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is it for real? tell me.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 December 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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― If you ain't eatin' WHAM, you ain't eatin' HAM (trm), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

there is nowhere I would go, not even in NYC in the 21st century, to pay eight fuckin dollars for five chicken fingers.

― If you ain't eatin' WHAM, you ain't eatin' HAM (trm), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I was going to say, those prices just prey on the stupid and weak, amirite?

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

The Upper-Middle Class might need its hand held to eat a fried chicken is all.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

celebrity chefdom at its apex, my children. get to the top and you can make people pay three dollars for some rice that you hired somebody else to spit in. that is the dream.

― If you ain't eatin' WHAM, you ain't eatin' HAM (trm), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

hi guys, welcome to steve shasta's cost of living index!

in the first chapter we discuss the differences of living in the big city versus living out in the burbs.

also, we will touch on other important factors such as:
+the commerical real estate lease market in Manhattan: how much each square foot costs
+labor costs, inner city taxes, and minimum wage economies of scale
+travelling outside of "the box"- going to strange foreign places like London, Paris, and Tokyo where even a cup of coffee may cost you over $6!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

+wine mark-up in restaurants

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Chapter Two
+where does it come from? steve shasta probes deep into the free-range, organic food market... a lengthy analysis of transporting high-quality ingredients year round from balmy outdoor-friendly climes to chilly remote urban corners of the country.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously I'm way over uptight about the cost of eating decent food in NYC. I'm on expense during market week, just wanted to know if it tastes good?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't forget tipping

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^I'm way over being uptight^^^

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

internet research says: meat's good, but batter is bland and overdone.
I have witnessed such $ bland batter hype in both US South and North.
Rock a Popeyes, dog.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Popeyes is dope.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Popeyes made me have violent bowel-eruptus so that's a no-no. I'd rather pay $3 more to actually reasonably digest my meal.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Me too, but it's so good!

I would pay for Dirty Bird once if you told me it was the God fried chicken. But the God fried chicken doesn't usually come from places that serve napa cabbage coleslaw and shallot cornbread.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i went here with lauren!!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

would i specifically recommend it? not really. the fried chicken was tasty but not great. the mac & cheese was really nice. i liked the shallot cornbread, although i dropped a piece on the floor :(

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I have found the God chicken of popular record is rarely the true God chicken.
(but, check the fried chicken in your average NYC asian deli steam table)

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

the fried chicken in your average NYC asian deli steam table =
that what me made me quit five years being vegetarian

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Ali's chopped salad looks pretty kick ass.

Pop-eye's as tasty-but-ass-eruptive is accurate.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

the trick is to avoid the dirty rice

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

That salad looks gross to me, but I really dislike hard-boiled egg, crutons and creamy dressing.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck, now I want some fried chicken.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Popeyes is truly 99% worth what it does to your guts.
I have to say for fried chicken it really seems to miss the point to get it from a organic free range celebrity chef joint. cost of living index and lease prices in manhattan have somehow not driven two thousand greasy spoons out of business, so I don't really buy into that. I think it has more to do with start-up financing being easier to acquire if you tell investors that your menu's lowest margin item is the family chicken fingers for twenty bucks

― If you ain't eatin' WHAM, you ain't eatin' HAM (trm), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Not to mention that "family" would have to equal couple+toddler for that to be a family meal.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

the prices for the chicken seem relatively fair, but why the four dollar markup for some damn cole slaw?

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, who's the "celebrity?"

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

most of my fried chicken is eaten out of tiny cardboard boxes with crappy french fries and a rock hard biscuit, but i do not mind this.

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

give me some extra hot sauce packets with that bitch, and we're good.

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i heard the initial buzz but haven't gotten around to it yet. it got a 17 i think? (and factor in the village markup maybe?)

pio pio is very good, i recall, but i wouldn't necessarily call it a destination

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ok. ive gone and looking into this. and feel rather safe branding it as bullshit.

― bb (bbia), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF is a "dirty palmer"? Is it like that thing I get when I walk down staircases in filthy parking garages running my hand along the banister the whole way only to find it covered in blackness?

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

bourgeois fried chicken=contradiction in terms, go to sylvia's

― the table is the table (trees), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF is a "dirty palmer"?

Lemonade/Iced Tea with brine and an olive?

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck this shit

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean what is this "ali's chopped salad" nonsense? And "organic" iced tea? I'll bet it's not even sweet, nancy yankee fucks.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Aren't there like a million other "LOL HIGH FOOD MEETS LOW FOOD=YOU PAY THROUGH THE NOSE!" places in Manhattan?

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

actually, "The South" can eat a dick wrt "sweetness"

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

well if The South wants to eat some dicks in regards to sweetness or anything else it sure as hell ain't paying eight goddamn dollars for the privilege

― If you ain't eatin' WHAM, you ain't eatin' HAM (trm), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

No, it'd probably just wallow in diabetes and hatred of outsiders and end up fucking a sister to avoid leaving the paw patch

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thepawpatch.com/images/pawpatchlogo2.png http://www.thepawpatch.com/images/pets.jpg

― If you ain't eatin' WHAM, you ain't eatin' HAM (trm), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah "real" sweet tea sucks, for the record. (xpost)

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i went to dirty bird with s1ocki. while the company was DELIGHTFUL, the place was terrible. i didn't want to say, though, because it was his choice and i didn't want to make him feel bad. but... arrgh. my meal (rotisserie chicken [abt. 3oz of actual meat] and a watery iced tea) was $11. i'm pretty immune to nyc pricing, but this made me gasp. to add insult to injury, when i asked for a fork the cashier told me to look on the opposite counter. there were none there. i informed her of this. she said, "oh. then that means we don't have any."
i had to eat my food (greasy and fairly tasteless) with my fingers and s1ocki had to eat his mac and cheese with a spoon. and he dropped a piece of their weird shallot cornbread on the floor in the process of trying to share it with me. overall, this place gets four :(. next time i pick the venue.

― Lauren (lauren), Saturday, 30 December 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha i guess i just assumed that everything in new york costs $1 million.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry - i had to get it off my chest.

― Lauren (lauren), Saturday, 30 December 2006 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway, steve, if you want good chicken then next time you visit we'll go for some peruvian stuff with mountains of fried calamari and shrimp ceviche on the side for about $8/pp.

― Lauren (lauren), Saturday, 30 December 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

some peruvian stuff with mountains of fried calamari and shrimp ceviche

oh my lord

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Saturday, 30 December 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link

ooh peruvian food is best evar

― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Saturday, 30 December 2006 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

omg OTM. whenever my dad is in town we eat ceviche and delicious parihuela and whatnot. my enjoyment of it has been diminished SLIGHTLY in light of shrimp allergy :(

― ian (orion), Saturday, 30 December 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

do they serve the ceviche with popcorn?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

While we're griping about shit inexplicably being expensive, the A&P in Jersey City just turned into an "A&P FRESH" which is sort of like "squint real hard - it's Wegman's, right?!"

It's nice to have a real cheese selection and some decent bakery breads now, but that doesn't mean I don't notice that they're charging 20-30% more for the exact same mediocre produce.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link

peruvian food sounds freakin awesome

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link

IT IS, RRROBYN. next time you're in the city we will eat it all up.

― ian (orion), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

coco roco? which are you talking about?

― obi strip (sanskrit), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i usually go to chimu in wburg with my dad since the place in his old neighborhood in queens is closed.

― ian (orion), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i've had cocoroco too, but remember thinking the ceviche was not as flavorful (limey/spicy) as i would have liked. i did really like the steak sandwich from there though, which i got delivered a number of times--they would come to my apt on 21st st!

― ian (orion), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

and while we're on the subject of absurd prices, the pricing of good, fresh-not-frozen burgers in williamsburg is fucking appalling. for the price of one burger from (dumont/relish/spikehill/lodge/wherevs) i could probably buy all the ingredients necessary to make a half dozen.

― ian (orion), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

(i.e. beef, rolls.)

― ian (orion), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

there's lots of peruvian in montreal robyn!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, i just googled peruvian food, m0ntreal and the first thing that comes up is an article by you about Eche Pa Echar1e, which sounds pretty great! i've been to puca puca and that was really good but not the same as what's been described here. need mountains of calamari and ceviche! (google also says that peruvian food is "a hot trend right now" and then it talks about raza, at which i'm certain there are no heaps of any food but lots of drizzled coulis.)

i feel like i did not eat at restaurants enough in nyc and def did not eat enough with ian, so that will have to change next time for sure. i did have a hamburger though! at an irish pub, with laurel! it was good and they were not stingy with the bacon. ian, you should get a cheap little propane bbq and have bbqed hamburgers all the time. the ge0rge f0reman grill does a good job too, but y'know, "grill" not bbq.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

puca puca i would stay away from. also raza unless you have a really fat wallet!

eche pa echarle isn't amazing but it's fun. and the food is suitably heaping!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

people seem to love puca puca - it was okay but it's not like i feel a need to go back. hm.
i do like fun!

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i seriously need some calamari right now

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

RIGHT NOW

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i dont even know where the closest place would be

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

do you eat lake trout and pit barbeque like in the wire?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i have had my share of pit beef in my brief stay here, yes.

i have never had lake trout.

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

baltimore's devotion to the cheap fried chicken joint is nothing short of heroic, however.

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

so jealous

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

well come visit!

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i can treat you to a $5 chicken box on the corner at 2 am and we can have racial epithets hurled at us

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

coco roco? which are you talking about?

pio pio riko on manhattan ave (at huron). there's another one in sunnyside on greenpoint ave. if you dug the seafood at the ecuadorian place, you should like ppr. the pollo a la brasa is excellent, but diving into the rather extensive seafood menu has proved really rewarding. and cheap! one entree can feed 2-3, easily.

― Lauren (lauren), Sunday, 31 December 2006 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah "real" sweet tea sucks, for the record. (xpost)

false

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 31 December 2006 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link

$5 fried chicken and racial epithets = promised land

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Sunday, 31 December 2006 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

No, sweet tea is terrible. Southern restaurants keep trying to outdo each other in the "sweet tea is the table wine of the South" sweepstakes, making that shit sweeter and sweeter. It's gotten disgusting, like drinking syrup with a little tea flavor.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 31 December 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - "land of pleasant living"

ts: new york vs. tyrone's

― amon (amon), Sunday, 31 December 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

In September 2003, Tony Hill, a pastor in Baltimore, claims he bit into a batter-fried mouse at a Popeye's in that town. Various news media outlets have reported Popeye's, a popular chain of chicken eateries, has refused comment, but the city health commissioner has stated that particular outlet has had rodent infestation problems before and has been closed two other times for infestation or unsanitary conditions.

The matter is under investigation, and Mr. Hill has said he has engaged the services of a lawyer.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/friedrat.htm

lol

― amon (amon), Sunday, 31 December 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

there's a jamaican place near me that has really good lemonade tea

― amon (amon), Sunday, 31 December 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i like iced tea that plexiglass sliding window chinese food places have in big styrofoam cups.

― ian (orion), Sunday, 31 December 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Southern restaurants keep trying to outdo each other in the "sweet tea is the table wine of the South" sweepstakes, making that shit sweeter and sweeter. It's gotten disgusting, like drinking syrup with a little tea flavor.

I think the barometer you're using for what ppl consider "good" sweet tea is a little off here.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 31 December 2006 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Sweet tea is awesome, I never knew there was any other kind until a couple of years ago! I thought the reason restaurants had un-sweetened tea was because people were on diets and might want to use shug substitute instead. But once tea is cold, you can't get any sweetener to dissolve... :( EXCEPT SIMPLE SYRUP, WHICH IS CLEARLY GENIUS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 31 December 2006 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

oh thank goodness, I thought I was about to be blackballed off all noize tea parties ever

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 31 December 2006 06:02 (seventeen years ago) link

my friend from alabama had no idea there was any other kind either!
i've never even had it, but i hear simple syrup is the key.
i have had many many other kinds of tea.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 31 December 2006 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i like sweet tea too! i wouldn't want to drink it at EVERY MEAL, but every once in a while it is a traet.

― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Sunday, 31 December 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link

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