Wow, the inferiority complex on display here is kind of sad. You've got a very nice little city out there, Seattle. You've got a decent enough waterfront, and passable Asian food. Sure, you're the relative size and importance of a pimple on New York's ass, but that doesn't mean you don't have some nice things going for you. Stop trying to compare yourselves to New York; it just highlights your shortcomings.
It means Asian food that won't give you food poisoning, which is in short supply in New York.
In all seriousness, I spent a summer during high school in New York. Everyone else staying in my dorm got food poisoning from Chinese food. I was safe since I was a vegetarian at the time.
@16, dorm? Maybe that was your problem right there.
NYC's gotten more Chinese immigrants in the last fifteen minutes* than Seattle has ever, and many of them know how to cook. Hint: don't look in Chinatown proper.
* statement not evaluated for hyperbole or factual content
Seattle musicians (Hendrix, Cobain, Staley) just numb themselves to death, while New York musicians (Jam Master Jay, Lennon, etc.) have someone else to numb them.
I bet anything that @8 is a whitey that uses silverware at Chinese restaurants. If Seattle's Asian food is just passable, what constitutes more than passable, hunny? My mother is Asian, I lived in Asia for over a decade. Please educate me. Without your benevolent Caucasian wisdom re: Asian food, I would be lost in the wilderness.
@27, @29 - I suspect @16 was referring to the fact that you're a lot less likely to get food-poisoning from vegetarian dishes than from the ones with meat or seafood in them, though keshmeshi should obviously feel free to correct me on this.
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I am a bad person.
Not because of that comment, which is horrendous at best, but because they have the stones to post it.
It's a hilarious take on the One-Upmanship that is rampant throughout American society. I blame the 80's.
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best post on slog in 2010 so far
It means Asian food that won't give you food poisoning, which is in short supply in New York.
In all seriousness, I spent a summer during high school in New York. Everyone else staying in my dorm got food poisoning from Chinese food. I was safe since I was a vegetarian at the time.
Because no other planes would exist?
NYC's gotten more Chinese immigrants in the last fifteen minutes* than Seattle has ever, and many of them know how to cook. Hint: don't look in Chinatown proper.
* statement not evaluated for hyperbole or factual content
Seattle musicians (Hendrix, Cobain, Staley) just numb themselves to death, while New York musicians (Jam Master Jay, Lennon, etc.) have someone else to numb them.
@16: You are now owned by Gloria. I am joining the Gloria Ownage fan club.
I also own the "I plane picture NY" tshirt from Tshirt hell, but I am not allowed to wear it outside the house, per the little woman.