It’s excellent.

Lipton is/was also big in the dry soup mix market.

I don’t think FDA, even in its best times, tests the packaging (the problem with this recall is not the product itself but the fact that it isn’t in child-resistant packaging).

In an all-timer review of the Calizza, the NY Times had this to say:
"Since the strength of [Pizza Hut ] is far away from most Italian-American population centers, they are quite free to make things up as they go along, without fear of any outrage from the purists."

“Baker and Taylor closed.”

Oh it’s live-a-live for sure.

Totally not the point but there actually is a murder mystery set in a fictionalized Whittier called City Under One Roof!

The TV show was one of the first tv-shows-on-dvd I owned and some of the bits from it had real staying power. And it was a show I could enjoy with my dad. Adams wasn’t as bad of a gut-punch as JKR but still hella irritating to see happen.

More than once I’ve photocopied (or scanned) and enlarged part of a pattern

Also yes

The giant sturgeon statue just off exit 310 on I-75 in Michigan.

This is such a vibe, there are definitely some iOS games from this era that I feel this way about. Castlevania Encore: Puzzle of the Night is the first example I can think of, as well as some excellent board game adaptations by Playdek. It was a very good era.

One of the worst things about our electoral system is that it lets people who live in states that consistently vote 45/55 feel morally superior to people who live in states that consistently vote 55/45.

“It’s something about the way you wear that pencil in your hair that spells money.”

*ruffles through my jacket haphazardly* Wait, is this the "Almost Christmas" image you were looking for? No? Gee, I'm sorry!

And the smartest sheep in the flock - in the book, anyway - is called Miss Maple 🍁