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11 years ago @ The Toast - Dad Magazine: Septembe... · 0 replies · +14 points

Dads will never be impressed with how much you saved. You could have saved more.

Ugh, lines like that make me want to laugh and cry at the same time.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +1 points

Don't worry, you weren't the only one who thought that, and I completely blame the 1930s Shirley Temple film of Heidi for perpetuating my ignorance on that account.

I also own the Harry Potter cookbook (yay!). I've only done a few recipes from it, but so far they've been quite credible. The pinnacle of my HP culinary career has been figuring out a decent "adult" version of butterbeer!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

I was more fascinated by how precise all their housekeeping chores were, especially the dish washing for some reason. Also, I love your username -- ho-jo-to-ho!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +2 points

Ooooooh, I have not. But it is definitely now on the top of my queue!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +11 points

That is tragically disappointing. What a waste of a name.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +8 points

Vanity cakes and homemade baked beans (and not to mention MAPLE SYRUP CANDY) . . .oh you know it!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +2 points

Done and done.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +9 points

I feel like I should start writing an epic fantasy novel just based off of the awesomeness of that name alone.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

Right? I didn't taste Turkish Delight until I was in college. My old roommate (who was just as nerdy about fantasy and historical fiction books as I was) and I found some in an Irish imports shop and we GEEKED the fuck out about it. I still buy chocolate covered Turkish Delight every time I'm at World Market because no one on earth can convince me that it is not THE YUMMIEST.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 30 replies · +32 points

That food diary is a priceless jewel of satire that the peasants of NY Mag clearly cannot appreciate. But on that note, her claiming to eat according to what books she was reading was the actual best.

Toasties: which of you actually did try to eat whatever food was described in the books you read as a kid (or as an adult--hey, I clearly can't judge) because I KNOW I can't be the only one who tried to recreate Dorothy's tree-pail luncheon when she read Ozma of Oz.

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