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.
I don't understand why giving 2 weeks notice is still standard. Employers don't give a shit about employees time and money so why should we give a shit about theirs? Doesn't make sense to me
having dinner at a hotel bar the other night struck up a conversation with a mid-level United Healthcare exec. he told me he puts over $300,000 a year on his company credit card just for entertaining clients. In case you’re wondering why you can’t afford health insurance
If you entered the Capitol during the January 6 attack on America, no matter how much or how little you actually did, instead of turning around and going home…
You are an insurrectionist, and a traitor.
Period.
Lindsey Graham accused Republicans who support the full release of the Epstein files of trying to destroy Trump, which is an admission that the full Epstein files would destroy the president..
COSTCO is warning that they are seeing significant changes in customer's buying habits. Less beef, more chicken, tuna,store brands. They say this is a signal of severe economic stress that they haven't seen since 2007.
Why do streaming apps make it a scavenger hunt to find the show I was just watching? The "Continue Watching" row should always be the very first option. Period.
THIS IS ULTRA SAVAGE 🔥
Journalist –– Why do you think President Trump posted that photo depicting Jesus?
🇺🇸 Rep Nancy –– "You should ask a psychiatrist. It needs diagnosis, not conversation" 😂