re: Tom Fitzmorris - "Poorboy"

Fitz is a professional pot stirrer. The u-boat thing was priceless until it went way too far South.

I called in one time when he was ranting about how some place had rice that was all split and didn't look like intact grains. It was obvious he preferred the parboiled rice that most restaurants use.

Restaurants have to cop out because they have to hold rice dishes for long times without it getting overcooked and mushy. You just can't cook most rice dishes to order and parboiled rice keeps better.

When I called, I informed him that jambalaya cookoffs, notably the Gonzales Jambalaya Festival use the popping of the rice as one of the judging criteria, he couldn't believe it.

I like how in his reviews he so often mentions how the staff either did or did not recognize him (please recognize me), or realize that he is a local rather than a tourist (so obvious by the fact that I knew blah, blah).

I do get a kick out of his site. Take with grains of salt.

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Not as much as when he says "bisstro" instead of "beestro."

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Technically that's correct. Way back (before Katrina), he said it's from the Russian word for "quickly".

He came and talked to my class when I was in 4th grade.

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I've actually only heard good things about them

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Same here. He's doing one on the 20th at Vincent's uptown.

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What's wrong with saying "poor boy"?

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It's more about how he says it.

it's like he wants you to know he's above saying 'po boy'

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Next thing you know he'll claim German uboats came up the Mississippi river during world war 2

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actually it was Bayou Lafourche.