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It was our anniversary and my wife was very pregnant with our first child. Very pregnant. We knew this would was our last chance to go out for a while. We were able to wrangle a reservation at Gramercy Tavern.

We were placing our order and my wife asked for the salmon appetizer. The waitress looked at my wife and warned us that the salmon was raw. As we discussed what to change to, the waitress asked us to hold on and stepped away. A few minutes later she came back, told us she talked someone in the kitchen and they could adjust it and cook the salmon just enough so it would be safe to eat.

When it came out, she also plated a smaller version so I could sample it "as it was originally intended".

Not a big thing. It's the small things that make a night memorable.

Had my first date with my (now) wife at the Corner Bistro. She dug in to the burger with gusto. Points for that.

We later went back and saw a woman on an obvious first date eating her burger with a knife and fork. My wife asked what would have happened if she'd eaten it like that. I told her flat out there wouldn't have been a second date.

What I refer to as "cocktails with the kids" - cherry lime rickies. the tartness of the limes mixes perfectly with the sweetness of the cherry syrup (though I admit sometimes I'll use grenadine). My kids love helping me mix these up.

Is it me or is this recipe lacking in Mango?

It's a tossup between my dad's lox eggs & onions and a good dim sum

I took my wife on our first date to the Corner Bistro. You want to talk about a trial by fire. She dug right in.

We go back regularly and laughed one time when we saw a woman on her first date attempt to use a knife and fork on a Bistro burger. My wife pointed at it and my immediate response was, "There probably wouldn't have been a second date if you did that."

It was, however, the last time I saw her drink a beer.

Anyone here remember the older version of Joyva;'s Marshmallow Twist that would get hard as a rock and crack when frozen. I wonder what they did to the recipe to change that?

My son has the NY version of this limited list. Chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, sushi (Cali rolls only), pizza, Dumplings (especially soup dumplings) & Pate. I don't know how we slipped pate in there but he is discerning enough that when I tried to pass off chopped liver when he was around five, he spit it out.

We recently were able to get him to try fried calamari (must be the breading) which he likes, as long as it's not the tentacles.

In the future, you may want to Google your clues before you post the contest. Two seconds after I read it, I plugged the quotes into Google and had the answers. Unfortunately, I read this an hour after it posted so I was too late.

Sorry to be a party pooper but contests like these are too easy in the age of the internet.

Congrats to the winners however, the pies are great.