Traffic Snarl of Death will hopefully be averted.

Good food, too many people.
It became so crowded that nobody goes anymore.

/yogi.

Taste of Chicago organizers finally see the light


"Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, I have seen the light!!"


"The BAND, Elwood!"

People still go to the taste?

Will DMB be there?

DeathByGeekSquad: Traffic Snarl of Death will hopefully be averted.

This is Chicago we're talking about. The Traffic Snarl of Death is pretty much permanent.

mynameisdouglas: Good food, too many people.
It became so crowded that nobody goes anymore.

Also, this.

video man: Chicago style > New York style

That has never been true for anything.

DeathByGeekSquad: Traffic Snarl of Death will hopefully be averted.

Snarl of death will now be twice as bad, in half the time. Kinda like ripping the band aid off instead of a slow peel.

carnifex2005: video man: Chicago style > New York style

That has never been true for anything.


Except for food. And culture. And art.

Will they have Bear? Because they were toasted by the Packers.

/stick a fork in them

But now how will I enjoy overpriced fried food in 100 degree/87% humidity in the company of 500,000 people?

carnifex2005: video man: Chicago style > New York style

That has never been true for anything.



Michael would like a word with you.

Can't wait for this sort of thing to catch on in Pennsylvania. Would dearly love to attend "Taste of Intercourse" or "Taste of Blue Balls".

What, I was talking about Amish food, of course.

Oh, here we go....another "Chicago vs. New York" thread.

*gets popcorn, sits back, waits for the action*

Ahh, the Taste. Where I learned that an exceptionally hirsute male could, at a distance, look like some nutjob wearing a white fur coat on the 4th of July. Or where your sibling can point out a woman with breasts shaped exactly like torpedos (not Madonna) and claim it's proof of alien experimentation on Earth.

video man: Chicago style > New York style

Chicago style pizza is not pizza. It is quiche.

Taste of Chicago sucks. Milwaukee Summerfest rocks!

/lives in Chicago

Good, since Summerfest is better anyway. (And draws roughly the same attendance when you figure attendance vs population of the host city, they both sit roughly around 1:1)

carnifex2005: video man: Chicago style > New York style

That has never been true for anything.

Yeah. Lets put all of our trash out front, daily. That'll smell wonderful in the July heat.

FarkinSneakyBastage: Taste of Chicago sucks. Milwaukee Summerfest rocks!

/lives in Chicago

This. Summerfest needs to work on a less mundane lineup, however. Bring Wilco. Every damned day.

/lives in Milwaukee

nastro: FarkinSneakyBastage: Taste of Chicago sucks. Milwaukee Summerfest rocks!

/lives in Chicago

This. Summerfest needs to work on a less mundane lineup, however. Bring Wilco. Every damned day.

/lives in Milwaukee

I wouldn't mind that [Wilco that is]. Although they did have some pretty nice local bands playing this year. Yes I was partial to a couple because of family/friends being in them (Sir Pinkerton & The Magnificents, The UnXpected, and Bascom Hill specifically).

MAYORBOB: Can't wait for this sort of thing to catch on in Pennsylvania. Would dearly love to attend "Taste of Intercourse" or "Taste of Blue Balls".

What, I was talking about Amish food, of course.

I want one in Michigan, just so I can say "Tonight, we dine in Hell!".

See all those people the photo?
What you don't see is that 10% of them are pushing strollers while dragging a toddler or two.
Another 10% are guys walking a bicycle.
And then there are the dogs.

You can't friggin move. And its hot, real hot.

/stopped going a few years ago.
//did I mention EXPENSIVE?

justafarkingchef: But now how will I enjoy overpriced fried food in 100 degree/87% humidity in the company of 500,000 people?

It's okay - we have plenty more places and events to see fat no-lifers ooh and ahh over the littlest things.

justafarkingchef: But now how will I enjoy overpriced fried food in 100 degree/87% humidity in the company of 500,000 people?

Go to Buffalo (new window).

/Now with OWS (new window) goodness!

Stench, failure, crime, coruption, and incompetence; with a topping of smog, served on a platter of filth...

I'd go for something to wash that taste off the planet.

I happily lived in a quirky but relatively quiet little neighborhood for years when one day someone got the great idea to have a street festival. The streets were JAMMED with yuppies and douchebags that never would have set foot in the area otherwise. It was such a success they started doing it EVERY F*CKING MONTH. Bands, drum circles, street performers, screaming kids and douchebags EVERYWHERE. Then, slowly over time those people just started sticking around longer and longer until one day the entire neighborhood was overrun by these idiots. Then came the criminals and lowlifes to panhandle off, steal from and sell drugs to the douchebags. Then people started getting stabbed and shot.

I miss my old neighborhood.

F*ckin' douchebags.

I've been to the Taste 3 times. All 3 times I've gotten seriously ill from the poor food sanitation there. Not for me, thanks.

Hell, I prefer going to Lollapalooza anyway. Better music, better food, better swag.

video man: Chicago style > New York style

Truth. I go to New York once a month on business and the places my colleagues highly recommend are awful.
In New York, you don't eat at a restaurant because it's good, you eat there because it's popular to do so. And you pay out the arse for it.

Mock26: Chicago style pizza is not pizza. It is quiche.

It's a casserole. A quiche contains custard.
However, New York pizza is as much of a true representation of Roman or Neapolitan pizza as Velveeta is of a good West Country Farmhouse Cheddar.
For those playing the home game: The former is a cruel joke and an enormous slur against the latter.

esblondie2: Oh, here we go....another "Chicago vs. New York" thread.

*gets popcorn, sits back, waits for the action*

Whatever it is, we all lose, since it's a battle for the bottom.

Once again, ToC has to follow in Milwaukee's Summerfest foot steps.

After failing to kill Summerfest years ago by starting ToC, ToC now cuts its run-time by one day and closes over the 4th.

While Summerfest still runs its original length they now close over the 4th also starting this past summer.

Chicago: how great can it be? After all it's in ILLINOIS!

Milwaukee's Summerfest >>>> Taste of Chicago

The only redeeming thing about Chicago is the waterfront. The rest of it could be razed and the world would be a better place.

/I'd keep Woo Lea Oak out in the 'burbs too
//mmm mmm good

Furthermore, strictly for clarification, people need to stop referring to "Deep Dish" Pizza as "Chicago Style" Pizza, they are two different things.

The majority of pizzerias in Chicago serve a thin crust pizza which is still quite different (and still much, MUCH better) than a "New York Style" thin crust pizza.

"Stuffed" and "Pan" pizzas, which are still different than a "deep dish" pizza, also share a Chicago ancestory.

I still can't stand "Chicago Style" hotdogs. "Tamale Boats" or "Mother-in-Laws" however, are amazing.

Huck Chaser: here to help: I happily lived in a quirky but relatively quiet little neighborhood for years when one day someone got the great idea to have a street festival. The streets were JAMMED with yuppies and douchebags that never would have set foot in the area otherwise. It was such a success they started doing it EVERY F*CKING MONTH. Bands, drum circles, street performers, screaming kids and douchebags EVERYWHERE. Then, slowly over time those people just started sticking around longer and longer until one day the entire neighborhood was overrun by these idiots. Then came the criminals and lowlifes to panhandle off, steal from and sell drugs to the douchebags. Then people started getting stabbed and shot.

I miss my old neighborhood.

F*ckin' douchebags.

Which neighborhood is/was that?

Detroit

Huck Chaser: Which neighborhood is/was that?

Well it wasn't Chicago. This type of thing tends to happen in most cities. "Oooh look! We're breathing new life into the area." Yeah right, now I can't walk around at night because Johnny Cokedealer and his boys are thugging and I can't walk around during the day because the streets and sidewalks are filled with annoying morons.

here to help: Well it wasn't Chicago. This type of thing tends to happen in most cities. "Oooh look! We're breathing new life into the area." Yeah right, now I can't walk around at night because Johnny Cokedealer and his boys are thugging and I can't walk around during the day because the streets and sidewalks are filled with annoying morons.

Is there anything hipsters can't ruin?

Chigau: People still go to the taste?

I didn't, for about 15 years or so. But I decided to check it out this year. The food was pretty good, the beer was cold, and The Jayhawks played at the band shell. What's not to like?

TheDeathMerchant: Hell, I prefer going to Lollapalooza anyway. Better music, better food, better swag.

This is also true. But it's not really fair to compare a free, city-sponsored event to a $215-per-ticket extravaganza.

Huck Chaser: here to help: I happily lived in a quirky but relatively quiet little neighborhood for years when one day someone got the great idea to have a street festival. The streets were JAMMED with yuppies and douchebags that never would have set foot in the area otherwise. It was such a success they started doing it EVERY F*CKING MONTH. Bands, drum circles, street performers, screaming kids and douchebags EVERYWHERE. Then, slowly over time those people just started sticking around longer and longer until one day the entire neighborhood was overrun by these idiots. Then came the criminals and lowlifes to panhandle off, steal from and sell drugs to the douchebags. Then people started getting stabbed and shot.

I miss my old neighborhood.

F*ckin' douchebags.

Which neighborhood is/was that?

The one he made up so he could biatch about it because he thinks doing so makes him look like a cool tough guy.

Ebenator: Will DMB be there?

I'd travel there for that.

mdeesnuts: Is there anything hipsters can't ruin?

I actually didn't mind the first wave of them. I'm into weird music so it was kind of neat going to the little bar they set up... when they overran they neighborhood it started getting annoying... and then came all the "wannabe hipsters" and everything went to sh*t. The people running these events would claim that they were helping the local businesses but when you talked to the shop owners who had been there most of their lives they all said the same things. Their regular customers stopped coming because it was too much of a PITA, the new people were snotty, cheap and demanding when they actually DID go into the old shops and at night the criminals were breaking in or harassing them. Not to mention the city started raising property taxes and coming up with all sorts of ridiculous new by laws so many of those old shopkeepers got ran out. Then they got taken over by useless, overpriced hipster bars and restaurants. It was heartbreaking to watch it happen in real time.

I have a few die hard buddies who are still there and they say it's gotten far worse since I left.

I have no desire to know what Chicago tastes like. I'm sure it has Swamp Ass Seasoning in there somewhere.

ongbok: The one he made up so he could biatch about it because he thinks doing so makes him look like a cool tough guy.

Yeah... that's exactly what I did. It makes me feel like a big man.