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My mom used to make it - I think it's German. You fry up bacon, chop it into bits, and save the grease. Meanwhile, you boil potatoes, cut them up while still warm, add the bacon, chopped scallions, and some chopped endive (not the Belgian kind, the other kind). Pour the bacon grease and some cider vinegar over it, toss (the grease and vinegar become a kind of bastard vinaigrette), and serve while still warm. We used to put sour cream on it as a garnish/because Slavic. ( My dad's side is Polish; sour cream was pretty much a food group at my grandma's.)

I have. That's why "ew."

As someone of distant Mongolian heritage, I resent that.😝

I doubt that your client was, either. The Karen are a Burmese ethnic minority who have been persecuted under multiple regimes. Please find another slur; the Karen have suffered enough.

Funyuns? Ew!

Making a video?

Is this a stand-alone story, or is one supposed to have prior knowledge of the characters? I felt kind of like I'd arrived at a party five minutes after the only person I knew had left; there were hints of motivation that dangled just out of reach that would have made both the conflict more palpable and the resolution more satisfying. It actually was more like reading a teaser than an actual story; it's not bad, I just wish that, if it's stand-alone, there was a bit more of the background, like why Deja is so touchy about being smart. I guess to a reader familiar with the universe, it would be a far more satisfying read.

But I take showers.

I am exhausted. And I'm tired of it.

I'm just surprised, especially since there's no mayo in the German-style.

What - no hot potato salad? That stuff is the best.

There's a bus stop there? My, what an entrance you'll make.

Well, I have to congratulate you - I was invested enough in Harrison to want to keep following and eventually see him resolve his grief ( or not). That's got to be hard to do in such a short piece.

Well, he did meet the criteria.

It was good, but I wanted more.

What kind of potato salad? I make it a few different ways.

Respect the language, dammit. Zeni's schtick is creepy and, as he ages, becomes creepier. However, he meets neither the legal nor the diagnostic criteria for a pedophile. He, or at least the character he inflicts on us, is an ephebophile.

He's not a pedophile, he's an ephebophile.

I sit corrected.

Sonic Rican, dude.

I can dream.

Good. Now if they'd just stop making their stupid quarters...

I can't think of any bills you could do that to in American currency. But if I was still living up near the border, it'd be tempting to have a couple of those in my wallet.

Have you seen this yet? https://www.radio.com/articles/star-trek-fans-canada-told-stop-drawing-spock-5-bills