Olives don't belong on the planet, so they're a gimme.

The mystery of ita... so beautiful, so brilliant, so deadly, yet so very wrong.

I must remain silent on the avocado question, as I both love it and get terrible stomach cramps from it. Its omnipresence does make dining out as a vegetarian awfully hard -- it's always turning up in random food items that I didn't warn the waiter about because I couldn't imagine anyone putting avocado in there. Luckily, the dessert menu is quite safe; even if the chef has gone hog-wild and created something exotic like avocado ice cream it's right there in the title, easily avoided. Thank God for the dessert menu!

I just realized that I didn't know how olive oil was made, so I had to look it up. Now I know about malaxation and pomace.

Nearly every sushi joint around here has some variation of a "New Yorker roll" with salmon and cream cheese in it. This is where I get my inner Rio on and start shouting "EAT A FREAKING BAGEL, WHITEY!"

When I hear the phrase "New Yorker roll," my first impression is that it comes with a wry cartoon. Or maybe a Chrysler hubcap.

Also, salmon and cream cheese are nummy, and it would be a good thing if our most brilliant scientists were to devise more clever ways to deliver it.

I will agree with Lee that muffins do not belong in sushi.

Is that because you have that whole "sushi should be small bite size" thing?

OK, so it is a good guess that all the trucks and equipment parked at Western & Polytechnic High now are for filming, right?

I feel like the Haddad's trucks are always there? Like they maybe rent that spot in the parking lot? But maybe only when the filming is going on in the area.

I just realized that I didn't know how olive oil was made, so I had to look it up.

They don't just squish olives?

malaxation

Is that when resting goes terribly wrong? t /Balderdash

I feel like the Haddad's trucks are always there?

No, they disappear for stretches of time. What stretches, I can't tell you cause I'm not paying that much attention. I just pass by there every day.

They don't just squish olives?

Squish, churn the paste, and now they use a centrifuge to extract the oil rather than squishing them A LOT more.

Is that because you have that whole "sushi should be small bite size" thing?

Even very small muffins do not belong in sushi.

But yes, sushi should be bite sized. Not just because it's traditional and giant sushi is impossible to eat with chopsticks, but because giant sushi is never quite cut as nicely as properly sized sushi -- the pieces of fish just too big to avoid all the stringy bits.