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When I was much younger, we’d sometimes to go Manuel’s (i.e. El Tepeyac) in East L.A. on Evergreen. They were famous for some of their burritos. I liked the Hollenbeck, but the Manuel’s Special was so HUGE it was platter-sized. I can’t remember what you got for eating it all in one sitting (another one? no charge?). That was unusual, though. Most Mexican places had easy to handle burritos for the most part…unless they were wet and intended to be eaten with a knife and fork. Now those giant ones are ubiquitous and Too.Damn.Much.
Whoops—I thought I had put the name. It’s Rita’s Burritos in Chandler, AZ.
It’s part of a meme that’s gotten it’s own spinoff.
creating the effect that SpongeBob’s face and the alternation of uppercase and lowercase text represents a mocking tone.
It’s been detached from SpongeBob, and it might not be the exact origin, but it’s how I’ve come across it first.
It means you’re being sarcastic.
They both predate the New Wave by quite a bit. I was thinking more Disch and Jerry Cornelius. But I wasn’t objecting to the New Wave (though MITSFS passed a motion ordering it to die the year before I joined) I was noting that New Worlds stories didn’t have a lot of science in them.
I’m old enough to have read the New Wave stuff when it came out, like the Merril England Swings anthology and the New Worlds collections.
thx (both), I thought there might be a “hidden meaning” … ingnorance fought 
Didn’t get it, I am (and shall stay) firmly in the /s camp
sooo much more efficient /s
For me, it’s usually that the flavorings taste unabashedly artificial. I mean, you’re not confusing Bud Light Lime with Bud Light and a lime wedge squeezed into it. Nor are you confusing grapefruit-flavored vodka with a vodka Greyhound or a Swedish Paloma.
Based on my limited experience with that sort of thing as a dorm RA in college, going and getting cheap vodka is basically admitting to themselves that they have a problem and submitting to it. If they’re making some kind of drink, then they can keep up the internal charade that it’s just social drinking.
Not to insist on it being a literary masterpiece, but it did get better. The second volume was a re-write of the first book, but as the series expanded the plots and character development improved.
Known as alcopops here, designed to not taste of alcohol and marketed at the underaged (though not officially of course) https://www.choice.com.au/food-and-drink/drinks/alcohol/articles/alcopops
I like to eat burritos with a knife and fork, cutting 1/2 -1 cm slices (an easy mouthful). For large sandwiches I like to cut them into quarters (actually I quarter all sandwiches).
ProTip: These 4-5% ABV drinks can be made more adult by adding some cheap vodka and bumping them up to 10%ABV.
If you already have cheap vodka, why not just buy some orange juice?
Someone brought a couple of six packs of some sort of alcohol-pop to our house. I doctored them up.
I thought for a moment it was a drink utilizing “already been vaped”.
Hah! I never noticed that before.
Totally agree.
I never had the money as a kid to buy an issue of Spidey or whoever every month. But I’d just fill in the blanks (“Oh, I must’ve missed Peter leaving his costume on the subway…”).
Now, in my 60s, I’m still a cheapskate, so I hit the Dollar Bins and grab whatever looks good. So now I do that “mentally fill in the missing issues” thing on a much grander scale: “Oooh, looks like Peter lost his costume… because Zombie Uncle Ben is now Spider-Man…”
I’ve heard good things about the Marvel and Shonen Jump apps, if I’m remembering right. Pretty sure DC has one too. They might be roughly the same price for a month of access - I think they go by subscriptions- and you can have a lot more of the library to check out. Worth looking into, I feel
Microsoft Paint. I used to use it from time to time with pretty good results. I tried a few moments ago to used the latest version to do just about the simplest photo editing imaginable this morning. I want to draw a white box around a rectangle in a photograph, then erase everything outside the white box. Among the things I can’t figure out how to do that should be preternaturally simple are: zooming out to see the whole picture at once, using any magnification less than 100%, and drawing any color line other than black. Even figuring out how to draw a shape without a black outline took longer than it should have.
With regard to series becoming soap operas upthread, here is an Arlo & Janis today on just that.