Foiled again

A good observation by Uncle Ken regarding the "conversational black hole," and I'm not surprised it's often about food, especially in polite, mixed company.  Even if you don't do much cooking yourself you've seen plenty of ads and commercials and have certainly eaten a lot; your opinions have merit.

The discussions can be fun and everybody can throw in their two cents.  For example, the highly regarded burger chain Culver's just opened a couple of blocks from me and I gave it a shot, just to check it out.  Not impressed, too pricey in my opinion for what you get but the chocolate malt was very good.  Maybe it's too new and has some kinks to work out.

But I don't think that sports is the universal language of men, although it is often a good starting point,  It has been my experience that guys will yammer just about anything, as long as touchy subjects like feelings and emotions don't come up.  Context is important and depending on the group you are with you could be discussing cars, gadgets, tools, travel, toys, trivia, tits, topics that begin with the letter 't,' you get the idea.  I've heard there are even some guys that like to discuss philosophy and politics.  Imagine that.

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As I pondered the proliferation of tin foil haberdashery, I realized that I don't think I've ever seen any actual tin foil, it's all been aluminum foil.  No rabbit holes tonight, but I wonder when Big Aluminum took over.  And were tin cans ever made of tin, or just tin-coated steel?  Toothpaste used to come in metal tubes, were those tin?  A rabbit hole for another day.