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Nor do I! But that's what the can looks like (best picture I could find with a quick google.)

I have an absolutely exciting report from the field. It appears that the supermarkets near me are abandoning the quarter-in-the-slot thingy and also not implementing the electronic dog collar wheel. At a newer Waldbaum's: Steel mesh with no quarter thingy. At Shoprite: Older carts; metal with quarter thingy. Newer carts; plastic with no quarter thingy. Most exciting observation: Spotted Dick in a can in the international aisle. Oh, and Eight O'Clock coffee on sale for $1.99. Just about the only bargain in Waldbaum's.

Man one: Mon dieu! Je suis fearful that les puritanical 21st-century Américains will not enjoy le good life as do nous because of le political-correctness. Man two: Oy vey, mon ami! Oy vey!

Complete eGullet Club rules (including addenda)

One of the three rules of the eGullet Club should be that everyone is required to carry a digital camera to all farmer's markets and on all culinary expeditions; in order to record and then post pictures of all appealing, interesting, and/ or unusual foodstuffs and locales. I wanna see everything and everywhere that's being described.

LOL!! i did the same exact thing. and since i didn't really remember to check carefully when i actually knew where the place was, it took about a year to figure it out. i suppose that's part of why i'm pissed: i just figured it all out! Figuring out the Riddle of the Fork must have been the way to enter the NY Times New Jersey section sanctum sanctorum. Perhaps after the Jayson Blair debacle and the implementation of the plan to make "The New York Times less opaque as an institution," the Inner Fork Circle was seen as too exclusive and secretive and had to be disbanded.

In truth, it took me the longest time to figure out that the fork was actually indicating something of the location and wasn't just an iconic symbol. Maybe that's why they took it away, too many other goofy people like me were having internal debates about whether or not the fork moved from week to week or not. I was joking about trying to navigate by tine.

I was just watching Roker on the Road on the Food Network and I saw a woman make and eat a hamburger cupcake. Her name is Clare Crespo and she likes to play with her food. No hamburger cupcakes; but there's sushi cake, jello aquarium, monkey pops and some other stuff on her cute web site. Ms Crespo-Chinlund's wedding announcement appears in today's NY Times Styles section. She has an extensive career in design and multi-media arts, with numerous professional credits. The burger cupcake isn't mentioned in the wedding announcement... Online version. How can the NY Times consider themselves the paper of record and not mention the hamburger cupcakes? It is kinda cool that she has a master's degree in film and experimental animation and she's playing with food.

I could never figure out which tine was pointing to the location so I found it difficult to use as a navigation tool.

Maybe it's a good thing that I have a lowbrow budget to go along with my lowbrow palate because I could go through a bag of leathery, fromaldehyde-soaked strips of plastic in 15 minutes or so and could easily see getting to addicted to the stuff if it wasn't priced like culinary crack. Is it really soaked in formaldehyde? Isn't that stuff toxic? Yikes! I'm looking forward to trying Chinatown Jerky and perhaps someday Jiggs or other great jerkys! I had to google funyuns to figger out what it is:

It would nice to be humane, but since I am overrun with mice and mouse shit and mouse urine and mouse gnawings and have an allergic reaction to something they carry or deposit and since I'm concerned about the diseases they may carry and since I'm sick to death of the mice scurrying underfoot I've decided to become more agressive of late.

Welcome to eGullet! I don't have a specific question but I'd be interested in any comments you might like to make about jerky. I've recently become quite enamored of jerky when I realized how little fat it had. I've only eaten jerky from a supermarket but I understand that there's better quality available. Okay, here's a question: Why is jerky so expensive? A 4 ounce package is about 5-6 dollars so that's 20 dollars a pound or more. Thanks!

I have had a serious mouse problem and I've been using a combination of poison and glue traps. The glue traps alone don't seem to work and poison alone leads to finding (or at least smelling) dead mice; whereas traps surrounding poison has enabled me to catch and dispose of them in the least unpleasant way.

I was just watching Roker on the Road on the Food Network and I saw a woman make and eat a hamburger cupcake. Her name is Clare Crespo and she likes to play with her food. No hamburger cupcakes; but there's sushi cake, jello aquarium, monkey pops and some other stuff on her cute web site.

I have an insert from a bottle of Tabasco brand Chipotle pepper sauce featuring Rick Bayless promoting Tabasco. There's a small picture of him on what looks like a book cover "Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen" and below that a smaller picture of a jar of Frontera salsa. On the flip side are two recipes below "Chef Rick Bayless & Tabasco brand Chipotole pepper sauce" The date on the flyer is 2001 so this predates Burger King.

NJ Transit does not encourage or condone sexual activity among or on board its trains.

Is that weird? I always do that. I sort stuff both out of consideration and because it is much more likely that the stuff will go into the bags in a reasonable way instead of just being thrown in any which way. There are numerous "shopping list" programs for PDAs so if you're a "nutcase" you have plenty of company!

There was a small blurb in my local paper a few days ago that supermarket workers in some New York City area supermarkets are working "in good faith" without a contract but that there might be a strike at some point if they can't come to an agreement.

But you would've had you had either of the items on you, right?

Alls I can say is that, as the average schmo that I am, if I didn't know who this guy was and about all the controversy from reading about it here, when I saw the commercials I'd probably think, "who is this goofy yutz and why is he promoting Burger King" just as I do about other goofy yutzes unknown to me promoting various products. That's what I thought after seeing commercial #2.

Maybe it's hard to find culinary thrills whilst in motion at the top of a builiding but how about another mobile thrill on high?

Is there any difference in the formulation or ingredients of the two items, or is it that the difference is entirely in the way the candy is experienced because the two items are reversed?

New Yorkers propagate that mean and nasty reputation rumor because we don't want our quiet little town overrun with tourists who will exploit us and take advantage of our kind and gentle ways.

What about the fourth S? Brushing your teeth!

I don't mind the calculators. I'd rather find out exactly what I have to pay rather than to pay for my share plus some more because someone was an idiot (or cheap) and didn't leave enough for their share of the tax and/or tip. I don't see it as being cheap, necessarily. I like to put a positive spin on it and think it's only someone being anal retentitve. I would agree that underpaying-cheap is the flip-side of calculator-cheap. And issues surrounding money are so complex, convoluted, and emotional that I'd imagine it's better to calculate out when in doubt. Especially in larger, heterogeneous groups some people might genuinely have economic rather than cheapness reasons for being concerned about paying more than their share, especially if they order less or less expensive items than others.