Joining the Twitterarti

One of the things that I've been feeling under pressure to do since I started trying to break into the food game was to have a sort of online presence. Its the en vogue thing for foodies to have a blog and a twitter and a facebook page, and I have dabbled with all before to a greater or lesser extent. Twitter I have to say was a mystery to me. My unused personal account was pretty much a wasteland of barren thoughts, I really could not get the hang of it.

But I thought I really should get on board with this technology for the sake of my new venture, and I am so surprised at how much has come out of it. I live for @mentions and a personal message from who-knows, just someone who likes what you're up to, is like Christmas morning to a (newly) 30 year old.

Yesterday I was back on the markets for the first time since returning from Mission Research (ok, the big holiday) and tweeted the news in advance, receiving an @mention from anpburgers saying he'll pop down. And lo, the man behind the tweets did just that! It was awesome to be able to shake the hand of someone who until that time was merely a sentence on a screen. Not only that but we fed him with our food which we had been banging on about into the ether, and learned that he too was in the early stages of starting a venture in sliders. And he bought some friends with him. It was kind of amazing, like there was a momentum behind the words that were more than just words, I get it now.

Here we are at our first market back:

Do you like the flag? Totally worth the trip to Texas for that, right there!