Thai Food Hating Profiled Lunch’er Eats Some Thai Food

Remember the profiled lunch’er who admitted that he didn’t like Thai food, and then became the most ridiculed Profiled Midtown Lunch’er of all time? Well, for once, your ridicule actually worked to effect positive change in the world- and “Matt” is happy to report that he tried Thai food again and… (well, I don’t want to spoil it.)

After the spirited feedback from the comments section (side note to the person who accused me of living in my parents basement: you’re insulting random people on the internet and I’m the one who lives in my parents basement?), I decided to journey out and try Thai food. The choice was Pam’s Real Thai Food (on 49th btw. 9+10th), although I generally don’t eat at restaurants that cite their realness in the name, I decided to trust the comments section. I selected a number of co-workers so we could maximize our order. While the shrimp roll we started with was typical, I found the Thai Beef Jerky to be quite a treat. I don’t even like regular beef jerky – could this Thai cuisine improve on other dishes as well? As the different entrees were passed around the table, I noticed the Pad Thai coming my way. This was the big moment.

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I tried this traditional Thai dish and I found it to be quite delicious! The sauce was fantastic and it had just the right mix of noodles and vegetables.

Would I eat Thai food again? Absolutely. Although I put Thai food in the same category as Indian food – foods I will eat only if I’m not doing anything important that day. I wouldn’t chow down on this before a big meeting. That’s just me. Feel free to disagree and you probably will… as I am the most hated man in Midtown Lunch history.

Ok, so it may have worked this time commenters. But don’t think that this makes up for all the non-productive times you guys have massacred Profiled Lunchers…

48 Comments

  • good to see that these midtown lunchers are open to new type of cuisines. that’s the reason for coming here to the site, right? good for you Matt.

    and hell yes this is going to encourage us to skewer future midtown lunchers!!!! yeah!!!!!!!

  • “If I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!”
    -Rocky Balboa, Rocky IV

  • @ Boo – I can take people making fun of me for not eating the sandwich… but I’ve got to respond to your comment.

    “Maybe it’s because I’ve been to a lot of third world countries where a lot of the people don’t have this privilege…”

    Are you freaking joking? This is your defense of a shrink wrapped, pre-processed sandwich sold by a Times Square drugstore? I should eat this because we’re lucky to live in the one of the richest countries in the world? That is just stupid. By that rationale, I shouldn’t say anything tastes bad on this website. I should just be happy we have access to it?

    Panda Express is one of my guilty pleasures… I admit it. And there’s no defending it. But at least it tastes good. I didn’t eat Walgreens because I knew it wouldn’t taste good. Make a fresh sandwich in your drug store, and wrap it in shrink wrap and I’ll eat it. Pump something full of preservatives and ship it across country to be eaten two weeks after it was assembled? No thanks. You want to find something to be pissed about in this country, there it is.

    I agree with you that we should be incredibly happy living in this country… and I have done plenty of food traveling to countries much poorer than this one, that has made me very appreciative of what we have access to. But eating a sandwich from Walgreens doesn’t support that thinking in any way. Personally I would rather eat at the carts and restaurants run by people who came from these third world countries (and send money back to their families there), then buy a shrink wrapped sandwich from Walgreens.

  • @ Zach — Unless I’m mistaken, didn’t you agree to eat a Walgreens sandwich during a bet? I’m not saying you should eat the sandwich of your own free will when you have lots of other great things to choose from. But to go back on your words because you don’t want to eat a shrink-wrapped processed sandwich is kind of lame. It’s not like we’re asking you to eat what Andrew Zimmern ate on Bizarre Foods last night. To be perfectly honest, your vehemence of your disapproval of the Walgreen sandwich sounds a bit petty. Then again, that’s my opinion, and it’s your site and your body and you will choose what to do. But I think there are a lot of people on this site who would love to see you eat the sandwich and give feedback.

  • I would *gladly* eat every single thing that Andrew Zimmern has eaten on Bizarre Foods, over eating the Walgreens Sandwich.

    I considered going an eating it to shut everybody up, but now- you know what. I’m taking a stand. I’m NEVER eating that sandwich. It’s not about being worried that I’ll get sick (I’m sure I won’t) or even caring whether or not it tastes good or not. It’s about knowing- without even trying it- that it is nothing that any self respecting Midtown Lunch’er would ever want to eat.

    I’ve said it a million times, and I’ll say it again… if they made the sandwiches fresh in the Walgreens- (or even somewhere in New York state!!!) I would gladly give them a chance. But why would I try a sandwich that was made in Boston two weeks ago, shrink wrapped and shipped to Times Square? In what bizzarro world that be something that *anybody* would ever want to eat? Blondie and Brownie and Wined and Dined both tried the sandwiches and agreed they would never go back. I think that is plenty of “feedback” for anybody who is truly interested…

  • Zach-I’m glad you hold strong to your food principles, and I completely agree

  • Zach, sorry if it seems like I’m picking on you but I’m not trying to. So if we challenge you to eat what Zimmern ate last night, would you do it? He drank a lot of blood from different types of animals and had some sour milk. I think it’s hard to get the sour milk as we don’t know what conditions the souring took place. But it’s not as difficult to get the blood.

  • Once again I have to say that you are just the tastiest thing east of the Mississippi. Put a little spicy thai sauce on you and I would just eat you up. Yummmmmy. Matt. Ohhh. Matt. Ohhh. Hope to see you this summer big daddy. (Ladies dont THINK of touching my man! If you do I will wrestle you skinny bi@atches to the ground and make you sorry your mama ever gave birth to you on the upper east side).

  • You aren’t eating w/ your tie flipped over your shoulder, so you cant be a total d-bag. I would like to know why there is a Thai place on every corner in Hells Kitchen. Wondee Siam has like 4 w/i a block of each other. It’s insane.

  • I just took a quick inventory inside Zach’s underoos and found a set of two ginormous big brass balls. After months of dancing around the Walgreens sandwich like it was kryptonite, Zach has thrown down the NEVER gauntlet. Good on ya!

  • Eat the fucking sarnie.

  • @Dubbinbklyn — it’s a homo thing. Our people need to stay trendy, spicy, and skinny or we won’t get laid.

  • Actually, Wayne, I never portrayed DocChuck – rather I was the hamster, the blow-up doll, and the wife

    Count me in the front ranks of the fight to see DocChuck banned from this website, as he recently was (implicitly) from a NY based beef-oriented blog

    On the Walgreen’s sandwich – really, just humor on my part – noting the similarities between Matt’s original refusal to partake in Thai food and subsequent reversal to the whole Zach@Walgreen’s deal. I could care less if Zach ever eats that sandwich – I want him spending his time talking about the GOOD stuff, not the crap

  • Dude, get some sleep! Put down the crack pipe. Those bags under your eyes are lethal.

  • Now that the Walgreen’s issue has been put to rest, I think the second most important thing we can all take away form this discussion is: Matt needs to take Goats out for Indian food.

  • HA! Fred, that’s damn funny!

    Yes, I stand by Zach and his objection to the sandwich made outside of new york (or the damn boroughs) , totally prepackaged consumer waste. Bleh.

    Matt you did good. Also congrats on putting yourself out there. Most people don’t have the balls to be profiled (Rhino Penis I’m looking at you!)

  • Eating that shrink wrapped sandwich would be contributing money to an empire that is the middle finger to Third World countries. Why? Because it’s an utter waste of food. No one buys it, and it’s tossed out by the dozen at expiration to make room for more crap sandwiches (I’ve walked by bags of that “deli” stuff from various drug stores/grocery stores at night). And it in no way compares to Panda Express. Having worked at one, I know that the food doesn’t come shrink wrapped, pre-packaged, hyper processed, and frozen. They make it fresh, albeit fried by the bulk, on premises, because it’s more cost-efficient. That’s why some stores taste better than others. There are humans, not machines, who make it.

    I’m on Team Zach for this one.

  • Please Mama….don’t call me rhino penis.

    Giggle.

  • Rudy is the anti-rhino-penis.

    a.k.a. Irish

  • WWRPD?

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