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SNACK TIME: Chicken throwdown, red honey in Red Hook, pissing off your coworkers with your lunch, artisanal mayo, Chartreuse = Jäger?, and Kim Jong Un is hungry
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SNACK TIME: Chicken throwdown, red honey in Red Hook, pissing off your coworkers with your lunch, artisanal mayo, Chartreuse = Jäger?, and Kim Jong Un is hungry
- After some smack talkin' via Twitter (that's how everyone fights these days), ?uestlove went leg-to-leg with Momofuku's David Chang in a high-stakes fried chicken battle. (Questo recently launched his own food imprint, Quest Loves Food.) Jimmy Fallon refereed on his show, and Tina Fey, John Slattery and Steve Higgins were the official judges. Does ?uest have the chops to beat out Chang? Watch the vids! I'm not going to tell you who won, come on.
- Several beekeepers in Red Hook, Brooklyn have reported their bees yielding red honey. Unsure of how this was happening, one beekeeper speculated that the bees must've been pollinating an odd plant source, perhaps sumac. Turns out, they've just been hanging out at Dell's Maraschino Cherries Co.
- Business Week recently posted this article about the worst foods to eat in an office setting and how it affects your annoyed coworkers. Charles Wysocki of Philly's Monell Chemical Senses Center explains why certain foods are so offensive: "You expect to have a lot of aromas when you go to a restaurant, but you don't expect to have a lot of aromas in your cubicle when the person next to you is eating their lunch."
- Speaking of offensive-smelling food, a specialty mayonnaise store opened in Brooklyn. Yes. It's called Empire Mayonnaise and its product line features flavors like white truffle, nori and red chili. Jars cost from $6 to $8 and go perfectly with your communal oven-baked artisanal bread, hand-shredded heirloom lettuce and locally raised free-range organic turkey.
- Speaking of hipsters, Details called Green Chartreuse "the hipster Jägermeister." Let's not get offended yet, cool guys: The two liquors are actually pretty similar. "Both are herbal digestifs hailing from Western Europe. Both boast a legend that is passed from one convert to another (Chartreuse has its secret, monkish recipe, while Jägermeister is "rumored" to contain deer blood)." Fun fact: This piece was written by Details assistant editor Chris Ross, a former Franklin bartender who once spent nearly 24 hours at Ray's Happy Birthday Bar for CP.
- And now for the current meme of the minute: Hungry Kim Jong Un!
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