Foodie Culture Buff Mugs

"Zagat gave this place a 27 for gawking."

"So this coffee shop if your 'hangout'?"

"I feel like we are the polyester of dairy products."

Craft Donuts vs. Craft Beer

'I was in the catering corps.'

"Can I get this to go in an organic, locally recycled, eco-friendly doggie bag?"

"When I was young, we personally prepared all the food for each and every meal!"

"There must be a place we can wait on line for an hour before eating."

'Our chickens are a real 'come back' story: raised organic, they hooked up with some seedy fowl, but then, thankfully, were saved by massive doses of antibiotics.'

"Put out the Asian sates, the Russian blinis, and the Mexican bean dips, while whip up something Korean."

"Yes, he is a celebrity chef, but he doesn't have any opinions on Iraq."

"Geoffrey's seasonal. I'm regional."

Meticulously prepared, locally sourced food served on artifacts of a romanticized industrial past, by people who take their fashion cues from daguerreotypes, to adults whose parents still pay their rent.

"The fish - will it be the market price at the time of ordering, the time of eating or the time of paying?"

Avocado Timeline

"Is it free-range?"

"I just explained 'kugel' to him."

'Where do you want to go for breakfast, fancy an Australian or do you want to nip over to Hawaii?'

Culture clash

"I've been really craving Italian food for months now. Can you grab me two kilos of rigatoni, three kilos of fettuccini, and a bigger shell? The one I have is feeling a bit too tight lately."

"We call it 'dish' of the day, but it's actually served on a plank of wood."

'Gretel, she's lying. It's not gluten free!'

'Snob, he won't eat domestic slugs, just imports.'

A tureen of chefs

Barbecue Fetch

Bedside Manna.

"Is anyone enjoying anything?"

'Your tomato ketchup is on it's way, Sir...'

'Coffee and Converstion' vs. 'Beer & Bullshit'

"I'll have the crescent-crab 'purses' and the smoked duck 'hash' – hold the quotation marks."

"It was a cold night, like tonight, back, I'd say, in 1954."

"Hey, Gary. Lois wanted to know if you’re up for waiting forever for reheated leftovers and sipping warm mimosas intended to ease the pain of poor service amid a cacophony of idiot tourists and 20-year-olds... you know, brunch."

"I hunted, Tirka gathered, and Crock made chili."

'She's on the rotation diet. Every time I turn around she's eating something.'

'I think we should eat out in the hotel tomorrow dear.'