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Got milkshake? Richard Blais accuses H Burger of copying his idea

Former Top Chef contestant Richard Blais was in Denver recently, and he's still all shook up over what he found when he visited H Burger: a copycat version of his Burnt Marshmallow and Nutella milkshake. "Maybe I should just be flattered?" he asks in this steaming-mad blog post. "But instead,...
By Patricia Calhoun
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Former Top Chef contestant Richard Blais was in Denver recently, and he’s still all shook up over what he found when he visited H Burger: a copycat version of his Burnt Marshmallow and Nutella milkshake.

“Maybe I should just be flattered?” he asks in this steaming-mad blog post. “But instead, it makes me want to load up my smoking gun and do a mother fucking drive-thru drive by.”

Fortunately, Blais lives in Atlanta — which should give Ian Kleinman, the molecular gastronomy wizard and consultant who gave H Burger its liquid nitrogen milkshakes, plenty of time to duck.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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