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nickd: The mexican restaurant rule.

taphead:

…And so the awning. It reads “good mexican food.” The awning is a lie. Here is the mexican restaurant rule: if you have to declare something about yourself or your work, it’s not true.

F^!!@%#$% yeah.

early-onset-of-night:

Say hello to mechanically separated chicken. It’s what all fast-food chicken is made from—things like chicken nuggets and patties. Also, the processed frozen chicken in the stores is made from it.

Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve—bones, eyes, guts, and all. it comes out looking like this.

There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.

But, hey, at least it tastes good, right?

High five, America!

Update: Below follow some of my responses to all the controversy this post has created. Christ, some of you people act as if I told you there wasn’t a Santa Claus.

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http://gothamist.com/2011/01/15/should_the_subways_have_conversatio.php

In September, I had a wonderful experience at a Stanford d.school bootcamp. Our assignment was to improve the commuting experience. The idea of conversation cars as a way of creating community on a commuter train ended up part of our presentation.

This is a pretty crucial PDF to download and read.

Add some hazelnut spread and I’m back in Italy.

To some extent every educated person knows that there are variations in what is regarded as normal. We know that the Chinese eat foods different from ours; that the Eskimos have different conceptions of cleanliness; that the medicine-man has different ways of curing the sick from those by the modern physician. That there are, however, variations not only in customs but also in drives and feelings is less generally understood, though implicitly or explicitly it has been stated by anthropologists. Is is one of the merits of modern anthropology, as [Edward] Sapir has put it, to be always rediscovering the normal.

— Karen Horney, The Neurotic Personality of Our Time. 1937

I bet these cats woulda trounced The Stove circa 2006.

washingtonpoststyle:

Haitian amputee soccer players raise their crutches as they are introduced to play a match in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday. Most of the players from the teams lost their limbs during the earthquake that killed an estimated 300,000 people one year ago.

(via rhomeporium)