You know the economy is bad when Taco Bell re-adopts the marketing strategy of promoting all the sub-$1 items they have on their menu. If memory serves me, they haven't done this since Little Richard was their spokesperson, back in the early 1990s ( Read more... )

The woman (who cut) in front of me in line at the Subway-restaurant somehow managed to order almost entirely by color. She got a half-sandwich on "the brown bread" (wheat) containing "that stuff there" (turkey breast) with "white cheese" (American), tomatoes, lettuce, and "green things" (cucumber slices). And she was by all indications a native ( Read more... )

I had an inexplicable parsnip craving at work this afternoon, so on my way home from work I stopped at the grocerarium and this is the meal I just prepared ( Read more... )

Today I went to the Kwik Meal cart (at 47th and Park now, although it's usually at 46th and Madison according to the guy) for my weekly Lamb Over Rice fix ( Read more... )

- If you fill a coffee cup with 50% regular coffee and 50% decaf, then you lighten it with a mixture that is 50% milk and 50% cream, what do you call it ( Read more... )

The office is crawling with models again. I was standing next to one of them in the elevator and she had fakey bronzed skin and more hair on her arms than I have. I don't think she's gonna get the job ( Read more... )

I would like to thank blergeatkitty for recommending Rafiqi's a couple months back; it's easily the best of the three or four Middle Eastern food carts within walking distance of work. The lamb and chicken are both delicious; the hot sauce is bright, fresh, and peppery in about three different ways; I don't know what the white sauce is made of, but I'd buy it ( Read more... )

People aren't telling me things ( Read more... )

I went back to Fresh & Best today ( Read more... )

Hey Subway Restaurant on 47th Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues, if you don't shape up I might just have to start going to the Subway a block over instead, or maybe the Subway a block over in the other direction ( Read more... )