Edsel Ford Fong
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Edsel Ford Fung was an American restaurant server from San Francisco, California. He was called the "world's rudest, worst, most insulting waiter" and worked at the Sam Wo Chinese restaurant.
Edsel Ford Fong food stand at Oracle Park
Herb Caen
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Herbert Eugene Caen was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—"A continuous
Edsel Ford Fong
…Fong as the "Don Rickles of restaurant" and commented "The Soup Nazi is the Dalai Lama compared to Edsel Ford Fung". Fong was made famous by columnist Herb Caen, who often described the misanthropic Fong during his visits to Sam Wo. Caen would interview Fong on matters of local politics and gossip, then reprint…
Caen in 1994
Caen playing the drums at the 1993 celebration of The Paris Review's 40th anniversary
"Mr. San Francisco" in his Chronicle office in the early 1990s
One of Caen's four "Loyal Royals" on display at the Chronicle offices