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‘Tis the season to be jolly, and this eggnog certainly helps me to be festive. One of the guilty pleasures of drinking homemade eggnog is it tastes like melted vanilla ice cream with a generous dose of alcohol. Continue reading
You probably forgot something important. That’s ok, there is still wine. Continue reading
Happy holidays and whatnot! Here’s a MST3K festival to watch when you have to go sneak a drink to keep yourself from doing something horrible to your family. Continue reading
It’s the funnest night of the season, when you can dress up like a sexy children’s cartoon, drink dessert cocktails named and dyed to look like viscera, and candy sales are bountiful, so you can eat mini Kit Kats till you feel like puking. Continue reading
Rest, relax, and take a moment to remember the people who sacrificed for you. Continue reading
Perhaps there are Valentine’s Day candies that are more predictably tasty: for example, the Reese’s Peanut Butter Heart, whose pliant chocolate and dense, salty interior excite your taste buds just as pleasurably as they did at Christmas, when they came in the shape of a tree; at Halloween, as a pumpkin; and Easter, an egg.
There are V-Day candies that are perhaps more unidentifiable with any other day: candy conversation hearts, for example. But those marry the flavors and mouthfeel of an Edwardian spinster’s tooth powder collection with the kind of creepy suggestions you’d find in a collection of crazy and creative ways to ask someone to prom.
But the very best Valentine’s Day candy is an assortment of chocolates, each morsel an adventure, just like romantic love. And to me, the quintessential V-Day assortment is Russell Stover’s Assorted Fine Chocolates, you know, the one in the red heart-shaped box with the cellophane. Nothing says “I cherish you” like waxy American chocolate crammed with corn syrup. Continue reading
Note: This is a reprint from 2011, but cartoons are always happy. Continue reading