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Kids menus are unimaginative. Chicken tenders, cheese burgers, and grilled cheese (with fries, not salad, thanks). Clearly the best way to broaden their palate is at home, in the kitchen, with kid-friendly recipes. When a kid gets their hands dirty making food that everyone is about to eat, it will entice them to try something new. It could change the way they eat. Or, at the very least, they’ll learn some skills and help feed the rest of the family as they munch on microwaved chicken tenders. But where to start? We reached out to eight chefs for the recipes that...

I am on the precipice of domesticity.The breaking point where Brooklyn parents with media jobs’ sexts are replaced with Zillow links. The inflection point, where my wife now whispers “more space” in her sleep. The Agro Krag of home ownership, the landslide that carries couples from the city to the suburbs. I am not reacting well. I have the shakes, cold sweats, the “Chip-and-Jos.” My doctors say it looks like a bad case of HGTV.I am looking into the chasm so many upwardly mobile city-dwelling parents fall into. I hear their voice echoing out of the darkness: Your city kids...

I don’t want to hear about your local comedy scene. Honestly, it just doesn’t compare. You don’t have people who scrape ice off of their cars and slide out in brown slush just to try out five minutes of new material. If you’re talking about Chicago, it’s expected. When you’re talking about Des Moines, Iowa, it’s insane. For the last 14 years, there has been an enclave of huggable freaks, pukers of truth and go-getters who have made the Des Moines comedy scene the greatest in the country. Around 2007, you would have been lucky to find an open mic,...

While attempts at going to outer space and exploring the cosmos, or diving deep into our vast oceans and trying to figure out where the heck is Nemo are all fine and dandy, but there’s more to learn about the world we live in than just physical exploration.Take learning about cultures, religion, and just all things societies, for instance. Humans are complicated beings in general, but the social and societal structures we’ve built is the same vast vat of everything as is the ocean deep and space infinite.People on AskReddit were curious about these exact things in a now-viral thread,...

Hotels can be surprisingly hard to get quality sleep in. There can be plenty of reasons for it – unfamiliar environment, loud neighbors, city lights beaming through the curtains... But as you are about to see, these examples are nothing compared to what some people had to go through on their travels. To remind you to do your homework the next time you're booking a place, we at Bored Panda put together a list of the absolute worst hotel experiences we could find online. From roaches to broken appliances and irresponsible staff who refuse to take care of those things,...