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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

This week on Twitter: a moose in an apple tree, dinner party games that writers play, and unambitious fried chicken chains.

Posted by: Seattle Met staff on Sep 09, 2011 at 12:10PM 1 Comments

This man likes his drink.

Photo source: foxnews.com

How did you spend your full first week of September 2011?

Ours was dedicated to reading and watching way too much wrenching 9.11 anniversary coverage, freaking out about terrorist threats, and trying to forget our sadness and fear by indulging in food tweets.

Yup, we were on Twitter a lot this week. You might even say we binged on food tweets.

Our favorite 140-character morsels? These five below.

Hope you enjoy, and have a great weekend.

We began, as always, at our fifth favorite tweet. It belongs to SadnessRUs:

Number four: We don’t really want to explore this question too deeply. But we admit that it’s a valid one.

Steven Colbert delivers the number three tweet this week.

At number two, hmmm…wonder whom she would have picked if Bret Easton Ellis hadn’t been at the table?

And the top tweet of the week goes to Portland musician Kasey Anderson. If you’re not following him, remedy that. He excels at Twitter.

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

A serious journalist on Serious Pie, dissing decaf, and Brian Canlis’s hamburger dreams. These were our favorite food tweets this week.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Sep 02, 2011 at 12:37PM 0 Comments

That totally blew: Hurricane Irene from space.

Photo: Space.com

Good Friday, everyone.

It’s sunny out, and there’s a long weekend ahead that we don’t have to spend worrying that East Coast loved ones will suffer something horrific related to a hurricane.

So there’s that!

Also, it must be said, this was a funny week on Twitter. It was frankly difficult to pick out our five favorites this time around.

So thanks for keeping us laughing. Here are the top food tweets this week.

At number five (with thanks to Eater Seattle) is beltway wunderkind Ezra Klein, who recently stopped through town and sampled some of our pizza.

Funny filmmakers the Perron Brothers observed the following about decaf coffee, which earned them the number four place this week.

Coming in at three: Seattle’s own Brian Canlis. Something tells us he could make that dream come true if he really wanted to.

The second place tweeter this week is native son and unrepentant weirdo Rainn Wilson. Sounds delicious.

And the number one tweet of the week? That goes to comedian Pat Healy. Because those parking lots really are terrible, and because gumption is such a great word.

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

Sn00ki goes minimal, the chili tears of a local music writer, and soda on a bike. Behold, the top food tweets of the week.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Aug 26, 2011 at 11:15AM 0 Comments

Silly East Coast. Your earthquakes don’t even hurt people.

Oh Twitter, you really outdid yourself this week! All those jokes about how lame and small the East Coast earthquake was, reminding us just how well-endowed, geologically speaking, we are out here in the West. When we have an earthquake the earth really moves, if you know what we mean (and I think you do). Ain’t no need to ask each other if we felt it.

Of course, now they’re in for a super-intense hurricane called Irene—let’s just hope this new potential disaster passes by without much damage. Otherwise…awkward.

And now for something that has nothing to do with any of that. Here are the top food tweets of the week.

At number five this week, a suddenly minimalist Sn00ki. You guys, this tweet was retweeted by over 100 people.

The fourth place slot goes to fulish (get it?), but funny, local music writer Eric Grandy.

At three: No Reservations, with this beauty:

The number two tweet this week goes to Long Winters singer John Roderick. (But, caveat: We found a really good dentist on Yelp this month. That’s a true story.)

And this week’s tweet of the week belongs to comedian Rob Delaney. Technically it is too old to qualify, but we’re in love with it! And also, who cares?

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

Vodka-spiked biblical quotes, man purses stuffed with tacos, and loving the wine you’re with: These were our favorite food tweets this week.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 29, 2011 at 10:28AM 0 Comments

We have never pretended to be able to resist a good man purse joke.

Photo: The Hangover

So last week we had to skip the top food tweets, because somebody was on vacation (lazy).

This week, however, they’re back. And while we won’t say “and better than ever,” we do hope you’ll find them amusing.

Without further ado, the top food tweets this week.

We begin with our fifth favorite tweet this week. A little explanation: If you are a dork like us, and you aren’t following NPR host John Moe on Twitter, you’re missing out. Because Moe uses the Twitter hashtag to create these weird word games and they are often very funny.

Anyway, one of his recent hashtag projects was replacing the nouns in bumper stickers with the words “Eric Roberts.”

Bill Connell, you won that game.

For his wise, wise words, John Fugelsang comes in at number four.

At three: Eater Seattle’s own Allecia Vermillion makes our list for a second time, an honor she shares with just one other Tweeter, the Surly Gourmand.

The number two spot goes to Sorority Girl Problems because her tweets are totally cute. (But, like, have you noticed all of her cardigans come from the J.Crew outlet? Maybe we should have an intervention or something.)

Oh hey, speaking of John Moe: he was our number one tweeter this week. Why? Because if his 10-year-old kid is into man purses—particularly man purses stuffed with tacos—then there is no doubt in our minds that Moe raised that kid right.

May you have a tasty, hilarious weekend. And may you tweet about it with reckless abandon.

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

Things you monger, a depressing lunch order, and a mother dog, quoted. These were the tastiest tweets this week.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 15, 2011 at 02:36PM 0 Comments

This ewe loves a good pun.

Photo: Wikipedia

Here in Foodland, we’ll always remember this week as the one when Hanna Raskin demolished that Mercer Island deli.

Folks, it was a bloodbath. A kugel was “reminiscent of eating a packaged fruitcake without first removing it from the cardboard box.” The pastrami, wrote Raskin, “is leathery, and its only discernible flavor is that of defeat.”

Yikes. That’s the stuff of restaurateur nightmares right there.

Anyway, on with the tweets of the week.

5. John Eddy sneaks into the top five this week with a joke so bad it’s good. Plus, we’re suckers for triphthongs.

4. Ted Travelstead is on Twitter! Here’s a taste:

3. At number three: Good question, Erin Boudreau. Cheese comes to mind.

2. Surly Gourmand, you are back in the top five this week. Toasty!

1. And the number one tweet this week? That prize goes to Alex Baze, Weekend Update writer for SNL.

Happy weekend everybody! Keep tweeting funny stuff about food.

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

Brazilians for West Seattle, Harry Potter cocktails, and the best lethal cure for the soundtrack at Starbucks. These are our top food tweets this week.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 08, 2011 at 02:36PM 0 Comments

The feeling of going back to work on the fifth of July, as represented by a photograph that might have been pertinent 10 to 15 years ago.

Photo: timeforteaching.com

How is it that every year we forget the hell that is the day after the fourth of July?

Party hangovers mixed with flooded inboxes mixed with news that restaurants we loved were closing: Barrio’s gorgeous Bellevue digs turning into an event space, cutie-pie A Caprice in Ballard calling it quits, etc.

It was almost too much to bear. But at least we had Twitter to turn to.

Here were the top five food tweets we read this week.

5. The number five slot goes to former Seattle Times reporter Marc Ramirez. He’s moved on to Dallas but recently came back to Seattle for a visit—and knew exactly what to do when he got here.

4. In fourth place is Dragos Axinte of Novofogo Cachaca. All he meant by this tweet was that he was going to make lovely cachaca cocktails in West Seattle, but we couldn’t help taking it to another, uh, place.

3. Local booze writer Paul Clarke nabs the number three tweet of the week, because how funny is it that people are still sending press releases about Harry Potter? Dear PR person: New movie or not, the Harry Potter owl has most certainly flown. Ditto dry ice.

2. Stephen Falk, a writer on the show Weeds, comes in second—we know exactly how he feels.

1. And now for the winner. Josh Malina (Will from The West Wing) made us LOL all over the office with this tweet. The building manager has promised to send someone to clean up the mess.

Happy weekend!

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

This week: The tastiest way to destroy the inside of your mouth, Tom Colicchio scores with a retweet, and the discovery of milk.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 01, 2011 at 03:26PM 0 Comments

Sour Patch Kids: Deliciously corrosive.

Photo: Village-Candy.Biz

We could barely stop rereading the insane story about the Seattle Police Department bust of a ring of thieves that included the owner of Meza on Capitol Hill long enough to award the top tweets this week. They stole meat! And Taster’s Choice! It’s so crazy.

But once we did turn our eyes to Twitter we noticed that there was a lot of funny stuff out there this time. Well played, tweeting food folk. Thanks for keeping us laughing.


Right, then. Let’s get this party started.






At number five, this tweet from Rob Delaney.

You can’t argue with this observation from Shawn Ries. For that, we award him our number four spot this week.

Food people are forever engaging in hyperbole, as Locavoorhoor cleverly parodies in our third favorite tweet. (Then again, maybe she’s serious? Eh, either way.)

What makes the number two tweet great is that Tom Colicchio retweeted it! You gotta love The Colicch and his smirky ways.

And the number one tweet this week goes to comedian Damian Fahey because it’s true and it made milk come squirting out of our noses.

Happy Fourth of July everybody!

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

The truth about ginger ale, dessert at the Jones, vegans in the basement. We’re not saying it’s been a politically correct week on Twitter, but it was fun nonetheless.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jun 24, 2011 at 03:37PM 0 Comments

If lobsters could kill, we all know who’d go first.

The food people freaked this week when Eater.Com got shut down by the FBI for, like, more than a day.

Suddenly there was all that free time! It was very alarming.

What did we do with it? Why we tweeted about food, of course.

Here are our top food tweets from the past week or so:

At 5. Comedy writer Alan Sulkin says a true thing about ginger ale:

4. Imagine the writers of Frasier did a flashback episode in which we saw the Crane brothers negotiating elementary school. Here’s a joke a nine-year-old Miles might have told in the schoolyard:

3. Ruth Bourdain is back with another moment of sheer foodie brilliance:

2. Esquire writer Chris Jones managed to slip this one in:

1. And the number one tweet of the week goes to Cobra Commander, with apologies to our vegan friends.

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

Frank Bruni does Seattle tourism a solid, a San Fran critic pulls off the impossible, and a local writer scores with a slamdunk Filet-O-Fish tweet.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jun 10, 2011 at 02:21PM 0 Comments

Loving it.

Photo: McDonald’s

The number five tweet this week goes to Frank Bruni, the New York Times writer whose travel food feature on Seattle will no doubt result in even more visits from out-of-towners who stop in the middle of the sidewalk without warning. Thanks, Frank!

5. Went to Seattle area. Ate a lot. Drank a lot. Wrote a lot. The results, in this weekend’s NYTimes, http://tinyurl.com/5tsecgm

Number four goes to Tweets of Old for working the food trend beat…nineteenth-century style.

4. Pudding-eating contests are popular attractions in Seattle these days. WT1887

Next up, former Seattleite and current San Francisco restaurant critic Jonathan Kauffman pulls off something that most critics only dream of.

3. Whoa. I’m about to write about a restaurant that Yelpers haven’t even discovered.

At two: a genius tweet that qualifies for this list because it mentions PIZZA CHEESE. Its author is Seattle comedy writer Mike Drucker.

2. Mad Libs inventor died today of POOPING. He is survived by his PIZZA CHEESE and his LAWN DARTS. He will be A DINOSAUR.

1. I’ve heard rumors of the #FiletoFish displaying alarming signs of intelligence.

Happy weekend, everybody, and for those of you who harbor some misplaced desire to be a Food Tweeter of the Week: Know that Filet-O-Fish tweets will get you here faster than you can say “extra tartar, please.”

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

OHing yourself at work, chocolate-covered Fritos, and the daily recommended serving of opiates. These are our favorite food Tweets this week.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jun 03, 2011 at 03:40PM 0 Comments

Hold up FDA. Where does the tobacco go?

5. Can you OH yourself? Joe Ruiz, a journalist in San Antonio, Texas can.

OH in the newsroom: Editor: Who didn’t sacrifice the live chicken for our tech to work right? Me: I had Chick-Fil-A last night.

4. LIFECOACHERS had some advice for parents this week:

Encourage your child’s artistic ambitions. They’ll be guaranteed a job for as long as Starbucks needs baristas.

3. Then there was this, from local chef and author Becky Selengut.

Never underestimate the creative power of a woman with pms — choc covered fritos!

2. At number two: That’s pretty much the only way we could get into it too, Mo Smith:

I will not be tweeting about the NBA. Unless someone tells me Thomas Keller has come in as point guard & is distracting team w/salmon cones.

1. Finally, the number one tweet this week gets extra points for 1. Newsiness (it refers to the FDA’s new food plate, the diet guideline graphic that replaced its classic food pyramid this week), and 2. Truthiness. Because life without the occasional poppy experience just ain’t living. (Old Hoss Radbourn is talking about eating at Jerry Traunfeld’s Capitol Hill restaurant, right?)

I hope there is room on the new “Food Plate” for tobacco, distilled spirits, and the occasional poppy experience.

Now go out there and enjoy the sunshine, but don’t forget to tweet about food! And if you see any Top Food tweet contenders out there on Twitter, please send them our way.

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week

Johnson and who?, dancing garlic, and analyzing the cupcake trend.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on May 31, 2011 at 01:25PM 0 Comments

The quotable Chef Andrés

Photo: Think Food Group

Was traveling for a story Friday—that’s my excuse for not delivering the weekly food Tweets last week.

Better late than never? A little?

On with it.

5. John Herschell Taghap (goes by Herschell, works for Tom Douglas) is an entertaining local tweeter. He authored this today:

OH: How was the French Toast? It was ok, a pinch too much cinnamon – LOL DUDE YOU’RE EATING IN A HOSPITAL CAFETERIA.

4. Ooh, burn. Check out what Providence, RI chef Matthew Jennings tweeted.

Applicants listing your culinary school as ‘Johnson & Whales’, U should B embarrassed. It’s not a marine mammal, it’s your alma mater.

3. Not sure what this means, exactly, but we like a good José Andrés quote when we can get it. This one comes to us by way of Kevin Plunkett.

“And if the onion loves music, garlic somehow loves to dance” ~ @chefjoseandres

2. This week’s funny-because-it’s-true Tweet is brought to you by someone named Ashley.

How to tell that the family you are housesitting for is not Catholic: there is no alcohol in the fridge. THERE IS NO ALCOHOL IN THE FRIDGE.

1. And the number one tweet this week: An academic look at baked good trends from Seattle’s own Cakespy.

I like this quote about the cupcake trend not going anywhere: “the cupcake movement is more around its evolution than its dissolution”.

We like it too, Cakespy. We like it too.

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Nosh Pit’s Top Food Tweets of the Week: Rapture Edition

The End of Times is nigh, and people are tweeting about it.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on May 20, 2011 at 11:03AM 0 Comments

But before all this, alder planked salmon anyone?

Image: Tribulation.com

Twitter’s food and drink folk had a lot to say this week about the imminent arrival of the End of Times. Let’s have a look.

Coming in at number 5, Portland’s Michael Alberty makes a prediction about the souls of wine people. That is: God doesn’t want them.

If the rapture does occur this Saturday I’m pretty sure my Sunday wine tasting group will remain largely intact.

4. Nice pick, Zach Thaxton, “Emmy-winning TV news anchor/reporter” from Colorado Springs, Colorado.

If the Rapture really is coming, what would you want as your last meal on earth? Alder Planked Salmon from Elliot’s Oyster House in Seattle.

3. And to you, Josh Rubin of Toronto, Canada, we say this: That’s a very solid choice for a final beer. (We should warn you, however, that the Rapture may accidentally forget to come to Canada.)

Gonna buy some Unibroue fin du Monde to celebrate the end of the world tomorrow.

2. Hear, hear @Mychal70.

All this talk of the rapture happening tomorrow makes me glad Seattle Beer Week already started. Way to go out with a bang!

And coming in at number 1 this week: some very relieving news from God by way of comedian Jim Gaffigan.

"I didn’t say Judgment Day. I said Judge MINT Day. Which is better Mentos or Tic Tacs? Hope there wasn’t any confusion.” – God

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