The greatest comment ever!

That might be an overstatement, but the comment in The New York Times is odd and funny. It was posted in 2015 in response to a recipe (a recipe!) for Katharine Hepburn's brownies.

"This has been my go-to brownie recipe for 30 years. In the '80s, an acquaintance in Germany to whom I brought some of the brownies, and who considered herself a great cook, asked for the recipe but was never able to get it to work. She kept asking me what she was doing wrong and I was never able to solve her problem. Eventually, she moved to the U.S. and stole my husband!"

In September The Cut tracked down the author, Sydne Newberry, and got the full story behind the comment. Newser also talks about it on a post here.

The Times moderators made the ruling as "greatest ever," not to be confused with the most popular comment posted, which got 7,000 recommendations in 2010. The comment to a Paul Krugman column was still tops five years later, according to a Times article from November 2015. 

(Here is the link to the Times article in July 2017 about the moderators at the paper and their choices of top comment.)