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No sides for me, though they are tempting. I think the plan kind of backfires on them a little, because sometimes I'll order the sides instead of the pizza! But really, ordering a side of breadsticks with your pizza is kind of like ordering pizza with extra crust.

This sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I agree, crushed ice can be real problematic. If you're not drinking with a straw, you always end up getting a few crunchy bits in every sip, and it will melt faster due to more surface area of the ice being exposed. I'd only say you were crazy if you started showing up to your iced tea place with a little cooler full of your own ice cubes.

I used to have a weird cinnamon gum obsession. I had to always have a pack of cinnamon flavored gum on me, or the world just wasn't right. I've since gotten over that, though, so I'm sure you'll get over your iced tea loss too. :)

I can't wrap my head around how a loaf of bread stole the spotlight away from two of the country's best delis' pastrami. I can burn a loaf of rye bread in my oven to make it crispier, too. Big deal. You can eat the bread and give me the meat. :)

This pie looks very familiar to me. I'm pretty sure I had it once in the 80s or 90s at some family barbeque or something.

I would have guessed that the name Osgood comes from a person since Osgood is a pretty common last name.

If this article was linked to on Fark.com, it would get the "obvious" tag.

Here's a question: do the muffin tops need the bottoms to be the awesomeness that they are? If you tried to just bake muffin tops, would it fail? Do muffn tops draw much of their greatness from the body of the muffin?

Meat pudding, sheep heads, and haggis....... oh my.

Nah. Silly idea. If they are going to ban fast food near schools, then they also need to ban pizza joints, ice cream parlors, candy stores, movie theaters, convenience stores, super markets... all places where kids can go to devour junk food. What schools need to do is provide a good cafeteria with good food so kids have no reason to go elsewhere.

Wegmans is great. It's truly what a "Super" market should be, not just a big place with shelves and shelves of junk.

Try their seasoned hamburgers. Cooked right, they rival the best restaurant burgers you can find.

Dwarf burger or mutant onion?

When I was a kid, my mom would never buy Fruity Pebbles no matter how much I begged. So on the rare occasions I could get a bowl of those flourescent colored flakes of sugar-death, it was an awesome experience. Now I retch at the thought of eating them.

And here's another vote in favor of fig newtons. I think I actually like them more as an adult than I did as a kid.

Let your kids have an occasional sip of warm Budweiser when they're young, and the allure of booze will be dashed before they even reach high school.

Sounds like a "had to be there" type of thing, which doesn't work very well for a national marketing campaign. I imagine if you're standing there watching the Ruby Tuesday's waiting for it to blow and the restaurant across the street goes up in smoke you'd be effectively suprised. But in print, it's boring.