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Major League Eating: The Videogame

Thanks, Harold! IT was a truly bizarre thing to witness.

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Question of the Day: What dish needs to be fast food–ized?

Popplers!

No, seriously, squid. I want fried and stuffed squid TO GO, maybe with some honey mustard sauce.

From Talk

OMG, they make Cherry Coke Zero now!

The difference is in the cola syrup recipe. What I've been told is that Diet Coke uses the New Coke syrup even though that was abandoned for the non-diet version, whereas Coke Zero uses the Classic Coke syrup.

I have no idea if this is true or not.

From Talk

OMG, they make Cherry Coke Zero now!

Zero tastes more like regular Coke, which is why I like it. I miss the spiciness when I drink Diet.

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Major League Eating: The Videogame

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OMG, they make Cherry Coke Zero now!

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I like Shiner Bock so much...

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Yerba Matte: Great beverage or the greatest beverage ever?

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From Serious Eats

Major League Eating: The Videogame

Thanks, Harold! IT was a truly bizarre thing to witness.

From Talk

Question of the Day: What dish needs to be fast food–ized?

Popplers!

No, seriously, squid. I want fried and stuffed squid TO GO, maybe with some honey mustard sauce.

From Talk

OMG, they make Cherry Coke Zero now!

The difference is in the cola syrup recipe. What I've been told is that Diet Coke uses the New Coke syrup even though that was abandoned for the non-diet version, whereas Coke Zero uses the Classic Coke syrup.

I have no idea if this is true or not.

From Talk

OMG, they make Cherry Coke Zero now!

Zero tastes more like regular Coke, which is why I like it. I miss the spiciness when I drink Diet.

From Talk

Question of the Day: Not for the squeamish--ever get food sickness?

On reading jbrach's post there with the subject matter at hand in my mind, I read the word "gunshy" not as gun shy but as more of an onomatopoeia, perhaps the sound that your belly makes to warn you that you are about to experience the wonders of releasing half-digested food in two directions at once. For example, "Ugh, I'm feeling a bit gunshy. Oh, oh god, where is the bathroom?"

From Talk

Question of the Day: Not for the squeamish--ever get food sickness?

I had bad food poisoning once a few years ago. I had gone to, sigh, Hooters for lunch with coworkers, and then had felt strangely hungry upon returning home, so I cooked a big steak and ate it quickly. In retrospect, this was a terrible mistake, because, well, you know how food sickness works.

It turned out to have been a salad I'd eaten the day before. Half of my coworkers were also sick. But I've never been able to eat at Hooters ever since, about which I am not in the least bit sad.

From Talk

OMG, they make Cherry Coke Zero now!

I found it at a Target. The cans are black and have cherries with holes in the middle so they look like zeros. And it is delicious!

From Talk

I like Shiner Bock so much...

That reminds me - I have an In'n'Out paper uniform hat sitting here on my desk, which sort of counts. I do love their branding, but that is different than loving the food so much that I want to wear the logo.

From Talk

I like Shiner Bock so much...

I also love beets, but I don't know of any beet brands that I'd like to affiliate myself with.

From Talk

Question of the Day: What's your favorite breakfast?

Breakfast Burritos?! I say NAY, my friends. The burrito is not a breakfast food! The burrito is a hearty meal best in circumstances where you are really hungry, perhaps from lifting heavy boxes, and possibly also drunk. For breakfast you need something smaller, hand-sized and portable... perhaps a breakfast TACO!

(Soyrizo, cilantro, tabasco and scrambled eggs wrapped in a corn or flower tortilla. Takes 2 to fill you up. And like the silver bullet, they will not let you down.)

From Talk

Question of the Day: What drives you nuts about other people's eats?

I hate it when people refuse to eat meat. "I'm a vegetarian," they say. "Red meat is bad for you," they say. Boohoo! Eat a steak, hippie.

From Talk

Question of the Day: What's your favorite dish to cook when you're trying to impress?

Back when I lived in a dirty hovel filled with drug addled musicians and spent nitrous containers, that is to say, back when I didn't know better and didn't care, I would try to impress my lady friends by cooking a sort of honey ginger vegetable stir fry. It was only sort of a honey ginger vegetable stir fry because it only resembled what a normal person would understand as honey ginger vegetable stir fry in that it had both honey and ginger in it. It otherwise consisted of a disgusting, sticky, fried mess, more like an aborted attempt at honey baking a head of broccoli than an fresh asian meal.

I cooked this meal about 10 times for 10 different women. During that period, I believe my maximum number of dates per woman was averaging about 1.2. Looking back, this makes perfect sense.

From Talk

Yerba Matte: Great beverage or the greatest beverage ever?

ohtorvald - that is the brand they use at Tully's, which is what I have been drinking. Tasty stuff.

From Talk

Have site feedback? We want to hear it!

I would like an RSS feed of the comments I've made.

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Question of the Day: How often do you eat out in a week?

My lady and I have been trying to eat at home more often. With the easy availability of virtually farm fresh ingredients and our vegetarian menu, we can actually eat much better at home than we can at the restaurants in our neighborhood, which skew towards bar food and burgers. And calamari plates. and Macaroni and cheese. And frankly, though I love its from cheesey noodle A to cheesey noodle Z, you can only eat so many bowls of the stuff.

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What's the one food you just won't eat?

I love beets! I love love beets. I would eat beets any day of the week. Alaina Browne, you are bad and wrong for not liking beets.

I try to avoid organ meat.

From Talk

What's the one food you just won't eat?

Oh god. There really are a lot of things I will not eat. There is not just one. But, here are a few:

~Roasted Peppers - I will not eat them or anything they touch. AWFUL
~Mushrooms
~Asparagus
~Water Chestnuts
~FISH (but I do eat the Shellfish family-MMMM)
~Anything that has nuts in it. Hate it when people put nuts in bownies! No. This ruins the taste. But man, do I love nuts by themselves.
~Miracle Whip

I could go on, but I will stop here...

From Talk

What's the one food you just won't eat?

it's a very very...very long list... it's probably quicker/easier to list what I will eat.

One thing I absolutely refuse to pick around is mushrooms, if anything has mushrooms in it, I would rather starve than consume.... it's tainted.

From Talk

What's the one food you just won't eat?

W. Who wants to eat anill eat bananas and pineapple and peaches; but nothing with them as an ingredient.

I too, try to stay away from organs (except liver.) Oh, and lima beans.

Crabs have brains large enough to extract and serve?!?

From Talk

What's the one food you just won't eat?

Fish. Fish sauce. Anything remotely fishy.

Also, I HATE runny egg yolks, they remind me of mucous.

From Talk

What's the one food you just won't eat?

Beets and turnips. Can't get around the metallic taste either. Used to hate brussels sprouts, but found a way to make them yummy (roast them!).

As to the "sea urchin roe" detester, I can guarantee you have never tasted nor even seen sea urchin roe. Uni, which is the food that comes from the sea urchin is, in fact, gonads. When you order sea urchin in a sushi restaurant, you are getting the testicles from the hermaphroditic aquatic hedgehog. But I know what you mean. Uni is not my favorite either. Nor are crab brains, which I was served many times when I lived in Japan. For that matter, any kind of brains--sweatbreads from cattle, etc.

Back to gonads. There's a lovely restaurant in Oklahoma City, OK called Cattlemen's. They serve a dish called "lamb fries." We ordered it and ate it up with relish without knowing it was, you guessed it, lamb testicles. All I can say is they were incredibly tender and tasty.

From Talk

I like Shiner Bock so much...

Oh by the way, I suppose mine would the Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich. I love it so much, I might be willing to get a tattoo of the logo.

Once I had a dream that I was in inside one of those kid's playground boxes, filled with the little colored balls where you are literally swimming up to your neck, like they have at McDonald's.... EXCEPT the little balls were Chick-Fil-a sandwiches and the only way to escape was to EAT my way out.

That's normal, right? :)

From Talk

I like Shiner Bock so much...

You chose a fine product Internet Rockstar, born and brewed right here in my home state of Texas.

I've been drining Shiner beer for many-many years, and was lucky enough to tour their facility in 2004, which included free samples. I'm pretty sure they still offer the same tour today.

Let me ask you, have you tried any of their other brews besides the Bock?

http://www.shiner.com/beers/beers-home.php

From Serious Eats

Major League Eating: The Videogame

Just for the record, at the beginning of this video whoever was doing the timing did it incorrectly. Once all of the food is in someones mouth the clock can stop, and as long as the food doesn't exit their mouth it counts. I met these guys in Atlantic City a few years ago and they were all sweethearts. Had a few beers with them too, I'm not sure how they did it after each consuming 10+ pounds of meatballs, but who am I to question greatness?

From Serious Eats

Major League Eating: The Videogame

Pro Tip: "...so you gotta eat the meat and wash it down with a wet bun..."

Awesome.

From Serious Eats

Major League Eating: The Videogame

Ben: You clearly needed a lemonade drink to dunk your sushi in.

From Talk

What's the one food you just won't eat?

I won't eat bananas or anything with bananas in it. They don't agree with me and even the smell turns me off. Yuck!

From Talk

What's the one food you just won't eat?

I will absolutely not eat beets, oatmeal, raisins (or any other dried fruit for that matter) and chunks of cooked carrots (when I use carrots in soups, I grate them or cut into tiny matchsticks, then they don't bother me, but I simply cannot bite into a chunk of a cooked carrot). I will not eat most cooked fish (other than Chilean sea bass, but only prepared in a certain way). Oops. it was supposed to be "the one food" I won't eat...[hanging head in shame]

From Talk

What's the one food you just won't eat?

Olives and mushrooms.

You know, I just can't stand their...texture.
It's sort of like tomatoes.
I mean, it took me a while to tolerate tomatoes, but olives and mushrooms are "new" to me, I guess, considering tomatoes have been pushed on me since I was a kid.

Also, raisens and cotton candy. Ew.

From Talk

Have site feedback? We want to hear it!

I would like to see the email a friend feature on here. I saw Ed's piece on Grom, the gelato place, and wanted to email it but was too lazy to open up my email and send a link.

From Talk

Have site feedback? We want to hear it!

Honestly, I think this site is fantastic! The only feature I would like to see added is the ability for readers to edit their posts in the "Talk" section. :)

From Talk

Have site feedback? We want to hear it!

I love this site. It's the food place I return to again and again. Since its inception, though, I have noticed that more and more questions appear in the "talk" list, and I find the sheer number of them overwhelming. I understand that your philosophy is to have the users control that area, but it might be nice to feature just a couple of questions a day and put the many other daily questions in some background space with a link. But this is a small quibble. Generally, I love what you do! The cookbook features are fabulous. I already owned "On Top of Spaghetti," but once you began featuring it, I had an entirely new appreciation for a book I already had.

From Talk

Have site feedback? We want to hear it!

Still can't type in a TITLE to any of my posts - the field is there but it is not clickable nor can I write in it...?

From Talk

Have site feedback? We want to hear it!

I can't seem to post a Title to my Talk post :( There is no clickable field for some reason...I can see the "Title" field but cannot type into it (hence my title-less post on the Talk forum).

Otherwise, I love the site!

From Talk

Have site feedback? We want to hear it!

OK, I love this place but I never catch my typos until I hit post. A time limit where a comment could be deleted, or maybe just edited, for 5 minutes or so after posting would rock.

From Talk

Question of the Day: What dish needs to be fast food–ized?

on the naan sandwich issue, there is a place on bleecker street around sixth that makes "naanwhiches" and "naaninis" (the indian bread company ). Surprinsingly not so great. I would also like to see more ubiquitous vietnamese sandwich places. Those things are pretty boss.

From Talk

Question of the Day: What dish needs to be fast food–ized?

Foie Gras firstly and then a chain of porchetta sandwich shops

From Talk

Question of the Day: What dish needs to be fast food–ized?

I somehow missed the word "ubiquitous"on first reading the question. I can't think of a food that being ubiquitous has served well. Chain pizza? Blueberry bagels? Crossanwich? I rest my case.

From Talk

Question of the Day: What dish needs to be fast food–ized?

At least in NYC, Thai and Indian takeout is quite common. And I have the 8 million menus to prove it!

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Major League Eating: The Videogame

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OMG, they make Cherry Coke Zero now!

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I like Shiner Bock so much...

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Yerba Matte: Great beverage or the greatest beverage ever?

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Website: http://benbrown.com

Location: San Francisco

About: I love beets. I cannot lie. Beets beets beets.

Favorite foods: beets, tacos, soyrizo, tilapia, coffee, cheeses of all varieties

Last bite on earth: Beets