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'The Whale' Has No Tale

South Coast Repertory's latest misses in its attempt to harpoon the audience's heart

This Week In Food: Sandwich Earls, Speckled Hens, and the Cutest Damn Toaster You've Ever Seen

Thankfully, this week's food blog didn't have any gross stories to tell. I'm still creeped out every time I think of that KFC drumstick, but alas, we must move on. This week showed us some awesome things to look forward to. Let's take a look. Edwin reviewed the new Earl of Sandwich chain in Downtow ... More >>

Read Stick a Fork In It!

If you're still not reading our food, then you're mean

No. 8: Pot Pie Purse at the Crosby

Aside from La Palma Chicken Pie Shop and a handful of chain restaurants (Claim Jumper, KFC, Marie Callender's), there just aren't enough places doing pot pie anymore. And if they are, it's certainly almost never beef pot pie.Comfort food in the wrong hands can be too much of a good thing--over-porti ... More >>

KFC Japan Starts Selling Deep-Fried Mashed Potato With Bacon In It

We probably need to start a new blog category for food items some branches of our homegrown fast-food brands are coming up with overseas. That hot-dog in a pizza crust at UK Pizza Huts was genius. McDonald's in Australia's lamb burger is an idea whose time has come.See also:McDonald's In China Sells ... More >>

Mitsuwa's Hokkaido Fair This Thursday to Sunday

When Mitsuwa holds these festivals, it's always fun, even if the parking is atrocious.This week, it's the Hokkaido Fair, being held from Thursday to Sunday. Here are some highlights of this year's event as Mitsuwa's own website can only describe them: See Also: - Irvine Mitsuwa Marketplace Food C ... More >>

Christina Aguilera And Yum! Brands Team Up To Fight Hunger. Seriously?

See Also:*Miley Cyrus Calls Anaheim Resident a "Fucking Creep" on Twitter*Our Top List of Opening DJ Codes, Laminated and Posted Backstage at the Yost for all Newbs to See*Top Five Musical Impressions From Comedian Pablo FranciscoIn what could be labeled as a cruel twist in irony or an amazing coinc ... More >>

How Can a Gabacho Illegal Live in Mexico

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why are Mexican women so superstitious?

McDonald's Ranks Last In Customer Satisfaction Survey

The survey results of a so-called American Customer Satisfaction Index released Tuesday ranked McDonald's dead last in with a customer satisfaction rating of 73, two points behind Burger King and KFC. Number one? Papa John's. You can see the full list here. Pithy headlines like "McDonald's Custome ... More >>

Dueling Dishes: Jollibee's Pancit Palabok VS. Red Ribbon's Pancit Palabok

​Imagine if McDonald's bought out Burger King and they existed under the same roof like those Yum Brand hybrid restaurants with KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell sharing the same counter. That's essentially what's happened with Jollibee and Red Ribbon in Anaheim. They are two former competitors turned ... More >>

Jollibee Opens in Anaheim Today

​ Oh Joy! Chickenjoy, to be exact. Jollibee's first outlet in Orange County opened today at 7 a.m. in the space that previously held Chris & Pitts BBQ in Anaheim at the corner of Euclid & Crescent.I got the tip off from astute reader JB, who got wind of it from a Pinoy blogger and newly mi ... More >>

Little Progress Made At The First Jollibee in Orange County

Edwin Goei​Ain't much progress goin' on at what's supposed to be the first outpost of the Filipino fast-food giant Jollibee in Orange County. I checked out the site recently, in what used to be Chris & Pitts BBQ restaurant at Euclid and Crescent in Anaheim, and saw that so far, the place has b ... More >>

On the Line: Owner Daniel Woo and Chef Greg Ong of Sushilicious, Part One

Photo by Kevin LaraChef Greg Ong​This week's On the Line is a twofer: We hear from two people instead of just one. Daniel Woo is the owner and Greg Ong is the chef at Sushilicious, the Irvine revolving-sushi restaurant that has its waitstaff use an iPod Touch instead of a notepad and features fanc ... More >>

Yum! Brands, Parent Company of Taco Bell, to Sell Long John Silver's and A & W All-American Food

​I know some things about old Southern California restaurant chains, but not all. I remember Pioneer Chicken (I still delight in seeing its old signs reformatted to plug a Mexican restaurant), and I also remember Bob's Big Boy. But what was A & W? I remember the root beer, but I've seen vestig ... More >>

Jollibee: A Reflection of Our Fast-Food Selves

Edwin GoeiJollibee in Cerritos​With the announcement that Jollibee is slated to replace Chris & Pitts in Anaheim came a few xenophobic comments, not just here, but on other blogs. The irony, of course, is that Jollibee is more American than Filipino. Take a gander at the menu and it's as if ... More >>

Amanda Russell, Long Beach Poly Senior, Wins $20,000 from KFC for a Tweet!

Flickr user Ollie Crafoord​In the Department of Participating in Every Zany Contest Fast-Food Chains Offer comes this news: a Long Beach Poly senior won a $20,000 college scholarship from KFC for the best tweet expressing how the chain would help the student better their lives.Amanda Russell didn' ... More >>

Why Can't Pollo Campero Come to Orange County?

Flickr user scaredy_cat​QSR Magazine reported earlier this week that Pollo Campero--a chicken chain specializing in Central American-style fried chicken--was opening a branch in Walt Disney World. Good for them, but in visiting their website to try and steal an image, I realized something rather d ... More >>

USA-Canada Gold Medal Hockey Game as Viewed From a Central OC Barstool

​Random notes scribbled onto a soggy napkin from the "Norm stool" at a working-class, Central Orange County watering hole during Sunday's USA-Canada Olympics gold medal hockey game . . .12:22 p.m.: The first shot is a slapper from Canada's Duncan Keith that Team USA goalie Ryan Miller handle ... More >>

The Five Hardest Foods To Give Up For Lent

tea_time @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0​Ash Wednesday, lovingly known as Dirty Forehead Day, is this week. For Christians, this marks a time of penance and sacrifice before Easter. One of the common practices is to give something cherished up during Lent. Some things are very easy ("I won't eat frog ... More >>

Fast Food Safer Than School Lunches

Picture from Dead Homer Society​So by now you've heard that USA Today published an expose that revealed the meat bought by the USDA for use in school lunches wouldn't pass quality standards at Burger King or McDonald's.

PETA to Send Giant Chicken to Santa Ana

Courtesy of PETALet's hope their signs are bigger tomorrow. Harbor has a 40 mph speed limit.​If you're going to be driving in the area of Harbor and McFadden tomorrow, Wednesday, December 9, from noon to 1 p.m., be aware that there will be a person in a chicken suit protesting McDonald's chicken s ... More >>

Crime Time: Creepy Toys, Slick Bank Robbers, Egged On Victims, Dog-Beating Dipshits and At Least [Alleged] Criminals Still Read Newspapers

It's the Weekly's weekly roundup of local police calls and assorted mayhem.MONDAY, NOV. 2". . . and I don't like you!" ​"I'm Talking Tina . . . and Things Are Going to Be Different Around Here" A woman called 9-1-1 around 3:45 in the morning to say she heard a baby toy go off downstairs in her hom ... More >>

Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

I twice wrote thoughtful meditations on the nature of passing counterfeit money, but both went down in MT hell. So, no intro other than young folk in Delaware must be desperate or bored out of their box for trying to pass fake bills at a Taco Bell...An 18-year-old Middletown man was charged with pas ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

TK Burgers Refuses to Conform to the Numbing Sameness of a Fast-Food Chain

Last Night: Buckethead at the Anaheim House of Blues

Not even the comfort of an ice cold beer was enough to curb the blazing body heat that filled the rafters of last night's Buckethead show at the House of Blues. Then again, a wall to wall turnout for one of rock-n-roll's most mysterious guitar gods should probably be expected. After all, it's one of ... More >>

[Game On] The Evolution Is Being Televised: Alas, 'Spore' Isn't the Leap You've Been Led to Believe

Discount Bento Boxes at Costa Mesa's Mitsuwa Marketplace

It's Thursday. I'm standing near the boxed sushi section at the Mitsuwa Marketplace. I look at my watch. It's about a quarter after five. He should be coming out of that door any second now -- the man with the red Sharpie. There are others like me waiting for him, milling around, trying to not ... More >>

Sloppy Joe

The bottle let this early Tracy Letts play down

CD Review

Patton Oswalt, Werewolves and Lollipops (Sub Pop CD/DVD)

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Where Is the Kitsch?

Art of Advertising takes on Style of Country Musicand loses

Faceless Shreds, Secret Sorrow

Buckethead returns from the mountaintop

LOWBALLASSCHATTER

Eight Days

Bucket of Blood!

And Liquid Den Insta-Gone

Live Previews

How to Stuff a Lettuce Bikini

To the Costa Mesa thugs who used to beat up Dan Mathews: The fat gay punk kid grew up to save lives and jet set with Pam Anderson. Howzabout you?

Potato Party

Bebas Bolivian bacchanal

Da Kine Grinds

Marukai Market classes up the hood

Letters

Dana Point

We killed Killer Dana

Practically Belly-Dancing

And Martha Stewarts rear end

The Making of a Free-Speech Activist

Strip-club owner says his battle with La Habra is principle now

Flame Thrower

The awful truth about kimchee

A Very Little Tokyo

Sushi makes this teriyaki house

Release the Hounds

The Shock of the Nude

How would the Pageant of the Masters score Guernica?

Breakin' the Law!

When did Barney Fife transfer to the Costa Mesa PD?