Have you ever tried finding your soulmate online? I recently used delicious.com, a new social bookmarking site, to find someone with similar interests. The website allows you to search sites using the tags that have been bookmarked and added by other members. For my purposes, I searched using the keywords: “restaurants,” “food,” and “Los Angeles.” Looking through the almost two thousand results and trying to find another member that has similar interests as me based on there bookmarkings proved to be difficult. I would find someone that stood out from the rest only to find that the rest of their bookmarks had no resemblance to my search criteria. I was losing faith, until I came across the member “onefoodguy.” (I mean, he better have some interesting food links with a name like that.) If it weren’t for his name I most likely would not have checked out his other bookmarks. Unlike other members, onefoodguy doesn’t include notes or a long list of tags with his bookmarks. With almost 350 bookmarks, this member adds a new bookmark two to three times a week. Among his top ten tags are “food,” “recipes,” “foodblog,” and “restaurants.” Perfect match huh?
His latest bookmark was particularly interesting, “The 100 Greatest Cult Restaurants in America: Top 20,” from Poor Taste Magazine. Why? Because some of my favorites made the cut. Wurstkuche was ranked at #17 and Father’s Office came in at #14. Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles came in at a respectable 11th place. The highest ranked restaurant from Los Angeles was Pink’s Hot Dogs (although I may draw serious ridicule for this, I have never been able to understand the Pink’s phenomenon). Overall, it was interesting to see some of my favorites included in this ranking.
Continuing to browse through onefoodguy’s bookmarks, I cam across a link for a blog titled “The Great Taco Hunt: dispatches from the taco industrial complex.” Just like on the previous site, I was interested to see if my favorite local taco truck received any attention. I didn’t have to look far, the latest blog entry from last month ranked the author’s top ten choices. “La Isla Bonita” is a traditional taco truck that has been feeding the locals on Rose Ave. in Venice for decades. One of the original “roach coaches,” unlike the recent reincarnation of food trucks, it is one of the best choices for quick lunchtime Mexican food on the Westside. There aren’t too many taco trucks where I would be comfortable ordering Ceviche, but this is one of the best and often sells out. However, it surprised me that La Isla Bonita barely made the list coming in at 10th place. I will definitely have to check some of the other taco trucks that received higher rankings.
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