It is a very large, phallic-looking clam. The name comes from a local native language here in the Pacific Northwest and is pronounced “gooey duck”. The clam itself feels sort of like really thick skin.

I once dug a geoduck out of the sand with my bare hands.

What does it mean to “be pogged at”?

Being as they don’t vote, they are technically not voters.

Aliens has her beat by a few decades.

Considering that almost every egg dish I make requires whole, unscrambled eggs…no. Doesn’t work.

I will look into pruning the neighbors’ house.

I’d love to have some plums, but I don’t have a lot of room for them.

I built a couple makeshift trellises for my pea plants.

You can cross-pollinate plants by using a little paintbrush to catch and move the pollen.

It’s relative.

I don’t agree. I watched tons of movies from the '80s in the 2000s and I didn’t really think of them as old. Certainly not recent, but not old old.

That is not an old movie. It’s not a recent movie, but it’s not an old movie.

All my fellow mushroom soup lovers should make some Hungarian mushroom soup sometime. So good.

My favorite soups that I occasionally make are duck pho, lobster bisque (it has been way too long since I’ve made this one, but it’s a lot of work), fish chowder, French onion soup, and Hungarian mushroom soup.

Yeah, I’d forego the cheese, but to each their own.

I’m curious, though… Are you a midwesterner? This sounds very midwesterner.

Sounds tasty enough.

What is Sushi Bake?

You might want to switch Gremlins to the PG-13 category. The PG-13 rating was invented as a response to Gremlins being PG.

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-gremlins-helped-change-movie-ratings-forever-with-pg-13

Or croutons.

I’m more concerned about its use of facial recognition.