Revert "remove stray 'pp' debugging"

This reverts commit f71850a421f734bc535806418ec79a0eed7842af.
Revert "fix for chef pretty printing issues"

This reverts commit 5d260103d3f11897e7873fb3fa796966896ff946.
Revert "change allow_comment default to true"

This reverts commit 199bcc2304bc032559ca0b9f82978b4ebb64fe41.