Whipped Cream Difficulties

I honestly did not know, when I wrote this morning’s “Random Notes”, that the Guy Fieri review was blowing up the Internet.  (My link was, however, up before FARK’s.) Even if I had, I probably would have linked it, if only for future reference.

So. Anyway. Questions. So many questions.

Is it legitimate to write a restaurant review composed entirely of questions? (Except for the “Thanks” at the end.)

(I’d say, “Hey, it is a writerly device. If his editor didn’t have problems with it, neither do it. I wouldn’t do it too often, though.”)

While the New York Times was busy trashing Guy Fieri’s restaurant, Guy’s American Kitchen was donating half of all sales to the Red Cross.

— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) November 14, 2012

So if you give money to charity, that somehow exempts your restaurant from criticism of the food and service? I’ll keep that in mind for the restaurant I never open.

Next the New York Times will send Anna Wintour to review Old Navy. She’s going to have so many questions! That’ll show ’em.

— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) November 14, 2012

So the fact that a restaurant is in Times Square and caters to the tourist trade should exempt it from criticism? So the NYT should, instead, be reviewing the latest vegan joint in NoHo, or whatever the trendy neighborhood in NYC is these days?

(Edited to add: I wonder if Steve Krakauer feels it was beneath the NYT to review a steakhouse located in a strip club?)

Tourists–most of whom have never heard of Pete Wells or the New York Times– will continue to be sucked into Guy’s neon vortex.

I love the “most of whom have never heard of…the New York Times”. I bet if you asked 100 random people on the street, in any city in the United States, to name a newspaper, the vast majority (I’d go over 90%) would name the NYT.

And, from EaterNY, “The Worst Lines of Guy Fieri’s NYT Review, With Cats“. This just tickles my funny bone; I can’t explain why.