One Atlanta resident just wanted to know where to find the best southern breakfast staple in the city.
"WHERE ARE ALL THE GOOD BISCUITS IN ATLANTA — IF THEY EXIST?" the reader asked, writing in to to Creative Loafing's Answers Issue, which provides responses to submitted questions — from the banal to the bizarre.
Th answer to the question above is Boom Biscuits, according to CL critic Jennifer Zyman: "You can only find them at the Peachtree Road Farmers Market on select Saturdays, but they are worth the trouble."
This year's issue tackled a host of questions, not just the culinary. And though most lacked all-caps passion, none lacked for curiosity.
One reader asked why Atlanta “tears everything down” when Savannah, a city in the same state, “prizes, and capitalizes, on its historic buildings.”
“Since Reconstruction, I think [Atlanta has] been a city hell-bent on rebuilding and reinventing itself every generation,” Daniel Carey, president and CEO of the Historic Savannah Foundation, told CL. “As for Savannah, I think we’re comfortable in our own skin.”
(Atlanta has lost many landmarks over the years. See a gallery of archival photos here.)
The annual issue even settled the apparently ongoing debate regarding Atlanta’s autonomy.
“No, Atlanta cannot secede and create its own city-state,” said Ted Baggett, associate director of Strategic Operations and Planning Assistance at the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, citing the Constitution, which forbids such insurrection.
And it turns out the reason the Georgia Department of Transportation hasn't erected suicide fencing on Spaghetti Junction, a spokeswoman told CL, is because it isn't legally required.
And in case you were wondering: Taqueria del Sol is closed on Sundays to promote “quality of life” for the restaurant’s employees.
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