I have two guinea pigs named Brownie and Muffin. Also a cat who my kids have tried to name many times but nothing has stuck. She looks when I say Cat, so Cat it is. Thankfully she has no interest in the piggies but their habitat is secure just in case.
Lillian Stone
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Staff writer @ The Takeout, joke writer elsewhere. Wrangling dogs and pork shoulder in Chicago. Ozarks-born dweeb of the hillbilly experience.
My sister had a pet rabbit named Buster (before Tiny Toons) but the rest of the family all called it Stew. And the more she told us not to, the more we wanted to do it, because siblings suck like that.
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I have four cats, but two are named Tidbit(ala pineapple) and Peanut. On looking back, I should’ve maybe named Peanut “Sweet Pea” instead.
I wanted to name my cat Nacho but was overruled by my SO at the time.
We have guinea pigs, Marshmallow and Noodle. They are not in danger of getting eaten. Our cat is named Vesper, which is a cocktail, but she was named after the town in Ultima.
I have a BEAN! She’s a gray cat who I wanted to call Blue Jean or Jean Genie - but it kept being Bean. Eff FB which will not let me get to my old pictures. Who thought that would be a good storage system? Read more
I hear the sirens echoing tonight
But I heard only whispers of some quiet conversation
There’s a flurry of bell peppers in flight
Its moonlit skin reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten sauces or ancient recipes
He turned to me as if to… Read more
Imagine if you were in the office and someone put out muffins in the break room and you took one and then someone else shot you with a tranquilizer and when you woke up you were in Azerbaijan.
Would you mind sharing your google doc (with change access only for you so people don’t ruin it)?
My wife likes to research restaurants and stuff before we go on a trip, and I will talk to people who live in/are familiar with the places we are going to visit, and we will check out the ones that seem most interesting from that, but we also allow ourselves to freedom to just pop into any interesting looking spots we… Read more
Boy, it depends. Every vacation typically has a signature restaurant to try. My next one will probably be Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa, for example, but I look for something remarkable in whatever travel area I’m visiting. For many of these, I keep a spreadsheet list which is now at 52 places internationally (thanks,… Read more
I tried the stuff while visiting coffee farms in Hawaii, and while the descriptors they provide make it sound great I found it sadly lacking. It seemed overly sour and astringent with a subdued flavor. It might have been poorly brewed but I would temper your expectations.
This is more like a refreshing iced tea to be drunk cold on a hot day than a cup full of rocket fuel to get you going in the morning.
I bought a 4-pack of cans for my wife (she loves tea, hates coffee) and myself to try on a whim from a local coffee roaster (Pilot Coffee Roasters, if anyone cares. They make amazing coffee!), and was extremely pleasantly surprised when I drank them. Drank them ice cold straight out of the can. Refreshing, fruity, a… Read more
The good folks at Twin Engine Coffee Co. have been marketing cascara as Caturra Tea for a few years now. Tasty stuff, in gorgeous packaging, from a really lovely growing community....it’s organic too, for those who care about that sorta thing, and they have some very nice coffees too, fwiw. Read more
One of my weirder restaurant experiences was sitting at the bar, watching the bartender throw canned fruit cocktail and a bottle of Boone’s (or Boone’s-adjacent) sangria into a picture and charge $30 for it without shame. Did not order a drink that night.
A case of Boone’s Farm Apple wine was 10 bucks in 1970. Worth every dime.
This article took me back to the hazy days of Snow Creek Berry (or, if I got lucky at the 7-11, Strawberry Hill) and dancing on top of my much-older boyfriend’s Volkswagon!
What’s the target for this? People that like moscato but wish it was even weaker and grossly sweeter?