"Teriyaki chicken is a definite substitute when you're out with people who love sushi."
When I talked to Taylor Swift for the Scene's People Issue, I mentioned that I had read somewhere that she and Miley Cyrus had eaten an entire pizza while rehearsing for the Grammys. "Yeah, we were talking 100 miles a minute," she said, "and so we didn't even realize that we were just completely eating an entire box of pizza." (I told her there's a Nashville band, Those Darlins, who have a song called "Whole Damn Thing," but that song's about a chicken, not a pizza. "I'll have to look that up!" she said.) Teenager, pizza: Makes sense.
Then I asked Swift to name some of her favorite Nashville restaurants, and she said, "I like Bricktop's a lot.... Bricktop's is cool. I went to Flyte once, have you ever been there?" I said I had been there, once. "It seemed really good," she replied. Seemed really good? But I think I know what she meant: Everything about the atmosphere of the place—the way the wait staff carry themselves and brush the crumbs off your table—makes the place seem good. But maybe that's another post. Anyway, pop star, fancy restaurant: Again, makes sense.
But remember when our own Nicki Wood asked the question: Eaten at the Old Spaghetti Factory latey? I guess I was a little surprised when Swift 'fessed up.
