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I what I what I what

What
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Ha! The granola is a nice touch for such a fancy looking place, but the foam trend drives me nuts. Ok, I've never had it, but it's fucking foam for chrissake!
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Where'd you get that kind of cashola?
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Geez, when is Lindy going to hump New York already?
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That looks terrible - and the meat is disgustingly raw.

I'll have a grilled cheese instead please.
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Janky tasting whiskey? You're doing it wrong, dear.
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That meat isn't even close to raw... the short rib looks to be on slightly above medium and the venison about medium rare.
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Jesus, LIndy. that looks awesome. what restaurant?
10
Please, Lindy, a slice of cheese pizza?
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Please, Lindy, a slice of cheese pizza?
12
Let me guess. You paid a fortune for lunch and were still hungry when you finished it.
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Dear Lindy, as you know, Cornichon is the French word for pickle (or gherkin, if you want to get fancy-shmancy). Hence pickle-brine is a wel-known commodity in my household. Less known is the secondary meaning of "cornichon." In French, it's a mild insult (never said to one's face): "Quel cornichon!" (What a dick). So that shot of pickle-juice, think of it as a mild rebuke: You honey-bitch! You jerk! Got that? Good. Let's move on.
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Hmm, I love New York, but sweet jesus, that is some painfully pretentious presentation, there. It reminds me of the Tall Food epidemic a few years back, now it's Jackson Pollack on a plate. The vanilla yogurt and pepper one made me think of a children's story illustration, where some little creature makes footprints in the snow, pees next to a snowbank, and walks on. Or something. I would rather eat some gooey lasagne, crusty bread, and a kick-ass red in a noisy restaurant than skewer truffled pea beans one by one onto my fork. But then I've lived in Canada for a long time, and we like poutine, and I probably have no palate...
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"I'll have a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat."
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The presentation is a bit of a mess, but that shit still looks good. I can't speak to the venison, but the short ribs looks perfectly cooked to medium rare, perhaps sous vide. Drooling now, closing window.
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WD50?
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Is that an "O.M.G. this was so beautiful and just delicious" or "do they really expect me to pay for this shit" look at this fucking food?
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Pickle backs are the best shots evar! Viva la NYC!!!
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Pickle backs are the best shots evar! Viva la NYC!!!
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If that drink becomes popular, they'll end up tossing a lot of pickles.

Dukes on Alki serves it, BTW.
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That looks like the ultimate high-life restaurant - congratulations!
23
If you just want to get drunk without tasting anything, don't drink whiskey.

And I feel really hungry now.
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#23 is right.

Whiskey is a gorgeous, beautiful, divine, substance, why would you ruin it with pickle brine?

If you want to get drunk without tasting the booze, stick to vodka and rum drinks.

Or you could, you know, grow a soul and learn to like whiskey.
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What part of me specifying that it was "cheap," "janky," rotgut-ass whiskey didn't you guys understand? How's the air all the way up there on your high horse? You breathing okay? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_si…
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Yeah, but can you get a crappy hot dog with cream cheese on it, huh, can you, huh, can you? Seattle style. Or so I hear; I wouldn't eat one.

Plates like that always create a terrible tension inside me, between the overwhelming desire to lick the plate, which is often the only way to get any of those sauce droplets up, and the overwhelming sense that this place of all places is not a place for plate-licking. Even though you might starve if you don't.
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I'm sure the food was delicious (I would hope so, for the price on the website!), but picture #6 made me laugh. The artistically smeared baby shit-colored sauce, at a perfect angle to the rest of the food....so very precious! This Slog post is perfect, because this food is meant to be admired, not eaten.

And Canuck FTW on the yogurt pic.

28
Ms. West needs to get out more.
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Regarding where in Seattle you can get pickle juice chasers, I work at Po Dog and we at times give cups of pickle juice to Auto Battery if a customer requests it for their whiskey shots. So if you want them, we'll provide!
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She's posting pictures of a food parade fancier than anything her mother ever prepared for her and you whiskey lovers are the snobs.

Oh, nuance.
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ohhh i want eat
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Fado does their picklebacks with Jameson. I'm fond of having mine with Maker's, but I'm fond of having everything with Maker's.
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I bet it tasted better than it looked. Eating food like that is pretentious like watching the sunset is pretentious.
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Sidewalk hot dogs with cream cheese, I never, until my friend made me, with ketchup and onions. Delish. Unlike pickle backs, which are disgusting.
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GODDAMMIT!! No ketchup on hot dogs ever.
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I've never heard of a pickle back, but it rhymes with nickelback, and I'd hate to order one in a loud bar and have the bartender not hear me and think I have just shit taste in music.

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I'm with @28. I love how NY is now the center of Lindy's obviously teeny tiny universe.
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@38 them's some sour grapes ya got there.
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That salad with the duck liver looks so stupid.
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Tiny bacon!
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@40 I doubt it has a very high IQ, but I bet it's super yummy. I love eating like that. A couple tastes of one flavor and then you're on to another. One meal is a dozen new experiences.

@38 Jesus Christ! that was uncalled for. Before you post, try saying it out loud, or imagine someone saying it to you. Maybe you won't come off as such a black-hearted bitter old crone. Blech.
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Sheesh, Lindy. I think we are wondering why you chose to drink a whiskey that you describe as "janky", "cheap", and "rotgut-ass" in the first place. Was that the only whiskey available? The recommended one? I don't think anyone was judging you. I wasn't, anyway. I hope you have a good day.

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Eh. Maybe she's just a janky, cheap, rotgut-ass whiskey kind of girl.
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Oh, the pickle back! I was certain I was going to hate it (I despise whiskey), but damn what an awesome (and cheap) shot! We must have them here in Seattle!
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Gee, for someone on vacation you're sure in a mood. I understand too much pickle juice will do that to ya. Hopefully it's passed by now.

When we were kids and got ourselves all in a huff about something, my mother would say "You're just not fit to be around. Go to your room and think about what is bothering you and then come back when your attitude improves". Needless to say if we returned with the same shitty attitude we were sent back to our rooms and a 1 to 2 hour timer was put on us. Worked everytime.
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Take me with you!
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@25- The air is very nice. Seriously, why drink cheap whiskey? There's vodka that's just as cheap and only has a slight kerosene taste. And if you put it in a girl drink, you don't taste it at all.
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That shit does not look appealing to me at all, except the prawns. And I'm with #2 - enough with the fucking foam presented as food, already. Foam is for coffee drinks.

When I get back to New York, I head straight for the eggplant parm, the bialys (from Kosser's), to Flatbush for Trinidadian roti, to Brighton Beach for perogies and vodka ... Lindy can have the precious haute cuisine.
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alright smartass lets see the receipt
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Oh, Eleven Madison Park... there's a reason you're considered one of, if not, the finest place to eat in the City.
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Aw, Lindy. You had whiskey and pickleback right in my own neighborhood and you did not say hi. I am hurt, but still glad you et well while here.
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Jesus Christ. TAKE ME WITH YOU

But seriously, foam. I hate it. It looks like someone spat on your food.

@27: Nah. I love eating something that's beautiful too. (That sounds kind of dark.) I don't see something that's beautiful and necessarily think, "I'm not supposed to eat this" just like the way I don't look at something that looks like poo thrown on a wall and think, "I AM supposed to eat this."
54
That all looks disgusting.
55
I'm sure the flavors were nice, but every single dish looks cold. Not enjoyable.

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