The Natives Ate P.F. Chang's

What Ezra, Matt and Megan said about the Times's self-consciously condescending mass review of the greater New York area's chain restaurants. I would only add that the concept behind the feature - sending food critics to write about popular establishments that almost never get reviewed - is perfectly sound; it's just the "let's treat this like an anthropologist's trip to darkest Peru" execution that's cringe-inducing.

Comments

Yeah. Besides, treating a trip to Chili's "like an anthropologist's trip to darkest Peru" is David Brooks' schtick.

Posted by Chris | May 5, 2008 12:50 PM

I think you mean Tom Friedman's, except that he'd come up with the new shape of the world based on a conversation with the busboy.

Posted by Mike | May 5, 2008 1:41 PM

I thought the concept was perfectly okay and the execution was amusing enough. It certainly is a lot less "cringe-inducing" than some silver-spoon Reaganite blasting a poor black woman as a "welfare duchess" because she has a big TV. But then I haven't written back-to-back books that have "Ruling Class" and "Working Class" in the titles, so what would I really know about condescension?

Posted by MoeLarryAndJesus | May 5, 2008 1:54 PM

God, what a tool.

MoeLarryAndJesus, I mean...not Ross.

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