Food Humor

What Your Favorite Restaurant Says About You

By Tien Nguyen Mon., Apr. 8 2013 at 8:30 AM
Categories: Food Humor

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Anne Fishbein
Alma
We all have our favorite things that, implicitly or otherwise, reveal a little bit of ourselves. Thus it makes sense that Fraulein Maria would love whiskers on kittens and bright copper kettles, and that Oprah would have many, many favorite things. Which brings us to restaurants that you may consider a favorite place to eat, and what that choice may indicate about your personality. For fun (mostly), we made a few guesses. Turn the page.

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Alcohol & Spirits

The 2013 Oscars Drinking Game

By Tien Nguyen Fri., Feb. 22 2013 at 5:00 PM
Categories: Alcohol & Spirits, Drinks, Entertaining, Food Humor

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Golden Road's canned beer
The Oscars are on Sunday, and if you plan on sitting through the entire show -- all 3+ hours of it, with Seth MacFarland as host -- well, you might need a little help. Which is why we put together a little drinking game: This, hopefully, will give you something to do while the awards are doled out, agents are thanked (or not) and Russell Crowe sings. For the rules of engagement, grab a carton of Hi-C, your drink of choice and turn the page.

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Breakfast

The Hierarchy of Breakfast Needs, or: Fun with Food Pyramids

By Tien Nguyen Mon., Feb. 4 2013 at 5:50 AM
Categories: Breakfast, Food Humor

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T. Nguyen
The Hierarchy of Breakfast Needs
If you paid attention during your college Psychology 101 college class, you may now vaguely recall Abraham Maslow and his Hierarchy of Needs. That is, because "man is a perpetually wanting animal," Maslow theorized that we're motivated by five needs: Survival, safety, belonging, esteem and self-actualization. "The appearance of one need," Maslow explains, "Usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need."

As our personal theory of human motivation revolves primarily around food, we decided to take Maslow's hierarchy and apply it to the most important meal of the day: Breakfast. For a new food pyramid of sorts, turn the page.

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Food Humor

The Food Rorschach Test: What Do You See in What You Eat?

By Tien Nguyen Tue., Jan. 15 2013 at 7:30 AM
Categories: Food Art, Food Humor

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Anne Fishbein
Chicken panzella at Freddy Smalls
Food as art is an overwrought concept; so is food as therapy. But food as art and therapy? Now, that's more fun. And so, we created a little quiz similar to the inkblot test you might have taken during one of your early therapy sessions: Take a look at each photograph, consider what you're seeing and choose the answer that comes closest to your mind's eye. And while we probably can't give you much insight into why you do what you do, we can use your answers to make a few suggestions on where you might like to eat tonight. Which, really, is the least that your therapist can tell you when your 50 minutes are up.

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Holidays

A Less Reverent Latke Recipe: A Bubala YouTube Video

By Rachael Narins Fri., Dec. 7 2012 at 7:30 AM
Categories: Food Humor, Holidays, Jewish Cuisine

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Latkes
Hanukkah is upon us, with its gift-giving, candle-lighting and most importantly -- a focus on eating fried food. For European Jews, that fried food is the latke. It's a time-honored dish and one that's tied to family memories and childhood.

When it comes to making your own, you can pour over Joan Nathan's recipes or spent some time jotting down tips from your bubbie. Thanks to the beauty of You Tube, you can also now take a less family-friendly route and get your tips from Bubala, Please. (Which is NSFW.)

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Food Humor

Watch This Now: Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

By Tien Nguyen Fri., Jul. 13 2012 at 7:24 AM
Categories: Coffee, Food Humor

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Screeshot from the Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee trailer
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is the name of Jerry Seinfeld's new web series, and, as the title suggests, is about comedians (plus Alec Baldwin) getting into cars to get coffee. And to tell jokes and stories and laugh over coffee, presumably, as we all do, or maybe should do, and to see what else happens when people who are funny for a living are amped up on caffeine.

Based on the trailer, comedians who got into their cars to get coffee with Seinfeld include Larry David, who orders herbal tea instead of coffee ("I can talk just as well holding this cup, as if there was coffee in it. What's the difference?"), Ricky Gervais and Michael Richards. As for Baldwin, he cracks Seinfeld up with his story about -- what else? -- punching someone in the face.

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Food Humor

Food Review or Calvin and Hobbes?

By Tien Nguyen Mon., Apr. 30 2012 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Food Humor, Food Writing

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T. Nguyen
Calvin and Hobbes and Cookbooks
In our first food quiz, we pulled a few quotes from various food reviews, mixed them with choice bon mots courtesy one of the great wits of our time, Dorothy Parker, and asked whether you could identify who said what. In today's quiz, we swap Parker out for Bill Watterson, the cartoonist who created Calvin and Hobbes. Your goal is to differentiate between a boy and his pet tiger making astute observations on the human condition from folks simply talking about food. Because, as Calvin says, food should be nutrition and entertainment.

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Food Oddities

MicroWhat: Or, 4 Food Items to Put in Your Microwave (Maybe)

By Garrett Snyder Thu., Apr. 26 2012 at 11:45 AM
Categories: Food Humor, Food Oddities

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Microwaved Gummi Bears
Does your inner child ever wonder what happens when you put a pack of Gummi Bears in the microwave for a minute and half? How about an Oreo or a handful of Whoppers? That kind of morbid curiosity is the basis of one of our new favorite Tumblrs, MicroWhat, whose simple conceit is taking any item -- mostly food, but not exclusively -- microwaving it for an extended period of time, then photographing the results. It's equal parts science, art and "let's see how bad we can make this room smell."

Turn the page to see what happens when certain people put four fun food items in the microwave. (Don't necessarily try this at home.)

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Food Humor

Food Review or Dorothy Parker?

By Tien Nguyen Tue., Apr. 24 2012 at 8:03 AM
Categories: Food Humor, Food Writing

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A drink at the Algonquin Hotel's Blue Bar
Inspired by The Awl's fantastic -- and surprisingly somewhat difficult -- "Edith Wharton? Or Girls Review?" pop quiz last week, we created our own little take-home exam that may or may not shed some light on the state of food criticism today. Quotes from current food and restaurant reviewers are lined up alongside quotes from that great writer and critic Dorothy Parker. Can you pick out who's saying what? Turn the page to take the test ...


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Food Humor

7 Food-Related April Fools' Pranks: From Spielburgers to Bacon-Scented Kitty Litter

By Tien Nguyen Mon., Apr. 2 2012 at 11:00 AM
Categories: Food Humor

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Fresh Step's bacon-scented kitty litter

Yesterday was April Fools' Day, that sacred holiday in which you can't trust anyone any more than you already don't. And even though it was a Sunday, a good number of food-related folks (including us) nonetheless jumped at the chance to prank a witting or unwitting audience with various fake tweets, news stories and products. In case you missed them, we rounded up seven of our favorite food-related pranks that you can enjoy in the relative safety of the day after April Fools' Day.


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Alice Waters, April Fools' Day, Bacon, Chez Panisse, food humor, Fresh Step, Google, Google Fiber, Noma, Rene Redzepi, Spielburgers, Tien Nguyen, Torani
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