We took ourselves pretty seriously in DI/DO right after 9/11, and I think we did pretty well — not a single sheet-pan “freedom fries” recipe was developed. But I’ll admit to feeling a twinge when Ben Collins over to the happy place posted about a 9/11 commemorative front page of the Onion, which featured one mock story headlined “Not Knowing What Else to Do, Woman Bakes American Flag Cake.” It was lasagna, damn it. 

(And that’s not my hed. Just the most famous subhead the Onion maybe has ever run.)