Comments on: The Old Three French Hens

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:18:13 +0000

(If that wasn’t clear enough – I no longer eat bagels outside of serious bagel-producing areas, or areas that import proper bagels. Though I technically live in the south, we have a Brooklyn Bagel Bakery here that has the real thing. But Texas and Connecticut are now Non-Bagel Consumption Areas.)

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:17:24 +0000

Attention, Cosi: bagels are NOT SQUARE. Never. Ever.

Attention, Bess Eaton Donuts (what was I thinking?): bagels are not round mushy rolls with slight indentations in the middle. Not even close.

Attention, Texas: bagels do not squish. They are firm from boiling. If they have not been boiled and squish when you squeeze them, they are not bagels.

All of you: FIND ANOTHER NAME FOR YOUR ODD BREAD PRODUCT.

By: Isabella Massardo

Isabella Massardo — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:44:01 +0000

In Amsterdam: jenever (the famous Dutch courage: high alcohol content and low price) accompanied by rollmops.

By: Kate Dino

Kate Dino — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:57:42 +0000

I will only drink Milwaukee’s Best and eat fried ramps in Morgantown, West Virginia. But it’s not as if people are tripping over themselves to offer them to me here.

I will only drink straight vodka in (certain) people’s homes or at bars and restaurants within the territory of the former Soviet Union (or Warsaw Pact countries in a pinch). Vodka must be very cold and it must be chased with an appropriately salty and smelly foodstuff.

By: Lickona

Lickona — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:23:51 +0000

I should note that “here” is San Diego.

By: Lickona

Lickona — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:22:48 +0000

The fish taco is our local speciality, imported from nearby Baja California. But while you can get a carne asada burrito lots of places, it seems that many parts of California adulterate it with rice and beans and cabbage and sour cream and such. Here, it is just meat, meat drippings, a smear of guacamole and a smattering of pico de gallo. There is simply no finer food at 3 a.m. – leftover Chinese notwithstanding.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:56:16 +0000

Pabst: We drink it because we like it and it’s cheap, not because hipsters in Williamsburg use the cans as some kind of accessory.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:46:51 +0000

Bratwurst outside of Wisconsin is just crap. It is a delicacy, not a grey, soggy turd like the rest of the country prepares