The segment from WJW Fox 8 about the “Crybaby” t-shirt incident has been posted online. It provides a good overview of the whole story. It features some coverage of So Good breaking the story, and they used two segements from my phone interview with them. Unlike the story I was cited in by the Cleveland [...]

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One of my favorite shows on television, Battlestar Galactica (BSG), makes its triumphant return on Friday night. (If you haven’t seen the show yet, proceed directly to your Netflix queue and add Season 1 immediately. Do not pass go, do not collect $200). As a bonus, BSG fans living in NYC and LA can celebrate [...]

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Erin Zimmer thinks that Whoppie Pies are the new cupcakes.
Serious Eats reviews this week’s episode of Top Chef.
Grub Street has an interview with booted chef Erik Hopfinger.
Slate has a history of the hangover.
A Georgia bar gives patrons their own personal beer taps.
Red Bull is introducing a new cola.
What do vegans eat makes Herbed cauliflower soup [...]

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Thanks to one of my readers for sending me this amusing clip. It’s from a Travel Channel special called “Deep Fried Paradise.” Specifically, this clip is about a place called Dyer’s in Memphis, Tennessee, which specializes in deep fried hamburgers. It’s a short clip, but pay extra close attention to what the guy [...]

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I just discovered a great new site called College Drinker, who writes that Vermont is considering lowering the drinking age to 18.
Adam from Serious Eats, reviews delivery pizza for Yahoo Food.
Burger King is going to start serving Kraft Macaroni & Cheese.
Top Chef Season 3 winner Hung has been named Executive Chef of Solo, a Mediterranean-Asian [...]

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Bobby Flay has yet another new TV show.
Grub Street interviews Padma Lakshmi from Top Chef, who pretty much confirms that she loves smoking pot. I’m still single Padma….
Slashfood reports that a recent taste test determined Los Angeles has the best tap water.
158 fast food meals for 500 calories or less.
Red Meat & Gin makes a [...]

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Today is national margarita day.
Gizmodo highlights what they are calling a “Steak Toaster.”
Endless Simmer reports on the Washington Post’s Peeps diorama contest.
Radius, of Boston, has dethroned Shake Shack’s claim to the title of “Best Burger” at Rachael Ray’s Burger Bash.
Village Voice reports that Iron Chef is nothing like what it seems on TV.
Felix Salmon calculates [...]

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During the writer’s strike, Greg Garcia, the creator of My Name is Earl, took a job at a fast food restaurant.
Chew on That shows you how to chop an onion without crying.
Ryan Byrd reminds us that Chick-Fil-A’s founder believes he received divine inspiration for Chick-Fil-A’s signature chicken sandwich.
NYC Food Guy says Five Guys plan to [...]

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Trouble With Toast is organizing a DC food blogger pot-luck.
Heat, Eat, Review posts a video review of Kids Cuisine Deep Sea Adventure Fish Sticks.
Manny & Olga’s will offer heart shaped pizza’s on Valentine’s Day.
An episode of Dinner Impossible was filmed at the DC Improv on Thursday.
Kotaku reviews 13 different energy drinks.
Eating Our Words has the [...]

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Any Seinfeld fan probably remembers that line, when “Timmy” accused George Costanza of double dipping. “Timmy” complained, “that’s like putting your whole mouth right in the dip.” Now a new study conducted by Clemson University has measured just how much bacteria double dipping can actually transfer into the dip bowl. The answer - a [...]

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We’ve previously written about Mike Huckabee’s love of horse meat. On Wednesday, Mike Huckabee proved that eating horse is not his only odd meat preference. On the MSNBC show Morning Joe, Huckabee, talking about why he can relate to the people of South Carolina, told a story about how in college they would cook fried [...]

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Wednesday, January 9th marked the one-month anniversary of the launch of the Whopper Freakout campaign. The thousands of people who have visited So Good in order to watch the full-length Whopper Freakout video know that I am a fan of the campaign, having called it “brilliant” and “genius.” But how successful has it actually [...]

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The authors of this new book were just on the Today Show on Tuesday. The premise seems to be just eat a tiny bit of what you like, and lots of spinach.

‘How to Eat Like a Hot Chick’
Hat tip to Jezebel.

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Check out this parody of a weight loss pill commercial he did for the Sklar Brothers show Cheap Seats, on ESPN Classic.

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Once again raising the bar for high-quality holiday themed programming, Spike TV will be airing a special on Thanksgiving called “MLE Chowdown: The Turkey Bowl.” The show will feature the world’s top competitive eaters attempting to eat as much of a whole, 20-pound Turkey in 8 minutes as they can.

“Sometimes I think our soup kitchen [...]

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Last night I was watching The Power of 10 on CBS (with celebrity host Drew Carey!). Let me start by saying it’s been a while since I’ve watched a game show that airs in primetime. After seeing it 3 times now, I’m a big fan of this show. I love statistics and I [...]

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The Today show has been taking nominations for the best sandwich in America and this week they unveiled the Top 5 nominees. My thoughts? LAME central. Talk about predictable.

Menu Pages Philadelphia reported last week that the Vesuvio’s Cheesesteak BLT was one of the top 5 (which it is). So what are the other four [...]

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Well, I’ll admit it, Howie stuck around a lot longer than I initially expected. In the first 2 or 3 weeks, Howie was screw-up-mcgee, fumbling, making errors and producing generally bad dishes. Then somehow he summoned up his skills and won a couple in the middle rounds. Last night was back to the [...]

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If you haven’t heard of Merrill Howard Kalin, then you obviously don’t spend time on YouTube searching for videos of public access cooking shows that are based in Illinois. Which begs the question, why aren’t you spending time doing that?
A friend passed this video along to me a couple weeks ago because Merrill says [...]

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In what the Top Chef website is calling “one of the biggest upsets of the season,” self-taught Chef Tre Wilcox, from Texas, was eliminated on Wednesday night.

Early on, Tre seemed to be one of the most skilled chefs, taking victories in early challenges and seemingly always finishing near the top when he wasn’t winning.
In this [...]

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