u/turbid44

It's funny, I remember this episode of Top Chef from years ago where the challenge was to make a sandwich. Tom Colicchio basically scolded some contestants who made sandwiches where when you bit into them, the ingredients squirted out the sides. But many, many sandwiches are in fact made like this. Sandwiches where there’s too much filling relative to the bread spill out.

Who in LA makes great sandwiches that actually do hold together when you bite them and the proportions are such that everything just stays together in a nice, compact unit, the whole way through?

I loved the snap peas at Betsy in Altadena. Also the corn at Verse.

Others?

It seems like this is a trend right now. Excellent examples of this: Succession and Barry. They both started off as dark, tongue-in-cheek comedies/satires. They both ended up as stone-cold dramas whose heads were, in my opinion, way up their asses. Larry David said it totally right about the end of Barry Season 3 -- they should have ended it right there.

A show that resisted the trend? Search Party. Started as a satire, and got wildly more satirical as the seasons went on. A kind of operatic splurge of excess in the best possible way.

Are there any places that include sandwiches which have crunchy, deep-fried vegetables in them? I know some places do eggplant cutlets in sandwiches but they smother them in marinara or other sauces and make them soggy.

Are there any places that keep the deep fried vegetables crispy in a sandwich?

Are there any great nail salons or other places like that which offer excellent massages where you just sort of sit in a chair with your face down in a little holder and the person does a massage on your back? Usually it's a 10-30 minute kind of massage...

What books use magic in ways that send chills down your spine, make you pump your fist in the air, blow your mind?

I was just at the Juniper bar at the 1 Hotel and they auto charged a 20% tip. I was only one person.

I didn’t see any mention of that on their menu, and I double checked after I saw the check.

I didn’t bother disputing it but it seems very shady to do that. Is that even legal?