The only future that blog has is reviewing prison cafeterias and the cuisine of solitary confinement, including the ‘disciplinary loaf’.

Staphmeal is refreshing and needed. Too much fake PR hype from Profile Public Relations about restaurants makes me sick. It’s nice to hear some truth.

oh my, we now have impersonators….we’re honored

yay, staphmeal and foobooz, together at least. uggh.

Seems like maybe Georges and Vetri should have just ignored them and I bet this would have just died on the vine. I’ve never heard of this gossip site before today and articles/posts making fun of speech impediments certainly give me no reason to go there.

Here’s the basic anti-staphmeal strategy: out them. and then good luck keeping a job in the industry, here or outside of philadelphia, and good luck getting decent service at good restaurants. the industry generally seems to protect its own.

lawsuits do so. anonymity is their only refuge considering they’re basically poorly-written, (sub?)consciously racist themselves (the Shola post), outing nothing shocking (servers do coke? restaurant workers are often mean as hell?), and a cheap unfunny imitation of Bourdain’s old shtick that’s already tired and he at least had the balls to write it using his own name. oh, and they’re spam twitters, that’s how they built any knowledge of their dumbass project.

the real shame is that there’s a lot of insider stuff to the industry and to philly’s scene more specifically that would make up a cool blog. a shame that’s not being posted and this is.

Mike -

I was just teasing you. Your quote “It’s very hard to win a libel case against a public figure” implied that it was the ‘public figure’ being sued. I know what you actually meant.

@MrOpinionator – Sorry for misunderstanding you. I meant to say it is hard for a public figure to win a libel case.

@Rory – I don’t think you know what intending Malice means with respect to libel. It doesn’t just mean that you intend to do harm to their reputation. It means that when you wrote you either actually knew or really should have known that what you wrote wasn’t true.

The internet and newspapers have incorrect information published daily. The old saying, “Don’t believe everything you read.” would apply. Couldn’t someone be sued for defamation writing false information on all the rating sites that are out there? Yelp? City Search? Urban Spoon? These people are anonymous too and spread false rumors and information by the use of these sites. The more attention everyone gives these folks fuels and perpetuates the egos of the writers/bloggers. And look, FOOZBOOZ finds it interesting and now I am reading this article on FOOZBOOZ and commenting. So I guess it’s the American way – freedom of speech..let’s move on. The internet gives everyone with a connection an instant voice – be that good or bad. One has to be self-informed and educated beyond these blogs or you are just sheep believing everything you read.