1. Any non-chain restaurants? 2. "Baby"

1. In her home town of Key Center, we're walking 10 deep to a diner. She says "It's terrible, every little restaurant here is changing into something boring and disgusting." This restaurant we're going to is apparently one of the last ones left. When we go inside, she leads me to the end of the dessert case where we find a gluten and dairy free item, finally. It is raspberry chocolate garlic hazelnut mousse cream bar. Somehow, it works, I think it's because I eat the garlic about 10 minutes before I eat the mousse. Z is there, shouts from across the table that he's going to order that too.

2. C says, while we are joking around, and in the context of an argument, the word "Baby." Then, he looks at me very seriously and says "I didn't mean that. That's not right. "Baby" denotes incompetence, it's infantilizing and removes the context of all of your life experience." I say "Well, yes, but it's also a tender name that could suggest the desire of the speaker to nurture, spoil, or privilege the audience. We are so wonderfully tender with babies and praise them endlessly. That's not such a derogatory aspect."