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Seven layer. There's just something comforting about it. And you get frosting with every bite.

I may be totally off base here, but I was under the impression that the older the cheese the better for folks who are lactose intolerant because of the cultures in it - much like yogurt.

I keep hearing different views on this. Some say freeze... some say never freeze. Some say refrigerate... some say that's no good.

I dunno. Until I read hard, scientific evidence one way or the other I'm just keeping my beans in a cool, dark place in an airtight container.

Meh... it was clean typography and simple design that was completely inappropriate for the product. It isn't enough for something to look nice. Branding exists to sell the product, not the designer. Typical these days, really. Some over-eager corporate type pairs with an overblown design agency to ruin what had been a perfectly good package and logo design. Pepsi got along fine by separating the soft drink and fruit juice lines for years (seriously... Coke drinkers seemed perfectly alright crossing the line to go to Tropicana over Minute Maid despite brand loyalty in soda). Why in the world do they feel it is necessary for them to share the same typeface now and stress the connection? That and it became virtually impossible to differentiate one Tropicana drink from another if you didn't notice the different color stripes at the top.

Oh well... sorry about the rant. In any event... the juice tastes the same in the end, I guess.

Good point, Daniel. Your post has a toothsome quality that has excellent mouthfeel without being cloying. Perhaps these purist restaurant critics should consider a go-to, tried and true thesaurus for their holiday gift list (sorry... that was sad).

My reaction to the headline:

"aw... maaaan!" Why DOESN'T it shoot a turkey? If Ben Franklin can electrocute them to culinary perfection (seriously... look it up) why can't we fire one across the dining room table's bow?

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Dried, anyway.

So what happens if I cook the meals everyday?

Wait... how can it be "basically hfcs?" High Fructose Corn Syrup is made from (wait for it) corn (gasp). Agave nectar (or syrup) is made from agave. Last I looked they were entirely different plants. Also, HFCS is corn syrup with fructose added as an extra sweetener as corn syrup isn't quite as sweet as cane sugar, which is why it doesn't really tend to replace sugar by itself in recipes. Is fructose added to agave nectar?

I've never used it. I've tasted it when a co-worker bought some, but that's it so I've no vested interest either way here.

I would imagine that Ben and Jerry snorked cow milk out their noses when they first read the petition.

Not that I agree with it, but I can at least comprehend PETA's issue with using cow milk. But replacing it with human breast milk doesn't just border on ridiculous, it crosses the border, studies for the naturalization exam and becomes a full-fledged citizen of ridiculous. What ever happened to soy milk or rice milk? Not that I'd eat it, but come on, PETA, there ARE some sane options out there.

Then again, to back KarynMC up, PETA wouldn't be able to use naked models on an ad about using soy milk.

DCraver:

I think Serious Eats isn't anti-food network per se. I think it is more that people remember when it was good and about the love of food (both preparing and eating it). I think there is a disappointment and a hope that it can pick up what decent programming it has and run with it to somewhere that is less about hip reality show programming and more about what it was intended to be originally.

For my money: if Julia Child would recognize it as food television, let it stay. If not, ship it over to Fine Living.

My wife and I don't consider it a "cooking show," but we do enjoy it the odd times we watch it. It's the only reality show (or at least one of the very few) that shows a healthy work environment. They work together well, have fun and genuinely seem to want to be there. Refreshing compared to "American Chopper" and the like.