Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

I don't know, but they are extremely addictive. Or, as the kids say nowadays "addicting". Which I do not accept as a real word.

Dear Rolos: Why can't I quit you?

love, Jenn

Dear everyone in the Boston area: Go here immediately if you like delicious burgers and fries:

Flat Patties in Harvard Square

We went here in the past when we lived on Beacon Hill with Heather Rose but then it moved locations and we were sad and thought it shut down. We were happy to find out recently that it had only relocated - today we were walking around Harvard Square and Rob had the great idea to eat here.

Burgers = delicious. Fries = delicious. Grilled buns = delicious. Also, cheap. 2 burgers, fries and a drink cost around $12.

Thanks Flat Patties! I love you!

Dear Sam LaGrassa's:

I concur that you do indeed make the world's number one sandwiches. Thank you.

love,
Jenn

The "finalist" donuts in your create your own donut contest all sound perfectly gross. They are all chocolate and/or peanut themed. Ewww. None of them interest me in the least.

If you'd like to vote for a donut with marshmallow filling or crushed up peanut butter cup topping, go visit Dunkin Donuts to vote for the next donut

OH MY GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS?

My brain just died a little when I saw your commercial for pre-peeled and chopped up potatoes that you microwave then mash up to make mashed potatoes.

Because it is SO EASY to make mashed potatoes. Here's the secret kids: don't peel them. If you don't peel them it takes about 5 minutes to cut them up, then you boil them which takes no effort and then you mash them for like 5 minutes.

Seriously.

Fuck off Ore Ida.

I don't know how many people have heard about this study, which seems to point to diet soda actually being a marker for weight gain and obesity.

Kind of interesting, and I get what they're saying, and obviously the study doesn't lie but I just hope people don't make too direct of a connection. It's not like diet soda secretly has calories in it, but something else you're doing maybe because of the soda or maybe not may be leading to weight gain. Anyway, but this part of it annoys me:

"People think they can just fool the body. But maybe the body isn't fooled," she says. "If you are not giving your body those calories you promised it, maybe your body will retaliate by wanting more calories. Some soft drink studies do suggest that diet drinks stimulate appetite."

Yeah but I'm not trying to "fool" my body lady, I'm trying to drink something with caffeine that doesn't have 150 calories a glass.

All I can say for my experience with diet soda is that when I switched from regular to diet I immediately lost 10 pounds which I've relatively kept off since then. (I say relatively because when I do other bad things like eat lots of fried foods and cookies I obviously gain weight but that's unrelated to the diet soda.)

By the way, I'm not trying to make a post that's all about dieting and pounds and calories because I'm so totally not someone who enjoys talking about that shit, I just find the study interesting because I've heard some scuttlebut over the last year or so that diet soda makes people gain weight and I found it hard to believe.

In case you were considering eating the new Steakhouse Burger at Burger King on purpose, here are the nutrition facts folks:

Calories: 950
Calories from fat: 540
Total fat: 59 grams
Saturated fat: 21 grams
Trans fat: 2.5 grams
Cholesterol: 140 mg
Sodium: 1950 mg
Total carbs: 55 grams

Yes, it deserves an all caps headline.

Papa John's delivers there.

Holy crap, if you haven't had Papa John's pizza and breadsticks with garlic dipping sauce, you haven't lived, and I feel very sad for you my friend.

I almost burst a blood vessel when I saw a Papa John's delivery guy at the building next door walking home one night. There's one in the city that delivers to our neighborhood!

In the past, our closest was one in Somerville which we could only get when we had a rental car or Zipcar for some reason.

By the way, yes, of course we got it delivered pretty much the next day after making this discovery!

That's all.