by BS
Waiter, there’s an eyeball in my cheesecake…
Now there are two…
Setting: Junior’s, Brooklyn, NY.
No reported sightings of p. diddy minons or the mythical brisket-on-latke sandwich.
Menu
Celebs
by gansie
I get it from my mother. I read obituaries. There, I said it.
Now WaPo made it even easier for me to get my “in memoriam” fix – Post Mortem, the WaPo obit blog. Yes, there are so many blogs on WaPo’s website (scroll down to the middle of the page and click on View All News Columns & Blogs, I count 30) that there is even a web log for the dead.
Regardless, that’s how I stumbled upon the death of Eddie “Bozo” Miller, an “icon of gluttony.”
Check out the full obit here, but below are some of his eating highlights:
In 1963, he downed 27 chickens (2-pound pullets) at Trader Vic’s restaurant in San Francisco, a feat that earned him $10,000 and led to a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the “world’s greatest trencherman,” or heavy eater.
He once downed 30 pounds of meatloaf made from elk, buffalo and other game. In another test, he ate 324 pieces of ravioli and said that he could have eaten more but that the restaurant ran out. He also guzzled two quarts of whiskey in an hour.
In his heyday, he said, he beat a lion in a martini-drinking contest.
“Some guy from the circus came into the restaurant — Reno Barsocchini’s, I think — with a lion on a leash,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle. “I drank them out of a glass, and they put the martinis on a soup plate for the lion. I maybe had about a dozen. The lion, he kept lapping them up until he just fell asleep.”
by BS
It’s the Tuesday after a long weekend. We’re tired, uncreative, and being forced to do “real work,” so let’s just do what bloggers do best: make shit up.
– Sounds like Mario Batali is doing Gwyneth. [TVFF]
– Paris Hilton and Cat Cora? Works for us. [Gawker]
– Anthony Bourdain is free, free, FREE and deliriously happy. Also, he hates America, and is probably a terrorist. [Bourdain Blog]
by BS
OK, I promise not to write about Champagne in a can every single day. No, that’s a lie, I can’t promise any such thing. When there is breaking Champagne-in-a-can news, ES will always bring it to you.
Since SoGood turned us on to the new Paris Hilton-endorsed CiaC yesterday, Brian was desperate to get some for his NYE shindig. While it’s mostly unavailable in this country so far, he did discover that failed actress/successful director Sofia Coppola has her own, slightly less slutty celeb-endorsed fake wine product.
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola’s eponymous wine company, Sofia is a tiny little can of bubbly that, according to the packaging, is both petulant and revolutionary. And let me tell you, both of those claims hold up.
As you can see from the before and after photos after the jump, I was quite skeptical at first, but was ultimately pleased with this odd concoction, which tastes sort of like a fine Champagne cut with cherry Kool-aid. And, it even comes with a fun little juice-box-esque straw.
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