are you a 'foodie'
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Jesse OTM.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
cosigned
― the Smurf who'll snatch your money (Je55e), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
"It smells like bat-wing dust," he told her.
lol
― dmr, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
hints of unripe bat-wing dust
― Oh shit, that's my bone! (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
"smells like bat-wing dust" kind of gives less a foodie vibe and more of a warlock vibe
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
It's like the difference between having a hobby you're enthusiastic about and being able to convey that enthusiasm to others in a way that they find your simplified talk about the subject to be interesting, and trying to talk shop regardless of location and time.
I like having friends who are technical in ways I'm not when they're able to tell interesting stories that relate things in a non-technical manner, or when they are able to transparently use that expertise. A friend who is able to glance over a wine or dinner menu, ask a few specific questions of the server, and then quickly come to a decision is much more impressive, imo.
― mh, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
I love eating and cooking new and interesting things but I'm not a dick about it. I also tend to trust people at restaurants to bring me what they think is good which has led to some of the best dining experiences.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
I'm also equally cool with eating at subway or a Michelin starred place. Both have their time and place imo.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Subway was just the first place I thought of but you know what I mean.
'pickiness' in anything is like my least favorite quality.
― goole, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
we need to have a poll about eating out w/ friends: is it about the FOOD or is it about the COMPANY? (can't be both because we need to make hard choices on ILX)
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
food should be appreciated when it is great and suffered with grace when it is not
― Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
To be honest, it's worst when both are mediocre
― mh, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Jesse otm
a bro of mine went through a "wine phase" and i benefited greatly, both in learning and in free wine at tastings. geeking out about stuff is fun. i'm a little surprised that ilx, which has literally hundreds of thousands of words spilled over myopic mutual masturbation, is getting het up about ppl that like food more than other people.
ffs we have had epic blowouts about HOT DOGS v. TACOS
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
Tacos
― Jeff, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
hot dogs
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
Such strife here.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
I had hot dogs at lunch and wished they were tacos.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
i'm a little surprised that ilx, which has literally hundreds of thousands of words spilled over myopic mutual masturbation, is getting het up about ppl that like food more than other people.
The original article was really obnoxious though!
― Oh shit, that's my bone! (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
whatever else, this represents a quiddity of the ruling class (noting the author):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/dining/a-vegetarians-struggle-for-sustenance-in-the-midwest.html?_r=1
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
slight agony
midwestern folk, clinging to their meat and iceberg lettuce
― buzza, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.vegkansascity.com/restaurants.html
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
a bold report coming back from one of our boys, in the field and suffering through local backwardness
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
haha
i am not a vegetarian, but one time i was in a tiny town in SE IA and i ordered a "vegetable burger" at the one restaurant in town. the waitress was nice enough to tell me, "you know that's just a regular burger with lettuce and tomato, right?"
i didn't know that, so i was glad she told me.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know who Sulzberger is but he could learn to freaking cook. Otherwise he is otm, I'm afraid.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
omg LL, a "vegetable" burger!!
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
he's the son of the nytimes publisher. long line of sulzbergers.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ochs_Sulzberger,_Jr.
― goole, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
xp
http://www.city-data.com/ia-restaurants/DEANO-S-PLACE.html#ixzz1jAeMSOvA
deano's
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
sulzberger got no meat in it
― buzza, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
In Nebraska, a place where cattle outnumber people, vegetarians are sometimes accused of undermining the state economy. The owner of what was billed as the lone vegetarian restaurant in Omaha said it had several pounds of ground beef thrown at its doors shortly after opening. After a short run, it closed last year.
this is kinda tragic tbh
“Being a vegetarian in Nebraska is like being a Republican in Brooklyn — less of an outcast than a novelty,” said David Rosen, who became a vegetarian as a teenager in Omaha and is now a writer in Brooklyn. “Except that you don’t have to prepare special meals for Republicans.”
brooklyn has two gop congresspeople but they probably mean 'brooklyn'
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
i've been vegetarian in a non-veggie-friendly city (richmond va) and yeah it kinda sucks but it's not really worth writing a newspaper article about, let alone for the NYT. like my problem with this article isn't that it's wrong but that the point is so obvious that the article is unnecessary.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
Actually the author of that piece is A.O. Sulzberger Jr.'s son Arthur GREGG Sulzberger, 28:http://www.observer.com/2009/media/2009-ag-arthur-gregg-sulzberger-era-begins
― Oh shit, that's my bone! (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
but that the point is so obvious that the article is unnecessary.agreehigh school journalism assignment
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
The beef throwing incident is ridiculous but other than that this dude is whiney and annoying. I've been a vegetarian for nearly (over?) half my life and while this can be a sort of shitty situation at times, I have rarely found this to be a huge issue. Even steakhouses have awesome veg sides for Christ's sake. Did this man really think this article needed to be written. He should probably just take Laurel's advice and learn to cook.
lol x-post - NA otm
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
To be fair, if you're in the middle of nowhere in NY you're probably going to have trouble eating vegetarian, too. But the "oh no I'm in KC and I can't get vegetarian food everywhere and people look at me funny" is more of a diversity issue, imo, than it is a locale issue.
tbf walking into Arthur Bryant’s if you're a vegetarian is probably a cardinal sin. I think I inhaled enough animal products just standing in there to count as a violation
― mh, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
the whole situation of sending out a sulzberger to a post stories from kansas city, just to write about difficulty finding veggie cuisine, is weird. It doesn't really need an ethnographic piece.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
this is hilarious
which town btw?
― goole, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
One of the best meals I've ever had out was an enormous platter of vegetables and sides at Spark's steakhouse in NYC. Sure the waiter sort of giggled when I told him I was vegetarian but I'm used to that. They were then more than happy to prepare something for me. In the rare even that I've found myself at a restaurant with absolutely nothing to eat on the menu I just ask if they can make something off the menu. I don't think I've ever been somewhere where the request was refused.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
like this should be a letter to his dad, not an articlexpost
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
The thing is they don't have vegetarians in the midwest so A.G.'s reporting really sheds new light on the subject. It's as though an infidel managed to sneak inside mecca.
― Oh shit, that's my bone! (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
To be fair, if you're in the middle of nowhere in NY you're probably going to have trouble eating vegetarian, too
eh not really
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
also weird that he's talking about "the midwest" when this is pretty much going to be a problem in most parts of the u.s. that aren't big cities - it's not really a regional thing so i'm not sure why he's phrasing it that way.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - Maybe he means NY state and not NYC?
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
which town btw?Rome, IA -- I linked to the restaurant above.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link