Social media apparently can flatten the world. Ideas can reach across oceans and topple dictators and revoke a constitution so that an army could rule a country. Hurray for Egypt! I think? You know what social media is not doing for me though? It's not giving me cheaper sandwiches. Goddamn it! Where is Zucks when you need him? Apparently this place, Tiny's Giant Sandwich Shop, is supposed to have awesome sandwiches. For $9 dollars. Sheesh, that's just like nine dollar sandwiches from No. 7 Sub. It feels like in the information age where everything social makes everything better... it's done nothing for me on the sandwich front.... [Continue reading]
No. 7 Sub offers a cilantro chicken on the menu right now. The price hasn't changed therefore my opinion on the subject hasn't changed either. Eating a $9 sandwich makes me feel good. Like, "Wow, the chicken that's currently in my mouth, it used to be happy and alive. Now it's just a dead motherfucker swirling around and getting chomped by my teeth. Stupid chicken." But for real, the sandwiches are good, although a few dollars too much. When I was a kid, the saying was, "You are what you eat." As if that kind of a slogan would get fat kid like myself to worship napa cabbages instead of bacon sandwiches. As an adult, now mostly I feel like you are defined by what you eat. It's not like if I eat macaroni and cheese along with apple pie, then I would be an American. Or if I went to a Jewish deli everyday, that would make me a Jew. No nothing like that. But the idea that when I look around at the folks in No. 7 Sub... I just don't see kindred spirits. They seem too in charge of their lives and too at ease with a $9 dollar sandwich. Quite frankly, this sandwich place makes me feel inadequate as a man.... [Continue reading]
Few things get me as excited as fried chicken. It's something that I've had to get accustomed to in my older years. Why? Well it's much harder to burn off two large servings of fries or fried chicken as one ages. When you can get a small serving of fried chicken, it's a blessing in disguise. Under normal circumstances, I would struggle to restraint myself from eating fried food until my belly is full. But when the servings are individualized like in a chicken biscuit, and the biscuit is $6 dollars, it really puts things into perspective. Normally $6, for what is essentially a fried chicken cutlet sandwich, would give me pause. And it did here as well. But the reputation of Pies and Thighs is strong among the NYC food blogeratti. James at The Eaten Path is a fan, Tia at Bionic Bites thinks it's alright.... [Continue reading]
Recently I took a test to see how much tech stuff I know about web technologies (which is what my job is about) and I realized just how utterly lacking is my knowledge. My lack of understanding is not limited to just scripting languages and servers. So I was thinking about how the world works and how it puzzles me. Let's say an area is struck with economic hardship, and all the restaurants there are not doing well. In fact, in this hypothetical situation, they would all have to do better to survive. And then let's suppose that we could try some things to help out the restaurants. We could either give people in the neighborhood some money. Or we could give people a discount for their patronage at local restaurants. Or maybe a prize for their patronage. Or develop game theory around a mobile app and tell people to fucking check-in for 'badges'. Yea. I can take that shit to the bank and exchange it for... hey wait a minute! Even at my low mental capacity, it's apparent that there's a plethora of options beyond simpling giving people in the neighborhood money, because there are ways to stimulate spending. But I guess Republicans and rich people pulled the wool over everyones' eyes again. Cuz that tax-cut for the rich, yea, that'll save this country. See how I did that there? Nice. Restaurants struggling is a very real thing though, and even for restaurants that has customers. As Sara Jenkins of Pochetta and Porsena said in an interview with NYMag, sometimes "people order [pasta] as their entrée and all of a sudden your check average is nothing and you can’t pay the rent." Really, so my choices might bankrupt a place that's delicious because I can't spend more?... [Continue reading]
Lately I've been super into buying kitchen stuff. Maybe it's the colder weather making me want to stay inside. I went and bought a digital probe thermometer from amazon and now all I need is a cooler and that ice cooler sous vide trick can me mine! But in the meantime I'll keep writing about food that was consumed at restaurant. A few weeks ago a late brunch took place at Prune. It's a place that offers up some pricier than normal brunch. You could find things like scrambled eggs on the menu for $12, all the way up to a dish with smoked salmon from Russ & Daughters for $23. But the meat of the menu lives in the $15 range. The reason Prune really lured Steph and me in was because they're usually highly regarded and damn, it's impossible to get a seat there unless you go super early or super late. We went super late and waited just five minutes for a table.... [Continue reading]
Apparently there's a lot that goes towards making an apartment a home. This shit never ends. Recently I installed some window air conditioning units.... [more]
After two weeks of Seattle posts, I think it's about time to sunset this dying category since it's just killing my page rank from shitty to shittier.... [more]
You ever do this thing where you enjoy a meal, think it's OK on the price, then later on when you think back, you realize they gave you an order of... [more]
Sometimes it's very difficult to quantify the premium you pay for being in New York City. Even within city limits, pricing changes rapidly from one... [more]
Aaaaaand more pictures from Seattle. Not much of a surprise there huh? I'm trying to go through them as fast as possible. When's the last time you saw... [more]
