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Yes, yes it did. The salt, the garlic, the butter, the crunch of the toasty bits...JUST what I was craving.

An everything bagel, toasted, with butter. Two Reese's peanut butter cups. Shared a bag of crunchy cheetos with slkinsey. A diet coke. Just a carb kind of day, I guess. K

This has very little to do with the content of the article per se, but doesn't ANYONE know how to spell prix-fixe??? What is this pre-fixe crap??? K Edited to add that I wasn't trying to say that slkinsey had misspelled it...the Post article did! Don't they have editors there????

A bacon cheeseburger, french fries and a diet Coke from Scotty's diner. When slkinsey, our friend Ben and I walk in there, the waiter just looks at us and says "the usual?" It's pretty funny.

AUGH! AUUUUUUUUGH! My younger brother was (mercifully briefly) engaged to a young lady who, upon the arrival of the waiter/waitress, would LOUDLY announce "I don't eat anything with a face." This HAD to be for the benefit of whoever she was dining with, as I'm sure the waitstaff didn't give a damn that she was a vegetarian, as long as she paid her bill. She loved to lecture on the virtues of eschewing animal flesh, too. I used to really tick her off by quoting slkinsey's favorite question on the subject: "If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?" It finally got to the point where I was so irked that the next time she said it (ideally, in front of my parents), I planned to say "Really? You won't eat anything with a face? But...my poor brother...what a damper that must put on your sex life!" Fortunately, she dumped him before I got around to it, since it probably wasn't all that funny and would just have embarrassed my bro. I understand she's now a raw foodist. In the meantime, bro's new girlfriend has food issues of her own (so does he), but is perfectly happy to just eat what she eats and let the rest of us do the same in peace. K

That was a special style done just for you. Cheveux à la ride in a convertible! *kicks your butt* you're supposed to be all chivalrous and tell me that the windblown look is fabulous on me. Jeez. Men. K

Al dente's coming to Burger Club? Remind me to actually do my hair. K I don't know if I'll ever have a trip up to NYC that coincides with burger club, but if so, you'll have plenty of warning. Oh--my guess is that we could probably arrange a Burger Club meeting to coincide with your visit. Elyse? Sherri? Am I right, or am I right? K

Al dente's coming to Burger Club? Remind me to actually do my hair. K

My anti-Yankee happy dance has been oppressed. Suppressed. Oppressively suppressed. I'm going to the corner to sulk now. (feel free to go back on topic anytime...I honestly didn't mean to totally derail the thread) K

I'm home today for an audition (tis the season), so...a garlic bagel from Lenny's with Saga cheese on one half and Edel de Cleron on the other. Good thing no one else is home...I'm probably toxic from twenty feet away. Oh, and Fresca. I'm considering a little coffee heath bar crunch ice cream for dessert. K

I just noticed that I narrowly dodged a bullet, here! Whew. For the record,I just finished a garlic bagel with Saga cheese on one half and Edel de Cleron on the other. My breath is probably fabulous. K

I noticed. I did a little happy dance, actually--while looking around furtively to make sure no Yankees fans were watching...they can legally shoot you for that in NYC, or so I understand. K

Slightly OT, but FG--the "per se" points thing isn't going to count if you're the only one who's going to use it. It's sort of like the Yankees winning because they can outspend all the other teams. Now back to your regularly scheduled thread. K, who is enjoying this discussion wholeheartedly.

Oooh yes, I would LOVE to do this. I can't do either New Year's Day (unless you really want to see what I look like with the first hangover of the year) or Super Bowl Sunday, though (SOME of us watch football, thank you very much!! ). Mmmm. PIE. Don't know what my contribution will be yet, let me ponder for a while. K

Ask slkinsey about the pear tarte tatin he made one time. O.M.G. he made it in a GIGANTIC cast-iron pan, too, so it used a lot of pears. Also--pear butter! Same recipe as apple butter (core and peel pears, cook them till they get soft, run them through a food mill, add sugar to taste, cook in oven or on stovetop until it reaches very thick buttery consistency, pour into sterilized jars, cool, eat and use as Christmas gifts!), only with pears. MMMMM. K edited to add the pear butter thing.

That was fun. Great group of people! Y'all continue to prove my hypothesis that food people one meets online are way cooler than, well, opera people one meets online. Oh...right...there was food, wasn't there? I thought it was a pretty tasty burger, all things considered. VERY beefy. I ordered medium rare but got rare - an unusual experience right there. Texture was a tad mushy, bun was standard mass-produced but nice & soft. There was too much cheddar on mine, I ended up with a glop of BRIGHT yellow cheese on the plate. Nicely juicy & greasy though. And the fries were terrific. now I need a nap. K, who gets the "geek" award for the first post-Club posting of the day.

Went to Spade's Noodles & More on 37th and 3rd and had shredded beef with string beans in spicy garlic sauce. YUM. With diet coke. At $5.25, it's a hell of a deal, and the service was actually both polite and quick today (we've taken to calling it the place that serves "rude Chinese"). Picked up a Halloween-themed black & white cookie (which is to say a black and orange cookie) at Zaro's on the way back. It's a little dry, but the frosting is good. K

No. You can call me Goddess, though. Her royal Highness...Princess...She who must be obeyed...any of those will work. K the rest of you can do that. i'll figure something else out. it may even be complimentary. snicker, snicker. YOU may call me just about anything you like (I might draw the line at "bitch," but then again, I might not) as long as you bring the vodka. K

I had smoked turkey, brie, honey mustard and crunchy (but unfortunately almost tasteless) apple slices on a baguette, with a diet A&W and some potato chips. Sam had a meatball sandwich, a diet Dr. Pepper and chips, both meals were from the Exit deli nearby. Fortunately, a friend talked me out of buying an almost unbearably adorable Halloween cupcake from Zaro's by reminding me that the one we ate last year really, really sucked (it was the nasty frosting, as I recall. How do you fuck up frosting? ) Sherri--we should go to Chipotle together sometime. K

No. You can call me Goddess, though. Her royal Highness...Princess...She who must be obeyed...any of those will work. K

We can order those as a side dish. Along with a plateful of bacon. Perhaps we should have an off-shoot of Burger Club...Bacon Club! And maybe we could have a Fry Auxiliary to the Burger Club. Poppers and bacon? You're my kinda gal! ARTISANAL BACON????? *drooling* *drooling* *drooling* *drooling* *continuing to get drool all over keyboard* K

...can we have poppers too? I love them, especially the ones with cream cheese in 'em...

Oh, hooray, I'm in! I have an audition that day, but it's earlier...what better way to celebrate a good - I hope - audition than with a BIG JUICY BURGER, right? See y'all there. K

Casting my vote for B. Frites, here, with Tartine right up there next to 'em. OH man, Tartine's fries are so incredible. The mere thought of their moules frites makes me salivate uncontrollably. Edited to just say that the BEST fries I have ever had, bar none, were the ones Sam made a couple of years ago. He fried them in ...goose fat. K, wiping drool off the keyboard.

Sometimes, on my way home from work (if I'm stupid enough to take the 1/9 line instead of the B/C), I stop at the little market on the corner and buy Fresca for $2.00/bottle. If I just walked past my apartment and across the street (or, if I would just consistently take the B/C, which approaches from the other direction), I could get it at the scary Bravo market for 99 cents a bottle. Sometimes even less. K