Andrew Gabriel

Have you been to Wild Goose Tavern yet? Here's the best excuse yet to go, like, now!

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The King will have an answer to The Clown's cult sandwich the McRib. Called the BK Rib Sandwich, it will have a similar boneless pork patty formed to look like it came from a rib, served with pickles, a tangy BBQ sauce and a sweet bread bun.

The new sandwich will be rolled out with the rest of BK's summer menu in a few weeks, including sweet potato fries and a return of its pulled pork sandwich. Just like the McRib, it will stay only for a limited time with a price point of about $3.50.

Although this writer does not understand the appeal of the McRib, I do thank it for inspiring one of the most classic Simpsons episodes on record. Here again is the RibWich YouTube clip I roll out whenever I get a chance to talk about the McRib and any and all versions by McDonald's competitors.

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Medieval Times

Here ye, here ye, my lords and ladies! Medieval Times, the famed fake castle where you can watch a jousting tournament while gnawing on a turkey leg and chugging ye olde Diet Pepsi, may be headed to the big screen.

Deadline reports that production companies Benderspink (The Hangover Part III) and Broken Road (Jack and Jill) are hoping to secure chain's rights and then shop a feature film project to the movie studios.

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It can be argued that MTV's The Real World started the whole put-strangers-together-in-a-house-and-see-what-happens gimmick of just about every reality show we see today, including Bravo's Top Chef. Now MTV is casting for its own food show, where, wait for it, they'll have strangers living in a house competing for a chef job.

If you're interested in being one them, here's the casting call notice from http://www.foodschoolcasting.com/:

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In an upset victory, Cheesy Garlic Bread has triumphed over Sriracha in Lay's Potato Chips "Do Us A Flavor" contest. Short of saying that this might indicate that the Sriracha craze has finally ebbed, we actually never got to taste any of the three finalists...so Cheesy Garlic Bread might have actually tasted better than Sriracha. At least one blog reported that the Lay's idea of Sriracha flavor doesn't taste like Sriracha at all.

For her winning entry, Karen Weber-Mendham, a librarian from Land O'Lakes, Wisconsin, will receive at least $1 million...but at least a million Sriracha fans are now asking whether they voted enough or if this even matters. Huy Fong Foods, the maker of the sauce that everybody including Trader Joe's is trying to copy, reportedly had nothing to do with the contest.

As a result of the, um, results, Cheesy Garlic Bread will remain on store shelves at least until the end of the year. The runners-up will be all but a faded memory of this silly but brilliant marketing campaign after this summer.

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Live Below the Line

It's what's for dinner . . . again.

A buck fifty. Less than the price of an energy bar, it is the amount that 1.4 billion people in the world must live on each day. They are the ones who fall below the "extreme poverty" line, a sum set by the World Bank.

Makes you kind of feel like an asshat for Instagramming a picture of your $4 Starbucks latte this morning, doesn't it?

Last week, a campaign called Live Below the Line took place across the United States, the U.K. and Australia. It gave folks one challenge: to spend just $1.50 per day on food for five days. "We think that to really fight poverty, we've got to try to understand it," the website says.

So people signed up, calculating their grocery-store pickings (mostly cheap starches), cutting non-essentials such as caffeine (the horror!), and pooling money with friends and colleagues to make their pennies go further, all while raising money for charity. Of course, many took the first-world luxury of blogging about their experience. Here's what they found.

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Harry's Deli just can't catch a break. First, it was closed longer than expected due to a schedule-busting remodel; now, after just six and a half months, it's closed again, this time due to fire damage.

Harry Kho posted to Facebook late last night that a fire started in the deli's soiled laundry basket around 1 a.m. It was noticed quickly by an Irvine police officer who was patrolling Sky Park and smelled smoke and quickly knocked down by OC Fire, but there's smoke and soot damage throughout the restaurant.

No word on a reopening date because the damage is still being assessed. We'll let the hungry denizens of Irvine and the world know as soon as those awesome sandwiches return.

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Broadway By Amar Santana

"Are you the foie gras motherfucker?"

Amar Santana received this greeting last week when he answered his cell phone. The caller then immediately hung up.

The owner and chef of Broadway By Amar Santana in Laguna Beach had been getting a string of calls from blocked numbers, yet no one left a voice mail. He decided to hop online and search for "foie gras" on Twitter. There, he clicked on a link to the Hudson Valley Foie Gras website. Hacked by animal-rights activists, it listed the names, addresses, phone numbers and credit-card details of more than 1,200 customers who purchased foie gras between June 2012 and April 2013.

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Flickr user kay la la

Closing time. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.

A bill that would have allowed California bars, clubs and restaurants to serve alcohol until 4 a.m., two hours past the current last call, was voted down Tuesday in the Senate Committee. Go ahead and drink away your sorrows. We understand.

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Flickr user craigmdennis

For gamers focused on fighting zombies, slaying dragons and assassinating evil rulers, it's tough finding a break to pick up the phone and order dinner. At last, that hassle is over thanks to a new service from Pizza Hut and Microsoft.

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