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Hunting Vegetarians with Ted Nugent

Just got back from seeing Anthony Bourdain in in the city, and it was an absolute treat. He is every bit as much fun as you would imagine him to be. Lots of good and useful stuff in the talk, but two stick in my mind:

1. Truffle oil is the ketchup of the newly affluent.
2. To find good places to eat, provoke the nerds.

#2 showed a remarkably precise understanding of the internet. The question at hand was how to find good restaurants, and his answer was to take the city you want to go to and just google up some restaurant names that serve the dish you're after. Then got to chowhound or another foodie site, and rather than asking about restaurants, you put up an enthusiastic post talking about how you just had the best whatever you're looking for at one of these restaurants.

At that point, what drivingblind likes to call the nerdfury will begin. Posters will show up from nowhere to shower you with disdain, tell you how that place used to be good but has now totally sold out and - most important to your quest - will tell you where you would have gone if you were not some sort of mouth breathing water buffalo.

I suppose this isn't really news to me, but having it laid out so simply and so practically had the dual effect of leaving me laughing and giving my fourth eye (the third being spiritual, that requires a fourth for the internet) a good squeegee-ing.

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denyse
Nov. 8th, 2007 05:15 am (UTC)
That's brilliant!
drivingblind
Nov. 8th, 2007 06:41 am (UTC)
Yowza!
billwerk
Nov. 8th, 2007 12:48 pm (UTC)
I'm not sure if that's brilliant insight into online communities or a useful application of trolling. Some of both, I imagine.
the_tall_man
Nov. 8th, 2007 03:01 pm (UTC)
...I'm tempted to try this to find restaurants in my *own* city, now.
animadversio
Nov. 8th, 2007 03:10 pm (UTC)
That is... fecking brilliant. ;-)

My wife and I had planned to go see him, but our sick daughter had other plans for us.

Anthony Bourdain is the brightest star in my very small constellation of contemporary culture.
rob_donoghue
Nov. 8th, 2007 06:32 pm (UTC)
He really is the man.
(Anonymous)
Nov. 8th, 2007 10:49 pm (UTC)
Whoever invented the word "nerdfury" is a public benefactor.
scrump
Nov. 9th, 2007 12:33 am (UTC)
Washington Monthly...
Congratulations, Rob: you made the front page of Washington Monthly. WELL DONE THAT MAN.
rob_donoghue
Nov. 9th, 2007 04:37 am (UTC)
Re: Washington Monthly...
*Laughs and laughs*
justinjacobson
Nov. 9th, 2007 02:01 pm (UTC)
Pfft. I've been doing that with rpgs at RPGnet for years. ;-)
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