Dom Scalfaro

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

An Aussie discovers Texas Road House for the first time. Epic!

The World Cup needs to be permanently held in the US. It offers the most for the teams and the fans. 🤣🇺🇸🇦🇺

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@FreddyLA7 @TNHillbillyHack Trust me, you can skip the peanuts.

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

I know Howie is a cap guru but...

the Eagles having the #2 least expensive defense in 2026 seems impossible

only the Dolphins completely gutted DEF is cheaper

$108M cheaper in 2026 than #1 Steelers

Jalen Carter
Jonathan Greenard
Jordan Davis
Zack Baun
Cooper DeJean
Quinyon Mitchell
Nolan Smith
Tariq Woolen
Jalyx Hunt
Moro Ojomo and on and on

insane

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@PlayStation

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@Blutman27 Darryl Strawberry Shortcake

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@kunwarabhi7 Soooo Jesus is a Jedi?

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@AidanLaPorta69 Bro was literally hobbling around on the court leaving it all out there. And he only managed 34 points and 12 rebounds…

He does not get enough credit.

[Rob Friedman @PitchingNinja]

Zack Wheeler striking out his 1st 2 hitters.

Welcome back!

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

I can hear @LesBowen’s sigh from here. Arguably the Eagles biggest need finally gets addressed.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

At No. 68, the Eagles selected Miami OT Markel Bell.

[Rob Friedman @PitchingNinja]

Andrew Painter's 2Ks in the 3rd. 🧑‍🎨

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@PitchingNinja This is so freaking dope

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@WhiteHouse How about less of this, and more money in the pockets of Americans.

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@LesBowen I, in no way, shape, or form want Diego Pavia on this roster.

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@brockstar91 @LowkeyCozy I cannot express to you how much this made me laugh this morning.

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@LowkeyCozy

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@ctherien6 They played so hard in the 3rd period. It’s a shame they couldn’t find a way in regulation, but it genuinely felt the entire team felt energized. Everyone wanted it.

[Dom Scalfaro @DomScalfaro]

@AdamSchefter They’ve been leaked