You Vote What You Eat?

There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics. Still, this fun infographic illustrates some of the figures coming out of a survey comparing the eating habits of 348,000 self-professed conservatives and liberals. http://blog.hunch.com/?p=48884 My favourite factoid? ‘Conservatives are 94% more likely to consider occasional Chinese takeout to be exotic ethinic food’. *Facepalm*. TPG [...]

Eating Out as a Tourist

New levels of self-loathing come easily when surrounded by other chortling holiday makers Tourists, both foreign and domestic, are a funny bunch. Wherever and whenever they swarm about London, they stick out like sore thumbs, take pictures of utterly mundane tripe like pigeon droppings or discarded copies of the Metro, eat at Angus Steak Houses [...]

Never Said About Restaurant Websites

A lot of restaurant websites are crap. A Tumblr blog has started listing some of the cliches of bad web design that seems to plague many restaurant websites, but in a hilariously sarcastic, passive-aggressive way. Some of my personal favourites: “I’m sure at least one person has watched this website intro.” “I really do enjoy [...]

Tipping by John Lithgow and the Reservoir Dogs

Tipping after a restaurant meal involves an intricate web of complex economic issues and social mores. Many of us will remember the deftly articulate (and profanity-laden) discussion on the issue in the prologue to Reservoir Dogs. A less well-known alternative method of tipping was demostrated by Dick Solomon (John Lithgow to his friends) in hit-and-miss [...]

The Keebler Elves vs The Cookie Monster

This post doesn’t have anything to do with restaurants and is only tangentially related to food. But it’s too much fun not to post! The joke will be somewhat lost on you though if you aren’t familiar with the Keebler cookie company in the US and their elvish marketing mascots. Plus it helps if you’ve seen [...]