GooberEar

Also, if you have pets that go outside, such as a dog you take for walks, you need to check them even if they are on flea and tick prevention. Ticks are more than glad to hitchhike indoors on pets and then later decide to rehome themselves onto a human.

Incorrect. There are MANY species of tick.

Lawsuits are to convictions like chocolate mousse is to catalytic converters.

Enjoy a burger how you want, or not, I could hardly care any less as long as you're not hurting anybody with your lifestyle choice.

Personally, I just don't like cooked pineapple very much. It's a pale imitation of fresh in both taste and texture. Pure disappointment, and I've got enough disappointment in my life already, don't need anymore on my pizza or burger or tacos or spaghetti or upside down cake or colada.

Thought you were going to say "in the butt", but then you said "In HELL." and I assume you don't refer to the butt as hell. Right?

Ass, ass, or ass, no one rides for free.

If I'm being honest, I was born in the year of our Lord 2005 to the most amazingly loving, caring, and down-to-earth parents a child could ever ask for. At the tender age of 18, I lived life to its fullest, moved out from my parents' house, and then a year later I turned 19 for the first and only time ever. That was a turning point in my life, after which I was and forever would be over the age of 18. So yes, emphatically yes, I am indeed over the age of 18.

It's a mineral, Gurk.

Did anyone else get in school suspension?

Yes, though my memory of it is kind of limited all these years later.

It was a case of collective punishment. At least that third and final time the bus was late, it was because a number of the kids on the same route took too long to get on the bus and get settled, which caused us to be late. Some kids would wait to leave their house until they saw the bus or heard the horn beep. So, I guess they decided to punish everyone, for reasons.

I don't even think it was literally everybody that rode the bus, because some of the kids' parents would/could drop them off at school any time the bus was late or not running. But that wasn't an option for me.

Tastes just the same.

It loses some of its crispness, so you wouldn't necessarily substitute frozen / thawed celery in a recipe that calls for raw / uncooked celery. Though, I have used the thawed stuff for things like potato salad and chicken salad before, which are things that typically use raw celery, and it still added enough texture and crunch to make it worthwhile.

But for things that involve cooking celery, like in soups, stir fries, and things along those lines, frozen works just fine for me. I don't find any difference in taste or texture in the finished product, assuming that the frozen celery didn't get freezer burned or go through multiple freeze/thaw cycles.

Most grocery stores in my part of the world sell frozen celery or at least frozen veggie mixes that include celery, so I'd say it's a fairly common practice.

This is probably stretching the definition of strange, but I got in school suspension in middle school for having 3 tardies (aka arriving late to school). I rode the school bus to school each day, I had no control over whether I was late or not, so I find it strange to be punished for something like that.

Any of the "salads": Tuna salad, chicken salad, egg salad, potato salad benefit from a little added celery, both as an added flavor component as well as for a little texture and crunch.

While I use celery in a lot of cooking, I tend not to be able to use an entire bunch of it before it goes bad. So, whenever I buy it, I use what I can, and then I chop the rest up and freeze it. Then I can pull out what I need for cooking purposes at my leisure, and I don't end up wasting much celery.

All the options you mentioned for eating the celery raw are great. I'd also add cream cheese to that list.