# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=89 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 90 --- ## [Question about Southern Cuisine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-southern-cuisine/1013899)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-southern-cuisine/1013899 "2025-02-15T02:32:21Z")
I just saw Chef Gordon Ramsay making Mac and Cheese in a New Orleans restaurant. Looked to me like the “macaroni” was spaghetti or linguine, not the stuff you’d get from Kraft or Annie’s. Is this common down South? --- ## [Shogun on FX](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shogun-on-fx/998188)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 182\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shogun-on-fx/998188 "2025-02-14T17:26:15Z")
So FX is coming out today with a huge budget adaptation of “Shogun,” the James Clavell novel, last adapted in 1980. “Shogun” is absolutely my favorite book of all time and it’s not close. I’m not saying it’s the GREATE… --- ## [New Superbowl ads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-superbowl-ads/1014153)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-superbowl-ads/1014153 "2025-02-14T01:12:56Z")
This year the crop was okay. The big winner to us were the sloths for Bud Light. My wife cracked up over the sloth grocery cashier. The Stich ad was cute, and the Harrison F–d :grinning: commercial was really well don… --- ## [Best Way to Use Madras Curry Powder](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-use-madras-curry-powder/1014266)
**Author:** [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-use-madras-curry-powder/1014266 "2025-02-13T15:59:39Z")
I got a jar of “Madras Curry Powder” for Xmas and have finally started using it. My current technique is to heat up a few tablespoons of olive oil and cook a big heaping spoonful of powder in that for a minute or two be… --- ## [Who were some early "famous" people (not kings or queens, etc)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-some-early-famous-people-not-kings-or-queens-etc/1014054)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-some-early-famous-people-not-kings-or-queens-etc/1014054 "2025-02-13T13:23:25Z")
How widely would early troubadours, for instance, have been popular? I’m sure locally known singers or lute players existed but who was known across England, or France or whatever? Did people travel to hear Socrates spea… --- ## [What kung-fu movie has a scene where a guy takes a shuriken to the eye in a forest?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kung-fu-movie-has-a-scene-where-a-guy-takes-a-shuriken-to-the-eye-in-a-forest/304490)
**Author:** [@Cagey\_Drifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cagey_Drifter)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kung-fu-movie-has-a-scene-where-a-guy-takes-a-shuriken-to-the-eye-in-a-forest/304490 "2025-02-12T20:43:21Z")
One of my earliest memories of TV is of a scene in a kung fu-- or kung fu style-- movie where some people are fighting in a forest and then one guy takes a shuriken in the eye. This is followed by the man who was hit emi… --- ## [Brownies! The dessert kind, not the girl scouts in training](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownies-the-dessert-kind-not-the-girl-scouts-in-training/1014023)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownies-the-dessert-kind-not-the-girl-scouts-in-training/1014023 "2025-02-12T15:19:31Z")
This should be pretty straighforward. Nuts or no nuts? If nuts, what kind? Chocolate chips, M&Ms, Reeses, nothing? Frosted or not? Inside piece or edge? Box mix or made from scratch? Anything else? My choices: Pr… --- ## [Have there been any remastered episodes of The Avengers from seasons 1--3?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-any-remastered-episodes-of-the-avengers-from-seasons-1-3/1004180)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-any-remastered-episodes-of-the-avengers-from-seasons-1-3/1004180 "2025-02-12T15:10:52Z")
I’ve been watching these in the afternoon on CHCH the last couple of weeks. I realize that the series was recorded live in the studio almost 65 years ago, but the sound and (sometimes) the images are so bad, I have trou… --- ## [What does one do with black garlic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-one-do-with-black-garlic/1014184)
**Author:** [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-one-do-with-black-garlic/1014184 "2025-02-12T05:17:06Z")
The other day I was looking at the spice section at Trader Joe’s and noticed they had jars of (dried) black garlic. So I impulsively bought one. And now I have no idea what do do with it. Honestly, most of my knowledg… --- ## [How easy would it be to get into the works of Allen Ginsberg?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-would-it-be-to-get-into-the-works-of-allen-ginsberg/1014192)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-would-it-be-to-get-into-the-works-of-allen-ginsberg/1014192 "2025-02-12T02:49:48Z")
This is sort of a meta thread, inspired by the current thread about rap in which @NAF1138 mentions Allen Ginsberg, and my own thread on Haruki Murakami’s Pinball. In Wild Sheep Chase, the sequel to Pinball, which I jus… --- ## [British Posters: Where can I get the Curry Sauce you put on Chips?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175)
**Author:** [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175 "2025-02-11T22:49:50Z")
I went to Uni in Birmingham two decades ago and there became addicted to the traditional salt and vinegar chips everyone ate after a night out. Turns out, that is not vinegar. Apparently, Curry Sauce on chips is the ne… --- ## [Songs about planes and flying](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 222\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675 "2025-02-11T20:50:39Z")
I hope this post isn’t considered in bad taste considering the timing; let me explain why I’m making it: I’ve typically been kind of a nervous flyer. That didn’t stop me from flying quite a bit from my early adulthood t… --- ## [Pacific Whiting (Hake) General Q’s: is good? Recipe tips?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-whiting-hake-general-q-s-is-good-recipe-tips/1014083)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-whiting-hake-general-q-s-is-good-recipe-tips/1014083 "2025-02-11T00:54:37Z")
So I’m trying to eat healthier, and one way is to eat more seafood. I bought a big bag of frozen Pacific Whiting filets since they were relatively inexpensive. I had never heard of ‘Whiting’, but googling I learned that… --- ## [Dumbest way a TV detective has solved a crime \[open spoilers\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-way-a-tv-detective-has-solved-a-crime-open-spoilers/1013482)
**Author:** [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-way-a-tv-detective-has-solved-a-crime-open-spoilers/1013482 "2025-02-10T22:02:26Z")
\ In this thread, @solost gave the example of Columbo managing to incriminate the perp with a “swap the poison… --- ## [The science of perfectly peelable hard-boiled eggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-science-of-perfectly-peelable-hard-boiled-eggs/1010522)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-science-of-perfectly-peelable-hard-boiled-eggs/1010522 "2025-02-10T14:34:46Z")
I’m sure you all know what I mean. Sometimes egg shells slip off hard-boiled eggs easily, leaving glistening smooth spheroid-ish blobs, as if that was the future evolution intended them for. Other times the shells pret… --- ## [What was your first record (or cassette, or CD...)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952)
**Author:** [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Replies:** 127\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-record-or-cassette-or-cd/1013952 "2025-02-10T14:05:16Z")
The thread on old bands you’d forgotten got me thinking about my CD collection, so here’s one for the longtime music listeners/collectors: Do you remember the first piece of music you bought or owned? And on the differe… --- ## [Anybody Else Think McD's Burgers Now Taste Wretched?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-think-mcds-burgers-now-taste-wretched/406251)
**Author:** [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-think-mcds-burgers-now-taste-wretched/406251 "2025-02-10T03:57:56Z")
There’s a GQ going about the composition of McDonald’s burgers. It’s pretty much agreed that the company’s claims about it being 100% beef are probably beyond question, particularly given the glee with which Burger King… --- ## [Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison (2025 Documentary)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-the-end-searching-for-jim-morrison-2025-documentary/1014026)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-the-end-searching-for-jim-morrison-2025-documentary/1014026 "2025-02-09T15:51:31Z")
Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison (This thing annoyed me so much…I just pasted my IMDB review onto here… I’ll add only that I was going to avoid leaving an IMDB review because I plan on uploading it, and don’t … --- ## [Instead of the New Yorker?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instead-of-the-new-yorker/1013922)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instead-of-the-new-yorker/1013922 "2025-02-08T21:19:32Z")
I’ve subscribed to the magazine most of my life, but only lately have I realized How expensive it is. $9.99 the cover price on the latest issue. I’ve got a continuing subscription, letting them bill my credit card, but… --- ## [I bought cow. Dead cow. Wrapped in plastic. Now what?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-cow-dead-cow-wrapped-in-plastic-now-what/1013745)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-cow-dead-cow-wrapped-in-plastic-now-what/1013745 "2025-02-08T16:39:37Z")
A neighbor has a working farm and has just done one of her periodic beef sales. You can buy a cow, half a cow, a quarter of a cow, or one eighth. We bought 1/8 of a cow. I don’t usually eat much red meat, but who can re… --- ## [Is there ever a time "new" eggs are preferable to cook with?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-ever-a-time-new-eggs-are-preferable-to-cook-with/1014032)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-ever-a-time-new-eggs-are-preferable-to-cook-with/1014032 "2025-02-08T15:23:38Z")
ISTM I regularly see advice that “old” eggs are preferable to use. (within some reason…a couple weeks old or so) Recently from here: And I have seen that old eggs are better for hard boiling. Are “new” eggs ever idea… --- ## [Slim Chickens - tell this British person about them](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slim-chickens-tell-this-british-person-about-them/1013968)
**Author:** [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slim-chickens-tell-this-british-person-about-them/1013968 "2025-02-08T14:59:42Z")
This piqued my curiosity: Fast food chain Americans ‘prefer to KFC’ opening 10 new UK locations A fast food chain from the US is expanding across the UK, with plans to open 10 more locations in 2025. Slim Chickens, a … --- ## [Fresh pomegranates from the produce department](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-pomegranates-from-the-produce-department/1012158)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-pomegranates-from-the-produce-department/1012158 "2025-02-08T14:51:59Z")
I stopped by the nearby grocery store yesterday (Christmas Eve) and they had some for 50 cents each, so I decided to buy one. I watched a YouTube video on how to open one, and it tasted wonderful (I’ve had arils, but no… --- ## [Nude in Paris](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-in-paris/1013943)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nude-in-paris/1013943 "2025-02-07T14:53:25Z")
Hi folks, There’s a 1970 film called Quiet Days in Clichy, based on a spicy Henry Miller memoir. Near the beginning, a woman appears naked, and there’s this narrow ribbon or strip of embroidered cloth stuck on her skin … --- ## [What modern root beer taste closest to the original ones](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-modern-root-beer-taste-closest-to-the-original-ones/1013953)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-modern-root-beer-taste-closest-to-the-original-ones/1013953 "2025-02-07T09:20:01Z")
Especially now that safrole is banned. I suspect there might be two answers. The closest probably being some hand-crafted root beer only available in limited markets but I’m also curious what national brands ae closest… --- ## [Question about artwork from The Andy Griffith Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-artwork-from-the-andy-griffith-show/997260)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-artwork-from-the-andy-griffith-show/997260 "2024-02-09T05:44:00Z")
On the closing credits of The Andy Griffith Show, there’s a sketch of a lake and some trees, presumably a sketch of the lake often featured in Mayberry and to which Andy and Opie are walking in the opening credits (Myers… --- ## [Disappointing song endings](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770)
**Author:** [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Replies:** 131\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disappointing-song-endings/1012770 "2025-02-06T23:07:42Z")
My search-fu must be off - coulda sworn there was a thread about this, but still eluding me, so’s… Disappointing = jarring, or weaker than rest of song, or incongruous, or just plain puts you completely off. Try to avoi… --- ## [What are some chain places that serve cherry soda with actual cherries in it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-chain-places-that-serve-cherry-soda-with-actual-cherries-in-it/991827)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-chain-places-that-serve-cherry-soda-with-actual-cherries-in-it/991827 "2025-02-06T20:31:19Z")
Restaurant or Fast Food. I think Sonic is the only fast food place I can think of that serves cherry soda with cherries in it. --- ## [Great songs with not so great lyrics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-with-not-so-great-lyrics/1013630)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 149\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-with-not-so-great-lyrics/1013630 "2025-02-06T17:18:50Z")
I really love Van Morrison music. He has produced some great music down through the years and has written some really beautiful songs. I was listening to And It Stoned Me yesterday. I’ve always liked the song but never … --- ## [Have you rediscovered old bands that you'd completely forgotten?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872 "2025-02-06T17:17:09Z")
Some old bands aren’t played regularly on the Oldies stations. Once in awhile I stumble across a band that I’d forgotten about. That happened a couple days ago. The Little River Band They had almost ten songs that cr… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=88) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=90)