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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.
He takes restaurants seriously but not himself, and his favorite restaurant is the one you love, too.
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the real question is...if they are TRULY authentic, they would accept real euro's, right?
Posted by: ryan97ou | February 3, 2011 3:39 PM
ryan97ou, I suspect this was made pre-Euro. And I am very glad we went somewhere else when we dined in Germany!
Posted by: Dahlink | February 3, 2011 5:48 PM
If anything, the woman in the sketch could pass for a competitor in the Baltimore's Best Hon contest. (Presumably, no trademark infringement was intended by the Pythons.)
Posted by: hmpstd | February 3, 2011 7:13 PM
As the resident kraut, I have to admit that "ich habe mich totgelacht." As I told ADM IV, John Cleese's German is pretty damned good, and Graham Chapman's interpretation of "American-German" is even more on the mark.
Posted by: Volker | February 3, 2011 8:12 PM
Volker, the Python guys were incredibly smart (when they weren't being smartie-pants). One of them wrote a book on Chaucer's Knight in the Canterbury Tales that was a total eye-opener for me.
Posted by: Dahlink | February 4, 2011 10:04 PM
Good pull! That's a pretty obscure Python sketch! Please feel free to check out a Python-inspired podcast called The Inverse Delirium, produced right here in Baltimore!
Posted by: Geoffrey Welchman | March 28, 2011 1:56 PM