C.A. Pinkham's discussions

This is how my mother feels about sushi. My grandfather “didn’t believe in raw fish.” Mealtimes with the two of them were an adventure. Read more

At the Chipotle near my apartment, a customer recently threatened to call the cops on the employees because the steak was not cooked well done (as it fucking should not be). Read more

When the hell have I ever let THAT stop me? Read more

As opposed to national weddings? Read more

Kinja gonna kinj. Read more

Having lived here, my theory is that basketball is seen by potential owners as not white enough to appeal to this city, and that’s probably a spot-on analysis. A lot of yinzers tend to be terrified of anything with even the slightest suggestion of pigment, and any neighborhood that isn’t white (there is no such thing… Read more

A tradition of college basketball. Pitt draws good crowds and Duquesne still gets some talk. People like college basketball there. Read more

If they don’t cook it right, send it back. Any server even remotely worth their salt will tell you this: if you order it a certain way, and it does not come out that way, you are more than within your rights to send it back. You ordered it a certain way and the kitchen fucked it up, now they can deal with cooking it… Read more

That sort of OCD I feel like wouldn’t bother me. Tics and stuff are what they are. It’s more just not being able to eat a thing because of reasons that fall outside the bounds of logic and rationality that I would struggle with—which would be totally my issue and no one else’s. Read more

This is fair! Health concerns are a valid reason to do this, and I will not judge or laugh at you for them. Telling your waiter “we’re immunocompromised and our doctors told us to eat meat well done” should solve the problem; any decent waiter would be totally cool with that. Read more

Has no one working for this website ever met any country music fans? Read more

Part of me reflexively wants to criticize, but OCD is a real and fucked-up thing, and I have a lot of sympathy for sufferers. I don’t know how I’d deal with having a kid with OCD other than seeking out every reputable method for treating it. Read more

This would honestly be a deal-breaker for me. I cannot imagine dating someone who has to have their steak cooked like shoe leather. Read more

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There’s a point at which you have to take a stand. This would be mine. Read more

To be fair, “vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting” is almost slang for the world’s most boring choice in any situation. Read more

You’re lying to me. Read more

ok that’s a lie, there’s a lot wrong with me. cookies still suck. Read more

You could also just tell her you’re eating it bc it’s your body and you’ll do what you want with it? That’s my approach, including the other day when our fridge door had been open for a few hours and my ludicrously paranoid fiancee tried to throw everything out. Read more