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Picholine
Throughout college I was always the cheapest guy amongst my group of friends. Spaghetti every week and ramen went a loooong way. I even packed lunch during freshman yea. How many college kids pack lunch?!? Weirdo. Once my aunt even called and told me to not be so frugal, and that it was okay to spend money on food. That of course was after mom had called and said the same thing. It was something along the lines of, "You cannot eat instant ramen and spaghetti everyday. Stop that." Cheap tendencies die hard, and when Eater reported about a free $50 dollar gift card, I was all over that like seeds in a watermelon (you know, all up in it). Because usually, it costs $88 dollars for a 3 course prix fixe, and there was just no way in hell I would eat that at full price. For $38 dollars, that was just the same as a Restaurant Week dinner. I'm down with that.
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3 comments. Posted on August 6 2008 at 2:07 pm
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Double up at Five Guys
Blogging has taught me a few new terms that most people never care to use. "Blogosphere" is the one that my friend, Eric the Teacher loves to make fun of the most. Other terms are useful, like "beef-to-bun ratio" If you ever read A Hamburger Today or Beef Aficionado, you would become familiar with that term. And quite a useful term because when you upset the perfect balance of the beef-to-bun ratio, your burger eating enjoyment falls. When your burger eating enjoyment falls, you end up talking a lot of trash in an Asian basketball tournament and being threatened by hooligans. So stop calling people gorillas and never downgrade from double beef patty to a "little hamburger."
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1 comments. Posted on August 5 2008 at 10:23 am
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Fasting and fast food
"Dude, you lefty our hat here AGAIN." Curtis, my childhood friend would tell me on the phone. I should have tried to correct the problem during my formative years. But I lose a baseball cap at least once a year. Umbrellas? I leave them on restaurant floors or buses with alarming frequency. Two weeks ago, I lost my keys and ate more hot dogs to make myself feel better about this lifelong and unsolvable bad habit.
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4 comments. Posted on August 4 2008 at 11:35 am
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Chaat in midtown
A plate of vegetarian food for five dollars? Do you know everything else that I could get for five dollars?! Psssh, Taj Delhi Chat will not win me over! Those were my original reaction to the idea of having chaat for some Midtown Lunch. The pictures of the healthy and delicious looking food on Zach's blog helped to sway me. I am quite thankful because chaat is probably now my favorite summertime lunch. It is refreshing, healthy, and filling. What else could you ask for when it is so hot outside?
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2 comments. Posted on August 1 2008 at 1:47 pm
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Etons
This might be a signal of what kind of a guy I am, but I love "dollar dumplings". If you frequent Chinatown, you know what's up - five dumplings for a dollar. (Crazy right?) Lately prices have gone up on those things. Places like Dumpling House and Tasty Dumpling have increased the price to four dumplings for a dollar. (Inflation = major fail!). When you are hungry for a snack, nothing is better or cheaper. But the taste is often indistinguishable from one place to another. You have to pay more for robust tasting dumplings and you can find those at Eton's in Carroll Gardens.
4 comments. Posted on July 29 2008 at 12:26 pm
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