He's the one with a large Dunkin' Donuts cup in place of a water bottle strapped to his bike frame.

Dan Miller explains:

... Lester (apparently, the guy who selected my donut mix): "I gave him a mix."

DD employee: "See, these look like mostly chocolate."

Lester: "Well I was just trying to get rid of the donuts we have a lot of." ...

Karen Wise reports from the front lines of Newton's ice-cream wars: Coney Island Ice Cream Cafe serves up decent Oreo and mint chocolate chip ice cream, but its vanilla is decidedly lacking:

... It was the strangest thing. It was the right color, texture, temperature, everything — but there was absolutely no discernible vanilla flavor at all. Not an artificial flavor, mind you, but no flavor. ...

Flasher tomato at the Davis Square farmer's market.

One thing Roslindale doesn't lack is Chinese take-out places. So it was kind of surprising to see yet another one open up, this one at the fortuitously numbered 888 South Street, where Tex's used to be, across from the old Longfellow School.

The other day, I gave Hong Kong Cafe 888 a try for lunch.

The Transcript reports on a spat at the Burger King on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury: A patron told police that when he asked employees to put on clean gloves, the manager came around the counter:

[T]hrew the victim's money back at him, grabbed a soda cup from his hand and grabbed his wrist.

The manager told police he refunded the man's money and asked him to leave but never laid a hand on him.

Stop & Shop today unveiled a new logo, which to my untrained, non-graphical-design eye is very similar to the stylized cornflakes logo, if squashed and re-shaped a bit to make it look more like a goose that's gotten trapped in a giant grapefruit.

Stop & Shop says the new logo is part of an effort to make shopping "easier and quicker." That would certainly lend credence to my theory - if you can only buy one thing at the store, you're not going to spend much time there. Channel 4 also reports:

These changes include scanning items as you shop, weighing and pricing produce yourself and creating kid-friendly isles that are free of candy and tabloid magazines.

Kid-friendly isles! Like Martha's Vineyard?

Gone as of today; new place will honor Cafe D gift certificates. Via Chowhound.

BostonZest gets the scoop: They re-open today.

Why they were closed.

When Pigs Fly says rocks in one man's raisin bread an aberration. The guy who chomped on rocks is willing to forgive and forget.