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I've Enjoyed These Tasty Dishes

40 Iconic Meat Dishes in Los Angeles

8 Beef Double Dip at The Original Philippe

• The beef sandwich, double-dipped, is one of the enduring classics of L.A. dining. The lamb sandwich is pretty fantastic too. Just be careful with the extremely spicy, sinus-clearing mustard sauce, so dab with caution.

9 Roast Beef at Lawry's The Prime Rib

• The fancy carving carts, which roll around the dining room at this Beverly Hills institution, are the ideal place to fulfill one's meat-filled gluttony. Order a beef bowl cut, the size served to football players who come into town during the Rose Bowl.

10 Chili Cheese Dog at Pink's Hot Dogs

• A chili cheese dog here isn't going to change your life and it certainly isn't worth the long wait on most nights. But it's been the hunger cure for thousands of Angelenos over the decades.

25 Baseball Steak at Pacific Dining Car

• Popularized in Training Day by Denzel Washington, this 10 oz steak is less than $20, a perfect thing to battle a potential hangover late into the night. The old school digs certainly help finish off any night out.

Complete list (Eater.LA.com)

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Did You Know - Porsche Edition

Ever wonder how to properly pronounce Porsche? 

This video answers the question once and for all.

If you're reading this, you probably already know how to pronounce the name Porsche. But if you don't, the video above may come as a surprise. It's two syllables, not one.

Video link (AutoBlog.com)

Some Of F1's 2016's Numbers

PIRELLI’S HOSPITALITY IN 2016

• Meals served within Pirelli’s hospitality unit (including tests): 15,600
• Litres of water drunk in Pirelli’s hospitality during the year: 10,200
• Kilograms of pasta cooked by Pirelli’s chef: 900
• Pizzas cooked by Pirelli’s chef: 420
• Number of different dessert recipes prepared at Pirelli’s Hospitality unit: 50 
• Desserts eaten at Pirelli’s hospitality: 7,500
• Coffees served at Pirelli’s: almost 30,000
• Litres of olive oil used during the year: 500

TIRES

• Total number of tires supplied in 2016: 42,792
• Of these, 38,112 were supplied for race weekends and 4,680 for testing
• Of the 42,792 tires, 28,188 were slicks and 14,604 were rain or intermediate tires
• Total number of tires used during race weekends: 15,652, of which 13,844 were slick tires and 1,808 were rain or intermediates
• Total number of tires that were recycled: all
• Maximum number of kilometres driven on each compound (excluding tests):
  Hard: 759 km (Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull)
  Medium: 3,597 km (Valtteri Bottas, Williams)
  Soft: 6,566 km (Sergio Perez, Force India)
  Supersoft: 4,598 km (Valtteri Bottas, Williams)
  Ultrasoft: 2,052 km (Nico Rosberg, Mercedes)
  Intermediate: 444 km (Jenson Button, McLaren)
  Wet: 523km (Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes)

(Jalopnik.com)

Did You Know - The Bentley Cocktail

The myth and mystery of The Bentley Cocktail 

Drink this and don't drive.

[C]oldicott found The Bentley in the classic Savoy cocktail guide, a foundational reference point for boozers since the recipe book has existed virtually unchanged since its publication in 1930. What's more, The Bentley seems to be a sort of desperate iteration of another classic drink from the era, lending further credence to the myth of its creation.

"I am pretty convinced it is a variation of the Star Cocktail, which calls for equal parts apple brandy and sweet vermouth," says cocktail historian, and Bentley believer, Marco Dionysos. "The Star Cocktail was a well-known drink, and appears in dozens of books from the 1890s on. It is easy to imagine the vermouth was substituted with the Dubonnet on hand, and the new drink christened for the celebration of the day."

The Venn Diagrammatic intersection of disgusting and possible begins to connect. The folks from Bentley add further plausibility, though they have a somewhat vested interest. "We have original recipes dating back 85 years," said Bentley spokesperson Erin Bronner, admitting that she wasn't certain who devised it or under what circumstance. "And now we have a new recipe created by Agostino Perrone, award-winning mixologist at The Connaught," a venerable 120-year-old London hotel, which was just named the best bar in the world by Forbes.

(AutoBlog.com)

There's Very Little 'Free' Ways To Drive In Japan

What It's Really Like to Drive a Car in Japan: An Explainer 

So you think driving in Japan is a cakewalk? Think again. 

Getting out of the city

Chances are that you don't live in the middle of rice fields, and a quick look on Google indicates that it will take 1 hour and 10 minutes to reach that cool looking road 25km away. Nah, that can't be possible… It's so close, how can it take so much time?

Think of Japan like LA. Driving there means you're crawling most of the time. Even when traffic is light, getting out of cities can take absolutely forever due to the sheer amount of traffic lights. People also tend to drive very, very slowly, which really doesn't help. In spite of this general slowness, be ready at any time to swerve, avoiding some inept driver who has no idea what they're doing behind the wheel of a car.

Highways

Now, you have a rough estimate of how much your daily life in Japan will cost, but what about longer trips? Like a road trip to spend a couple of days somewhere, 200 or 300km away. This is where your wallet will hurt the most. Any trip that involves taking the freeway is insanely expensive, thanks to tolls.

Free highways are almost non-existent in Japan, which makes any trip egregiously expensive. When highways were first built in the country, the Japanese government promised that once they were paid for, toll booths would disappear and they would be free of use. That never happened. Instead, drivers in Japan are stuck with huge toll bills.

(Road&Track.com)