THE GURGLING COD

Survivor: BW3, AKA the Great Indoor Fight

Via FOC Spencer, your guide to surviving March Madness. If you can get them to put on the real tournament when it starts, or an actual sport worthy of the name until then, you are a better man than the Cod, who has to resort to Beef O'Brady's just in order to enjoy his God given right to eat a cheeseburger and watch Chara wreck shop. Also worthy of note is how this evokes The Great Outdoor Fight. 

Cruising with Guy?

On our way back from La Isla (of which more soon), we saw a billboard that was more of a threat than any billboard I can recall, telling us that the ONLY place to eat at Guy's Burger Joint was on a Carnival Cruise ship. To put it in a more upbeat, glass half full kind of way, all you have to do to avoid Guy's Burger Joint is to continue your sensible policy of avoiding Carnival Cruise ships. Would that all problems were so easy to solve! 

You can peep the menu here, which is impressively concise, compared to the infamous Times Square Fieri jawn. That said, both "donkey sauce" and "rojo ring" somehow take on an ominous connotation at sea. 

And speaking of cruising, interesting to see the resonances between Pacino's getup above and Fieri's below. 

Shields on Watermelon

Southern foodways savant David Shields drops watermelon science at the SFA.

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Clooney to star in Dando Biopic?

John Mariani of Esquire has the scoop! 

Can't wait to see this Lemonheads movie! Who plays Jesse Peretz? Is Lena Dunham playing Juliana Hatfield? 

In other news. I bet John Mariani has never been to Greenville. 

The Owl Gets It

Once again, the Owl is on the side of the good guys: 

The Owl, an avant-garde restaurant specializing in molecular gastronomy, is organizing a "peaceful protest" against Greenville's proposed food truck regulations.

The proposed regulations announced this week will require that food trucks be parked only on private property at least 250 feet away from any existing restaurant, which essentially eliminates food trucks from downtown Greenville's Central Business District.

The Owl's Facebook page says: "Food Truck Revolution in our parking lot next Wednesday, March 13! We've invited our friends, Neue and Asada, to come park in our lot and serve (while we're open) as a sign of peaceful protest against the new food truck regulations. We feel they are too restrictive and no one currently involved with the trucks was consulted or asked a single question on the matter."

Given that downtown restaurants tend toward pro-Romney baroque trainwrecks like Soby's, or earnest but dreary farm-to-table bandwagoneers like American Grocery, it's no wonder there's a move to keep interesting food purveyors like Neue Southern far away. 

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