Oy. John Cusack.
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I just read the plot summary on Wikipedia, and I think my life is now just a little worse.
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Hey now. It’s a John Cusack movie. About the same as all the others. Plus: frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity!
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Blasphemy! Say Anything is the best one. And Grosse Pointe Blank isn’t bad, either.
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See, now, you thought I meant “bad” - whereas I meant quite the opposite. Yes to all of them (except maybe the occasional “action” movie he tried to mix it up).
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My two picks are Con Air and Grosse Point Blank. Neither qualifies as first class cinema, but they are fun and do not grate like High Fidelity. I wonder where he eats in New York. I love dirty water dogs and miss Schrafft’s.
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Years ago, someone he went on a date with leaked some information about his behavior, and unfortunately I can’t see him without thinking of it.
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I didn’t hate High Fidelity, but I thought Jack Black was the best thing about it.
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Getting back to the dish in question, reading the description makes me want to puke. Fancy truffle fries. Worst thing ever created. Take a perfectly good fry and douse it with putrid smelling greasiness. I have an aversion to truffle in all things. Smells and tastes like dirty gym socks that have been festering in the locker for months.
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Or rather, rich people who like to impress other less rich (but still pretty rich) people by throwing around money. See also: douche bros.
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There was always that one kid who never took their gym clothes home.
And easy to spot them.
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I actually like truffles, but not love them. They are overpriced for my own taste. I actually think I would like the fries with truffles combination, just not their combination. Truffles are often pair with simple pasta and the idea is to use the simplest food to pair with truffles and not to overwhelmed the truffle taste as little as possible. In this spirit, a simple fries with truffles can work (assuming you like truffles). However, all the rest of the stuffs, especially vinegar and aged cheese seem counterintuitive for expensive black summer truffes – at least in my mind.
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I like truffles fine, truffle flavoring not so much. But they are wasted on fries. It’s just stunt food. If I wanted to impress the sort of person who would be impressed by this, I’d be more likely to buy that banana taped to a gallery wall, and save myself the calories.
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What is wrong with the classic gold standard method?
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That’s a classic, but I quit smoking in 2012!
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That is easy. You throw the cigar in a fireplace. First, burn the $100 bill and then burn the cigar. Double the message!
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This is why I love HO. It’s like playing an old game of telephone. I started the thread with a stupid puff piece on expensive fries and we end up rolling through John Cusak movies and sweaty gym socks. It’s a heck of a ride 
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I remember telephones. I had a nice red one. I also had a big Mickey Mouse one.
(in other words, I love HO too)
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Did you know that the copyright protection for Mickey Mouse expires in 2024?
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In all seriousness…. Anyone still has a dial phone. I mean a real one
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