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JUL 2017

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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 7.17 83 Yum?: Taco Bell's Naked Chicken Chips Reviewing the Yum! Brands avant-garde. Ever bit into a juicy chicken nugget and thought, "I wish this was flat and dry"? Taco Bell's got you. For $1.99 — 10 cents more than the cost of that 2 a.m. miracle, the beefy five-layer burrito — you get six chicken nuggets that look like someone's toddler went to town on them with a triangle Play-Doh cutter. Too soft to be chips, too thin to be nuggets, the naked chicken chips sacrifice texture for a gimmick that draws attention to the food-making process — something Taco Bell should probably avoid. Just how did this chicken get to be a triangle? I can't help but picture grinders, tubes, pinkish paste. The "chips" taste exactly like that frozen Tyson chicken that comes in a bag, and the little cup of nacho cheese on the side doesn't help. Save your dime and keep it classy — buy a $1.89 burrito instead. — Dylon Jones A NAME? WHAT'S IN REVIEW Lady Tron's 147 E. Market St., New Albany Star Wars, Star Trek and Muppets memorabilia fill the shelves inside Lady Tron's, Summer Sieg's snug soup-and-sandwich diner (bar seating only) that opened earlier this year in New Albany. Sieg got her start in restaurants more than 20 years ago. "I went into Lynn's Paradise Cafe for the first time, and I was like, 'Oh, I'm gonna work here,'" she says. "I always thought I wanted to have a unique place." While working in San Francisco, a friend nicknamed her Lady Tron. "There's no rhyme or reason behind it. I know we hadn't just watched Tron or anything like that. She just started calling me that. And it stuck," Sieg says. The name reminded her of sci-fi. "I like sci-fi, but I was never a huge fan," she says. "I didn't have any of the memorabilia that I have now, except 'Pigs in Space' because I love The Muppets." — Thomas Elmallakh ON THE WALL "Mr. Money" lives inside a painting on the white brick wall of Germantown coffee shop Bean (1138 Goss Ave.). "We just came up with that name for him," owner Billy Seckman says. Mr. Money wears a pinstripe suit and stands next to his dog. He's smoking a cigarette in front of what appears to be a shotgun house, which would fit right in in Germantown. "We find he has a very interesting personality. We come up with stories about this guy. He brings a lot of humor to us. He's a very mysterious man," Seckman says. Manager Hayley Fisher found the painting at the Peddlers Mall in Clarksville, Indiana. "I think he looks like an X-Files guy. Like he knows where the aliens are," she says. — KM

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