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BBQ smoked duck, the house favorite at Dha Rae Oak in Los Angeles K-Town.

Revisiting my all time food city, Los Angeles, and kicking it off with a Nicaraguan nacatamal and indio viejo at Portobanco's in Pico Union.

@alisoncook From a longtime tipped worker's perspective: percentage based income makes serving one of the rare working class jobs that can keep up with inflation, a benefit that cannot be understated.

The crux of the matter: "Why not avoid tipping and service charges altogether, and simply raise menu prices? Several owners offered the same answer: People don’t want to pay more for food."

Gift link to a @priyakrishna look at the growing trend of added restaurant "service charges." nytimes.com/2023/05/15/din…

Signs I'm getting old: Read the whole NYTimes in Houston piece, with subsequent social media BBQ and taco truck wars and shitfits over Chinatown or East Downtown nomenclature... and I've managed to stay uncharacteristically quiet and indifferent about it all 😅

@jodyschmal I really hope this all leads to a push towards breakfast taquerias and restaurants offering more eggless options in general.

Preach! I never get egg in my breakfast taco. Bacon, beans and cheese plz. (If anyone is delivering rn)

@alisoncook @timhowanusa How were they?

So these happened…at @timhowanusa Katy. Let the holiday begin:

@nhallfreelance @JavaPeg Say when on one of the non-terminal social media networks where we are in contact.

@JavaPeg @csfrankel That’s how I see it. Chris, let’s grab a drink or something sometime. It’s been way too long. My hermit life and all.

Maybe I'll get lucky and Twitter's collapse will open a wormhole to an alternate universe where I actually did something with my life 🤷‍♂️

@nhallfreelance @JavaPeg It's a Bourdain-esque Faustian bargain. You get to peer briefly into the window of thousands of different houses, knowing you will never get to cross the doorway and enter a single one. So be it, where to next?

@csfrankel @JavaPeg Oof. Fwiw, from my perspective it looks like you’ve got a lot of things about life figured out. Work enough to be able to travel and see/do/eat/drink cool shit, then reset and do it again. You and Victoria Rittinger. Role models for living, imho.

@nhallfreelance @JavaPeg The trade off is you die alone and forgotten because you're considered too unproductive and unreliable to be let in anywhere closer than a distant arm's length.

@JavaPeg @csfrankel And share those experiences openly and enthusiastically. It’s really great.

@DavidLeftwich68 LinkedIn is the overlooked sleeper pick in the competition for "most destructive social media network in existence."

Tonight's Twitter feed reminds me of a bar the night before shutdown blowing out its liquor inventory, with regulars from 10 years ago swarming in crowds to get $3 double shots of single malt.

@JavaPeg But how will you know about the latest bulgogi taco and fried Brussels sprouts specials being featured?

I haven't seen this many Twitter mentions on my feed since the mid 2010's. It makes me misty eyed.

@nhallfreelance @tastybits @alisoncook This is the brave and brief new world of Twitter without boundaries.

@tastybits @alisoncook @csfrankel oof misha

What should I do with the rest of my life in the post Twitter universe?

@tastybits Fair 😅. If I ever figure out the specific trigger I'll let you know.

@csfrankel I may have said something unflattering about Karl Marx. It’s a nervous tick.

@tastybits Ok done. Guessing part of some Covid era politics/economics thread that set me off then? Nothing immediately personal or malicious.

@csfrankel you could unblock me on Facebook?

Is it too late to join the #GoodByeTwitter shitposting party?