# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=548 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 549 --- ## [Read Aloud Couples Book suggestions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-aloud-couples-book-suggestions/97689)
**Author:** [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-aloud-couples-book-suggestions/97689 "2002-03-24T22:56:25Z")
I have a tough request that I’ll supplement with some books that have worked for us. My wife and I have fallen out of the habit of reading to each other due to the lack of good material. We started with Clive Barker’s I… --- ## [i think zimmern has a point about modren chinese resturants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-zimmern-has-a-point-about-modren-chinese-resturants/826968)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 201\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-zimmern-has-a-point-about-modren-chinese-resturants/826968 "2019-01-22T14:45:00Z")
heres the controversy MSN But I think he’s right …the fast food mentality has taken over and 90 percent of the Chinese restaurants that’s opened in the past 10-15 years are horseshit…… I don’t know what the recent r… --- ## [Your go-to egg recipes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-egg-recipes/828087)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-egg-recipes/828087 "2019-01-22T14:25:37Z")
I don’t cook daily, but I cook more than a lot of people I know. One of my go-to items is egg. When I’m in a hurry and hungry, there’s nothing better. These are my routine egg recipes: — Soft-boiled eggs with toast — pu… --- ## ["Cold War": Oscar winner](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-oscar-winner/828025)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-oscar-winner/828025 "2019-01-22T14:14:14Z")
Just saw this brilliant film by Polish director Pawel Pawlikowsi. Beautiful cinematography with crispy black and white shooting, brilliant editing, superb acting. Beats out “Roma” by a long mile for best foreign film Osc… --- ## [Tribute band success](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tribute-band-success/828135)
**Author:** [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tribute-band-success/828135 "2019-01-22T13:17:11Z")
I was just reading about a Steely Dan tribute band called “The Fine Columbians” (heh), and it got me thinking. Has there ever been a band that started out as a tribute band, and grew into writing and performing their ow… --- ## [low sodium ..... mayonnaise???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-sodium-mayonnaise/828051)
**Author:** [@shinnen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shinnen)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2019, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-sodium-mayonnaise/828051 "2019-01-22T09:46:04Z")
Hi, I’m using low sodium products to avoid taking blood pressure medication. It works; but one of the things I like are salad sandwiches, tuna, egg, chicken, that use mayonnaise containing 5% (of recommended daily sodiu… --- ## [Grace and Frankie Jan. 18th. I know at least one somebody will be watching other](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-and-frankie-jan-18th-i-know-at-least-one-somebody-will-be-watching-other/827844)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grace-and-frankie-jan-18th-i-know-at-least-one-somebody-will-be-watching-other/827844 "2019-01-22T02:38:40Z")
Season 5’s trailer. I’m afraid this series is going to go the way of other series that I watched and faded away like Dark Matter and Dirk Gently. My tastes don’t usually match up with today’s zeitgeist. All of you who wo… --- ## [Help me up my salad dressing game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-up-my-salad-dressing-game/823736)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-up-my-salad-dressing-game/823736 "2019-01-22T01:19:51Z")
I like to make salad dressings (not a fan of store-bought dressings). I do a great Caesar dressing, a good Asian sesame-ginger dressing, and a solid balsamic vinaigrette. What are some other simple salad dressings one … --- ## [DC Comics continuity Part 1: Captain Marvel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-comics-continuity-part-1-captain-marvel/827222)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-comics-continuity-part-1-captain-marvel/827222 "2019-01-21T22:27:33Z")
I long ago lost track of the various retcons and reboots that have altered the DC multiverse in the past several years. In particular the entire New 52 came and went before I could become more than passingly acquainted w… --- ## [Pulling the pork again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulling-the-pork-again/828105)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulling-the-pork-again/828105 "2019-01-21T21:47:15Z")
It’s been a while since I made pulled pork, so I think it’s about time. Forty-five minutes ago I put a 4.3 pound bone-in pork roast, liberally coated with a dry rub I mixed up, into a 230ºF oven. --- ## [I've finished recording an album!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-finished-recording-an-album/828110)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-finished-recording-an-album/828110 "2019-01-21T20:01:03Z")
As an amateur composer, pianist and singer, I’ve done “albums” before, originally in the form of enough music to fill an audio cassette tape, later as CD tracks. This is the first one I’ve done with YouTube in mind, wit… --- ## [Solo Guitar Piece with the Melody on the Low Strings and the Chords on the High Strings ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solo-guitar-piece-with-the-melody-on-the-low-strings-and-the-chords-on-the-high-strings/827723)
**Author:** [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solo-guitar-piece-with-the-melody-on-the-low-strings-and-the-chords-on-the-high-strings/827723 "2019-01-21T19:48:43Z")
On the piano, it not rare to have the left hand playing the melody and the right one accompanying. The usual manner is the other way around but it’s still fairly frequent to switch, and rather trivial to do so. But I ha… --- ## [Faux movie reviewer from the Sixties?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127)
**Author:** [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-movie-reviewer-from-the-sixties/817127 "2019-01-21T19:29:42Z")
Perhaps you all can help me. I remember reading once about a horror movie reviewer from, I think, the Sixties, who wrote reviews of movies no one had ever heard of. Eventually people started to get the idea that those … --- ## [Media consumption and time management](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-consumption-and-time-management/827948)
**Author:** [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-consumption-and-time-management/827948 "2019-01-21T16:17:47Z")
With all the different types of media we consume, I’m curious how you manage time for everything. Movies and TV, podcasts, books, audiobooks, comics, music, video games, online video, etc. Not everyone is into everythi… --- ## [Does Anyone Else Find A New Song From a Commercial?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-find-a-new-song-from-a-commercial/827467)
**Author:** [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-find-a-new-song-from-a-commercial/827467 "2019-01-21T16:00:58Z")
I’ve gotten about 6-7 new songs on my iPod just from watching a commercial. The first one was way back in 1993, when Volkwagen used a Clannad song for the Passat. Back then I had to call to find out what the song is. M… --- ## [Dumping whole wheat flour into my cookie/biscuit recipe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumping-whole-wheat-flour-into-my-cookie-biscuit-recipe/828084)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumping-whole-wheat-flour-into-my-cookie-biscuit-recipe/828084 "2019-01-21T14:30:40Z")
I’ve been experimenting with baking, and I took a recipe for chewy ginger-molasses cookies I found online and modified it. I zeroed out all the sugar, just keeping a little molasses and adding some candied ginger and ch… --- ## [People You Like Despite Not Loving Their Art](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-like-despite-not-loving-their-art/827819)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-like-despite-not-loving-their-art/827819 "2019-01-21T13:49:13Z")
I used the term “loving” so feel free to put down work you like. I’m still trying to think of one, but I know there are musicians whose music I like, but it’s them I like more. I notice when I spend more time on intervie… --- ## [Bohemian Rhapsody for Symphony Orchestra and Solo Viola](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-symphony-orchestra-and-solo-viola/828107)
**Author:** [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-for-symphony-orchestra-and-solo-viola/828107 "2019-01-21T12:56:43Z")
There are a million covers of Bohemian Rhapsody on the internet, but few do it justice. This version, however, of the song is so impeccably orchestrated that you’d think the original was composed for orchestra: Bohemian… --- ## [Any Phantogram fans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-phantogram-fans/828069)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-phantogram-fans/828069 "2019-01-21T06:18:02Z")
I just stumbled upon this group the other day, with the linked song being the first song I listened to. It hit me instantly. It evoked emotions in me so quickly. The feel of it. The lyrics, the beat, the guitar, the wa… --- ## [Write a MSM review of a modern-day remake that doesn't exist:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-msm-review-of-a-modern-day-remake-that-doesnt-exist/828134)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-msm-review-of-a-modern-day-remake-that-doesnt-exist/828134 "2019-01-21T05:24:05Z")
I’ll start Seven Days in May: “An indictment of Trump and the Presidency. General Scott (brilliantly played by Idris Elba) is right and Colonel Casey, played by the strangely cast Michael B Jordan, is the true traitor h… --- ## [Movie find-Possibly Disney?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-find-possibly-disney/828132)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-find-possibly-disney/828132 "2019-01-21T02:17:11Z")
Asking for a friend-he said it was a family movie about some kids that test out their mom’s security system at a bank, and that it involved go-carts. Anything? --- ## [Star Trek Discovery Season 2 Episode 1 (1/17/19)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-2-episode-1-1-17-19/827975)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-2-episode-1-1-17-19/827975 "2019-01-21T01:22:33Z")
Some soft spoilers in this post. Now that more like it! The show still has pacing issues. They need to stop with the monologues (especially in this case when I thought we were getting that classic Trek opening narration… --- ## [ID this painting (Cubist Crown of Thorns)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-cubist-crown-of-thorns/828102)
**Author:** [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-cubist-crown-of-thorns/828102 "2019-01-21T00:50:50Z")
Many years ago, my mother had a print of a cubist “Crown of Thorns” painting hanging up in the house, as early as around 1965. She’s gone and so is the print. I always assumed it was a famous one by Picasso or someone in… --- ## [Best Robert Johnson cover?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-robert-johnson-cover/828094)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-robert-johnson-cover/828094 "2019-01-20T22:39:37Z")
Many, many people in blues, folk and rock covered him, and I personally have heard a lot of them. For me covers always work best if they make something new out of a song and transfer it somehow, maybe to the here and now… --- ## [Help me rethink my stew recipe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rethink-my-stew-recipe/828083)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rethink-my-stew-recipe/828083 "2019-01-20T22:32:37Z")
I often like to make stews in the wintertime, particularly beef, sausage, rabbit, or seafood. Generally, I like to put— — white onions — celery — carrots — potatoes — green peas — green bell peppers (capsicum) — … --- ## [Replacements for potatoes in fries?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacements-for-potatoes-in-fries/827894)
**Author:** [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacements-for-potatoes-in-fries/827894 "2019-01-20T20:29:20Z")
One of the things my doctor included when she read me the Blood Sugar Riot Act was to stay away from potatoes. (Don’t laugh - between potatoes, pasta, flour, and pretty much all desserts, I’ve dropped 25 pounds in six we… --- ## [Cry Me a River---of Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cry-me-a-river-of-chocolate/828047)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cry-me-a-river-of-chocolate/828047 "2019-01-20T19:04:56Z")
So what happens when a tanker truck carrying liquid chocolate overturns Chocolate nightmare --- ## [A Star Wars question. Luke's choice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-star-wars-question-lukes-choice/827976)
**Author:** [@Ancient\_Erudite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Erudite)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-star-wars-question-lukes-choice/827976 "2019-01-20T18:16:53Z")
Had Luke accepted Han’s offer to join him just prior to the attack on the Death Star, how would his life have played out? --- ## [Music and Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-and-shakespeare/828008)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-and-shakespeare/828008 "2019-01-20T15:13:46Z")
Do any of the original music scores used by William Shakespeare during his plays still exist? Do copies? --- ## [recipe wanted: Homemade granola bars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-wanted-homemade-granola-bars/828063)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2019, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-wanted-homemade-granola-bars/828063 "2019-01-20T09:52:44Z")
Pretty much what the title says. I want to make my own granola bars. And yes, I know that there is such a thing as Google, but when I ask Dopers I get the commentary that’s lacking on other sites. I like chewy bars th… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=547) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=549)