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Granted, your insistence on continuing to reference the 1987 film Predator by summoning up your best Arnold Schwarzenegger impression and yelling, “Get to the chopper!” might not be aging like fine wine, but it is the inspiration for a new whiskey.

It’s the dawn of 2019. You maybe had a few too many glasses of bubbles last night. Your New Year’s Resolutions are imminent, but can probably wait until you’ve gotten your hair of the dog. And it’s still a holiday, so we can be a little festive. But on January 1, complicated drinks are probably beyond you by this point.

Do you have a spoon rest? Do you love it? Because if so, please tell me. It is rare, with apologies to my former colleague, that I find someone who really loves their spoon rest. It is a clever idea to have a receptacle for a kitchen tool that's still in use. If you don't designate an area for them, they end up floating around the kitchen or buried in the sink—a very inconvenient quality for something that you're going to need imminently. But a spoon rest is always lacking somehow.

Though America’s beer laws have become increasingly lax over the years, alcohol is still one of the more heavily-regulated products in the country, and selling booze comes with plenty of hoops to continually jump through. For instance, every new product label has to be approved by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).

Of all the compostable trimmings that show up on a regular basis, potato peels might seem like the least likely ones you'd want to save. Maybe you don't really peel your potatoes to begin with. Maybe after making super crispy smashed potatoes for a crowd, you just don't have it in you to save the scraps. That's all legitimate, but if you have them around, you should hang on to your potato peelings. Why? Because they are delicious. 

Starbucks is certainly known for its limited time offers, but with the Pumpkin Spice Latte popping up in August and sticking around for months, it's easy to take the seasonal menu item for granted. But while "autumn" is technically a limited time, Starbucks is rolling out a trio of chocolatey beverages to close out 2018 that are only available into the New Year.

Where were you when you learned that Pedialyte was a hangover cure, not just a thing you drank after getting the stomach flu as a kid? For me, it was after a night in college when I had ill-advisedly attempted to "chase" bad vodka with raspberry sorbet. A friend of a friend had a bottle of Pedialyte in their room, and while I thought it was a weird, it totally helped.

Stocking a kitchen can be expensive. Just ask anyone who's ever limped through the first month of living in a new apartment with a two plates and a coffee pot. Assembling what you need from traditional sources can be expensive, particularly if you're invested in getting certain brands for certain things.