Joe MacLeod

Slice my ham, stop fooling around!

It’s a beautiful package, and that’s always a big part of my experience as a consumer. I will buy stuff just because of the package at least once, but nine bucks for spaghetti?

EVERY TIME I chop onions (I am not good at it) I remember that movie about Julia Child where she enrolled in the famous Cordon Bleu, and there was a lab where the baby Bleus hadda learn how to chop the onions, because the onion is a building block of gastronomy or something. Your whole […]

I know that right now is not really a time when lots of people should be getting together to watch the Big Game, or even a little game.

Personally, I do not want to eat a Groundhog.

It's a game of Chicken! I would feel bad if a bunch of regular people got burned.

Larry never read the book.

I LIKE TO drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I’m drinking more. I know it’s January, and a lotta people like to “dry out” and not drink any wine, or beer, or liquor, or that new-style juice that’s fizzy water with hooch in it, and have a “Dry January,” or “Dryuary,” for fuck’s […]

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Nothing.

I swear it’s not my fault

round oblong shapes of comfort and joy

Tiny candy bars are bad!

HELLO, THIS IS the Mr. Wrong column. You probably didn’t ask for it, or order it or whatever, so it’s not your fault. The Mr. Wrong column is a General Interest Column about things that are of interest to the Mr. Wrong column, and it is part of what you get for signing up as […]

I am all about pretty much anything made with cauliflower

Goofballs are driving out to some national park to see a piece of metal

I BOUGHT A bag of these CAULIFLOWER STALKS at the price club because I always want to enjoy new crunchies, and if it’s healthy somehow, that’s great. I’m willing to roll the dice, like on those boring taro chips I bought once, bleagh. This MADE WITH REAL CAULIFLOWER snack is cheese flavored, and when I popped open the […]

If you jump in and out of the market at the right times, that’s where you make some real dough.