{"id":4353,"date":"2013-05-11T00:24:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T07:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2013-05-11T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T07:24:57","slug":"the-nudie-foodie-by-lauren-sloss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/11\/the-nudie-foodie-by-lauren-sloss\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NUDIE FOODIE by Lauren Sloss"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Bold Italic<\/em><\/p>\n

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The first time I went to a strip club, I was so nervous I spiked my morning coffee with a pour of Baileys. I was anxious because I didn\u2019t know what to expect: Would the clientele be trench-coat-wearing men with slack jaws and red eyes? Would the surfaces be sticky? It was 10 a.m. on a Friday, and I had to go to work. The plan was to hit up\u00a0the Gold Club<\/a>\u00a0for its $5 Friday lunch buffet around noon, which had seemed like a good idea, thanks to its affordability and the obvious street-cred appeal.<\/p>\n

Turns out I had nothing to be nervous about.\u00a0The Gold Club<\/a>\u00a0dancers were awesomely talented. My friends and I kept looking at each other, eyes wide, as we mouthed, \u201cHow can we learn to do that?!\u201d watching Scarlett or Sierra hang upside down at the top of the pole \u2013 toned abs and, yes, boobs, stretched in our direction. And the food… well, the menu had its ups and downs, but $5 for an all-you-can-eat buffet and some skillful pole dancing was a freaking good deal. We emerged from the darkened club into the glare of a SOMA afternoon, deeming the experience one of our better work-time lunches ever.<\/p>\n

A few years have passed since my first foray into San Francisco\u2019s tit scene. Since then, I\u2019ve taken a pole dancing class (I bruise too easy to be a pole-star, sadly) and launched into food writing. With a heightened palate and a critic\u2019s sensibility, it seemed like the perfect time to return to\u00a0the Gold Club<\/a>\u00a0and give its Friday lunch deal a once-over. But what\u2019s a good review without context? San Francisco has no shortage of strip clubs, though relatively few serve more than flesh \u2013 something I learned as I called about\u00a010\u00a0of them, asking after their food menus (I\u2019m guessing it\u2019s a question they don\u2019t often get).<\/p>\n

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