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Video: How to Eat a Chicken Wing

I've do that for the little bone (yank it out). Not sure why you need to take the big bone out (Since he doesn't go to the trouble of de-boning the drummette portion of the wing).

wthrop at 7:35PM on 11/01/09

From Serious Eats: New York

What Londoners Think of New York Food: The 'Madison Avenue Bagel'

apologies for the grammatical errors

wthrop at 10:44PM on 10/13/09

From Serious Eats: New York

What Londoners Think of New York Food: The 'Madison Avenue Bagel'

@Carey Jones: Argee it's all pretty amusing. My point is it's just dumb marketing that's amusing, it's not some (the article presumes naive) culture's underlying misunderstanding of our food culture. In the same way we are under no impression that an onion blossom is some Australian delicacy. Yes, funny how stupid some corporation market's their product, not how stupid this assumes other cultures are about American cuisine.

wthrop at 10:39PM on 10/13/09

From Serious Eats: New York

What Londoners Think of New York Food: The 'Madison Avenue Bagel'

@shoneyjoe: Yes, my comment is indicative of why the rest of the world thinks of Americans as loud, boorish, and unrefined. Yeah, I think you're stretching there a bit for your point, but nice try.

wthrop at 8:34PM on 10/13/09

From Serious Eats: New York

What Londoners Think of New York Food: The 'Madison Avenue Bagel'

This whole article (and comments) are beyond moronic. Wow, some non US corporarte chain capitalizes on ersatz US food culture? I can just imagine a billion Chinese aghast at Panda Express or Mexicans at Taco Bell or Italians at Pizza Hut or Australians at Outback Steakhouse or almost anything that dominates US fast food culture. Get over yourselves and your indignant reaction to corporations utilizing "foreign" culture for marketing purposes.

You're all acting like a 10 year old Japanese kid coming to the US for the first time astounded that the United States has McDonalds too.

wthrop at 11:01PM on 10/12/09

From Serious Eats: New York

Maple Syrup Smell Coming from Frutarom Factory in New Jersey

Big whoop.

Like everyone in Manhattan didn't know that horrible waft of Armani Code every Saturday night didn't emanate from New Jersey...

wthrop at 12:40AM on 02/06/09

From Serious Eats

Seriously Delicious Super Bowl Party Giveaway: Snow's Barbecue Brisket

A piece of cheap meat
Smoke, time and necessity
A meal fit for gods

wthrop at 11:47PM on 01/25/09

From Serious Eats

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks

Hanger Steak.

And free porterhouses, hells yeah

wthrop at 8:24PM on 12/10/08

From Serious Eats

Top Ten Uniquely '80s Foods

Fruit Roll-ups & McRibs, yo

wthrop at 1:01PM on 10/09/08

From Talk

Bar Americain vs Mesa c/o Bobby Flay

$169?? That's downright affordable, No offense, but are you sure it wasn't a dump?

wthrop at 10:13PM on 09/29/08

From Serious Eats: New York

Flagel = Flat Bagel

Uh, A bialy is a bialy, not a flat bagel.

wthrop at 4:46PM on 09/24/08

From Serious Eats: New York

Foreign Tourists Tend To Be Lousy Tippers: What's A Waiter To Do?

These Europeans are ignorant or rude. Who goes to another country and DOESN't figure out (from guide book or god forbid, the internet, what each countries expectations on tips are).

A lot of comments on the Bruni Blog talked about the injustice of the American system whereby waiters are paid next to nothing by the restaurant and tipping was required for a living wage. Many people felt restaurants should pay a living wage and waiters should not work on tips. I agree to a certain extent, but this is how our system works (messed up or not) and unless you plan on changing it, stiffing a waiter isn't some clever political statement, you're just screwing a waiter.

wthrop at 12:17PM on 09/23/08

From Serious Eats

Why Isn't Chinese Food Hip?

American's adventurous eaters? That's a joke. Aside from a tiny minority of people who read food blogs on a daily basis, American's are known as laughably UN-advanturous eaters. American tourists are responsible for hamburgers and hot dogs on menus throughout the world. American's by in large generally EXPECT to be able to eat these wherever they go.

wthrop at 8:13PM on 09/09/08

From Serious Eats

Taco Bell's 'Volcano Taco' Is Spicy, Made with Red Crunchy Shell

You mean a multi-national corporation looking for the largest possible market isn't making their hot sauce hot enough to burn the mouths and anuses of the top 1% of macho fire eaters?

That's weird.

wthrop at 1:14PM on 09/09/08

From Serious Eats

Ruby Tuesday Punks Us All, Blows Up Wrong Restaurant

Ha ha, They got you guys to report on this cr@p and give them some press.

wthrop at 4:24PM on 08/05/08

From Serious Eats

Seattle Will Charge Shoppers for Disposable Bags Next Year

It's a nice step but I agree that it's a tiny one, even within the scope of only grocery stores. Nearly all of grocery items (sans fresh meat, fruit and veg) are completly over-packaged (and sometimes even the fruit and veg gets shrink wrapped).

wthrop at 1:54PM on 08/04/08

From Serious Eats

Is it Rude to Eat on Mass Transit?

People who eat on the subways are disgusting.

If you are one of these people, take a deep long look at your life.

wthrop at 9:40PM on 07/20/08

From Talk

Doughnut Plant Throwdown

I've never understood that Food Network show. First they promise the person a special or a pilot episode that they get excited about, then they SURPRISE them by telling them it was all a lie and it's just part of this egomaniac's effing show.

You tell me I won a million bucks, but the surprise is that I actually won $100.

Why wouldn't you be pissed? For a second I thought I had a special/ pilot/ whatever lie they throw, and instead I have to prove myself to the line cook at a Chipotle's?

wthrop at 1:00AM on 07/03/08

From Serious Eats

Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'

This is a strange editorial comment to put it mildly. It seems to be based on the author's conceit that "Consumers think sourdough is shorthand for quality".

Who thinks sourdough dough means quality?

Having lived in the Bay Area for about 10 years, people just happen to enjoy it. It's a regional taste. People eat a lot of bagels out here in NY. I've never heard anyone assume that bagels mean quality.

wthrop at 3:29PM on 06/27/08

From A Hamburger Today