Sneakeater

EXACTLY

If you live in Ridgewood liverwurst is simply NOT a problem.

I really don’t remember.

YIKES

The Revolution is not about depriving people of food.

Remember, The Times itself pushed Well's first starred review after the interregnum as ushering in a new era. It's not like he was doing anything behind their back.

I wonder if he is, though. Or just doing the best he can?

The thing is, I don't think Wells is engaging in a "guerilla war". I think he's trying ;to be intellectually honest working within constraints he doesn't believe in (sort of like me living under Capitalism). Other than Wells's first starred review, which concededly (albeit justifiably) engaged in point-making, what reviews and ratings do you think weren't good-faith efforts to be informative? Certainly this week's review is EXACTLY what he should be doing (by his and my lights, in any event).

Can we have our Revolution already? This Capitalism stuff is getting unbearable.

Also, what exactly does it mean when a major industry player seeks to be "disruptive"?

Mean Old Lady could beat the shit out of Chang.

A new place is listed as serving drinks "with names like . . . Penicillin". Can they not know?

This is also good advice when getting shots.

Cuz it certainly wasn’t like that any more when we went back the next year. (Although it was still spectacularly entertaining.)

For all I know in 1982 I got one of the very last dinners of the original program.

What I’m saying is that it turned by 1983.

Which kind of shows why rankings are so silly.

One Times Square -- formerly The Times Tower -- has been empty for decades. It became totally clad with billboards, which rendered the building uninhabitable because there could be no windows. But as the most expensive signage in the entire world, the billboards were more lucrative than tenants would be. It never occurred to me that the building was empty, although it's obvious when you think about it. I was only vaguely aware that I hadn't seen that ugly white facade (with its windows) they installed in the '60s (when it was the Allied Chemical Building?) probably since I was in high school or college. (Now they're getting ready to fill the building with "immersive" experiences aimed at tourists that will essentially be rented out to corporations as advertising. A use that doesn't require windows, and generates additional income for the building owners.)

Not absolutely sure John Sinclair did the MC5 any favors.

It would be like campaigning to make Mount Everest look big.

More like “mission unnecessary”.

They were fine. The whole reason all that other stuff was classic Ashkenazi food is that (unlike steak) it was easy to get decent quality cheap (since contrary to libel most Ashkenazic Jews were POOR). And yeah, early days the cooking was fine. (Mind you, I only experienced that ONCE, the first time I went in the early ‘80s. After that it was like, where’d it go ?)

He doesn’t have to campaign to do that.

It totally is. That menu was great. All this organ meat and other hardcore Ashkenazi stuff you don't see anywhere. This was one of the first great instances of a Restaurant's Regressing To The Mean.

It's one of the ironies of nature that artichokes, which are delicious, are such a total pain in the butt.