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It started when I read this article.

America, your food is so gay. It started when I read this article,

America Your Food is So Gay by John Birdzall.

This is our friend Chad Shani.

He writes America's Test Kitchen podcast, Mystery Recipe.

Today he's here with a very different story.

Mr. Birdsall won a James Beard Award

for his 2014 article, which ran in the Lucky Peach.

In it, he describes how three gay men, James Beard,

Richard Olney, and Craig Claiborne were fundamental to the development of American food culture.

In the intro, Mr. Birdsall describes a particularly decadent cheeseburger as unflinchingly, unapologetically, magnificently queer.

But to be honest, I didn't see it.

This cheeseburger, which he calls the Lou burger,

just didn't read all that queer to me and so it got me thinking what is

the queerest food. Hey Chuck can I just break in here what what do you mean

when you say queer food? Well food is food right and so it

isn't gay or straight or anywhere else on the queer spectrum but when Mr. Birdzal described the burger in his article as

magnificently queer he was using it as a way of describing the queer culture of the

moment. Ah okay so if you're trying to answer the question of what is the queerest food,

there might be just a little bit of creative license going on.

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