Aw, I feel your pain. My PIC has been rationing out his to have with his afternoon cuppa every day.
Prolly not enough to make ice cream with the rest 
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OK, so I think I’ve made guac once or twice (sans any cilantro, because cilantro is a NO for me), so I’d have to look up a recipe. Everyone’s different in what they know about food, yes?
And this would be an automatic “NOPE!” from me. But then again, I know how to caramelize onions - and it doesn’t go fast, EVER. But who knows - maybe it works for someone else?
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TJ’s onion dip is good enough for Chez Meekah. I perused that Serious Eats recipe a while ago and thought Nope! Not gonna do those culinary 32 fouettés !
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Oh - and the best ads were:
The DunKings Dunkin’ commercial was tops. Affleck, Damon, Lopez and TB12. “You know I said I’d do anything for you? This was anything.” from Matt Damon. Dunks is selling the neon orange & pink tracksuits as of noon today. I fully expect to see them somewhere in the Boston area very soon.
The Kia ad had me all weepy.
T-Mobile had Jason Momoa doing Flashdance. Wait - were there two other actors in that commercial?
While I’d never drink it, I really really really missed the Budweiser ads with the horses, so I loved the “Old School Delivery” ad this year.
I did like the BMW ad with Christopher Walken and his imitators.
Ahnold and the State Farm ads was kind of funny. Because all I could think of was “Kindergarten Cop” and “It’s NOT A TOOMAH!”
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Child athlete + grandparent = waterworks.
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Except none of those things are necessary, definitely not specialty salt, but not even lime.
Here you go:
It’s a 1998 review of the Rosa Mexicano cookbook, from the nyc restaurant famous for its guac (and reputed to have pioneered “table-side” guac).
1984: Rosa Mexicano whips up tableside guacamole
Manhattan-based Mexican restaurant chain Rosa Mexicano pioneered the tableside guacamole trend in 1984. It turned a typical appetizer (chips and guac) into an entertaining experience for diners.
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I think some small level of. Boston connection was required to fully appreciate this one.
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While I am no longer a fan of this particular brand of football, I did wear a red and white jersey yesterday - throwback Nike JVC ca. 1998 - to commemorate both CNY and Arsenal’s training ground demolition of Wet Sham.
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Our gang will absolutely destroy a tub or two of the classic Helluva Good brand with a bag or two of Lay’s or Ruffles. No homemade dip has that effect on peeps (in my purely anecdotal experience). I’ve also caught a poker buddy just sticking his fingers in there to get every last goop 
I don’t see the appeal, but I didn’t grow up with chips n dip 
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I once made a clam dip sandwich on sourdough. Mrs. ricepad was horrified.
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Hey - we like what we like. No excuses, no regerts 
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Everyone talks about the Bahstin accent - no matter where you’re from - here or elsewhere. It’s well known accent, derided at times as well. So I don’t think a Boston connection was required. But YMMV.
No, I mean the cult of Dunkin’ — and the cast.
I was dying, my companions were less into it.
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Oh, I took the SE piece as a challenge. The sugar and baking soda additions made chemical sense, but the flavor was too sweet, the texture was too grainy, and it was just flat. The customary method using an onion soup packet is orders of magnitude better.
I don’t drink either Dunkin’ or Charbucks. Don’t drink enough coffee to make it worthwhile (plus I find both of them rather awful in taste OR too sweet what with all of the add-ins).
But I’ll take Matt Damon any day. He’s outgrown the “Boston local” and is perfectly self-deprecating. (SEE: his long-running skit with Jimmy Kimmel about being on Kimmel’s night time show.) I can do without JennBen or Jennffleck or whatever they’re called. And TB12 is The Man - but yes, mostly to only people in New England. 
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Bennifer! LOL
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No, my understanding is Bennifer was reserved for his FIRST Jennifer wife, Jennifer Garner. I’m sort of partial to Jennffleck.
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That was my goal, because I had no real interest in the game per se. Sadly, we got a Canadian broadcast of the game, and the Canadian commercials are woefully incomparable to the US ones. Now I have to go find a compilation!
To keep it food related, I made my first cioppino. Although it wasn’t to support SF. It was to use up a mess of shrimp shells and crab bodies that I had stored.
[When we cut cable to save money many years back, we got a roof antenna for the sole purpose of watching our NFL team play). But the topography of the land is such that all of our tv signals bounce south from Canada.]
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i thought the commercials were mostly a bust, fwiw.
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That’s too bad. What really is the point of watching then? Although I think all the commercials are not as good as the average commercial was about 20 yrs ago.
