Sometimes, there really is something to be said about truth in advertising.

When I visited Kenosha back in May, I discovered a coffee shop that I was pretty sure wasn’t there when I previously visited (in 2018) - the Buzz café.


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So I was over at alliancesjr and tweelore's place earlier today, and Kevin mentioned that a friend of his mailed them a bunch of chocolates all the way from freaking Australia. And the package including this especially striking confection.

YOU GUYS. pic.twitter.com/NynFJ2QzVe
- Kevin O'Shea™ (@osheamobile) March 5, 2016

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Readers who started following me before the Ukrainian Crisis may remember a post I wrote in the summer of 2013 about the opening of Flecks Coffee in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood. The long-time middle-class African-American neighborhood has fallen on hard times in recent years, an the opening of a new business - especially an independent coffee ( Read more... )

Speaking of my Russian childhood... I'm mostly posting this for the sake of hettie_lz and everyone else from the former Soviet Union who might be reading this. Because, while I can try to explain what zapekanka is, it doesn't really capture what the crappy zapekanka you were pretty much guaranteed to eat if you went to state daycare facilities in the Soviet ( Read more... )