I’ve had a couple, never really got that into them. I’m in NYC, just like the Seinfeld gang, so if anyone can recommend some great Manhattan calzones, I’ll try them out. Have yet to find a calzone I like better than pizza!
I tried one of those gross challenges that they had on Man V. Food. Never again. 
At the risk of hearing something I don’t want to know, I have to ask why not?
Well, “Fanny” in this part of the world (and the UK and NZ, incidentally) doesn’t generally refer to the buttocks like it does in the US; instead being applied to a certain area of the female anatomy…
And “Banging” of course, being a common euphemism for, well, if you don’t know then you probably shouldn’t be on the internet. So, put the two together, and you get a drink with a name you really shouldn’t be ordering in pubs in some parts of the world. 
Lesser babka? I used that line with my son today.
Godfather/cannolis reminded me I did try svogliatelle because of The Sopranos.
I want to try that egg in the hole of the toast in the frying pan/griddle in Moonstruck.
If you have a Cracker Barrel around, it’s on the menu there as “Egg in the Basket”
The best wine I’ve had (and I don’t buy expensive stuff) was a Frey Vineyards organic merlot from Wild Oats circa 2003. However, since seeing the movie Sideways, I’m hesitant to buy/drink any merlot
No Cracker Barrel in these parts, but googling Egg In The Basket found me this…
Wish we had some left over Italian bread for Sunday breakfast tomorrow!
Keep in mind that the dislike of merlot was only expressive of the character’s very idiosyncratic tastes, and nothing more.
There are plenty of excellent merlots in the world, at all price points.
Cannolis. They were featured on “Cake Boss”. I bought them at a local (in Anchorage when I still lived there) bakery but I didn’t care for them at all.
Talia Shire must have been in town – normally they’re pretty good if you like sweets. Shire is well-known for putting her hands and mouth all over them whenever she’s in a town and ruining the experience for everyone.
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What is not awesome about calzones? They’re more variable than pizza, so maybe you just had a “meh” one. A great calzone is better than a great pizza, though.
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Just out of curiosity, did the calzones you tried have the marinara sauce inside the calzone or outside the calzone as a dipping sauce? I believe there’s a dispute over which type is considered to be a “real” calzone. (For the record, I prefer the marinara sauce be inside the calzone.)
Went out drinking tonight and had three brandy and ginger ales. The reason I got into them is when I read Chuck Klosterman’s “Fargo Rock City” he called them Witty Chucks.
Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator!
Do plays count? I loved the Rent as a teen (still do) and after learning one of the characters was named after the drink Tom Collins became one of my regular orders at bars once I became legal
That was mine! Though it turns out, I hate straight up whiskey. No matter how cool it may seem to imagine oneself wearing a badass trenchcoat with a katana hidden inside and ordering Glenmorangie in an ambiguous accent, I could barely finish a glass of the stuff. I suppose adding sour mix would have been cheating and/or sacrilege to Scotch drinkers.
ETA: (And the barkeep didn’t even have the decency to reply correctly, “Glenmorangie, right.”)
Gimlets, after reading The Long Goodbye. Also supposedly they were Ed Wood’s favorite, so there’s that.
Piña colada.
Frankly, I prefer getting caught in the rain.
As did I. It’s not one of my favorites, I’m with Mma Makutsi on that one, I prefer black teas.
The sandwich in The Breakfast Club was one slice of white bread, one slice of brown, buttered, sugared with the contents of a pixie stick, piled high with Captain Crunch cereal, then mashed down. I may or may not have tried this once in my misguided youth. 
I tried mee krob because of Sex And The City, it was pretty good but it’s not my go-to dish when I order Thai.
I tried a black and white cookie because of Seinfeld. I’d had babkas and marble rye, but the B&W cookie remained a mystery. Final verdict is that it’s not worth the unbelievably high calorie/fat count.
I’ve used McDonald’s fries and Coke as a remedy when I wake up with a headache (though not a hangover) like Stephanie Plum in Janet Evanovich’s novels. If the headache is from dehydration, it actually works pretty well.
One of the times I made butter last year (I do that about four times a year) I tried coloring it by squeezing carrot shavings through cheesecloth, like the Ingalls girls did with Ma in “Little House in the Big Woods” but it didn’t work so well.
A large number of my Italian recipes are derived from “Scarpetta’s Winter Table” which is a cookbook written of recipes “from” Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta character. The bechamel lasagna is perfection.
I’ve made a number of the recipes featured in Joann Fluke’s cookie murder mysteries, and Tamar Myers’s Penn-Dutch series. Both feature a lot of recipes from professional culinary sources, though, so it’s not exactly “from the source” there. Some successes, some notable failures (a cookie from a Fluke book that had corn flakes in it, ech).
I don’t remember it, but I’m told that when I was a small boy, I demanded a big heap of spinach, so I could be like Popeye. I dug into it with great enthusiasm, but started spitting it out as soon as I tasted it. I haven’t eaten any since, and it’s been over 50 years.