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How to make a more perfect skin sandwich
Recently the all-time best sidekick in NBA history got inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame. Go Scottie! This week I also heard about a sandwich that would no doubt be inducted in some sort of Hall of Fame. The obesity HOF maybe. The fat camp HOF. And of course, the delicious sandwich HOF. Who said delicious would mean healthy? Apparently someone created a KFC Skin sandwich the other day, and then the Chicago Tribune went ahead and duplicated the feat. Yes, I know you're clamoring for me to risk my arteries for your benefits, so at some point, this is going to happen. But I'm actually wondering... how do you make it even better?
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5 comments. Posted on August 20 2010 at 10:12 am
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Goat tacos at the Red Hook Ball Fields
Lately I've taken some pleasure in writing about personal shortcomings like how I tip terribly. It's an on-going investigation really, as all good things in life are. Here's a thought I have... standing at the Red Hook Ball Fields eating tacos or sitting down at a restaurant in Chinatown/Flushing... I wonder, "How many illegal immigrants are within one square mile of where I am right now?" Is it possible that every single Latino or Asian person around me either has a proper work/tourist visa, green card, or U.S. citizenship? And what does it say about me if I question these people around me? Who knows? The good news is that I don't spend too much time thinking about it because the food usually provides such a great distration. A couple of weekends ago Steph and I went to get some tacos at the Red Hook Ball Fields and man... they were great. $3 dollars with tax included is a decent price. Sunset Park might still offer the best value, but for the ambiance and the summery setting of eating your tacos on the grass next to a soccer field... well, it's worth it.
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2 comments. Posted on August 18 2010 at 4:01 pm
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Duck Tales and duck buns
Life here is like a hurricane, here in Duckburg. Race cars, lasers, and aeroplanes, it's a duck blur. A duck blur is exactly what I experienced at Hawkers on 14th street. Oh, by the way, if you didn't know what the hell the first two sentences were, here is youtube to help you out... But I mention that it's a blur because the dictionary tells me 'blur' is something that's indistinct, hazy in outline or appearance. So, something that was supposed to be duck bun, looks and quacks like a duck bun, but wasn't necessarily a duck bun.
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5 comments. Posted on August 16 2010 at 12:05 pm
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Beijing Duck Stall and bribes
Gifts. Complementary. Who doesn't want to be associated with flowery terms such as those? Yet in the food world, we all seemingly want to be Eddie House without being labeled a mercenary. I mean, that's what free food is in this realm. Is it splitting hairs? Sure. But what's been bugging me the most lately is that we're drawing a thin line between Sponsored Posts and regular posts. A Sponsored Post is where you get paid to 'review' something. There's a certain site out there (and let's not name names), where a certain someone often dolls out effusive love letters based on press preview food. Mmm.. press preview food. I actually don't know what that is. And recently on that same site I saw the site recommend some sweet treats that were "review samples." What the fuck is that? Seriously. Here's the thing about the food blogging world is that those of you in it... YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHICH SITE I AM TALKING ABOUT. But we don't say shit. Why? Because generally those folks are nice. I've met some of them and they're seemingly nice people. But the issue stands. Here are the two scenarios: I hand you a cookie, ask you how it is. You give me response. A second scenario is, I had you a cookie, you fucking give me three dollars. Then you tell me how you feel. In my world, those could not possibly be the same experiences. No way in fucking hell. I don't care how nice you are. I don't care how objective you think you are. I don't care how many iterations of that particular object you've had in the past. It doesn't matter. The truth is, we spend most of our time trying to acquire a scare resource (money) and in turn use that resource to acquire objects of desire. It makes sense that if you have to spend limited resources to acquire something, you'll want that thing to be awesome because you could have instead spent those resources on something else. So what you really want to hear is someone who also had to spend precious resources to acquire something and say it's worthwhile to use the precious resource. I think people get confused. They think it's just about whether it's worth putting it in your mouth, chew it a few times, and whether that experience is worth it. It don't make no sense!
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8 comments. Posted on August 12 2010 at 2:32 pm
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Brunching at Colicchio and Sons
This week I'm not going to have another post about poo. Instead let's talk about grits. I love 'em. You can find expensive versions all over the city. Pretty much if you want to taste a good version of it, it's gonna cost you something. On the brunch menu at Colicchio and Sons, it's going to be $16. Compared to other grits dishes in the city though, it's actually a pretty good deal. Another great thing about brunching at Colicchio and Sons is that it was super duper easy to score a seat. We went pretty late, around 1:30 and there were two other tables occupied at the restaurant. It's kinda cool to be like, "Ooooh looky here, we can pick any seat we want!" I'm down with that.
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5 comments. Posted on August 10 2010 at 10:52 am
