This week, a bunch of Stranger writers tell true stories from the intersection of food and lustâromantic dinners, dates gone wrong, stuff like that. Brendan Kiley writes about how he proposed marriage over a tray of oysters, Ellen Forney draws a comic about almost setting the house on fire while trying to make dinner for her boyfriend, Ansel Herz fesses up about something he did at the Space Needle... The stories are so good we might have to make this an annual thing.
Commenters are adding love + dinner stories of their own. Here's commenter Griffin's:
Valentine's Day 2010, Mr. Griffin and I were involved in a huge interstate pileup with something like 200 vehicles in the accident field and 37 collisions (I stopped but 5 cars behind me didn't) that shut down I-29 for 2 days. Fortunately, there were no fatalities and only 2 minor injuries despite the number of vehicles.
Our Valentine's dinner was eating Red Cross shelter popcorn, filling out accident reports, and trying to call our insurance to start filing claims.
Add your story to the pile here.
And by the way, if you're looking for a place to eat on V-Day, here are all the restaurants in the city we recommend. (Narrow it down by neighborhood or other criteria there on the left.)
