Cut into small pieces, fry -- most delicious crunchy snack evar

@RonFL

Younger onions are generally less pungent than older onions (aka "storage onions") Storage onions have a thick papery skin, while young onions have thinner skins. Onions with soft spots, or that are emitting any sort of smell, are probably older and close to going bad, and are therefore also more likely to be pungent. Hope this helps you choose the right onion for your taste the next time you're at the store.

Recently had the Trivento Reserve and agree completely with the assessment here -- far better than other Malbecs I had tried before. Wish I could get it for only $9 here -- it runs $22 at my local grocery.

While Reese's eggs are a very close second, my favorite has to be the Palmer Marshmallow bunnies. Something about the not-sweet marshmallow has the perfect texture for a chocolate filling. Unfortunately, these are becoming harder and harder to find.

@Will

Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as smug -- it was a bad attempt at humor. I was referring to these sentences:

"It turns out they make porter and stout in all sorts of interesting places, and some of them are very good. Others of them are cheap or Swedish."

which imply that porters and stouts which are cheap or Swedish cannot be included in the "very good" category of the previous sentence. So no, I supposed you don't malign all Swedish beer production -- just their porter and stout production.

Having visited the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen, I am pretty sure Carlsberg Group is Danish, not Swedish.

If you're going to malign an entire country's stout beer production, probably best to name the right country?

@John Wozniak
You state, "Of the laws we should strive to reform this is pathetically low in importance."

I don't think there are degrees of importance in unjust laws. Any law that is unjust should be fought against. Court cases against unjust statutes can only be pursued where there is an injured party (in this case, Kenji believes he was unjustly fined, therefore injured), so it may not be possible to fight against many of the laws you believe are of higher importance as no one has yet been "injured" by them.

Kenji is certainly doing something meritorious -- something more of us should do -- to work within the system to fight a law that he believes is unjust. This is what the whole rule of law that our nation is built on is about!

Also, John, you use the tautology "If it is in plain view, it is in plain view." to make the argument that Kenji should not pursue his case. However, nowhere in the statute (or the relevant case law that @ChiefHDB dug up) is a "plain view" standard elucidated. The cop in Kenji's story used this phrase, but apparently the cop is less familiar with the law than we would perhaps like him to be. Kenji isn't arguing for different treatment from others who are ticketed for drinking on stoops in NYC -- he's asking for a substantive change to the law, or at least for a definite standard to be set. (Further, the disparate treatment of other stoop-drinkers across the country is irrelevant, as the statute in question is a municipal statute, not a national one.)

Lately I've really been enjoying it on ginger jam shrimp.

@CandiRisk -- I hadn't thought about earthenware, I might give that a try.

@sdfishtaco -- suffer through.

While I understand the tendency to list certain ingredients (flour in particular) in weight, the mix of Metric and US measurements is a bit confusing. Maybe try for better consistency in future recipes?

I could probably go head to head with your extremely lovely, tolerant wife on weird ways to eat food -- my husband can't stay in the same room with me when I'm trying to eat a tortilla -- but pizza is not one of those things for me.

Mile Marker 59, Grassy Key, The Wreck.

Any of their grouper sandwiches (I prefer fried, my husband likes the parmesan) + pitchers of Key West Sunset Ale = true Florida paradise.

This post made me so sad. One of my favorite spots to eat in Denver was Rock Bottom Brewery at Park Meadows. The last time I ate there was in 2009, and at the time, it was still just a "local chain", limited to Colorado.

I was incredulous reading your comment about the menu being only pizzas, burgers and a few salads, because one of the best parts of Rock Bottom was the food. They had a great asiago cheese dip starter, and some really delicious tri-tip that was my go-to entree. Checking out their website, I see none of the food I remember from years and years of dining there, and even more depressing, none of the beers.

What a loss for Colorado.