<story><title>After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I&apos;m leaving the table</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/dining/pete-wells-steps-down-food-critic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shalmanese</author><text>Right when FiveThirtyEight launched, they did a brilliant piece of content strategy in that one of their very first pieces was a quest to find the best burrito in America [1]. Anna Maria Barry-Jester self reportedly &amp;quot;traveled more than 20,000 miles around the United States and eaten 84 burritos in two rounds (to say nothing of the dozens of extracurricular burritos I polished off).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I was glued to the series as it plodded on week by week and it still sticks in my mind today as simultaneously the best and worst job in the world I could imagine. Part of what made it so enthralling to read was this grand act of human perversity that a single woman would endure such a gruelling quest for such a trivial question and she made you feel that perversity along every step of the journey.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;americas-best-burrito&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;americas-best-burrito&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BariumBlue</author><text>&amp;gt; Part of what made it so enthralling to read was this grand act of human perversity that a single woman would endure&lt;p&gt;This is part of why I enjoy watching a couple of RuneScape YouTubers. The sheer time commitments they put in for seemingly minor gains is like gore but for amputating off their own time effort &amp;amp; energy and throwing it into a bottomless maw.</text></comment>
<story><title>After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I&apos;m leaving the table</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/dining/pete-wells-steps-down-food-critic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shalmanese</author><text>Right when FiveThirtyEight launched, they did a brilliant piece of content strategy in that one of their very first pieces was a quest to find the best burrito in America [1]. Anna Maria Barry-Jester self reportedly &amp;quot;traveled more than 20,000 miles around the United States and eaten 84 burritos in two rounds (to say nothing of the dozens of extracurricular burritos I polished off).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I was glued to the series as it plodded on week by week and it still sticks in my mind today as simultaneously the best and worst job in the world I could imagine. Part of what made it so enthralling to read was this grand act of human perversity that a single woman would endure such a gruelling quest for such a trivial question and she made you feel that perversity along every step of the journey.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;americas-best-burrito&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;americas-best-burrito&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomjakubowski</author><text>Barry-Jester kept her cool on her burrito quest, where Jim Haggerty drove his RV into the depths of madness searching for our greatest barbecue, in Porkin&amp;#x27; Across America.</text></comment>