Valleywag reports: "The family has gotten Neal to agree to eat vegetables, but only if a Facebook group they've set up garners 1,000 users."
Your favorite Washington D.C. chef might be on Facebook. Let the stalking begin!
Posted by Raphael, January 18, 2008 at 2:45 PM
With Facebook's Scrabulous application in jeopardy, Erin Zimmer, Serious Eats' DC correspondent, and I hurried into a game of food word-based Scrabulous—what we've dubbed Scrabufoodulous.
For the non-Facebook savvy, Scrabulous is one of the social networking site’s truly brilliant applications, other than sheep-throwing, super-poking and of course, the Serious Eats Facebook group. (Cough, join right now). But a culinary-minded Scrabulous? Not one of the options. We agreed on some basic rules, like proper nouns related to food (acceptable). Vitamins and minerals found in foods (also acceptable). Booze and booze-related terms (fine). But limited by the official Scrabble dictionary, some delicious words weren’t playable.
"S'mores" [S M O R E S] got a blunt “invalid word” response. Hating on apostrophes, Scrabulous? Ouch. More game details after jump.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, October 9, 2007 at 5:30 PM
OK, Robyn, I see how it is. Bunch a copycats aping my idea here in the Serious Eats office.
Here's the deal: you know that Facebook site that's been in the news lately? The one all the kids are using? Well, on Friday, I created a Slice group on it. (Non-Facebookers: "Groups" are basically little Facebook-based clubs you can join.)
So then Robyn Lee here in the office goes and makes one for The Girl Who Ate Everything. And then today, she created a Serious Eats group. Hmm, wonder where she got that idea?
Anyway, I'm not really that hacked off at her. As official office curmudgeon, I just like to act like it. After all, if you're a Facebooker, you can join any or all three of them. Honestly, I don't know what we're going to do with it, but so far, I see that Alaina has updated it with information on our upcoming meatloaf cook-along. And, of course, it will remind you of any Serious Eats events coming up. (Psst: We have a meet-up planned for November!)
With Facebook's Scrabulous application in jeopardy, Erin Zimmer, Serious Eats' DC correspondent, and I hurried into a game of food word-based Scrabulous—what we've dubbed Scrabufoodulous.
