Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.

Willow ,'End of Days'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Sep 29, 2022 9:55:27 am PDT #17723 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It all looks so awful.


Laura - Sep 29, 2022 9:57:15 am PDT #17724 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Yes, I have been watching their local news all day and more and more drone footage is showing the mess. Lots of roads and bridges gone. Beachfront mansions. Gone.


DavidS - Sep 29, 2022 11:23:05 am PDT #17725 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm still getting used to my new double oven, which came without instructions.

So when I tried to make a frittata, I wanted to use the broiler to brown the top. But instead I burned it all entirely black.

And I thought, "Well, that's an hour's worth of cooking and food wasted. Or....I can take off the burned top and treat this like a kind of strata."

Eggs, veg, cheese. It didn't look great but the underneath tasted fine.

My thought was, "You know what fixes just about anything? A good cheese sauce."

Now it turns out that Bi-Rite makes latkes you can buy before Rosh Hashannah. Which I did.

So if you're thinking, "If you took that strata and those latkes and you covered them both with a gorgeous, savory, chedder-y sauce that'd probably taste pretty good."

And you would be right.

In conclusion: Cheese sauce.


sj - Sep 29, 2022 3:03:03 pm PDT #17726 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Normally this would be TCG’s night to take ltc to karate, but they have Krav instructors guest instructing today. So, I had to tag along.


sj - Sep 29, 2022 3:03:53 pm PDT #17727 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Yum, cheese sauce!


Steph L. - Sep 29, 2022 5:16:43 pm PDT #17728 of 30000
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

I am suddenly sad that my veggie-tastic stir fry doesn't have cheese sauce.


JenP - Sep 29, 2022 5:24:53 pm PDT #17729 of 30000

I also had no cheese sauce for my turkey burger. Tragic, in retrospect.


Laura - Sep 29, 2022 5:32:36 pm PDT #17730 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Our dinner was BBQ chicken and a broccoli/cauliflower mash, sans cheese sauce, which clearly was an error in judgement.


DavidS - Sep 29, 2022 6:16:52 pm PDT #17731 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I took my leftover cheese sauce and put it on my roast beef sandwich and guess what? It was improved to the power of cheese!

Which is a mighty power indeed.


dcp - Sep 29, 2022 6:51:56 pm PDT #17732 of 30000
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

...the power of cheese!

Reminds me of the series of commercials in the late '90s.

e.g. [link]