NYT column answers readers' hyperspecific restaurant questions

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe New York Times has published a column answering readers' restaurant questions, and the questions are described as highly specific.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's the Ask Becky column, Kenji. Becky Hughes writes it monthly, and this edition is about staving off the winter blues.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentStaving off. That's the language of a siege, Vera.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's dessert. The headline promises banana splits and something called party omakase.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOmakase means chef's choice. So a stranger in an apron decides what your party eats, and the readers asked for this.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich is what a party host does anyway, with fewer knives.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd the banana split? Historians mostly believe it was invented in nineteen oh four, though the origin is disputed. That's a cold case with sprinkles.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's three scoops and a banana. Kids solved it a century ago, and the only dispute is who gets the cherry.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNoted. I'm filing the cherry under unresolved, and the column gets a verdict of mildly important.