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With this Savory Banana Split you have proven yourself as the greatest food writer in all of history. You prove to us mortals our inadequacies with your muse wife who, let’s be real, I doubt went to pee because genius ideas don’t come through peeing, but in fact it comes with the true calling of nature and answering it with a peak intellectual survival response disguised as “a simple selection of ingredients.” Your bathroom has been transformed as an altar or a channel to the gods. I envy you both.

Great post, thank you and I wish you the best for your eye surgery!

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Aug 25, 2023·edited Aug 25, 2023Liked by Dennis Lee

I know you know this, but people have started food trucks, or heck, entire restaurants, with less of a coherent idea than this. Which looks awesome.

Also I don't envy you the cataract surgery, but everyone I know who's had it has really been happy with the results.

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Sep 10, 2023Liked by Dennis Lee

I live in Texas but have never seen these peanuts you’re enamored (sorta) with!! I’m feeling a must-have-at-all-costs and Mexican bodegas aren’t exactly a thing in Dallas (that I’m aware of). I know one maybe-it’s a meat market. Great fajitas. Peanuts? I shall find you! I’m a huge fan of well-done fusion, be it music or food or people. Great job on the S’plit Dennis & Davida! Could rival any print media food re-creator I’d say. Tho they use plaster & paste for potatoes, quite close relatives of your instant mashed if taste is any hint.

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Unrelated to this post but thought you might be amused to learn that in London, Wendy's is serving biscuits with a choice of gravy, honey... or Nutella

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Aug 28, 2023Liked by Dennis Lee

I would've thought that a dark beef gravy would be the more obvious "fudge" but mole sounds awesome. Love this idea

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Aug 26, 2023Liked by Dennis Lee

Too bad she didn’t have this idea before the wedding; you could have had mini savory splits as canapés at the reception.

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Aug 26, 2023Liked by Dennis Lee

Another classic.

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Hurray for Davida! And good luck on the surgery, I'm sure you'll come sailing through it and tell them so many jokes about balls. Rest well bud!

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Aug 25, 2023Liked by Dennis Lee

a little racism is nothing in the infinite search for flavor

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Aug 25, 2023·edited Aug 25, 2023Liked by Dennis Lee

Davida is a genius and you are merely a transcriber of her genius. She should sit on the toilet while you are wracked with writer's block more often. Or, perhaps, all the time.

Also, this is your most salient observation ever: "You eat with your eyes before you eat with your ass, you know?" You can retire now. Or just sit in front of the toilet and await Davida's next inspiration.

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this marriage thing is working out !!!!

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I really want to marry Davida now, WHAT A WOMAN! You two are going to have such a twisted, indigestible, hilarious future.

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