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re: Favorite food & drink related quotes, statements, etc.
Posted on 4/14/16 at 10:35 pm to Forkbeard3777
Posted on 4/14/16 at 10:35 pm to Forkbeard3777
Covering the Cops: The world of Miami’s top crime reporter by Calvin Trillin (The New Yorker, 1986)
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In the newsroom of the Miami Herald, there is some disagreement about which of Edna Buchanan’s first paragraphs stands as the classic Edna lead. I line up with the fried-chicken faction. The fried-chicken story was about a rowdy ex-con named Gary Robinson, who late one Sunday night lurched drunkenly into a Church’s outlet, shoved his way to the front of the line, and ordered a three-piece box of fried chicken. Persuaded to wait his turn, he reached the counter again five or ten minutes later, only to be told that Church’s had run out of fried chicken. The young woman at the counter suggested that he might like chicken nuggets instead. Robinson responded to the suggestion by slugging her in the head. That set off a chain of events that ended with Robinson’s being shot dead by a security guard. Edna Buchanan covered the murder for the Herald — there are policemen in Miami who say that it wouldn’t be a murder without her — and her story began with what the fried-chicken faction still regards as the classic Edna lead: “Gary Robinson died hungry.”
Posted on 4/14/16 at 10:41 pm to Kafka
"Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it."
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