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Bryan Rucker's avatar

Haha I was 100% with you until the very end! Crunchy PB 4evr

Holly Corrales's avatar

Mine is that cereal is best enjoyed as a late night snack.

Khushbu Shah's avatar

I agree with this!! Def a night food over a morning food

Liz Clayman's avatar

(puts ginger in the freezer immediately)

Paul​Martin Edwards's avatar

At last. Somebody else uses a sprinkle of salt to elevate bread & butter.

Joe DiStefano's avatar

Loved Fresca as a kid, I feel like they changed the recipe a bit. My strong opinion: Georgian mineral waters (Borjomi, Essentuky) are the best.

Khushbu Shah's avatar

Have not had essentuky but like the salinity of borjomi!

Joe DiStefano's avatar

Essentuky is intense. No 4 is a drinkable table water, 17 is very mineralized.

Laura's avatar

Most of these are also my deeply held food preferences and I feel like we’d be good food friends

Nathalie Hill's avatar

Here for the Fresca enthusiasts

Karla Walsh's avatar

The Fresca hot take is 🎯. Now that is a top-tier soda!

My inner child is a firm believer that the only way to eat a Dairy Queen cone is dunked in Nerds. 🙂 The texture is irresistible!

Hetal's avatar

Pani puri should only be served in wheat puris, not those fried rice ones! Also, hard agree on restaurants having mroe than one veg option that isn't pasta (or roasted veggies!).

Khushbu Shah's avatar

Hard agree on pani puri shells

edgar calvelo's avatar

I will keep the ginger in the freezer. Thank you.

Farrah Berrou's avatar

If you can't make a good buttermilk doughnut, you don't know how to make doughnuts. Wacky toppings are used to mask the subpar sugary bread.

Jennifer's avatar

I am not going to waste your or anyone else's time by ticking all of the congruent boxes.

I really enjoyed your Chili's boosterism, responded at length in addressing the nostalgia of the brand and similar fast-casual restaurants which have endured by hitting "family & friends" and "neighborhood" hard. Sorry about getting carried away like that.

To your point(s):

• You really couldn't have made the olive oil and ice cream pairing sound any less appealing. Who would want congealed ribbons of olive oil anywhere near their favorite flavor? Please reconsider: Alec's pistachio crunch ice cream in collaboration with Graza olive oil is delicious. It has dark chocolate flecks like straciatella and really shines once you set the container on the counter, not to room temperature but just so the velvety profile is fully realized.

Every other strongly worded opinion: Yes, especially, Fresca. I am fully aware of the "sugar water" slag but it doesn't taste like it when I'm drinking it! Same goes for the nostalgia of Squirt. Jarritos grapefruit soda is another favorite as is the Jamaican grapefruit soda Ting.

Khushbu Shah's avatar

I do like Alec's other flavors, so will give it a shot!

Antara Sinha's avatar

I for some reason grew up on APPLE jelly in my pb&js so I will have to be a forever defender.

Abena Anim-Somuah's avatar

Bars!!!

Leslie Brenner's avatar

Love this! Especially the tallow diatribe.

Emily Wilson's avatar

Hard agree with #18