Yeah, a few seconds with a fork, and toasting the bread or swapping to crackers and you're basically at something that's fit to give to others again.

My brain did something similar, but maybe weirder.

7 + 3 + 6, rather than 9 + 1 + 6.

I loved the first third of Neuromancer. The rest largely felt like it failed to deliver, and a bit like it went off the rails. Count Zero was a bit better in execution.

A solid chunk of Philip K Dick's output worked better as movies/TV than as books.

There's definitely something there, but the books feel somewhat unfinished/unpolished. Which makes sense, his books weren't popular in English until after the release of Blade Runner, which coincided with his death. Maybe the popularity of the movie would've given him more time and resources to revise future works.

A Scanner Darkly is the only one where both the book and the movie felt about the same quality.

Slice it before you go. Are items with bread not found in picnics?

Sandwiches are perfect for a picnic, and it's an occasion you'd want to gussy them up a bit for. Fancier bread might be the cheapest and most obvious way to do that.

I've run into it when interacting with folks who grew up in the south. It seems moderately common there. With folks who grew up in the northeast, I haven't seen this be a thing.

You may have missed the point of the example. It asks about steering wheels, and immediately transitions to vehicles that don't have steering wheels.

The bag suspended from a stick is called a bindle was also real. I suspect these were just replaced by backpacks that were cheap/ubiquitous enough.

I thought I understood your comment until I got to the emoji. I'm not sure if they work terribly well

For me it also happens constantly with things like the crossword, which obviously can't be listening.

Links between folks is part of it, but a lot is just ordinary coincidence.

It's not clear which point OP made that you're claiming is inaccurate.

Hot take: ham doesn't go on pizza. The pineapple isn't the problem