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It's hard being cynical enough: SFoodie caught a nasty whiff wafting off the streets of the Tenderloin today when Tenderblog tweaked us for our scoop about the imminent coming of pizza resto 222 in the old 222 Hyde nightclub space. Okay, yeah, our innocent musing about the T-loin's readiness for trendy overlooked Farmer Brown et al, though, in our feeble defense, we were thinking Beretta-style pizza trendiness, not the fried-chicken-and-collard-greens trendiness of Farmer B. Though, yeah, trendy is trendy. We totally suck.

Weirdness in bulk: It's not all unicorns and peace signs at Rainbow Grocery. At Gordonzola, cheese guy Gordon Edgar describes a recent Fourth of July shit storm -- a day when co-op shoppers tend to get prickly -- about the rather bogus distinction between Brie and Camembert. In passing, Edgar describes this chat with a different shopper: ... I discussed whether the world would end due to Incan Calendar Fail or merely as Nostradamus prophesized. The last one I didn't actually discuss, mind you. I just stupidly asked a clarifying question about a button he was wearing and then had to wait out the word storm. It was like a summer shower except that I felt dirtier after it was over. Makes being a Whole Foods Team Member look almost appealing. Almost.