Without further ado, here are the week’s Top 5 posts (chopped down from the usual Top 10 in a symbolic offering to our increasingly nasty recession) from the Young & Hungry blog:

1. D.C. Restaurant Week Pushed Back to February *
2. Timmy G’s Ham Cruncher: The Sandwich That Glows
3. Want Some Shawarma? Head to Adams Morgan.
4. My Visit to Pat’s In Five Easy Pictures
5. Blagojevich Burgers: Available to the Highest Bidder

* Thanks to Gothamist, the No. 1 post for the week was actually this video.

“It glows,” says the woman at Gilly’s Craft Beer & Fine Wine in Rockville, placing my Timmy G’s Ham Cruncher in front of me. And she’s right. The sandwich, about four inches high, sits in a paper basket emitting an eerie fluorescent visual hum: ham and cheddar on white bread, slathered with a nice spicy mustard and stuffed with almost a Grab Bag’s worth of Cheetos. Mercifully, I didn’t request a side, since my order is already a sandwich and a side in one.

“That looks disgusting, dude,” says Sami Cardak, a friend joining me for lunch. Sami opts for the Roast Beef Sammy (”Because my name is Sami,” he reasons), while I go for the creation I invented about three decades ago.

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