WTF?
David Vlach, sous chef at Heidi’s, great cook, and all round great guy, and I noticed in a recent publication this quote (and on their website),“There’s no more glorious way to drop 10 bucks in this town right now than with the Town Talk’s phenomenal pulled pork sandwich.” – Rick Nelson
The actual quote was, “There’s no more glorious way to drop 10 bucks in this town right now than with the Vlach’s phenomenal pulled pork sandwich.” – Rick Nelson
How do you just change a quote to suit your purposes? It’s fantastically ridiculous, no? Or is it OK to make up whatever you want, heck why not “an eye for an eye makes the whole world hungry” Mahatma Ghandhi.
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“An eye for an eye, and delicious frickles for all!”
-Mahatma Gandhi
If you create something while working for “the man” does “the man” have the rights to your creation? if you no longer work for “the man” can you bring your creation with you to your new place? or does “the man” get to keep it? Are there basic guidelines to this sort of thing? hand shakes? deals? money exchanged for rights? or perhaps the ability to work at a place and use their equipment so you can exercise your skills is your exchange with “the man”. tough call.
either way – we know where Sous-per Dave can be found – and it’s right where I like to see him.
AJ used to tell stories about sneaking into the walk in and eating the cold pulled pork by the fistfull.
I’m unclear from the OP which was the actual quote. But at the end of the day, the question would be, “did David patent/copywright the recipe?” Can you even own a recipe as IP? I do know of several hungry lawyers who would be happy to hear David’s tale of sandwich woe for little more than a free dinner at Heidi’s for their trouble. Before they tell you he has no case, that is.
I’m not saying David didn’t come up with the recipe, or that what Rick Nelson says is right or is researched (or even matters…it’s the Strib, fer chrissakes, right?) or that Town Talk hasn’t dropped off the quality cliff since David, Tim, Aaron and Nick left. But my point is that ownership and posession rights have to be fought for from seed to tree in this world, and I doubt David gave it up in a less than willing manner at the time.
regardless of who owns what, a quote is a quote, you can’t just change it as you see fit.
Shefzilla, the problem I see is that you need to get over your antiquated notions of “journalistic integrity”. Clearly very few in the media care any more, so why shoud you?
yo Zilla…word
Oh, no wonder I couldn’t find your blog…I was looking up Pee Diddy.
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