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Cary: You're not crazy. Your first comment reminded me I forgot to link to Ruhlman. So I added and then got distracted and didn't note here that I fixed. Thanks for the nudge!

Thanks for the correx on that Shoneyjoe.

@everyone: Thanks for the kudos! This was a lot of fun to put together, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm sorry if it made you hungry, but dems da breaks!

@KingT: What would you say makes a '30s-style burger? Given what I've read about burger history, I'd guess it would either be a slider (since White Castle all but revolutionized burgerdom in the late '20s and up to WWII) or a slider-style burger (a little larger but cooked in a similar fashion).

@shanella: I'm only responsible for the first photo; the rest are Flickr Creative Commons–licensed or used with permission of the photographer. I know that any of Nick Solares's or Robyn Lee's are dSLRs (Nikon D300 and Canon 20D, respectively). For any of the others that link to Flickr, you can click through and look to see if the photographer has EXIF data for the photo. That should tell you camera make/model.

It would help if you told us what city/location you're hoping to find restaurants serving koroke in.

I'm burning out on cookreality TV. Not in the least bit interested in this one.

@madebytam: As it states in the original article (and I reference in my comment above), they work in teams of two. So I'd assume his/her partner would take the equipment while s/he took a leak.

@mandarin: That's what I was thinking, too. LOL.

@ch58ch58: This is a round-up of fancy-pants fried chicken. It's not that we at SENY don't love Popeyes or Korean fried chicken (see all our posts tagged fried chicken), it's that we noticed a trend among certain highfalutin' places in the city trying to get into the fried-bird game. We're interested in good fried chicken, too, but we're also interested in whatever mania sweeps through the various restaurants in the city, hence this post.

@famdoc: Agreed. Salvatore's is very good but not the best. Also doesn't do slices. Unless you're talking slices in the general sense as part of a whole pie.

These stories are always appealing to the media because they root for the underdog (Staten Island gets short shrift in the pizza press, including Slice). So whenever you can write a story that goes counter to conventional wisdom, such that it is, it's "news." (See Alan Richman's Top 25 Pizzas article in GQ.)

@hungrychristel: As I post this, Gator Pam's last activity was on 9/4. You can click on anyone's screen name and see what their most-recent activity has been: http://www.seriouseats.com/user/profile/Gator Pam. Other than that, we don't really monitor people with Big Brother accuracy. Mostly we notice that someone has left because there's just something missing. And then it dawns on you: "Hey! I wonder where XYZ went?" People come, people go. I wish they all stayed around, but what can you do?

I might have a little birdie working on clipping just my parts.... Patience.

@Pavlov: Someone already bought adamkubanisaburgergod.com. I think it's a Nigerian spammer.

I'm sorry I don't have any suggestions but just wanted to note how interesting it is week after week that we have serious eaters getting the most random assortment of bulk foodstuffs. I could probably do a compilation post titled "How to Feed an Army, Serious Eats-Style."