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October 7, 2009
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Elizabeth Large, The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic, blogs about memorable meals, dining trends, comings and goings on the restaurant scene and more.
Elizabeth Large retired in February. Until a new critic is named, Laura Vozzella will be blogging here. Vozzella has been a reporter with The Sun for 10 years. She’s covered small-town scandal (Columbia gym towel thefts!) and big-city mayors (O’Malley, Dixon).
Lately she has been writing about food (cilantro, pine nuts). She also writes The Talk, a weekly column about politicians and other local oddities (again: O’Malley, Dixon). She’ll continue with the food writing and The Talk column while blogging.
Elizabeth Large retired in February. Until a new critic is named, Laura Vozzella will be blogging here. Vozzella has been a reporter with The Sun for 10 years. She’s covered small-town scandal (Columbia gym towel thefts!) and big-city mayors (O’Malley, Dixon).
Lately she has been writing about food (cilantro, pine nuts). She also writes The Talk, a weekly column about politicians and other local oddities (again: O’Malley, Dixon). She’ll continue with the food writing and The Talk column while blogging.
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The mind boggles.
Posted by: Hal Laurent | October 7, 2009 6:13 PM
Doesn't this mean all the ankle biters will hit their heads? Oh the lawsuits!
Posted by: Trip Klaus | October 7, 2009 6:40 PM
They allow sharp things in Burger Kings?
I'll bet this has something to do with retro-50's.
Posted by: Lissa | October 7, 2009 8:30 PM
BK is a follower as usual--remember the McD's with the nouveau decor, plus overseas many McD's are swanko--
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/reviews/blog/2008/11/the_new_look_mcdonalds.html
Posted by: chowsearch | October 7, 2009 9:50 PM
And AP says they're...beefing up their value menu:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/burger-king-plans-edgy-fu_n_311830.html
Posted by: chowsearch | October 7, 2009 9:55 PM
chowsearch, I understand that Burger King's expanded value menu (which includes a 1/4-lb double cheeseburger for $1) is meeting with massive resistance from BK franchisees, because it cuts into the franchisees' profit margins without any appreciable increase in sales of their better profit margin items.
Posted by: hmpstd | October 8, 2009 7:41 AM
I hope they lose the ceramic faced Burger King mascot. That thing is creepy!
Posted by: Joyce W. | October 8, 2009 8:22 AM
I completely agree Joyce! Especially that one commercial where the guy wakes up in bed with him.
Posted by: Trixie | October 8, 2009 12:41 PM
Trixie you have me really laughing out loud! I totally forgot that completely creepy weird commercial!
BTW, I'm skirting around this carefully, because I don't want to make Elizabeth angry, but has anyone else's neighborhood McDonald's sign for their Angus burgers been tampered with by someone craftily removing the "g" from angus?
I thought I'd die laughing at 4:30 this morning!
Posted by: Joyce W. | October 8, 2009 8:01 PM
King me
Posted by: jl | October 8, 2009 9:40 PM
ew king
Posted by: Joyce W. | October 9, 2009 6:56 AM