marny

Chock full of nuts?

I couldn’t take a guy named Chock seriously. My husband and I kept laughing that it was probably short for Chorles.

I’ve been to several “tasting menu only” restaurants, but they still don’t change the menu daily since they’re intended as more special-occasion restaurants. They don’t have regulars. Sometimes they’ll change up a course or 2 based on availability of ingredients or seasonality, but no one changes every dish every day. Seasonal menu change is the usual way to celebrate seasonal ingredients.

I don’t think we were supposed to see him as the only victim or that he was too kind and considerate. He was an extremely damaged, self-hating person who was conflicted between his fear and anger about being stalked and his pleasure at being desired and made to feel important by Martha. He hated her but he missed her. And by the end, he was able to recognize that Martha was also a victim of her life as well and that the two of them weren’t so different.

I prefer episodes where the presenters are showing a product or service that the audience may be interested in buying or supporting. Lately it’s all people who want to become billionaires by selling some unnecessary tech to businesses that will make my life decidedly worse or less convenient.

The explanation is that he’s the typical guy who has always assumed women would be the ones to take care of it, whether via birth control pills or an IUD, etc. He said something about having always been with women who were on the pill. And apparently he doesn’t think condoms as birth control is a reliable method. But, in his mind, why would he need to learn about any other kinds of birth control since those have nothing to do with him? It’s honestly just great commentary on the lacking sex education in this country and how society puts all the onus on women to figure this stuff out. And then we let men make all the decisions about reproductive rights, but I digress.

I heard him say it was induction, but induction is just a way of heating— it’s not a style of cooking. Like you said, is the robot going to stir your food if you’re making a stir fry? Or even just so that the ingredients don’t just sit there simmering. If you have to chop ingredients anyway, what dummy can’t just dump them in a pot and walk away? The robot really saves a person virtually nothing. And as much as Lori asks very dumb questions most of the time, her baked potato question was meant to point out that people don’t always want a bowl of junk for dinner and that thr robot’s menu is severely limited.

So I’m not even sure I understand what the robot chef was doing. It measures a bunch of ingredients and dumps them all in a cooker? What kind of cooker? Is it a pressure cooker? A pot of boiling water? Those are literally the easiest forms of cooking, so those aren’t the cooking methods that need robot replacement (not to mention, who wants a rice bowl for dinner every night?). It’s the ingredient prep (dicing, slicing) that people hate. It’s the multi-step recipes that use a million bowls but taste good that people would prefer to avoid. This machine solves neither of these problems. And like Lori said, what if I want a baked potato? Or a steak? Or lasagna?

The skateboard with brakes is a great idea for new riders who are learning to skate and whose parents worry about their kid careening down a hill at breakneck speed. It’s like training wheels or the brakes on a kid’s bike. i was familiar with Fishwife before the episode and her products (as well as the packaging/branding) are excellent. It’s a premium product and the prices are in line with that. It’s not meant for making tuna fish sandwiches— it’s for dishes where the fish flavor and oiliness is the point. It’s not for everyone but the Spaniards have understood it for a very long time.

I figured they were just arresting everyone they assumed was involved with Roy’s side of the stand-off and they’d figure out who did what later.

Whereas I think it was just as good as Season 2. Different strokes, etc. I’m sure opinions on it will depend on things like personal experiences, affection towards the actors (or lack thereof), and agreement or disagreement with the messaging. I personally thought Juno Temple did a great job being someone I wanted to root for and I found the Sin Eater guy way less annoying than David Thewlis in season 3 with his interminable speechifying.

I’d rather see a show where the women go on a luxury girls’ trip and watch their exploits. They were all much more interesting than Gerry and his Aw Shucks personality. Plus they deserve it after having to sleep in bunk beds.

Gerry really had no business declaring his love for multiple women on the show. It’s been a long time since I’d watched the Bachelor, but I don’t remember others going that far with the contestants— I even remember interviews where main Bachelors said the show told them not to reveal who they plan to pick to their dates before the finale moment or say “I love you”. But Gerry is saying “I love you” to 3 women, telling Leslie she’s “the one” and making plans with her, telling Teresa he’s falling for her, etc. And since none of the women are comparing notes, they think he’s only telling one of them those things. He lead Leslie on and he lead Faith on and that’s crappy. He’s old enough to be able to control himself from doing that, but instead chose to constantly vomit out his feelings no matter how fleeting. Even without the HR story, that makes him a scumbag to me who does not give a damn about anyone else’s feelings.

Did not expect Lydia and Milton to actually seem happy. Good for them?

I’m no fan of Stacey but I thought she was perfectly kind at the altar. She was basically saying “Not yet”. Which is totally reasonable. And she didn’t do it in an embarrassing way or a cruel way, and it even sounded like she wanted to keep moving forward with their relationship (whether that’s a good idea is another issue, but I digress). Yet Izzy acted like she told him to go kick rocks. So dumb.