Michael Moore and the president, for some reason.

As Erin Sherbert writes on our sister blog, The Snitch, after he hit 576 pounds in 2010 Moore decided to try an all-meat diet. Enter Carl's Jr.:

Moore told SF Weekly that for the last year, he has eaten nothing but plain meat patties which he ordered from -- of all places -- the Carl's Jr. by his house. The next obvious question is why Carl's Jr. and not Subway, which gained attention after 34-year-old Jared Fogle lost 245 pounds in one year by eating Subway sandwiches.
"Subway is not close enough," Moore tells us, laughing. "Carl's Jr. is right by my house -- and it's fantastic."

Currently, Moore is receiving no compensation from Carl's Jr. (Or Hardee's!) There's much more about all this here, in Sherbert's report.

This place totally rocks! The food blows your mind away. I also write for SF weekly and I definitely am writing about them this week!

There's only one problem: She doesn't write for us. I'm the editor here; I know all of our writers, and what they are and aren't assigned to do.

As soon as I saw it, I set out to correct it. But talking to Yelp isn't easy.

A typical last meal in Texas. Now with less chicken!

Texas has a different means of slightly reducing its prison numbers: execution. The Lone Star state has lethally injected 11 men this year after offing 17 last year.

Californians like to protest Texas' use of the death penalty, but considering that Republicans cheered wildly when Gov. Rick Perry was asked to defend the state's 234 executions, it's not so likely that he cares what we think.

However, we would like to call Gov. Perry's attention to a move the Texas Department of Justice made just yesterday: eliminating the tradition of allowing inmates to choose their own last meal.

I mean, there are soooo many reasons I wouldn't want to, even though it is a new flavor of Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

But Erin the news editor had news: the gay-hating American Family Association is calling for a boycott. OK, that's reason No. 1 to try these balls.

I'll let you hop over to The Snitch to see what else we came up with. But before you go, if you want to know where the concept came from -- the concept that the AFA says "has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive" -- please enjoy the original Saturday Night Live sketch.

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The deal site LivingSocial released these provocative results yesterday, from a survey of 4000 diners in 20 large cities across the US, including 200 in San Francisco.

Of those 200, only 6 -- 3 percent -- identified themselves as vegetarian or vegan. This is below the national average of 5 percent and well below the vegetarian leader, Washington DC.

"This survey shows that maybe what we think is the case about some cities isn't true," said LivingSocial spokesperson Kathryn Watson. "You might think of San Francisco as having a lot of vegans, but maybe the person in the cubicle next to you in DC is quietly eating a vegan lunch."

The only way to lure Don Draper into the kitchen was with an open bottle of whiskey

The story comes from a press release by a cooking appliance company.

We found it picked up by Bon Appetit ("Americans Concoct Sad Excuses For Not Cooking"), the Huffington Post, and a variety of other publications.

There's just one major flaw with this survey: there's no historical context.

Street food may have just jumped the shark. A charitable foundation that apparently exists to help its members tweet to each other is staging a "Street Eats Benefit Gala" next month at Ferry Plaza, with reserved seats selling for as much as $225.

Rather than force Thurston and Lovey to rub elbows with the riff raff outside Tacolicious or Roli Roti, the reserved seating allows them to wear the good jewelry.

However, if you're a little behind on your house payments, you could get in with general admission tickets for a mere $125 -- if you buy them before Aug. 31.

So what do you get for your tax-deductible money?