http://www.delawareonline.com/blogs/2008/10/ill-meet-you-anytime-you-want-in-our.html
Towards the end of last night's Joe Biden/Sarah Palin debate, Joe Biden said this: "All you have to do is to go down Union Street with me in Wilmington and go to Katie's restaurant..."
It caughtme off guard, as well as our food guru Patty Talorico.
She investigated a bit and realized Biden was referring to the long-closed Katie's Italian restaurant, which is actually two blocks away from Union Street.
The establishment is now a Wings to Go.
Talorico's blog post has been picked up by the John McCain campaign, along with The National Review, New York magazine and others.
For a guy running as an in-touch-with-the-real-people candidate, it's hard to believe he not only referenced a restaurant that has been closed for nearly 20 years, but also got the location wrong!
I just called the owner of Wings to Go, Nate Johnson, who verified that Katie's closed in the late '80s.
"He was a little off," Johnson said of Biden.
Johnson said no one in the restaurant even heard the reference last night because a band called Baby Brother and the Long Hairs performing, so the volume on the televisions were turned down.
But for Johnson, any publicity is good publicity, even if Biden got the restaurant's name wrong: "Hey, if people find out were here, it's good, no matter what he called it."
And for the record, <s>Katie's</s> Wings to Go is on Sixth and Scott streets:
Towards the end of last night's Joe Biden/Sarah Palin debate, Joe Biden said this: "All you have to do is to go down Union Street with me in Wilmington and go to Katie's restaurant..."
It caughtme off guard, as well as our food guru Patty Talorico.
She investigated a bit and realized Biden was referring to the long-closed Katie's Italian restaurant, which is actually two blocks away from Union Street.
The establishment is now a Wings to Go.
Talorico's blog post has been picked up by the John McCain campaign, along with The National Review, New York magazine and others.
For a guy running as an in-touch-with-the-real-people candidate, it's hard to believe he not only referenced a restaurant that has been closed for nearly 20 years, but also got the location wrong!
I just called the owner of Wings to Go, Nate Johnson, who verified that Katie's closed in the late '80s.
"He was a little off," Johnson said of Biden.
Johnson said no one in the restaurant even heard the reference last night because a band called Baby Brother and the Long Hairs performing, so the volume on the televisions were turned down.
But for Johnson, any publicity is good publicity, even if Biden got the restaurant's name wrong: "Hey, if people find out were here, it's good, no matter what he called it."
And for the record, <s>Katie's</s> Wings to Go is on Sixth and Scott streets:
