And, now that I think about it, I was once burned because I thought someone really didn't like me because I thought that they thought that I hadn't spoken enough. I was stupid thinking they couldn't have liked me because I thought I hadn't said anything I thought deserved it.

¿Qué pasa, güey?

"tarte tatin-yes I know what that is"

Are you interested in food or are you interested in making other Gawker readers think that you represent the common man while I represent elitist, rich, arrogant "hipsters" and "foodies?" Sounds like you and Dalia are doing the latter, especially judging from the stars she got from people who probably have never heard…

"I can't talk to anyone."

No one knew the Wall would fall that night because it wasn't supposed to; it was an accident.

Yep. I was living not far from the border when the Wall fell and that very night Trabbis came into town. We invited them up to our dorm room's common room and opened some champagne. They were shocked at that.

But...it's commemorating the fall of the Wall, not its construction. It was a time of celebration.

Oh, yeah, I know. I just wanted to remind them that it's just (or it's supposed to be) a beverage flavored with a plant part, of which there are many other examples.

Then don't buy it! And unless you live in NYC, you'll never see it anyway.

I don't know where you live, but I live in shit hole Indiana, so I wouldn't mind a bit of "douchiness." And no French bakeries here.

I've never been there, but it is my sister's favorite bakery. Anyway, looking at the website, it has a tarte tatin. Is that common in the US? No. I'll bet most people have never heard of it. But most anyone who has been to France knows that it is a common dessert. But he is doing his own special spin on the regular…

If you don't live in NYC, then don't worry, you'll never see it. But I was visiting there recently, and, yeah, his bakery is the kind of place I'd go out of my way to check out. Don't got things like that in crappy Indiana...

You don't like sassafras?

His bakery in NYC is an elite bakery. Probably only a handful of others like it in the entire country. That's one thing a lot of people didn't know when the whole cronut thing happened—people were crazy about his bakery even before the cronut and even without ever having eaten a cronut (which were only sold in the…

"NiEtzschean"

I thought most, if not all, guys snore?

Snoring is a bizarre sleep habit?

Well, I often like restaurants where there are basically no white people. If someone thinks Indian or Chinese food is eww, that's a problem. A Hoosier friend even looked at a book of Spanish cooking I have and said "Eww!"

Yeah. For me food is a big deal—especially because often one person prepares it and both people eat it. But TV, movies, books...yeah...they can do that on their own if their tastes are different than mine.