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Kelly Clarkson isn’t slowing down on the slaying lately. Today (April 27), she delivered a captivating cover of a Paramore classic as part of the Kellyoke segment of her talk show, The Kelly Clarkson Show

Joined by an acoustic guitarist, Clarkson, sang “The Only Exception,” which is one of Paramore’s more downtempo ballads, however, Clarkson still delivered powerhouse vocals. These vocals particularly shined through as Clarkson reached the song’s bridge, singing, “I’ve got a tight grip on reality, but I can’t / let go of what’s in front of me here.”

It’s been a busy April for Clarkson. Earlier this month, she released a pair of singles — “Mine” and “Me” — from her upcoming 10th studio album, Chemistry. She also received 11 Daytime Emmy nominations, leading the awards’ talk field. Her electrifying covers alone are proof of why so many people tune in every day.

This summer, she will launch a residency in Vegas, where she will perform new songs from the Chemistry album, as well as some of her several classics.

In the meantime, you can check out the performance of “The Only Exception” above.

Chemistry is out 6/23 via Atlantic. Find more information here.

Kelly Clarkson and Paramore are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Tyler The Creator is clearing out the vault, it appears. Last night (April 26) during a performance at LA’s El Rey Theatre, he delivered a special performance of “Penny,” an unreleased cut recorded during the Call Me If You Get Lost sessions.

The song first surfaced on the web back in February and became an instant fan favorite.

Ahead of the performance, Tyler revealed that he had written the song circa Christmas of 2019, and it was one of the first songs he made for Call Me If You Get Lost. The song was never officially released, however, a clip of the song leaked and went viral on TikTok. However, Tyler remains a good sport over the matter.

He joked with the audience, saying, “I’m gonna do this random song that no one in here has heard.”

Tyler continued, saying that “Penny” is his bodyguard’s favorite song, and chose to include it in the setlist as a gift to him.

While you won’t be able to find a studio version of “Penny” on streaming platforms, you can still find other leftovers from Call Me If You Get Lost. Last month, Tyler released Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale, which featured outtakes from the critically-acclaimed 2021 album.

You can check out a clip of the “Penny” performance above.

Not that we need an excuse to enjoy a crushable, crisp, easy-drinking Mexican beer, but Cinco de Mayo is coming up fast. And pairing tacos, burritos, and any manner of cheesy, meaty, spicy Mexican foods with a traditional Mexican lager, pilsner, or Vienna-style lager is a no-brainer. Sure, the “Mexican beer” convo often starts and ends with the wildly popular Corona — but is that brand really the best? Doubtful.

This year, instead of simply traipsing through your local beer or grocery store and grabbing whatever Mexican lager you see vibrantly displayed on an end cap, why not journey with us on a tried and true blind taste test? We picked readily available Mexican lagers, pilsners, and lighter-style beers so that the tasting class was as similar as possible. Then we blindly nosed and tasted each beer, taking into account the various aromas and flavors (or lack thereof).

Keep scrolling to see how everything turned out and whether your favorite beer got praised or dunked on.

The Lineup:

• Pacifico Clara
• Corona Extra
• Modelo Especial
• Estrella Jalisco
• Carta Blanca Original
• Victoria
• Sol Cerveza
• Dos Equis Lager Especial
• Tecate Lager
• Bohemia Pilsner

Part 1: The Taste

Taste #1

Tasting Notes:

Corn, light skunk, cereal grains, light citrus, and honey are prevalent on the nose. The palate is all skunk, yeast, grass, lemon, honey, cereal grains, and sweet corn. It might seem like I listed a lot of flavors, and I did but… it’s still overall fairly muted, albeit highly crushable.

Taste #2

Tasting Notes:

The nose is all toasted malts caramel, sweet corn, and floral, earthy hops. The palate follows suit with more caramel, toasted malts, and floral hops. It might seem like this beer has a ton of balance. But it’s also fairly sweet and malty, and not overly exciting.

The finish is dry, crisp, and sweet.

Taste #3

Tasting Notes:

Complex aromas of herbal, earthy, floral hops followed by toasted malts, cereal grains, sweet corn, orange peels, and lager yeast greeted me before my first sip. This definitely intrigued me. Sipping it revealed notes of yeasty bread, flaked corn, clover honey, orange peel, and herbal, earthy, floral hops. It’s bright, snappy, and crisp, but also sweet and malty.

Taste #4

Tasting Notes:

Here’s yet another beer that smells like almost nothing. If I had to reach, I’d say there was some corn and maybe grassy hops. But really nothing else. The palate doesn’t even help. There’s more corn, grass, and maybe some citrus. Overall, this beer is extremely muted, boring, and sweeter than a beer should be.

Taste #5

Tasting Notes:

On the nose, I found faint aromas of sweet corn, cereal grains, boiled sweets, and grassy hops. It sounds like a lot was going on, but there really isn’t. Drinking it reveals a little more flavor. Corn, caramel malts, grass, and lightly herbal, floral flavors. It’s more exciting than some beers on the list, but overall, fairly watery.

Taste #6

Tasting Notes:

Light skunk, sweet corn, cereal grains, honey, caramel malts, citrus, and a nice kick of floral, earthy hops make for a memorable nose. The palate continues this trend with a little more skunk, barnyard hay, cereal grains, sweet corn, bready malts, citrus, and floral hops.

It might not seem like it — because maybe there aren’t as many notes — but this was one of the most flavorful, memorable beers I drank all day.

Taste #7

Tasting Notes:

This yellow, fizzy beer has little to no aroma on the nose. I really tried and I found the faintest hint of sweet corn. Really, that was it. It even smelled a bit stale. The taste wasn’t much better. There was more sweet corn, but it tasted kind of generic. Almost like someone made some kind of corn candy or something else sugary sweet and then let it soak in a beer for whatever reason.

All in all, this was a pretty awful beer.

Taste #8

Tasting Notes:

On the nose, I found yeasty bread, light skunk, cracker-like malts, and corn. There’s more of the same on the palate. It’s made up of notes of freshly made bread, a bit of skunk, sweet corn, and some floral, earthy hops. It’s unoffensive, but not something to write your pen pal about.

Taste #9

Tasting Notes:

A nose of cereal grains, sweet corn, honey, lemon peels, and floral, earthy hops greeted me before my first sip. Drinking it revealed notes of bready malts, sweet corn, cereal grains, more honey, lemongrass, and floral, bright hops. It’s well-balanced, sweet, crisp, with little to no bitterness.

Taste #10

Tasting Notes:

The nose is citrus peels, yeasty bread, corn, grass, hay, and floral hops. It’s a fairly inviting nose that made me want to take a big sip. The flavor is surprisingly sweet, but not cloying. There are more bready malts, sweet grains, honey, and a surprisingly candied orange peel flavor. It ends with a dry, lightly bitter, floral flourish that makes you want to crack open another.

Part 2: The Rankings

10) Sol Cerveza (Taste 7)

ABV: 4.5%

Average Price: $10 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Named for the sun, this crisp, refreshing lager has been produced since 1899. This 4.5% ABV Mexican lager is known for its simple, no-frills, easy-going flavor profile. There’s not much to it, but that’s the point.

Bottom Line:

Sol Cerveza is exactly what it’s advertised as. It’s a light, easy-to-drink lager with little to no discernible flavor. It goes down easy because it literally tastes like nothing.

9) Corona Extra (Taste 4)

ABV: 4.6%

Average Price: $9 for a six-pack

The Beer:

When it comes to Mexican beer, there are none more famous than Corona. Heavily advertised, Corona is a household name whether or not you’re a big beer drinker. The most popular imported beer in the US, it’s known for its crisp, simple, refreshing flavor.

Bottom Line:

I wasn’t surprised to see that this was Corona Extra. It’s possibly the most overrated beer of all time. How could a beer be considered “good” if in order to even want to drink it you have to have a lime wedge?

8) Estrella Jalisco (Taste 5)

ABV: 4.5%

Average Price: $12 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Another sessionable (4.5% ABV), no-frills, crisp pilsner, Estrella Jalisco might not have the name recognition of some of the beers on this list. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t receive the same amount of respect. It’s known for its easy-drinking flavor profile and no bitterness.

Bottom Line:

Estrella Jalisco isn’t a horrible beer. It’s also not even close to a good beer. It’s almost flavorless but crushable. It’s okay.

7) Carta Blanca Original (Taste 1)

ABV: 4.5%

Average Price: $9 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Carta Blanca sounds like an exciting name for a beer, but just like Boca Raton, Florida translates to “Rat Mouth”, this beer’s name means “white card”. First brewed in 1890, it’s known for its corny, malty, sweet, easy-drinking flavor profile.

Bottom Line:

It’s still mostly fizzy corn water though. Slightly better than some of the other fizzy corn waters on this list.

6) Victoria (Taste 2)

ABV: 4%

Average Price: $9 for a six-pack

The Beer:

While many well-known Mexican beers (including many on this list) are classic, crisp lagers or pilsners, Victoria is a Vienna-style lager. The oldest beer brand in Mexico (it was first brewed in 1865), Victoria is known for its toasted malt and sweet caramel flavors.

Bottom Line:

This is a decent, highly drinkable beer. It’s well-balanced with malts and hops. It’s just more on the sweeter side than I prefer.

5) Dos Equis Especial (Taste 8)

ABV: 4.2%

Average Price: $9 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Dos Equis was first brewed back in 1987. But it wasn’t a Mexican-born brewer who created this now iconic brand. In fact, it was a German-born brewer named Wilhelm Haase who, after immigrating to Mexico, decided to brew a beer that took a little from the old world and his new home country. The result was this 4.2% ABV, crisp, sessionable pilsner.

Bottom Line:

I didn’t really know where Dos Equis would land on this list. I have fond memories of drinking it, but I couldn’t really tell you if it’s a good beer or not. It’s easy to drink and washes down Mexican food quite well. That’s about it.

4) Pacifico Clara (Taste 9)

ABV: 4.4%

Average Price: $10 for a six-pack

The Beer:

This popular beer’s history begins way back in 1900 when a group of German-born brewers began brewing beer in the Mexican port city of Mazatlán. Unsurprisingly, this crisp, easy-drinking pilsner made its way to the US when a group of Americans, surfing in Baja found Pacifico and brought it back to the US. Since then, drinkers have been enjoying this light, crisp, sessionable lager.

Bottom Line:

There’s a reason drinkers love Pacifico. It’s crisp, sweet, malty, and very well-balanced. It’s a can’t-miss Mexican lager.

3) Modelo Especial (Taste 10)

ABV: 4.4%

Average Price: $9 for a six-pack

The Beer:

One of the most highly-regard Mexican beers, Modelo Especial is a 4.4% ABV lager known for its clean, crisp, thirst-quenching flavor profile. Made with simple ingredients like barley malt, water, non-malted cereal grains, and hops, it’s sweet, citrusy, and highly refreshing.

Bottom Line:

Crisp, easy-drinking, and refreshing. Yet, it’s surprisingly well-balanced and flavorful. Modelo Especial is definitely a beer you’ll want to have in your fridge on Cinco de Mayo and every other day of the year.

2) Tecate Original (Taste 6)

ABV: 4.5%

Average Price: $8 for a six-pack of 16-ounce cans

The Beer:

First brewed in 1944, this Mexican classic gets its name from the city of Tecate in Baja. It was first brewed as a beer for local miners to enjoy after a long day of work. Brewed the same way since its inception, it’s known for its crisp, refreshing, malty flavor profile. Luckily, you don’t have to work in a cold, dark mine to enjoy it today.

Bottom Line:

Tecate is sweet, lightly skunky (in a good way), malty, and surprisingly balanced for such a crisp, light beer. Definitely, a beer I’ll drink again.

1) Bohemia Pilsner (Taste 3)

ABV: 4.7%

Average Price: $9 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Bohemia Pilsner definitely isn’t a household name like some of the beers on this list. That definitely shouldn’t stop you from trying it. You might be wondering why a Mexican beer is called “Bohemia” — it’s because this sweet, malty, crisp pilsner gets its Stryan hops from the Czech Republic.

Bottom Line:

If you only drink one beer on this list, make it Bohemia Pilsner. It’s the most well-balanced, flavorful beer I drank today. Your friends will be glad that you brought this one to the Cinco de Mayo shindig.

Part 3: Final Thoughts

Rating these beers was not a simple task. Many were thirst-quenching and drinkable but lacked any substance whatsoever. As always, balance was the name of the game. The beers that faired best were flavorful and well-balanced, while still crushable. They still need to be paired with heavy, cheesy Mexican food and a good bit of spice, but you also want to taste something.

Ladies and gentlemen, season two of Bel-Air is now in the books! The show wrapped up its latest season by giving final updates in regard to Will’s basketball career, his love life, Carlton’s personal struggles, Phil and Vivian’s career moves, and more. So far, Bel-Air has been a solid reboot of its well-beloved and classic predecessor. After the show’s first season, Peacock announced that Bel-Air was the most-streamed original series on the streaming service after it reached 8 million accounts, something that could continue after season 2.

Will There Be A Season 3 Of ‘Bel-Air?’

With season two officially done, will Bel-Air fans receive a third season of the show? The answer is yes! The series was renewed for a third season at the halfway mark in season two. It’s still a bit too early to know where things will go next season, but thanks to the season two finale, we have a few ideas.

The last episode in season two of Bel-Air ends with Will and Lisa anticipating a summer in Bel-Air. Will asks Lisa what a summer in Bel-Air is like and her response lets both Will and viewers know that it’ll be a whole lot of fun. Season three could focus exclusively on the summer, jump ahead to the next school year at Bel-Air Academy, or be a mix of both. We’ll just have to wait and see.

All seasons of ‘Bel-Air’ are available to stream on Peacock.

We live in a world where Ron DeSantis could one day actually debate Joe Biden. Granted, there is no telling what will happen between now and 2024. Perhaps a GOP dark horse candidate will come save the party from nominating either Trump or DeSantis, but for the time being, the latter’s ongoing feud with The Walt Disney Company is proving to be a source of chaos.

Most recently, the conglomerate went nuclear with a lawsuit because the Florida governor is beefing so hard over Disney refusing to climb onboard his campaign to discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community (by way of the legislation known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill). In doing so, the tourism mainstay accused DeSantis and his oversight board of jeopardizing Disney’s business in the state and attempt to ruin its economic future as well.

Marco Rubio took his time in reacting to the mess in his state and has finally waded into the arena. Mind you, this is the same senator who recently got trounced when he mocked the U.S. military over an LGBTQ+ poetry night, so it says plenty that he thinks DeSantis needs to reel his feud back. Rubio made clear that he feels like Disney might have too much government-like power in Florida, but he still believes that DeSantis is setting a bad precedent and could make businesses second-guess coming to Florida in the future:

“I think where it gets problematic in the eyes of some people is where you start creating the idea — and I’m not say that we’re there yet as a state — but the idea that somehow, like, if you run crossways with us politically with whoever’s in charge, you may wind up in the crosshairs of the legislature for political purposes to make a statement at you.

“I do worry that if this happens too many times, businesses that are thinking of coming to Florida are saying, ‘Maybe we don’t wanna go there because if we get into a firestorm with them politically, they’re gonna come after our business.’”

Money talks. Rubio seems confident that this feud won’t inspire Disney parks to pick up and move to another state (although North Carolina would certainly welcome them with open arms), but this does not send a wonderful message for the future. It really only says that DeSantis is desperately attempting to win over a few voters, and at a great expense for the Sunshine State.

A EuroLeague game on Thursday between Real Madrid and Partizan got called with 100 seconds left due to a gigantic brawl between the players. With less than two minutes remaining and Partizan holding a 95-80 lead, one of their guards, former Tennessee player Kevin Punter, got fouled by Madrid’s Sergio Llull, which Punter did not appreciate.

Things then boiled right over, as the players on the court started to get into it with one another and the referees’ efforts to calm things down were for naught. Players on the benches and security guards eventually ran onto the floor and tried to get everything broken up.

A whole lot is going on in this, like number 31 on Real Madrid — former Brooklyn Nets player Džanan Musa — getting thrown to the grown from behind. But the big thing was this takedown of former NBA journeyman Dante Exum by Guerschon Yabusele, who spent a few years as a member of the Boston Celtics.

The EuroLeague are currently in the playoffs, where the four teams that win a best-of-5 series will move on to the Final Four in May. With today’s win, Partizan opened up a 2-0 series lead on Madrid, with both wins coming in the Spanish capital. Now, the series will move to Belgrade, with Game 3 taking place on May 2.

Power Book II: Ghost is well into the second half of its third season and there’s plenty of drama that’s gone down so far, with a lot more left in store for viewers as the season wraps up. We won’t spoil anything for you all (you can check out our weekly recaps here for that), but in the last episode of Power Book II: Ghost, fans were greeted by a different kind of surprise. In episode six, “Land Of Lies,” Diana, along with friends BruShandria (played by LightSkinKeisha) and Becca Weston (played by Samantha Culter) were seen partying in a dorm room with none other than Justin Combs, who as many of us know, is the son of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Who Does Justin Combs Play In Power Book II: Ghost?

After viewers caught his appearance on Power Book II: Ghost, they began to wonder about the full nature of his role in the show’s third season. All we know at the moment is that Justin’s character’s name is King. He’s friends with BruShandria and Becca, but is not in the same notorious class that the latter two share with Tariq, Effie, and Diana as we’ve yet to see him in that room through the show’s six episodes in season three. We’ll have to wait and see if we learn anything else about Justin’s role in season three of Power Book II: Ghost through future episodes.

New episodes of ‘Power Book II: Ghost’ are available on the STARZ app on Fridays at 12:00 am EST and on the STARZ TV channel at 8:00 pm EST.

Politics has never been free of outrage and fearmongering, but only in recent decades have those base methods of drumming up support been shoved in our faces 24/7. Unfortunately, politicians know that fueling rage and fear gets them attention, which in turn gets them valuable media coverage, and some are shameless about capitalizing on it.

It’s how random members of Congress from tiny rural districts gain massive national name recognition while hundreds of non-inflammatory, non-extremist, non-outrage-baity lawmakers quietly go about the business of governance with few Americans able to pick them out of a lineup.

Outrage-fueled notoriety is what prompted Rep. Jeff Jackson, Democrat of North Carolina—most likely a legislator you’ve never heard of—to make a video on his 100th day in Congress, where he shared something he’s learned about his fellow elected leaders.

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“I’m still brand new to Congress—I’ve only been there 100 days—and I don’t know if I’m not supposed to say this out loud, but it’s true and important. And if you don’t know this, you need to,” he said. “It’s really clear from working there for just a few months that most of the really angry voices in Congress are totally faking it. These people who have built their brands around being perpetually outraged? It’s an act.”

Perhaps this is not groundbreaking news for a lot of us, but it’s refreshing to hear from someone on the inside, especially since Jackson explains how he knows their outrage is an act—and why.

“I’ve been in committee meetings that are open to the press and committee meetings that are closed,” he said. “The same people who act like maniacs during the open meetings are suddenly calm and rational during the closed ones. Why? Because there aren’t any cameras in the closed meetings, so their incentives are different.”

Jackson goes on to explain how members of Congress are surrounded by negative incentives, with media outlets that feed off of negative emotion giving them air time because it keeps people angry.

“If they can keep you angry, they’ll hold your attention,” he said. “And they both want your attention.”

Watch:

u201cIu2019ve been in Congress for 100 days. nnMost of the really angry voices here are faking it.u201d

— Rep. Jeff Jackson (@Rep. Jeff Jackson)
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Jackson doesn’t name any particular members of Congress or even point to any particular political party in his video. In reality, politicians on both sides of the aisle are guilty of playing these kinds of games and always have been.

The problem, of course, is that the governance of a nation isn’t a game. But politics is, especially hyper-partisanized politics, and that game has only become more competitive and more winner-takes-all in the age of modern media.

When George Washington tried to warn the American people of the “rankness” of partisanship and where its “continual mischief” and “constant danger of excess” could lead us, he was spot on in his predictions. But what he couldn’t have predicted was the role that television and social media would play in elevating that mischief and excess.

As problematic as the political arena has been in the past, it’s nothing compared to how fear and outrage have been wielded as weapons in the technological age. We have 24-hour cable channels funneling hate and fear-based prejudice into our psyches, and social media algorithms that fuel negative attention grabs. Demonizing the “other side” of the political spectrum to the point of describing one’s fellow Americans as “the enemy” is outright bonkers—but it’ll practically guarantee you an interview on prime-time television, and therefore a seat at powerful tables.

We—all of us—need to not only recognize manufactured outrage and fearmongering, but we need to learn to truly ignore it. Ignoring it won’t necessarily make it go away, but for people who seek power above all else, all attention is good attention. When we give attention seekers what they want, we only feed the beast. Even when we give them attention to complain about them, we’re still giving them oxygen.

Instead, let’s try something different, like focusing our energies on the people who are actually doing the hard work of governance and genuinely serving their constituencies in a spirit of public service. As Jackson said, “If you don’t have to yell to be heard, the whole conversation changes.” Perhaps we can stop listening to the yellers and start engaging with the talkers who understand how to discuss and negotiate intelligently, in ways that make sense. These are, after all, the people who actually get things done behind closed doors.

People get dogs for companionship. We’ve all heard the old trope that dogs are man’s best friend, and typically that means best friends with their designated human. You know, the one who feeds them, pays their vet bills and provides them with shelter. It would make sense that the ones they live with are their default favorite human.

Unless you’re a pit bull named Einstein. This short, stout, wide-smiling dog only has eyes for his uncle who likes to stop by the house Einstein shares with his uncle’s sister to rile the dog up. Of course, the dog doesn’t mind Uncle Hans’ encouraging shenanigans. The two have formed a special bond through their play. Hans even gets down on Einstein’s level and plays tug-of-war with the dog. Yes, he (the human) puts the stick in his mouth, too. How else would tug-of-war work?

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Frida, the pit bull’s owner and Hans’ sister, is constantly entertained by the pair, calling her brother the “funcle.”

“He loves playing with Einstein, and then it just started rolling and they got crazier and crazier,” Frida told The Dodo. “Hans just goes down to Einstein’s level. Einstein looks at him like he is the best friend in the whole world.”

The two of them wear matching outfits including matching snow suits because cold weather doesn’t slow the best bud duo down. Hans runs, jumps and rolls around on the ground with the dog every time they have a playdate. The pitty and his uncle even play practical jokes on Einstein’s owner.

Their relationship is entirely too cute and a must-see, below:

Bath time is either a parent’s favorite time of the night or their most despised. The shift in perspective usually depends on the child, whether it be age or attitude. Baths are supposed to be relaxing for kids in preparation for bed, but for some kids, bath time just winds them up and you debate pouring the entire bag of sleepytime Epsom salt in the tub.

But no matter your child’s personality, the smaller the child, the messier the clean-up and the more you have to do as the one giving the bath. To top it off, babies in bathtubs are slippery, so cleaning off your tiny chubby-cheeked clone can get even more interesting. These little inconvenient factors can sometimes cause parents to come up with creative ways to get out of messy bath times—like only cooking messy dinners when it’s your partner’s turn to wash the munchkin.

That’s exactly what one mom does, and her husband looks absolutely defeated in the most relatable way possible.

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In a video posted to TikTok that has over 1.2 million views, Taylor Bunton’s 11-month-old daughter, Reese, sits in her high chair covered in spaghetti sauce as the baby rubs it in her hair. But when the camera pans over to her partner…he is not amused. It’s his turn to give the baby a bath, and now that involves cleaning spaghetti noodles and sauce out of her hair.

The caption of the video reads, “Spaghetti night always falls on Dad’s bath night🤭🤪🍝.” I think Dad would like to renegotiate.

“His reaction was just so funny because he knew it was his turn for her bath night and so he was telling me, ‘Stop, stop recording. We shouldn’t let her do this.’ And I was like, ‘No, this is so funny,’” Bunton told GMA. “She probably gets more on her body than she does in her mouth. You can’t blame her. She just loves making a mess and I just love her being able to feed herself, feel the different textures and just enjoy herself.”

Judging by the comments, the short video gave just about everyone a chuckle except Reese’s dad. Maybe for payback, Dad can introduce the messy eater to chocolate pudding just before Mom is ready to get her bathed. It’s only fair, right?

You can see the spaghetti monster below:

@taylorbunton2

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