What in the World Is a Shawarma?
Back in April 2011, stuck in a monumental traffic jam on Interstate 5 just north of Seattle, I switched on the radio and hit the Seek button, hoping to find a station with an up-to-date traffic report. “Maybe they’ll recommend a way around this mess,” I thought to myself hopefully. Rather than finding helpful directions to a faster route south, however, I stumbled instead upon a pair of sports radio personalities on 950 KJR AM jabbering nonsensically in typical fashion about something they found interesting for obscure reasons known to them alone. I was about to hit the Seek button again when I heard one of them unexpectedly mention shawarma. That got my attention. I stopped worrying about traffic and started listening more carefully to what no longer seemed like mindless blather. It turned out they were critiquing a survey conducted by the website FlowingData comparing the demographics, personality traits, fashion choices, food and drink preferences, and more of PC users with those of...