Screenshot from season 2, episode 9. Marge is in the kitchen making her famous pork chops with “a sprinkle of chervil, half a teaspoon of turmeric and a whisper of MSG.”

Screenshot from season 8, episode 9. Marge is standing in front of a spice rack, holding a jar labeled oregano: “Eight spices? Oh, some must be doubles. ‘Oregano’? What the hell…”

The Simpsons began losing its magic the minute they sold out Marge’s culinary prowess

God I miss websites. Just a simple website you could visit and receive information from? Bliss.

An extreme tragedy

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I believe that dry aging does lovely things for certain cuts of fish just as it does for steaks. But when people have been so indoctrinated to get fish as soon out of the water as possible, pivoting to "actually, old fish is really good, guys" is a tough sell.

‘Top Chef’ Winner Harold Dieterle Has Already Closed His New Restaurant What’s happening at Il Totano?

Shocked, I am shocked that a restaurant touting its old fish program has closed after less than a year.

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After weeks of panic and pearl-clutching, this is what United’s comms office came up with to solve being the most hated company in the world.

a venn diagram. the left circle is “people who understand that climate change is an existential threat” and the right circle is “people who use Al, but, like, not for real work! lol! i just needed a silly pic of a dog on a scooter and it's surprisingly hard to find good reference images”

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

Getting 2025 off to a roaring start by cooking rancid meat for dinner

Wanna read more in the new year? Try having been over-praised for it as a child

A paperback book called "Crunch! A History of the Great American Potato Chip" by Dirk Burhans

Simultaneously furious I didn't write this myself and thrilled to have received it for Christmas

👏👏👏 @svenllama.bsky.social!

a real stinker

Unions, because it’s VERY unlikely three ghosts will appear and scare your boss into doing the right thing.

Nameless man with a giant hand

Hell yes it is

A LinkedIn post with an infographic called "EBITDA Explained to Kids." It has an illustration of a simpy white kid looking admiringly at a jar of dollar bills, and a bunch of boring-ass text about what EBITDA means.

finally, I have an answer to the question my kid's been asking for years. thanks, LinkedIn influencer!

all my loved ones know to send me cute little food guys when I'm depressed

I love these little guys with all my heart

Brake Bread in Saint Paul had me reading and seeing this twice to ensure I wasn’t in some fever dream.

"What radicalized you?"
"I got really horny for an attractive assassin" - hopefully millions of people.

all these layoffs happening right now are corporate ghouls figuring out how to make balance sheets look "healthy" come January 1 when they've been mismanaging shit for the previous 364 days

startup culture and venture capital are so destructive they will suck the humanity from the best-intentioned decent folks. ask me how I know.

Incredible! Mummified corpse of Queens woman brought back to life by an everything shower

We don't have an Albany reporter, we don't have a metro editor -- but the brain trust at Alden Global Capital saw fit to spend money on a "content intelligence program" whose artificial intelligence might be in the running for the worst editor we've ever had.

ACAB includes the elf on the shelf

Concomitant rise of Elf on the Shelf and the modern surveillance state

This is the money Marge. Reskeet for good fortune. 💰

what running a turkey trot taught me about B2B marketing (derogatory)

they make you come up with 5 fun facts and then they pick the one that gets discussed. nothing makes you reconsider your life choices like realizing you don't have 5 interesting things to say about yourself.