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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Mailing these to restaurants instead of Michelin plaques

Photo of a construction site which includes an official sign that says “Nothing you do on this site today will be as important as going home to your family and loved ones

Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

One thing that working in a restaurant will teach you is that people having the same name as a celebrity is actually really really common

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Pantone Spotify Wrapped like “your favorite genre was “dog whistles””

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Working on some squash passports to get folks out to restaurants this winter

A table covered in collage materials of squash photographs and playboy pictures and various pieces of ad text. The centerpiece shows a woman looking fondly at a giant knobbly squash, with the text “oh, darling, you have everything i’ve always wanted”

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

When you’re trying to cop that dark wizard fit

A picture of a “Zara Man” storefront but the lighted sign has very close kerning and says zaraman

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Has anyone done this yet?

Screencap from tv show “Fleabag” in two panels, the first showing Fleabag saying “are you okay Father?” And the second showing Hot Priest saying “oh fuck you calling me father like it doesn’t turn you on just to say”
Except in both instances “father” has been blacked out and replaced with “chef” and hot priest has been poorly photoshopped with a chef hat and apron

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Medically speaking, I’d advise against that

A picture of a tin of what claims to be “rimming sugar”

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Humans crave Pocky because it satisfies the forbidden urge to chomp on a thermometer under your tongue

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Shallot? More like shalittle (This works better if you’re British)

A hand holding a shallot approximately the size of one finger joint, against a background of normal-sized shallots

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

European date format: DD/MM/YY US date format: MM/DD/YY Boston date format:

Picture of an extremely messily handpainted sign in a construction zone that says: “Dunkin CLOSED 9-8-2025 to 9-15 SEP”

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

You know the movie’s gonna be lit when you see

Opening credit screen of “The Third Man” showing text that reads “zither music played by anton karas”

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

If you thought “The Brutalist” was beautiful but too intellectually rigorous, might I recommend “Architecton”?

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It has come to my attention that many of you think Laser Wolf is just a goofily random-word-named restaurant, and not a CLEAR REFERENCE to the Fiddler on the Roof character, this is what defunding the arts in education has done to us!!

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Made corn ice cream, like every other restaurant in new england, but we also have apricot-kernel (with poppyseed) ice cream, and you’re not getting that anywhere else probably

Three round scoops of pale yellow ice cream posed inside an open green corn husk on top of a patio chair

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

If i had a nickel for every time a guy at this specific bar has asked about my tattoos and then asked if i know who owen gray is, i’d have two, which isn’t much, but it’s weird that it happened twice

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/07/2025

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Things are bad but I just passed two dudes walking together on our street, one with a cat on his shoulder and the other with a cat on a leash in his arms, and that? That is really really nice

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We did it, we created the world’s first* Cold Dip™️ sandwich. The ice cream sandwich au jus. Lemon cake, toasted coconut ice cream, strawberry syrup *do not fact check

A rectangle of ice cream sandwich with yellow cake and tan ice cream in a dish of red syrup

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

When you misunderstood the hot girl who said she was into tarot

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The kid through all of 28 Years Later

Captain America screenshot that usually says “I understood that reference” but it says “I didn’t understand”

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Listened too closely to the lyrics of Bad Mama Jama and now they just sound like Captain Holt pretending to be straight. “Her body measurements are… perfect, in every… dimension” “i get so excited viewing her… anatomy”

Gif of Captain Holt in Brooklyn 99 pretending to be straight by saying awkwardly heterosexual things like “i see a pair of thick weighty breasts and all logic flies out the window”

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I have some questions for the guy wearing a “Top Dad” shirt which bore only a very low effort resemblance to the Top Gun logo

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A dating red flag that is going to sound overly specific but actually isn’t that you should run away if a man talks often the macros of pumpkin seeds

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Made beach rose ice cream this week (with “urban-foraged” petals, of course). It comes with sumac jelly, but the jelly isn’t pictured because we don’t exactly have a media budget so I needed this napkin to stay clean and usable

A scoop of ice cream with pink flecks rests on a rumpled piece of white fabric scattered with rose petals

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Wylie Dufresne told me to stop letting the air conditioning out of his donut shop (the customer leaving as I walked in didn’t shut the door)

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This week we have saffron-apricot sorbet and lilac ice cream, and they are very nice together. I would prefer to always eat ice cream in tandem with sorbet, they really improve each other

Two square pans of ice cream with scoops taken out and on a plate. The top is a deep bright orange, the bottom an off-white with flecks

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My roommate’s inability to put a new roll of toilet paper on the holder needs to be studied in a lab

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Under a cloud of grated Ewephoria (sheep gouda) and fresh horseradish hide slices of cold lamb ham, cold salt potatoes (👋🏻 NNY), and rhubarb-onion condiment

A plate on a splayed stack of restaurant menu pages, the plate has hints of pink but is mostly covered in a cloud of what you assume is grated cheese but actually also contains
Horseradish

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Kentucky Furby; is this anything?

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Wow it’s crazy that the iPhone has a “beer ID” setting

Screenshot of the iPhone camera app on portrait mode detecting “natural light” while the object in front of the lens is a can of Natural Light beer

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Last week i made roasted banana thai basil ice cream, and saffron/szechuan pepper/mahlab ice cream, and I just think they’re neat 😌

Picture of two rectangular containers of ice cream on a deep green background. One container is a sunny yellow, the other pale brown with green flecks

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

@unlikelywords.bsky.social and I immediately pointing and shouting “naming my bottled water company “basically purified water” is raising a lot of questions about whether our water is actually purified that are already answered by the name of our company”

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Boston on the bleeding edge of traffic control as always

Photo of a traffic light with both red and green illuminated at the same time

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Remember kids, you’re a Madeline Kahn, not a Madeline Kahn’t

Shirt with a print of Madeline Kahn in Clue during the “flames, flames on the side of my face” scene

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Hey girl are you a box of eggs, because I’ve noticed your self worth increasing lately (and i think that’s rad)

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Probably my favorite incredibly American trait is regional grocery store pride

A sticker on a pedestrian overpass railing (showing the Cambridge St bridge between Harvard and Allston in the background) the sticker depicts a skeleton hand holding a shopping basket and says “basket til the casket” in a mimicry of the Market Basket grocery store font

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Something insidious is happening. Just within a few years we’ve seen a dangerous shift as more and more bakeries make monkey bread out of *laminated* dough. Children of today will grow up thinking this is normal, we will completely lose the squishy precedent to the encroach of viennoiserie

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

With thanks and apologies to many past New Yorkers and @hels.bsky.social food review columns- the Winter 2025 Cabbage Passports are taking shape. Visit your favorite restaurants and try their treatments of cabbage this winter

An array of collaged cards that use cut-out photos of cabbage to censor nude photos, or substitute the cabbage for another primary item in the photo. These collages are captioned with excerpts from cigarette ads and food reviews that tout the delicious nature of cabbage

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

EATER, BLINK TWICE IF CHATGPT IS HOLDING A GUN TO YOUR HEAD

Excerpt of an article about a bar opening from Eater.com containing an awkwardly shoehorned paragraph about the bar owners using chatgpt to answer construction questions

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Finally doing it, canceling all my streaming subscriptions because it’s at least worth seeing if I could possibly spend $600/year individually renting or buying things I want to watch

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Sorry, I can’t possibly remember a new phone number, my brain is saving the last number slot for “36-24-36?? ONLY IF SHE’S 5’ 3” “

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Party invite where instead of a +1 you get a minus-one; you can dis-invite any one person

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Sometimes the water in the burrata containers freezes on top because we have old reach-in fridges at work, and I have to crack through the ice to fish the burratas out, like reaching to rescue a kid who fell through the ice on a winter lake

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Love the wan winter light giving me Flemish still life color here. Satsuma sorbet and bay leaf ice cream, and in the foreground; a satsuma assumes the leaves of a laurel

Two containers with frozen treats formed into scoops- one sunny satsuma-coconut sorbet, the other pale green bay leaf ice cream. A hand holds a satsuma, its own leaves replaced with bay leaves

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Did anybody else’s family have the concept of “[family last name] time”, where all your clocks/watches were set a certain amount fast so you were never late because you had a cushion of “real time”?

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Bay leaves are for ice cream, and ice cream is for when bae leaves 😌

A pot of foaming milk with bay leaves on top, to be infused for ice cream

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

“Babygirl” bravely asks what if there was a Manic Pixie Daddy Dom

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Kelcey @kelceydr.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It was a good night to walk home from Nosferatu

A foggy night on an empty street, streetlamps glowing behind trees

A foggy night on the JFK bridge in Harvard, rows of streetlamps glowing in the fog

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