"Istanbul" (pick your version)

They just don't usually harpy on it?

If nothing else, the flour has much less protein, due to the variety of wheat; it's closer to the protein content of other US brands' pastry flour.

Seems Eco logical.

"I must be a creature of the night... I shall become...a bratwurst!”

Even coming from the US, I feel like I mostly know this from Li'l Abner, with all the connotations that drags in. My first association is the line in the Li'l Abner musical, "If I had my druthers, I'd druther have my druthers than anything else I know."

Eye level grills weren't a feature of my childhood, so my primary association is Flanders & Swann's "Design for Living":

"I'm delirious about our new cooker fitment with the eye-level grill. This means without my having to bend down the hot fat can squirt straight into my eye!"

A very Tom Bombadil interaction.

Who owns that many dice? That scourge of decent Canadian society, the dice smuggler! Who as you know commit 98% of all crimes in Canada.

Fun fact: Canada Customs in that era assumed all imported books were pornography. Dealing with them was so much fun.

Some ancient historians have argued that this is mere coincidence and 'Reply Guy' derives from the Roman tradition of the 'Gaius Replicator', in which the Senate chose a random uninformed citizen to respond to a speech given by an empress with 'o dei mei 🤣 roto arena ridens' or 'actualiter, domina'

(What is purple, commutes, and is worshipped for a day? A finitely venerated Abelian grape.)

Scary, but maybe too late for a good Halloween costume.

That sounded more glib than I meant it to be. I haven't been there in many years, but I found the Sagrada Família fascinating in large part because it seemed so fractured. I'm not sure what my reaction would have been to seeing all those components somehow unified.

"A mad, magnificent thing" and "an incoherent mess" aren't necessarily inconsistent.

I would think the food and architecture are a valid reason by themselves! (Also, seconding the Sagrada Família being worth visiting even before completion. I've visited it two or three times, and the changes between visits were fascinating.)