There's so much going on in Talk 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.

Comic of the Day: The Origin of Gravy Boats

"This reminds me of when my dad and I searched everywhere for what we knew as a "spoon with pointy sides for scooping hamburger grease of your pan." Two years later, turns out it was a gravy ladle." —JoriWinter

Eyewitness Booze Investigation: Bushmills Irish Honey

"Grass-fed bees are all well and good, but were they line caught?" —monopod

What's Your Hangover Cure?

"Something about grease that eases the pain. Its like an egg raft for the soul sucking all the impurities out. McDonald's Cheese burger(s) are it for me. In that condition a really good tasty burger would be a waste. " —fwilger

School Cafeteria Olfactory Memories

[Video: GT: Dinosaur Cartoon on Youtube]

"The smell of the sheets of pizza on pizza day in elementary school ... still my favorite smell ever.

/back then we counted ourselves lucky if we got a square of bread with some cheese and tomato sauce on it

//had to fight off dinosaurs on the way to school every morning" —redfish

Overused Food Descriptions

""Balanced." Someone on this website once talked about whether a breakfast burrito was "balanced," like it had a mental state, and was about to shoot up a post office. It might be useful if paired with a description of what was being balanced, like sourness or spice, but alas.... just "balanced" makes me unbalanced.
" —thesteveroller

"*furiously jotting down list of words*

What do I get if I work them all into one blog post? Oh yeah, bring on the unctuous cooked-to-perfection, EVOO-studded super-delish house-cured salmon that will melt in your mouth, giving you a nom-nom foodgasm. That will be followed by hand-cut to-die-for yum-o slider sammies! It's all so lusciously SCRUMMY in the TUMMY. " —dbcurrie

"I can accept orgasmic as a description, but only if Meg Ryan is in the booth next to me having a corned beef sandwich with Billy Crystal, then I'm having what she's having." —Meat guy

Chain Reaction: Do Domino's Parmesan Bread Bites Bite?

[Photograph: Will Gordon]

"Those look like something that would drop out of a deer made of pizza." —Pavlov