TIL about Sardinian maggot cheese.  I...am not sure what else to say about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

TIL that blackstrap molasses is not the same as fancy molasses.  NOT AT ALL.

TIL about the Barbie Liberation Organization who, in 1993, bought up 300-500 talking Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls and switched their voice boxes so the Barbies would say things like "Vengeance is mine" and the G.I. Joes would say things like "The beach is the place for summer".  They then returned the dolls to the stores ("reverse shoplifting") to be sold to unsuspecting children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_Liberation_Organization

I'm currently in the process of corrupting Marcella Hazan's tomato sauce with the addition of a red bell pepper and I have to say I feel a little naughty.

I'm never excited to eat a Nanaimo bar, and yet they're always so good when I actually eat one.

I am not sure what to say about a political figure that points to actual riots happening under his own administration and uses them to criticize the guy who's running against him in the next election.

When it comes to food and drink, I tend to lean towards the simple. Or, more accurately, I tend to lean towards the simple and well-made.

One of my favourite memories of the Dominican Republic, for example, was the coco loco - literally just a coconut with the top sliced off and rum mixed into the milk, served with a straw and maybe a squeeze of lime. When the coconut is fresh, the drink is amazing.

Another example would be Marcella Hazan's (in)famous tomato sauce. It literally has only four ingredients (canned tomatoes, butter, onion and salt) and notably no garlic or herbs, so the sauce doesn't really have anywhere to hide; it tastes like buttery, slow cooked tomatoes which is, well, you know, delicious.

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Found an interesting side road

Lemon ricotta pound cake, a close cousin of the cannoli pound cake I posted previously. This time it's actually a pound cake, more or less. And yes, it's delicious.

Pound cake batter is objectively the best batter.

pencils Kamala-Pence debate on his calendar

Lovely

What's in 1.5 km? WHO KNOWS IT'S AN ADVENTURE!

First time in Sherbrooke. Not a bad spot.

How did I wait this long to start watching Doom Patrol?

Not usually a fan of graffiti, but sometimes...

Very late to the party on this one but I finally made @alisoneroman 's anchovy shallot pasta and I am shocked at how mellow this stuff is, considering it has a shit ton of shallots and a whole jar of anchovies. Good stuff!

I will never understand three-seat sofas with two cushions.

My God, what have I done?

TIL I learned that "boat", "bait", "bite", "bolt", and "bitter" are all cognates, from a PIE word meaning to strike or split (the connection with boat appears to be that one used to make them by hollowing out split tree trunks).

TIL that the "-ly" suffix commonly added to words in English to denote an adverb comes from the word "like" (still existing in the word "ladylike", for example). So "slowly" came from "slow-like" and "carefully" came from "careful-like" (possibly explaining the double "l").

TIL that "marshmallow" is actually a very old word, derived from the Old English word "mersc-mealwe" describing a "kind of mallow plant (Althea officinalis) which grows near salt marshes."

I always wanted to be G.I. Joe villain...

Grilled cheese experiment: olive and brunost, Norwegian brown cheese. Was good, if a little odd.

Sexy, sexy pumpernickel