There's so much going on in Talk and the comments week to week that we almost can't keep up. If you're in the same boat, here's a small selection of topics and responses that have piqued our interest this week.

Cereal Eats: Mexican vs. American Cereal Showdown

"Tono Tigre looks like he's gonna punch me in the face, if I touch his cereal, on the first box, then we get down to the tiebreaker round, and he's pointing to the bowl. It's like "TOUCH MY FLAKES AND YOU'RE GONNA GET IT. HERE TAKE THESE. OR ELSE." " —lili13

Drinking the Bottom Shelf: DeKuyper Fruit-Flavored Things

""Angry stinging cherries" sounds like it should be the name of a pop punk band composed of 13 year-olds." —Amandarama

Hero, the Barking, Dog-Shaped Hot Dog Steamer

"There's something equally cannibalistic and magical about this." —Taylord

Do You Like Fried Oreos?

"Stand tall, fellow Oreo fan, stand tall.

Fried Oreos exemplify the hidden beauty of frying. Sure, crisp crusts get all the love when frying's on the table, but just as important to me is the rapid, omni-directional heat transfer and the profound change the interior of a food undergoes in the oil bath. Frying Oreos is an alchemical process, transforming cookie into cake and pale batter into gold. It softens and crustifies just so, in a way only frying can.

As far as I'm concerned, fried Oreos may not be haute dessert, but there's nothing low brow about them." —Max Falkowitz

Carpinteria, CA: Almost 100 Years of Burgers at The Spot

"The Spot is a great place to "pick up on chicks" when you are 13 and your parents drag you to the Carp State Beach Campground." [Ed note: Well, we know how Burger365 spent his childhood!] —burger365

Carl's Jr. and Hardee's New Steakhouse Burger: 'Tastes Like It's Made by the God of Hamburgers'

"I never thought I'd see the word "nubile" on A Hamburger Today, but boy, was I wrong.

...dead wrong." —Dennis Lee

The Pizza Lab: Sausages And the Science of Salt

[Photograph: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt]

"One of the greatest abominations ever hoisted upon the pizza are those pelletized sausage "nuggets" the chain pizza places use. I used to deliver for Dominos and remember when they switched from hand-pulled chunks of sausage from a 10lb slab to the pillow pack pellets. Saved about 12 seconds in assembling the pie, but the flavor/texture is just horrible. Like a salty, fatty mutant hybrid of sofa cushion material and weatherstripping. This is the devil's sausage. " —monkeyrotica

Are You Guilty of Patronizing Chain Restaurants?

"I feel guilty about everything I do, so yes.." —Walrus McDoodle

SE Staff Picks: Our Favorite Recent Cocktails

"You have Ed drinking cocktails now? Why am I picturing some sort of Breaking Bad scenario playing out as he turns to the dark side?" —Adam Kuban