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Is there a NYC equivalent of this? I find myself craving Aero Bars ever since my year in the UK, but I haven't been able to find a steady supply of them here.

This is your first column I've read that's actually been informative and in depth, rather than disjointed anecdotes that would be better suited to a LiveJournal to be read by your close friends.

Good on you, there.

Less talk, more rock, please.

The process of sending a burger back, of course, is the difficult part. If your waiter doesn't come anywhere near you, you're left sitting there not eating anything, your dining companion sits there awkwardly not knowing whether to eat or wait or what to do, and you invariably wind up waiting and sitting and finishing at different times.

These are the types of problems that lead me to complain, but not actually send it back. Also, I don't pay really close attention and know how to judge these things properly, so sometimes I suspect that what I'm interpreting as "meat cooked to the wrong temperature" is actually "not very good meat cooked by people who are not very good cooks." And no amount of sending a burger back is going to fix _that_ problem.

Which is to say, I can go either way on sending it back, but usually I just eat the thing, complain about it on Yelp, and don't go back, unless it's a place where I'm a regular.

Ummm...

The aliens in _Toy Story_ worshiped The Claw as a god. They loved it when they were chosen. The only reason Buzz and Woody didn't want anyone to be chosen was that the evil kid doing the choosing was notorious for destroying and defacing toys.

Much like happens to lobsters when they're cooked and eaten...