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Video: East Village Chef Builds A Better Meat Munchkin
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Jen Carlson
Published Nov 30, 2010
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It's been just about a month since we met the latest Dunkin' Donuts frankenfood: Meat Munchkins. At the time, a brave young man named Seth tried them out, only to bite into a nearly frozen morsel coated in an unidentifiable gooey substance. But as far as ideas go, on a scale of 0 to Homer Simpson Fantasy Food, a pancake ball with sausage inside rates pretty high up there. To that end, the same determined young man recently set out to find a better version of the chain's creation; he challenged Joe Dobias of the East Village restaurant JoeDoe to build a better Meat Munchkin. The result can be seen below, in all of its wild flower honey goodness...
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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