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Yeah the food at the 101 kind of sucks, even the breakfast is really just OK. I had to laugh at the heads lifting and falling part, everyone says that and its so true I'm extremely guilty of it myself. At least the people watching kind of makes up for the mediocre food. I had a pretty decent burger at Bowery on Sunset very close to the Hungry Cat which I also tried for the first time recently. I had intend to try the pug burger but couldn't pass up on a yummy seafood dish, soooo good.

I have related amoooozing story. I always felt a little bit guilty about the whole boiled alive thing so I decided to go for the chef knife through the head technique. Long story abbreviated, boyfriend did NOT want to kill lobsters he wanted to fill up the bathtub and name them, so the knifing fell to me. He couldn’t even be in the same room, actually he decided to take a nap while I took care of business. So I got the lobster in position, knife point in the middle about 1 inch back from eyes, and I couldn’t do it, had to psych myself up for it. I don’t care how cold hearted you are, the first time you thrust a knife into a living creature, even if it looks like an overlarge but delicious bug, its not easy. Ok back into position, overlarge bug must not suffer because boyfriend, and apparently I, are both cowards. I do it. But right before I do I sort of let out this little scream, like a little school girl. Pathetic I know. Second one was easier. I get them in the pot, and go to other room to tell manly man that dinner is on its way. Find him in fetal position with blankets up around chin, clearly freaking out. “What happened, I can’t eat them, I heard one scream!”

Toast, love toast, with jam, butter, pate, cheese whatever. Apples, I just picked up these tiny apples at the market, so cute like little toys you can eat, also slightly obsessed with La Panzanella Rosemary Croccantini at present.

Wost food habit is not coming to dinner when you're called. My mom used to have a fit about my brother and dad lollygagging now I know & understand her frustration. Its so irritating to spend hours making a really nice meal only to have it grow cold in front of you while for whoever to just finish up an e-mail or whatever that can so clearly wait.

I also ate breakfast with a guy once that cut everything up into bite sized species (two fried eggs, sausage, hash browns) mixed it all together with ketchup and hot sauce until it was a homogenized slop and then shoveled it all in. It was the grossest.

Cheap, nasty grocery store cakes, anything with fake "whipped topping" or that contains the same ingredients as whipped topping, you know the roof of the mouth coaty stuff. I also agree with the artificial sweeteners on principal, as far as I know I've never eaten an artificially sweetened dessert and I hope I never do, if it comes to that I'd rather just have plain fruit.

Hands down lobster rolls, the last place I had them was in my house, they just seem tastier when eaten over the kitchen sink.