boston: Few food destinations are more synonymous with the New England coastline than the region’s countless clam and lobster shacks, which incidentally do little for the waist line. Still, who can resist the promise of your choice of seafood, battered and fried to perfection? Here are some of the best of the New England coast. People, this is important.
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Few food destinations are more synonymous with the New England coastline than the region’s countless clam and lobster shacks, which incidentally do little for the waist line. Still, who can resist the promise of your choice of seafood, battered and fried to perfection? Here are some of the best of the New England coast.

People, this is important.

Apparently there is this thing called The Maine Lobster Game. It’s a machine installed in a bar or restaurant that operates just like one of those coin-operated games in which one tries to win a toy or stuffed animal or some type of gimmicky souvenir by dropping a metal claw onto a pile of said gimmickry, except in this case the gimmickry is a tank of live lobsters.

The Framingham (MA) Board of Health recently ordered a restaurant to cease the operation of one of these machines out of concerns that it might not meet the sanitary code, though that seems like it’s more a case of having no experience with the machines than with having any actual evidence of sanitary violations.

Though I’m ok with eating animals (lobsters in particular), making a game of their demise like this seems over the top to me.

Source: youtube.com

boston: FISHY BUSINESS: On the menu, but not on your plate - A Globe investigation found fish bought at restaurants across the region was mislabeled about half the time. Sometimes it was innocent error, but often the switch was deliberate, driven by profits. This is a nice investigative piece done by the Globe. Well worth your time if you’re a piscivore.
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boston:

FISHY BUSINESS: On the menu, but not on your plate

- A Globe investigation found fish bought at restaurants across the region was mislabeled about half the time. Sometimes it was innocent error, but often the switch was deliberate, driven by profits.

This is a nice investigative piece done by the Globe. Well worth your time if you’re a piscivore.

The 10 Most Dangerous Foods to Eat While Driving

From Insurance.com:

  1. Coffee – Even in cups with travel lids, somehow the liquid finds its way out of the opening each time you hit a bump.
  2. Hot soup – Many people drink it like coffee and run the same risks.
  3. Tacos – Any food that can disassemble itself will leave your car looking like a salad bar.
  4. Chili dogs – The potential for drips and slops down the front of clothing is significant.
  5. Hamburgers – From the grease of the burger to ketchup and mustard, it could all end up on your hands, your clothes, and the steering wheel.
  6. Barbecued food – Ditto. The sauce may be great, but if you have to lick your fingers, the sauce will end up on whatever you touch – and that wheel will be tough to grip.
  7. Fried chicken – Another food that leaves you with greasy hands, which means constantly wiping them on something, even if it’s your shirt.
  8. Jelly or cream-filled donuts – Have you eaten a jelly donut without some of the center oozing out? It’s simply not possible.
  9. Soft drinks – Not only are they subject to spills, but also the carbonated kind can fizz as you’re drinking if you make sudden movements, and most of us remember cola fizz in the nose from childhood. It isn’t any more pleasant now.
  10. Chocolate – Like greasy foods, chocolate coats the fingers as it melts, leaving its mark anywhere you touch. As you try to clean it off the steering wheel you’re likely to end up swerving.

Two Three things:

A. Soda fizz in the nose?

B. What about lobster?

C. Yes, it’s “soda”.

gordonshumway: I…don’t…um…I mean, where exactly do you start with this? Thank God the kitchen is “liscensed” though.  You don’t want unaccredited shit-shaped chocolate being delivered to your loved ones. —Via a horrified email from my mother This is great, but it would be nice if they had an option to have little candy corns embedded in it.
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gordonshumway:

I…don’t…um…I mean, where exactly do you start with this?

Thank God the kitchen is “liscensed” though.  You don’t want unaccredited shit-shaped chocolate being delivered to your loved ones.

—Via a horrified email from my mother

This is great, but it would be nice if they had an option to have little candy corns embedded in it.