quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

scott I totally saw Real Pickles™ on sale at the noho winter farmer's market last week when I was buying my locally-raised forest-finished pork butt roast for making carnitas

^ 100% true story

"Occupy Wall Street and Real Pickles represent different approaches to the same effort. Many approaches are needed, as there is much work to be done and no one simple path to an equitable and sustainable society."

I'm loving this.

Adam Davidson is such an idiot.

Picking on dining reviews is sorta unfair, but yeah, I miss sifton.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/dining/reviews/shake-shack-struggles-with-inconsistency.html

otm about the fries

had no idea that shake shack used crinkle cuts. I Will Never Eat There

the custards are good

hmm I could go get 1 right now hmmmm

The line is democratic: everybody waits, including Mr. Meyer’s children. It is a signal of freshness: everybody waits, because the food is cooked to order. It is the people’s endorsement: everybody waits, so it must be worth it.

philly cheesesteak joints have been doing this forever!! >:|

It also pours wine into stemless tulip-shaped glasses. You don’t realize they’re plastic until you touch them.

very good

that review isn't really quiddities worthy sorry sterling you know i love yooooo

not enough class warfare. one line about profanities at a mcdonalds in brooklyn isn't enough.

i don't think the new guy is bad. i liked sam sifton enough but i doubt many people miss him. unlike bruni who was missed.

now sam sifton HIS reviews could sometimes skirt the territory on this thread. cuz he was way into class and snobbery and hipsters.

no excuse for bad fries. so many places making good fries these days. sometimes they are the best thing about a restaurant these days.

yeah I mean there's a lot to be said about a shake shack being put in a predominantly black outdoor mall, the changes in downtown brooklyn, etc.

stfu

crinkle cut fries pshhhh

they are okay as cheese fries

really boring as regular fries

the worst are cheap burger joints with those horrible fries that are coated with something awful. blah. i blame sysco. they must be cheap as hell which is why bad restaurants buy them.

there is bad bacon going around too. in cheap diners. horrible horrible bacon that tastes like death and deadly chemicals. must cost ten cents a pound. again i blame sysco or whatever bulk crap company makes that stuff. bacon is already deadly, no reason for it to taste deadly too.

crinkle cut have no purpose. regular fries or waffle fries or gtfo

scott is otm. I have a friend who go to go to a food distribution show for companies like sysco to sell restaurants their pre-made crap and it was all bizarro pseudo-food and prepackaged chicken cordon bleu and shit

there is more to the burger story:

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/seven-burgers-go-up-against-shake-shacks/?ref=reviews

why tf interloper bloomberg was cutting a ribbon in BROOKLYN instead of BOROUGH PRESIDENT MARTY MARKOWITZ its an outrage to anyone w/any sense id like to say

A. de V.Fort Lee, NJ
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Come to Fort Lee and try Five Guys. Their burger is a 2 patty affair. The fries are also terrific.

crinkle cuts are always cold

always

brownie otmfm

brownie have u been to Sweetie Fry in Cle Hts?

have you guys had those crunchy "seasoned" fries at a burger place before? they oughta be outlawed. so fucking bad. i'm outraged just thinking about them. i never should have thought of them.

One memorable night, I ate half a dozen burgers in Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan, traveling with a half-eaten Shake Shack burger in my pocket for reference purposes. (If you want to try it yourself, get a single burger, no cheese or other condiments. You’d be surprised how well it holds up to this kind of treatment.)

btw i am a huge pete wells fan for no other reason than the fact that he infuriates eater/chowhound commenters

i hope it was his back pocket.

did he eat all the burgers sans condiments n cheese im confused

i aways get the shack burger its p dope

they should have just had eric asimov do the regular reviews. he was fine.

are you saying his test was not scientific enough because he was comparing condimented burgers to a burger stuffed in his pocket

they should have isaac asimov do them i be hed come up w/some neat ideas

brownie have u been to Sweetie Fry in Cle Hts?

― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.)

no! never even heard of it.

best clevo fries i've had are at sasa matsu on the square

he would def have a more scientific system. like he would put the other burgers in his pocket also. xp

it's on Lee Rd up the block from the Library. They do regular and sweet potato fries w/ a variety of dipping sauce options; and also a bunch of homemade ice creams. They had a Left Hand Milk Stout chocolate last month that was A+.

hmm

would clevo fap with brownie and phil d one day to conduct a scientific fries experiment.

I gave myself a double blind taste test by putting all the burgers in my pocket and pulling out burgers at random

hs, i will even wear my bills t-shirt

also will be wearing dayos's trousers

we can put fries in one pocket, dipping sauces in the other

I'm going to need more pockets