Many people eat yogurt and still feel hungry. This was posted on X/Twitter by John Mayer on July 7, 2017, and it received over 71,000 likes: "Yogurt does nothing. Creamy nonsense. You ever…
People often love to use a whisk, but hate to clean it. This was posted on X/Twitter by Benj on March 11, 2022, and it received over 190,000 likes: "Me using a whisk: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!…
"Champagne" is sometimes used as a generic term for sparkling wine, but legally, it must come from the Champagne wine region of France. A Diet Coke version of this meme was posted on…
Many people clean the dishes, but keep a big pot separate, to clean last. "The agony of thinking you’re finished doing the dishes only to turn around and to your horror: the pot" was…
No one wants their data collected and stored by a third party, but people often agree to it as part of the usually unread "terms and conditions" on websites. "ever since I was a…
A pun on the term "jacuzzi" was posted on X/Twitter by 💂🏻♀️👋🏻вєαя🍻🇬🇧™ on May 3, 2026: "So this bloke came up to me and said his friend Jack invented…
Wikipedia: Calas (food) Calas (/kəˈlɑː/) are dumplings composed primarily of cooked rice, yeast, sugar, eggs, and flour; the resulting batter is deep-fried. It is traditionally a breakfast…
Wikipedia: -30- -30- has been traditionally used by journalists in North America to indicate the end of a story or article that is submitted for editing and typesetting. It is commonly employed…
Grokipedia Hot Corn Hot corn was a staple street food in mid-19th-century New York City, consisting of roasted ears of sweet corn sold hot by itinerant vendors, frequently impoverished children…
LEGO announced the product "New York City -- The Big Apple" in 2026. New York City’s iconic skyline is shown, silhouetted against a dark sky in the shape of an apple. The set was priced…
"Not all relationships will lead to marriage. Some will help you discover new restaurants" (or "Most relationships won't lead to marriage, but at least they help you find new…
"Not all relationships will lead to marriage. Some will help you discover new restaurants" (or "Most relationships won't lead to marriage, but at least they help you find new…
William Curtis Gibson (1857-1921), a New York editor of Puck magaine and later of Cosmopolitan magazine, invented the "Gibson" cocktail. Edward W. Townsend (1855-1942) wrote in The…
Soda fountain slang (also called "diner slang" or "restuarant slang" or "hash house Greek") is mostly of historical interest today. A numerical list: 5 (five) --…
Newspapers.com 26 October 1937, Stuart (FL) Daily News, "Ye Editor's Easy Chair," pg. 2, col. 1: "Seventy-two." (Two cups of coffee.)
Newspapers.com 26 October 1937, Stuart (FL) Daily News, "Ye Editor's Easy Chair," pg. 2, col. 1: "Seventy-one." (One cup coffee.)
"Civic Fame" is the 1913 statue by sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870-1952) that tops New York City's David N. Dinkins Municipal Building. New York's famed civic models…
Binghamton, New York, has been called the "Parlor City (of the Southern Tier)" since 1873. "Parlor City" means a city that is refined, with beautiful homes, gardens and cultural…
A regional sandwich name in Westchester (Yonkers) for the hero/sub/hoagie is "wedge." "According to some people, a wedge sandwich is a loaf of bread, sliced in two and filled with…
"I should worry" became a famous slang phrase in the United States in 1912 and 1913. "I should worry. I should fret. I should marry a suffragette..." and "I should worry, I…