I think Mimi Sheraton is stupid
Mimi Sherton is a fucking bitch. And Mimi Sherton, if you think there's nothing in Brooklyn, then you're fucking stupid. My oh my, where are my manners?! Oh wait, I'm a food blogger. Mimi, you're quoted as saying, "The Times has certainly been very exaggerated in its Brooklyn coverage, because most of them live there. They begin to see it as being better than it is because it's so close to them. I would go to Brooklyn if it were exceptional." First of all, a lot of Manhattan restaurants are not exceptional. I know this because as a normal human being, I eat at all kinds of places, not just four star restaurants. And let me tell you, there's plenty of bullshit in the city. In fact I ate real well outside of Manhattan a few weeks ago. It was not even in NY! It was in Jersey!
This of course raises another question Mimi Sherton. Does a restaurant have to be special or exceptional for people who live outside of Brooklyn to visit? It's true, if Al Di La was in Manhattan, it wouldn't stand out as much as it does on 5th avenue in Park Slope. Whether a restaurant resides in one borough or another really shouldn't influence the amount of coverage it gets. If there's a great place in the Bronx or in Staten Island, I'd expect The Times to cover it. Never mind that your rich hoity toity ass don't leave the island.
I'm tired of the old school people who think that Manhattan is the shit and the rest of the world is like some 99 cent store. People like Mimi Sheraton should just retire, take their money and eat green market food at home all day long. Leave the rest of the food for the new school kids.
And Mimi Sheraton also said, "and the truck thing, I don’t know how long that’ll last. I don’t know where they eat it, that’s what I can’t figure out about a truck. Where the hell do you eat it?" You know where I want to eat it? I want to bend your old ass over and use your back as a table on the dirty sidewalks of Chinatown. That's where I fucking eat it. Dumb cunt. I'm serious. Lotta y'all beating around the bush on twitter like you too good for name calling. I'm gonna go straight up uneducated 3rd grader on this shit. Fuck you Mimi Sheraton for being stupid.
See originally I was going to talk about how awesome Mitsuwa was. But that shit be in New Jersey. Yea. It's not even in the same state! What would Mimi say about THAT?! Never mind that the ramen there rivals many of the top places in Manhattan (gasp!) Or that the katsu you get in the food court is exceptional and fried perfectly. No no no, travel is only meant if the place is enough to make you wanna rub one out (do you still rub 'em out Mimi?) On the other hand, people more educated and smarter than Mimi Sheraton have come to the conclusion that travel is half the fun and even if people could teleport, they don't necessarily want to. I guess there is something to the idea of foreplay. Gosh, what a concept. But I guess Ms. Sheraton is a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'm type of madam.
This is not even a defense of Brooklyn. It's a rant against stupidity. What do I know though. I'm just a food blogger.
(I invite you to follow me on Twitter so you can get more of my non-sense in another medium.)
I'm a manhattan snob too, but I've been on several Mitsuwa pilgrimages and it truly is a Japanese wonderland. Amazing soba noodles too.
Rodalpho
January 5, 2011 12:21 pm
So often that people forget that NYC is made up of 5 boroughs. That's 5 delicious places to travel through and eat. However, I don't think Mimi Sheraton forgot that. I think she's just a huge snob and turns her head away from things that can be considered "low brow". Whatever! It's one less person to stand behind on line for some good food from a truck.
Also, Mitsuwa rocks!
hungry
January 5, 2011 12:37 pm
Ouch... my home state, Jersey is the shit (in a good way).
The fact that she singled out Brooklyn was just dumb since you could probably say the same thing about Manhattan. To be fair, the food there is undeniably good (and of course there's the bad), but it's mostly good because of accessibility, not because it's literally the pinnacle of fine dining. For every restaurant that does one dish phenomenally, there's another place somewhere in the world that would kick their ass at it. Hide-chan makes some good ramen right? Well I bet there's some shop in Japan who would make theirs look awful. I would go to Manhattan if their ramen was exceptional. See what I did there? :)
Nicholas
January 5, 2011 2:41 pm
@Rodalpho,
Thanks for stopping by. There should be hymns about Mitsuwa. The pilgrimage there is truly life altering.
@hungry,
Word, one less person to stand behind the food truck! I'm with ya there. If it makes my food truck line shorter, I'm all for it.
@Nicholas,
hahaha, nice one there. Seriously, I wonder if Ms. Sheraton has even been to the good ramen places in NY.
Danny
January 5, 2011 4:01 pm
And the Chinese food in Flushing beats the hell of Manhattan Chinatown...
luvsocks
January 6, 2011 2:38 pm
DOUBLE LIKE
James
January 11, 2011 1:35 am
I love the Mimi Sheraton hate. So much delicious vitriol :D
Chris H
January 13, 2011 12:17 am
@luvsocks,
Seriously, Chinese food in Flushing is awesome. We need more of that and easier transportation to Queens.
@James,
WORD!
@Chris H,
haha, hurray for the vitriol!
Danny
January 13, 2011 11:45 am