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@Amandarama--I know!! The "Look Who's Talkin'" section used to be all about the funny, but not so much anymore. And there was some friggin' hilarious stuff in the "Sex is like pizza" thread. Of course, then maybe they would've had to just post all the comments.

Faux maple syrup? *shudder* Perish the thought! Only the genuine grade B stuff for me. And what is "plane corn syrup"? Corn syrup you serve on a plane?

One of the purposes of the compass mirror is to use as a distress signal.

I dunno, but I loved the Dune reference in his last show on making punch: "He who controls the spice controls the universe!"

*sigh*

I heart Alton Brown.

Some people like to have pizza 7 days a week.

How about the classic: "In vino veritas"?

I would love it if my grocery store started doing that. I hardly ever buy red meat because the taste compared with the price just isn't worth it.

I think vanilla is underrated. I'll take a nice, rich french vanilla over other ice cream flavors a lot of times.

I also love Thrifty's strawberry cheesecake, and our local dairy's fresh peach in the summertime.

Not big on all the custom mix-ins at Coldstone, though. Also, I sampled their "Chocolate Cake Batter" last time we went there, and it tasted....just like chocolate cake batter. And not in a good way. In a raw, goopy way. *shudder*

I have the chopper and love it, especially for chopping nuts. They don't go flying all over the place that way. I also love the mini muffin pan. It's thicker than other ones I've seen.

One of my very good friends used to sell PC and thereby acquired all the stoneware and cookware just about free, and it was all good stuff--the knives too.

A lot of the other stuff, though, is silly unitasker-type items, like the apple peeler/corer that takes up half the kitchen counter, the avocado knife (seriously?), egg separators, garlic press (sorry, @moibec, it takes me longer to clean one of those things than it does to mince garlic with a knife), etc.

@ogirl--Seventh-Day Adventist Christians do not eat pork for the same reasons Jews do not eat pork--because it is an unclean meat. It is classified as unclean because of pigs' eating habits. In fact, many SDAs are vegetarians altogether if not vegan. We subscribe to the "our body is a temple" principle and stick to a diet where everything is taken in moderation--in other words, a sensible, healthy one. I'm not vegetarian but my diet is much more healthful than a lot of the vegetarians I know whose diet consists of cheese and pasta. LOL

That said, out of curiosity, I have tried pork in various forms and discovered I wasn't missing out on anything.

I too love the muffin joke. I've heard it before only it was two sausages in a pan: "Holy crap! A talking sausage!" Funny either way.

The only kind of truffles I'll get near are the chocolate variety.

@rdrnr44--Here's my version.

Q: What do you call a cow with three legs?

A: Tri-tip