Overheard at XPL: “What’s Falafel?”
Lunch’er “PK” sends this description of what it was like to wait on line at XPL (on 48th & Park) yesterday: “It’s clear that the NYT article is bringing out people who would not normally come out. One guy was literally holding a copy of the dining section as he came up to the cart, checked the fruit cart right next to XPL to make sure that wasn’t the cart mentioned in the article, before getting in line. He asked what a falafel was and then got a falafel sandwich. One other guy asked “What cut of lamb is it?” which I almost laughed out loud at. Gyro meat is not exactly a niman ranch lamb shank.” Awesome.
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NYT Drives Huge Traffic to Midtown Carts Today
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:00 pm, June 5th, 2009 under XPL.
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There’s this homeless guy who keeps a cat on a leash that I see around the central park area.
Flatrock – I think it’s less of a mix and more of a preformed cone of meat that they get from kronos.
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Zach – There was recently an uproar where it was discovered that some Doner Kebab’s actually contained some pork:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7852168.stm
So I guess, some people *do* wan’t to know what’s in their gyro :)
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Yeah. I recently picked up that habit. NFC how or why that started. It’s a phenomenon that developed within the past year.
And yeah, I’m a UNIX geek.
Lastly, I’m always amused when someone corrects typo’s with a grammatically incorrect sentence… :)
People are work were talking about this website the other day. I’ll just pretend i haven’t been following it for 2 years.