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[side_show]

Today I'm gonna go to work thinking I've magically shaken my cold, then get there, realize I am still very sick, have people tell me I look sick, have boss tell me to go home, look into a few things that need my immediate attention, get caught up in work, feel sicker, realize I've worked a full shift, take the bus home, get excited about the idea of a new writing project, come home, get destracted by TOUAMB... and here I am.

[linnea]

Today I'm gonna go to work thinking I've magically shaken my cold, then get there, realize I am still very sick, have people tell me I look sick, have boss tell me to go home, look into a few things that need my immediate attention, get caught up in work, feel sicker, realize I've worked a full shift, take the bus home, get excited about the idea of a new writing project, come home, get destracted by TOUAMB... and here I am.

s_s, go to bed!! At least go lie on the sofa and watch bad television.

[littlefallsmets]

Friendlys ain't bad as long as you stick to the basics there, hamburger or ice cream.

Go afield of that and prepare to battle dragons but... hamburger or ice cream and it is an acceptable low-cost eat-chain.

[linnea]

Friendlys ain't bad as long as you stick to the basics there, hamburger or ice cream.

Go afield of that and prepare to battle dragons but... hamburger or ice cream and it is an acceptable low-cost eat-chain.

I agree. Also you should order the burger well-done, or at least medium-well. The few times I've had to eat at Ruby Tuesday (my dad chose the restaurant and paid, so meh), I ordered a burger and everything was fine with my GI tract. Now cholesterol, that's another story...

[littlefallsmets]

I strictly order all meat-type products "as well-done as you'll do it" at all times.

You may say "Well, what about the slightly more juicy texture to the meat?"

And I will say "I have definitely had food poisioning less times than you have."

And there will be no follow-up statement to that, I will have simply won that discussion.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?

Holy shit!  I just listened to Dwight Yoakam's version of that yesterday!

I'm with that - everyone loves Anthony Bourdain*, and he ate the ass out of a wild boar.

*Note: I have no idea if anyone even likes that guy. I don't know shit about him.

Me!  I do.  He's awesome, if somewhat intentionally obnoxious.

We ate at Silver Diner the other night, and the food pretty much sucked ass across the board.  I mean, the apple pie was bad.  How the hell do you fuck up apple pie?

Today I'm going to play poker with some co-workers.  I expect to take their money, but you never know.

[littlefallsmets]

I dunno.

He strikes me as a slightly-less-flaming Simon LeCowells trying to host a "Jackass" rip-off and... because he is an upper-class wank, can only do Jackassy stunts if they are about pretensious cuisine type things.

I'll stick to Alton Brown explaining my toasted cheese sandwich with those styrofoam molecules from high school chemistry, thanks.

[wombat]

How the hell do you fuck up apple pie?

It seems to be very easy to do so, actually. I can't remember the last time I had a perfect apple pie. It's a constantly disappointing quest. Pie is hard, and apple pie seems to be hardest because apples are not so strongly flavored as, say, cherries or berries, and have a much more varying texture.

This is not to excuse Silver Diner, especially if everything else was bad, since diner food is not generally rocket science.

I like Anthony Bourdain. Or at least, I am entertained by him.

[AugustWest]

I dunno.

He strikes me as a slightly-less-flaming Simon LeCowells trying to host a "Jackass" rip-off and... because he is an upper-class wank, can only do Jackassy stunts if they are about pretensious cuisine type things.

I'll stick to Alton Brown explaining my toasted cheese sandwich with those styrofoam molecules from high school chemistry, thanks.

Have you ever actually watched his show?  Cause that's not the vibe I get at all.

Bourdain's a little obnoxious in the way all New Yorkers are (to the rest of us) but Pretense? Stunts?  Jackassery?  I don't see it.

[theinevitable]

awesome! Today I thought that i was being bad and skipping a class in order to sleep in, but I had forgotten that that class doesn't meet on friday! awesome!

tonight: some nice girls I know are having a party.

[littlefallsmets]

Isn't he the one who travels around, eating repulsive ethnic "delicacies" that one would have no excuse for eating other than desperate poverty? Ox blood milkshakes and baby rats in aspic and snake ball stews and so on, claiming that he's doing it for culinary adventure but just to gross out the American audience?

If that's him, I don't see how that's any different from "Jackass".

[Nabubrush]

Isn't he the one who travels around, eating repulsive ethnic "delicacies" that one would have no excuse for eating other than desperate poverty? Ox blood milkshakes and baby rats in aspic and snake ball stews and so on, claiming that he's doing it for culinary adventure but just to gross out the American audience?

If that's him, I don't see how that's any different from "Jackass".

Well, as I said, he literally ate the asshole out of a wild boar. I'm not really sure what part of that I can expand on to make it clearer.

[wombat]

obnoxious in the way all New Yorkers are (to the rest of us)

Excuse me?!

[AugustWest]

Isn't he the one who travels around, eating repulsive ethnic "delicacies" that one would have no excuse for eating other than desperate poverty? Ox blood milkshakes and baby rats in aspic and snake ball stews and so on, claiming that he's doing it for culinary adventure but just to gross out the American audience?

If that's him, I don't see how that's any different from "Jackass".

I don't think that's a fair description of the show.  That sounds more like Andrew Zimmern.  It's not just shock food porn.  He does eats some stuff that not on the everyday American menu, especially things like tripe and organ meats, but nothing out of the ordinary for the locale he's in.  He eats what the locals do and is very conscious of being a good guest and eating the meal that's prepared for him.  Virtually everything I've seen him eat on the show I would eat too, or at least try. 

Except for Namibia.   

But hey, don't worry about gathering any facts before you pre-judge the guy.

[AugustWest]

Well, as I said, he literally ate the asshole out of a wild boar. I'm not really sure what part of that I can expand on to make it clearer.

That's one sequence out of three seasons of the show and it wasn't played for shock value.