Comments on: Scathing restaurant review

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:54:00 +0000

Of course I didn’t read the whole thing.

You taste worse than day-old donkey sauce.

By: robcat2075

robcat2075 — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:44:00 +0000

Gee, i just guessed at the salad dressing thing. He was even more predictable and trivial than I thought.

Of course I didn’t read the whole thing. It’s a restaurant review. It’s preposterous, self-important foaming.

About a $12 meal.

Somehow that review was within the NYT’s journalism standards, but it Nate Silver, outside his NYT column, tweets a bet to Joe Scarborough, that merits a public reprimand from the NYT org.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:51:00 +0000

And it’s probably still better than anything else in times square!

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:37:00 +0000

This would be fun in two ways:
- Ripping a plastic TV personality’s cynical enterprise a new one. But the NYT has already done that.
- Any show that does the “Next time, on a very special (Blossom, Fresh Prince, Who’s The Boss, etc)” is jumping the shark as we speak, right in front of our eyes. Jumping-the-shark-spotting is a sport I guess, like mullet hunting.

BTW, my nephew went to Six Flags Over Kentucky, spotted over thirty mullets, then on the same trip a week later, he went to Six Flags Over Georgia, where there were only three mullets to be found.

By: massspecgeek

massspecgeek — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Santa Rosa isn’t a very big town, and I bet I’ve eaten at more than 90% of the restaurants there. The good ones (or at least the good ones I can afford) I’ve been to many times. The bad ones, like Guy’s, I’ve only been to once or twice. People like me wouldn’t keep his restaurants in business — one visit from everyone in Sonoma County wouldn’t keep you in business for more than a couple of years — so the explanation must either be locals who like swill served by waiters who don’t care, or tourists.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:32:00 +0000

Or perhaps the sheer horror of the experience could not be adequately conveyed without such jarring grammar

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:31:00 +0000

He should be invited onto The Daily Show to give an in-person reading of it, as a beat poem, backed up by Tom Hanks.

By: Sigmund Ausfaller

Sigmund Ausfaller — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:23:00 +0000

This actually sounds like something from Buckaroo Banzai.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:29:00 +0000

I wonder how Marilyn Hegarty would have reviewed it.

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:43:00 +0000

Still there by my reckoning.

By: hacky

hacky — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:33:00 +0000

It’s gone. Why?

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:29:00 +0000

Also known as “Ass of an Ass Sauce”

By: Antlan

Antlan — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:03:00 +0000

NYT is not alone…. http://observer.com/2012/10/the-crispy-crimes-of-guy-fieri/

By: edgore

edgore — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:01:00 +0000

Curse you, Perry the Platypus!

By: alfanovember

alfanovember — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Perhaps Fieri’s next venture could be named “Arbutus Unedo”, or the Strawberry Tree, after an ornamental shrub popularly planted in Sonoma County. It is a pretty plant, with reddish-orange fruit that looks impressive and tastes like nothing much at all..

The name is said to translate from Latin as “I ate only one.”

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:32:00 +0000

Like everybody else here, the Donkey Sauce part really jumped out at me. How…HOW? does this get brainstormed and finally put on a menu without somebody not pointing out the mental image this conjures up?

I wonder if people torture the servers with Donkey Sauce double entendres?

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:18:00 +0000

Arguably, the restaurant has to be both bad and self-important.

Hammering the quietly lousy of the world verges on poor taste. Puncturing the horribly engorged egos of the lousy and delusional, though…

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:54:00 +0000

My SO obsessively watches cooking/travel shows. I hate ‘em. Guy is the douchiest of the lot. I really can’t describe the schadenfreude I’m feeling, but I’m certain it’s more delicious than anything served at that restaurant.

By: FrakSnark

FrakSnark — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:41:00 +0000

*relegate

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:41:00 +0000

Really?

By: Phos0.99

Phos0.99 — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:37:00 +0000

I’m not a fan of Gordon Ramsay, but if ol’ Gorgar decided to do a *Very Special 2 Hour Episode* ripping that place to shreds, I’d definitely tune in.

By: DreamboatSkanky

DreamboatSkanky — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:34:00 +0000

Sauce source.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:31:00 +0000

Would you use it on its back? Would you use it with some crack?

By: SamSam

SamSam — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:26:00 +0000

Maybe. There have also been other things written entirely as questions, such as the book “The Interrogative Mood” (which, as I mentioned above, I flipped through and it seemed terrible, but who knows, it might be good.)

I think this is slightly different than either of those Every question is rhetorical, and it serves to convey the author’s mounting sense of incredulity at each turn.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:23:00 +0000

My suspicion is that these were originally notes, notes the author really enjoyed making – and that when attempting to reformat them into an article they concluded, “What’s the point?”.

By: mccrum

mccrum — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:23:00 +0000

Damn, I’m five minutes too late.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:20:00 +0000

That was my favourite too!

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:19:00 +0000

“I think I probably ate at all of his Sonoma County restaurants”

“…questioning how the restaurants could possibly stay in business.”

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:18:00 +0000

The Donkey source, or the source of the Donkey Sauce?

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:17:00 +0000

Come on, Guy, is that the best defense you can muster up?