Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Mercredi, c'est ravioli.
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really? im not a huge fan of the reviews where her first visit blows and then everything is great, im sure uve noticed the type
# posted by 
: 8:18 AM
: 8:18 AM
it's fairly easy to write a good review when the bar has been set so low... just eat free food (preferably lobster), write about it and try not to mention calvin trillin or boring family members. voila - food review!
# posted by : 9:18 AM
: 9:18 AM
Anonymous: yes, I have noticed the type. The archetype of that kind of review is the Quince review, which she went back to 4 times until she liked it.
My guess is that she was not overwhelmed by tartine, but was overwhelmed by the chowhound consensus that the place is great. So she gives the place more chances than one with not such a rep.
But I'll take what I can get from her, so I call it a good review. "good" in relative terms, for Meredith, not is absolute terms.
Winky: yep, she set the bar so low she can jump over it once in a while. In fairness to Meredith, she hasn't mention Trillin in more than a year, has she?
My guess is that she was not overwhelmed by tartine, but was overwhelmed by the chowhound consensus that the place is great. So she gives the place more chances than one with not such a rep.
But I'll take what I can get from her, so I call it a good review. "good" in relative terms, for Meredith, not is absolute terms.
Winky: yep, she set the bar so low she can jump over it once in a while. In fairness to Meredith, she hasn't mention Trillin in more than a year, has she?
off the top of my head, i'd say she hasn't mentioned the guy in a while, probably at trillin's lawyer's request... but her boring family members keep popping up like whack-a-moles. it occurs to me that if she's going to inflict them on us as recurring characters, she could at least flesh them out a litte bit. for instance, what do they do, what do they like, etc. instead, they are cardboard cutouts who sit at a table with her and mutter things like "i yearn for more pig candy."
# posted by : 11:39 AM
: 11:39 AM
Winky:
Meredith's dad likes steak and Meredith's mom likes lobster.
The other "friends" (Nate, Hiya, Frances, Robert) are or were her colleagues at the weekly.
Meredith's dad likes steak and Meredith's mom likes lobster.
The other "friends" (Nate, Hiya, Frances, Robert) are or were her colleagues at the weekly.
actually, i kind of miss the old meredith whose car breaks down in front of some restaurant where her friends happen to be eating on her way to some other restaurant she's supposed to be reviewing, and she gets her car to the shop in some kind of time-warp continuum, etc. etc. ad nauseum. there was something so absurd and surreal about those reviews that it actually makes me yearn for more ...
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