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Dennis Lee
Personal blog · foodisstupid.substack.comculturewriting
Dennis Lee writes Food is Stupid, a personal blog at foodisstupid.substack.com about culture and writing. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dennis Lee's Substack for food experiments, such as an escargogurt post and a post asking whether you can make toast in a microwave. Comments cite the posts without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My name is Dennis Lee, aka Dannis Ree, and I'm a Chicago-based food writer whose main goal is to ruin food for everyone. Especially you.
What Hacker News says?
Reminded me of Dennis Lee too [0] https://foodisstupid.substack.com/p/escargogurt
Comment linking /p/escargogurt
on “I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)”Submitted No-Knead Gatorade Bread as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTurns out you're right: https://foodisstupid.substack.com/p/can-you-make-toast-in-yo... The hot pockets "crisping sleeve" makes this possible.
Comment linking /p/can-you-make-toast-in-your-microwave
on “Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools”