November 18, 2009
dbreunig:murketing:Retro Thing: Coca-Cola History They should re-release that 1899 bottle, cork and all.

dbreunig:murketing:Retro Thing: Coca-Cola History They should re-release that 1899 bottle, cork and all.

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November 17, 2009
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November 15, 2009

So this is happening later:

daveholmes:

My friends Dave and Courtney are expecting their first child in the next week or so. Ben and I are having dinner with them tonight at Caioti Pizza Cafe on Tujunga, so Courtney can have the Labor Salad.

When Dave told me this, my response, like yours, was: Oh. Okay. What?

Apparently there’s a salad at Caioti that is known to induce labor. It’s something in the dressing. Women go in, have the salad, and boom: baby*. It’s not even on the menu- you just go in and they know. It’s common knowledge among the women of LA, evidently.

*You do, I think, have to be pregnant for it to work.

Famous bit of LA restaurant lore, and true to boot.

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November 13, 2009
Oh. If you were from Asia, this would be a really unusual pie.

Martha Stewart, to an Asian woman who baked an apple pie; previously, when Martha asked the woman where she was from, the woman had responded, “New York.” (via chrismohney)

Get it together, Martha.

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November 12, 2009
Wild hare is strong meat: Cooked like this, it develops the divine stink of the woods in fall, of distant gunpowder, of erotic practices illegal in several Midwestern states.

Jonathan Gold on Bistro LQ, where they serve ant eggs, wild-boar sopes, baby-goat burritos, frog legs in barbecue sauce and a chutney with begonias and wood violets, oatmeal with lobster, and eel with grits. (via spiegelman) (via yumwatch)

Jonathan Gold, always with the sex.

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November 11, 2009
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foureleven:johncarney:


I’m going to take away your internets if you people insist on using them like this.


First LOL of the day.

foureleven:johncarney:

I’m going to take away your internets if you people insist on using them like this.

First LOL of the day.

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November 10, 2009
fek:

No fucking way.

Chang pulls out some bullshit that me and friend (who’s got a few hundred more of their burgers in his past) had never heard of: chile peppers. They came two to a sealed plastic bag and were unnaturally yellow and picturesque. And spicy! Damn.

The David Chang/Peter Meehan blog continues to live up to expectations. In-N-Out has peppers? What? Also, this, from the comments:

A tip for the In-N-Out fries. I always order them “lightly well done” and they resemble pommes frites. Well done fries are a little too crispy.

I had no idea they’d cater to your fry-cooking preference. Impressive. In-N-Out’s Skulls-like secret culture of ordering is full of surprises.

None of these things are surprising to a Californian, so, question: is there an East Coast equivalent, a chain that’s full of surprises? Does Five Guys have something up its sleeve?

fek:

No fucking way.

Chang pulls out some bullshit that me and friend (who’s got a few hundred more of their burgers in his past) had never heard of: chile peppers. They came two to a sealed plastic bag and were unnaturally yellow and picturesque. And spicy! Damn.

The David Chang/Peter Meehan blog continues to live up to expectations. In-N-Out has peppers? What? Also, this, from the comments:

A tip for the In-N-Out fries. I always order them “lightly well done” and they resemble pommes frites. Well done fries are a little too crispy.

I had no idea they’d cater to your fry-cooking preference. Impressive. In-N-Out’s Skulls-like secret culture of ordering is full of surprises.

None of these things are surprising to a Californian, so, question: is there an East Coast equivalent, a chain that’s full of surprises? Does Five Guys have something up its sleeve?

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