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.
> 8 WHlTE men / women
> were paying adults to RA*E their Pets & Children ages 3-16
> CHILDREN as young as 3 were drvgged, locked in basement and used as Sex SIaves
you will not see a single WHlTE right wing activist talking about this henious crime cuz for them only brown immigrants are the villains
New York City has declared June 11, 2026 as "OG Anunoby Appreciation Day" 🙌
Manhattan Borough President, Brad Hoylman-Sigal, shows love to OG after his Game 4 NBA Finals performance in the Knicks’ win 🔥
(via @bradhoylman)
The delay in a ruling is because objectively it is clear that this is a Flagrant 2, but if the League rules it a Flagrant 2, then Wemby is suspended for the next game, which they clearly don’t want to do.
No flagrant upgrade on the uncalled foul of Spurs' Victor Wembanyama to Knicks' Jalen Brunson on Monday night, a league spokesperson tells ESPN. Wembanyama will stay at two flagrant points in postseason.
Shai Gilgeous Alexander last four games is averaging 28 PPG in the first HALF..
FIRST HALF
That would make him 4th in scoring in the NBA in just 17.7 minutes.
17.7 MINUTES
He’s shooting
68.4 FG%
70 3PT%