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We don't know. We're asking. At least our sibling site Asylum.com is.

Intrepid food bloggers and writers, here's your chance to help them out by nominating the restaurant you think is the manliest, most dude-friendly, or just an excellent joint to which you'd take a visiting Viking or poet-lumberjack if he were visiting from out of town.

Asylum.com needs your expertise. They're not just looking for steakhouses that serve 3-pound T-bones, but also those joints guys love -- like JUJU Cereal Bar in LA and Texas Wieners in Philadelphia, where they'll drop feta on your tube steak, just for the asking.

If they use your nomination, they'll bestow greatness upon your blog from the hallowed pages of Asylum.com. Readers will be voting on your nominations, and much like Miss America, there will be one winner, but many awards along the way.

E-mail your blog and nomination to johndevore@asylum.com.

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The latest in silly, bizarre, fun food news:

• Ever wonder what cops really think of donuts? Or if most teachers actually loathe apples? GOOD Magazine did, too, and conducted an interview with four people in different jobs, asking them their take on the food most often associated with their profession. There's a cop talking about donuts, a pilot on airplane food, a teacher on apples, and a rock star on whiskey. Excerpt from the pilot's take on airplane food: "Economy travelers don't want to live out some bourgeois fantasy of the 1940s. Give me a damn sandwich or some pasta."

• Asylum gives us the ten weirdest pizza toppings, including squid ink and caviar.

• Bake a geek-worthy cake...Tux the Linux Penguin or an iPhone, anyone?