dannisree
Dennis Lee
dannisree
Staff writer at The Takeout. Also: Saveur Humor Blog Award Winner, professional pizza maker, and insufferable troublemaker.

Well, the guy apparently pre-dunked his presumably-not-girlfriend-anymore’s clothes in the bathtub which might have been a blessing in surprise... Read more

Oh my God. I’m so embarrassed. I fixed it. Stupid almost-engineering-switched-to-English degree!!! Read more

Hi, all. Fixed the link. Sorry about that! I think I get another week or so before I’m not “new on the job” anymore. Read more

It’s so scary! Mushrooms are one of my favorite foods and I hate that my love for them may actually kill me. Read more

Right? I believe the last time around it was 10k out of 14k total locations had it, but still. 4k restaurants is a lot to not have it. Read more

Not nitpicky. I made a factual error. Thank you for letting me know! I’ve corrected the mistake. Read more

I love Arby’s. There should have been Horsey and Arby’s sauce in there. But — the kicker is Chicago doesn’t really have them except for two very strange locations downtown (one in a train station, the other downtown in an office area which is desolate now). I have this theory that if someone opens up an Arby’s Read more

Hello! Thank you! It’s been a really interesting (almost) two weeks. So you get to see me in a much higher volume. And maybe even shared on the Internet. I’m so glad you found me here. Read more

You know, I went in stone cold sober. I’m not much of a weed person, unfortunately. I say that because everyone has fun with weed except for me. It makes me feel terrible. Read more

For me, it’s really about general best practices and not necessarily COVID-19. Notice I didn’t bring that up. I am aware that it doesn’t appear to spread through surfaces and air is the most suspect, but hopefully I don’t get something else, you know, picking my nose. Read more

I didn’t want to cross too many streams! I’m already in a million different places at once right now anyway. Read more

If it’s sealed, I imagine it’ll last for at least a few days. Every now and then I’ll have an internal freakout, but I haven’t gotten sick (knock on wood) from food in ages and sometimes I tempt fate. Read more

Nugget...he does what he wants. He knows he’s not supposed to go on the counter, but we can’t stop him at night! One time he accidentally turned a burner on the stove and filled the apartment with gas, it was terrible. Read more

My usual go-to is this kind that roughly translates to Grandma’s Handmade Kimchi that we get from a Korean supermarket nearby. The other one we like, I forget the label of, which makes this comment completely useless. Apparently Tobagi is supposed to be good too, but I have not seen that at our store. Read more

Oh. And I’ll keep my eye out for dogs up in Wisconsin too, once this mess is all over. Fiancee is from there and I didn’t know the hot dogs were good up there since I usually swap to brats on hard rolls in her neck of the woods! Read more

You know, I used to feel the same way about Superdawg’s for a while, but I paid close attention the last few times we went, and dog itself is really good. It’s unusual that I get eventually swayed in the opposite direction like that, especially all these years later. Read more

My local Home Depot has a stand inside it and it’s always been great and affordable. They’re cash only, unfortunately, so it’s been a while since I’ve gone, but now I REALLY want one of those dogs. Read more

Hello, Mike! Delightful to see you here with me. Thanks for all the emails. As you can see, this is my new job, so you’ll see plenty more of me. Read more