A little over a week ago I bought a smoker, basically a barbecue, but designed to cook with smoke rather than directly with fire. The way it works is that the cooking surface is in a large barrel and off to the one side is the firebox, a smaller barrel where you have the charcoal [...]
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Is Plastic Okay?
Last night, I stopped at the grocery store on the way home from work. As the checker started bagging my groceries, she asked, “Is plastic okay?” I said I would rather have paper. Now, here I don’t remember exactly what she said to this. I know that she said they didn’t [...]
Baby Butt Crack
I picked up Mexican food at a taco shop on the way home from work the other day. There was a laundramat a couple of doors down from the taco shop. There was this little boy about 18 months old playing outside the laundramat. Now, toddlers tend to be sort of pudgy, and this one was pudgy even by [...]
Call the Mayo Clinic
Most of my life, the packaging for condiments has been a jar. Mustard, mayo, relish, it all came in a jar. Some time in the last few years, it was decided that as a convenience these things had to be packaged in squeeze bottle. Brilliant. I can make a sandwich without dirtying up a knife. Hot damn. [...]