about it.

I can help you with Asheville, 'cause I was there on my 2017 eclipse road trip.

You can't really compare egg to plain to schmura, though.

If it was Stephanie Marie, we have a mutual friend.

But the water knocks things around more at a fiercer simmer.

My chawanmushi does not have a silky smooth top, maybe because I steamed it over too-high heat? Someone spill their pascaline secrets, please, so my next attempt is prettier. Also, the shrimp got overcooked. The chawanmushi was still good, though, because I made a nice dashi and the oyster mushrooms worked very well and what's not to like about ikura. Broccoli rabe oshitashi. The recipe I used lacked sesame oil, so I'm gonna add that to the leftovers as the pounded seeds are just not doing it for me.

I went to a new gynecologist today, and her name is Meena, and the whole time I wanted to call her Spicy Mina, but you don't want to chance pissing off someone with a speculum in her hand.

Why is this Passover thread different from all other Passover threads?

No, it's Scooby Doo's catch phrase.

Spelling Bee also does not recognize certain dicey words like nappy and bimbo (gigolo is fine, though). And the other day I learned that this 100% legit (albeit unpleasant) word is verboten as well.

Here, you can borrow mine. https://scrabble.merriam.com/

And yet Mecca is legit, despite (as far as I know) being a proper noun.

I keep emailing them to complain that various words (like "bended" and "unindicted") are not allowed.

I was usually there for the folk-ish music, which functions as an effective yuppie repellent.

This is a very mild version of my opinion.

Is Acme even remotely still Acme? I checked their Yelp page and it seems like a bottle service club, with a particularly nasty server named Natalie.

Bluefish in curry sauce, fava leaves with oil and lemon. Not pictured: Me realizing that the bluefish was grievously undercooked, and scraping all the fava leaves off so I could microwave it (after that, it was really nice). Also not pictured: Me wondering why some of the fava leaves had neat little holes in them, before discovering that I’d been refrigerating a small black slug for about a week.

Most definitely. Everyone's getting priced out of Brooklyn. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/dining/these-brooklyn-restaurateurs-are-crossing-the-east-river.html

My drink was excessively reasonable, in that it was free, because the bartender took pity on dopey-ass me. How does this work? You would go often, but only for intermittent periods of time? I used to go now & then in The Wayland's early days, and the vibe was VERY different than it is now. A lot more laid back, an older crowd.

Last night I went to The Wayland to see my friend perform in a Loretta Lynn birthday tribute. Which was actually at The Waylon. So all I saw was crowd of raucous 20-somethings drinking Tecate. Sigh.