Eater's Digest: Atlanta

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the general muir / pie shop / illegal food / the food shoppe / victory sandwich bar / fox bros. bar-b-q / gunshow / bell street burritos / crave pie studio / blue fin sushi / local republic / blue rooster bake shop and eatery / golden house / one flew south

The General Muir is a Jewish deli located across the street from the Center for Disease Control.


Avenue A Open Faced Bagel (The General Muir)
nova, schmear, avocado, grapefruit, cucumber, onion, dill

Smoked Hash (The General Muir)
crisped pastrami, potatoes, cabbage, peppers, caramelized onions, sunny eggs

Blueberry Ginger Kugel (The General Muir)

Illegal Food is the kitchen of an arcade bar.


Hand-Cut Double-Fried Okonomiyaki Style Fries (Illegal Food)
japanese mayo, okonomi sauce, fermented chili sauce, bonito flakes, shredded nori, green onion, sesame seed, beni shõga

I did not care for the okonomiyaki toppings, but the fries are quality.

Hand-Cut Double-Fried French Onion Dip Fries (Illegal Food)
Hand-Cut Double-Fried Sriracha Honey Fries (Illegal Food)
Alternatives.


(Victory Sandwich Bar)

I couldn't decide among the Jack and Coke Slushie, Jackyl Juice, and Root Canal, so I ordered all three.

Bell Street Burritos' soda fountain dispenses Cheerwine!

Coca-Cola Chess Pie (Pie Shop)

Chocolate Pecan Pie (Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q)
I effort to try a chocolate pecan pie in every city I visit. This one is pretty good and served with cinnamon-flavoured whipped cream.

Gunshow is Top Chef fan favourite Kevin Gillespie's dim sum concept. You accept or pass on dishes circulated by the chef who cooked the food.


the menu for the day I visited

The special that day was West Coast Burger, a fancy In-N-Out animal style Double-Double.


Key Lime Pie Taken Apart and Put Back Together (Gunshow)
Best pie I ate in Atlanta.

Mr. Jones Burger (Local Republic)
pimento cheese, jalapeno, bacon

Taco Bell should add pimento cheese to its ingredients. Imagine: a pimento loco taco, a pimento quesadilla, pimento nachos…

Pizza Hut pimento stuffed crust.


Heh.

Please, Waffle House, update your logo. I implore you. It's painful to look at.

One Flew South is regarded as one of the best airport restaurants in America.

While I only tried its

Pulled Duck Sandwich (One Flew South)
duck confit, fig and toasted peanut relish, scallions, slaw

I believe the hype.

MISSED CONNECTIONS


Chef's Breakfast (One Eared Stag)
four small portions of whatever the kitchen is feeling artfully arranged on a shiny silver tray with a can of schlitz

Gobbler Sandwich (Muss and Turner's)
roasted turkey, ritz cracker stuffing, lingonberry coulis, thyme aioli, french bun

Churro Bread Pudding (Takorea)
hot chocolate sauce

Krispy Kreme Milkshake (FLIP Burger Boutique)
Foie Gras Milkshake (FLIP Burger Boutique)

Jalapeño Cherry Pie with Bacon Streusel (Crave Pie Studio)
Pineapple Habanero Pie with Coconut Macadamia Crumb (Crave Pie Studio)


$9 All-You-Can-Eat Pie Bar (Sway)

If you can't tell, I am obsessed with pie.

#eatersdigest

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

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24. Nosebleed (Veep, S03E09)

Honourable Mention

  • Donkey Kong (Enlisted, S01E11)
  • Tracking Shot (Game of Thrones, S04E09)
  • Drone Pursuit (24, S09E07)

Stray Observations

  • In the Flesh Season Grade: C+
  • Parker Young's Bill Cosby impression (Enlisted, S01E11)
  • Knock-off "Black Skinhead" instrumental (Enlisted, S01E11)
  • "What will happen the next time the mob comes?" (Cosmos, S01E13)
  • Cosmos Season Grade: C+


Naked Eva Green humping air (Penny Dreadful, S01E05)

  • "Post-script: Your father loves you very much and would do anything to save you. But I love you in a different way. I love you enough to kill you." (Penny Dreadful, S01E05)
  • "Siri, why does God allow suffering?" (Veep, S03E09)
  • "Violence solves everything." (Veep, S03E09)
  • "Someone has just flown two planes into my career." (Veep, S03E09)
  • "Thornhill, Chung, and Maddox are continuing on for now."
    "Oh, those fuckers. God, can't we just take 'em out? Is Jack Ruby still alive?" (Veep, S03E10)
  • "The fuck stops here, Dan." (Veep, S03E10)
  • "Jesus. If I come in third, this could be the shortest administration in history."
    "Yeah, like a Snapchat presidency." (Veep, S03E10)
  • "I came in third, Amy, okay? Even the Nazis came in second." (Veep, S03E10)
  • Veep Season Grade: A-


Extras (24, S09E07)

  • Jack drives a left hand drive car in London (24, S09E07)
  • RT: "Jack Bauer punched a random man out and stole his car, and then stole a brick from a homeless person. Out-of-context 24 is great" (24, S09E07)
  • RT: "They should have a web series about people who have been Bauered trying to make claims to their insurance companies" (24, S09E07)
  • RT: "Have [an Allstate commercial] with Logan's limo driver after Jack Robocops them. And then the cut away to President Palmer just shaking his head. 'When Jack Bauer shouts 'You have to trust me!' you'd better have Allstate'" (24, S09E07)
  • "Weezy's basically a Jew in the bedroom."
    "Oh, you mean she wears a wig and makes you do it through a hole in the sheet?" (Fargo, S01E09)
  • "See you later, Lester. See you soon." (Fargo, S01E09)
  • "No good ever came from a piece of cherry pie." (Fargo, S01E09)


(Comedy Bang! Bang!, S03E06)

  • Vice Season Grade: C+
  • "As long as no one finds a body, we're clear, so we dump him in the lake – with weights."
    "Do we have a boat?! Have you ever seen Dexter? I mean, random scuba divers are finding everything!" (Orphan Black, S02E09)
  • "She thinks there's five of you."
    "There's eleven, esé!" (Orphan Black, S02E09)
  • "Smile! Have a shitty day!" (Orphan Black, S02E09)
  • "Would you like horse baby? Cow baby…" (Orphan Black, S02E09)
  • Insemination syringe butt rape! (Orphan Black, S02E09)

#clipoftheweek

Without Grady

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Oh I need a Breeze card for a day pass?

Oh. I need a Breeze card for any rail fare.

I need a second wallet just for public transportation cards is what I need.

"This is a 2014 SmarTrip card, mint condition."

Oh, there's another Peachtree Street. Parallel Peachtree Streets?!

Wikipedia: There are 71 streets in Atlanta with a variant of "Peachtree" in their name.

They're like George Foreman's kids.

Midtown MARTA Station

"Excuse me. I live in Augusta, and my car was booted…"

A single fare is $2.50. I give him $3.00.

"A Breeze card is $1.00…"

I glare at him.

"It's okay. I'll get $0.50 from someone else."

In retrospect, MARTA rail doesn't even travel to tourist attractions in Atlanta, let alone the Georgia/South Carolina border.

Jackson St SE

On my way to dinner, I encounter a man standing on a street corner shooting the breeze with someone on his mobile.

"Hold on. [to me] Excuse me. Can you help me out with rail fare?"

The nearest station is half a mile away. I give him $1.00. He resumes shooting breeze.

Peachtree St NE

On my way back to my hotel, I pass a young man chilling on a sidewalk.

"Ey yo, girl."
"NO."
"Pssh…"

Wait, was he cat-calling me (not asking for money)? He…mistook me for a girl with a shaved head?

I was in Atlanta for my cousin Emily's wedding, cousin 17 of 18. KCAL9's Leyna Nguyen gave the first toast. She used to babysit the groom.

Oh no… He's donning on an afro wig and shiny silver jacket.

Pokémon Brown

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I just finished reading The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson, a young adult/science fiction exploration of friendship.

I try super-hard not to sleep in any classes just to prove that hey, look, I can do it too. If somebody were shadowing me around school today, they wouldn't see me close my eyes, either, though they would see me get more and more irritable and death-resembling and every so often they would see my eyelids bang together involuntarily for just a half a moment longer than a blink is, as my head dips down just slightly until I pull it back up and in my head yell at my eyelids and neck for being so fucking weak. [51]

It's weird to think that once I'm out of high school, that will have been high school. Like, the high school years, the ones everybody gets, those will have been mine, written in stone, unalterable forever. [179]

Idea: A button on airplanes that, when pushed, forces every seat on board into its upright position.


Traditional Chex Mix, original Pringles, but almond M&Ms?


Isn't "birthday and/or cake" flavour just vanilla?

Idea: Bacon glazed with birthday frosting.

  • Cuphead
    E3 2014 Day 0 best in show

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

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23. The Perfect Equation (Silicon Valley, S01E08)

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Honourable Mention

Stray Observations

  • No Keaton Henson song! (In the Flesh, S02E05)
  • "She wasn't made for outdoor use. Those colors do run!" (Enlisted, S01E10)
  • "I'm kinda over the whole downstairs shaving thing. I mean, if I'm honest, it's a good look. It's sleek, it actually adds an optic inch…" (Enlisted, S01E10)
  • "Come, Reek, I'll be needing a bath." (Game of Thrones, S04E08)
  • "Poison's a woman's weapon. Men kill with steel." (Game of Thrones, S04E08)


(Game of Thrones, S04E08)

  • A Dorian Gray orgy! (Penny Dreadful, S01E04)
  • Kara Swisher (Silicon Valley, S01E08)
  • Silicon Valley Season Grade: C+
  • "People don't elect elves, okay? They put them to work in grottos or they get them drunk at frat parties so they can toss them."
    "Okay, that's dwarves." (Veep, S03E08)
  • "No, don't look at the twitch. Focus on the dead dad lady!" (Veep, S03E08)
  • "Are they loopholes or are they legitimate holes?" (Veep, S03E08)
  • "We all want to live above the hole." (Veep, S03E08)
  • Leslie is Melissa Joan Hart's stepfather (MasterChef, S05E02)
  • Lamb meatloaf with couscous, blue cheese sauce, and chili flakes (MasterChef, S05E02)
  • Caribbean meatloaf with lemongrass, soy sauce, and mango (MasterChef, S05E02)
  • Aksel Hennie slumming it as a guest star (24, S04E09)
  • "Everybody in this part of western Brooklyn is already dead. Everybody in this part of Brooklyn will be dead by four o'clock tomorrow." (Louie, S04E09)
  • "Don't get caught by AIDS." (Louie, S04E10)
  • "This would be rape if you weren't so stupid. God, you can't even rape well!" (Louie, S04E10)
  • "Don't you 'Mrs. Hess' me. I was picking your pubes out of my teeth 12 hours ago." (Fargo, S01E08)
  • "I let you cum inside of me!" (Fargo, S01E08)
  • "You're unemployed now, by the way." (Fargo, S01E08)
  • IceJJFish! (Loiter Squad, S03E04)
  • Free association: Tony = Lance on Portlandia (Orphan Black, S02E08)
  • "Helium is way funnier than polonium." (Orphan Black, S02E08)

#clipoftheweek

ChingueAsuMadreEPN

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I just finished reading The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, about a world in which language becomes toxic and only children are immune.

The body language on our street could have been studied for its gesture-perfect evasions. Just weeks before, Rabbi Burke, speaking by cable to our Jewish hut, called it defended semaphore, the gestures of a body craving disappearance. How many ways can you say Stay the fuck away from me without speaking? It was a well-crafted public solitude. We were all artfully alone out there. [5]

One must fairly consider that all music is the sound a body makes as it comes to its pretty end. Is there any sound that cannot be traced back to that? [240]

One might argue that, absent of speech, deprived of all communication, a father dissolves. The title finally expires, and the man probably follows. You don't strip away a father's title and expect the man to live. A former father is just a man who once had a duty to answer. Perhaps he can barely recall what that duty ever was. It nags at him as something he forgot to do, something he did only poorly. Fatherhood is perhaps another name for something done badly. [256]