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I just did a google search and got pages of links to recipes for "Mexican Brownies". Wouldn't it have been better to that than to write a passive-agressive foodboard post that didn't even initially identify what the item you were asked to prepare was?

World Tong is not in Bensonhurst. World Tong is in Borough Park.

I don't know why people always get this wrong. But if you go to Bensonhurst looking for World Tong, you're gonna get very lost.

That's ridiculous. When a movie star endorses some product, it's essentially meaningless; the star doesn't purport to have any expertise in the area of the endorsement. Celebrity chefs, OTOH, are supposed to be food experts. So if they endorse some food-related product without fully believing in it, they're betraying their audience, which relies on their expertise.

I think Celeb Chef culture is retarded in general, myself.

I eat dinner by myself all alone. Anywhere with a bar is a good place to eat alone. There is absolutely no stigma to eating dinner alone here. None.

tokyorosa: "I don't think photography is restaurants is any worse than people on their cell phones or bluetooth devices or laptops. Nor is it any worse than children who are allowed by their parents to run unfettered anywhere but in parks and at home."

Exactly. That stuff's all unacceptable, too. For exactly the same reason.