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Someone Is Packing LA’s Best Dishes for Insane Food Shots Around the Globe

The mind-bending page features In-N-Out in Iran, Chengdu Taste in NY, and more

by Farley Elliott Apr 11, 2017, 3:18pm PDT

Farley Elliott is the Senior Editor at Eater LA and the author of Los Angeles Street Food: A History From Tamaleros to Taco Trucks. He covers restaurants in every form, from breaking news to the culture, people, and history that surrounds LA's dining landscape.

In today’s internet-thing-you-have-to-see moment: Check out this Instagram page called Eat See Repeat. Basically it’s just photos of food in places, but when you notice the specific dishes — many of them iconic to Los Angeles — and the backgrounds of the images, you start to get a sense pretty quickly how insane this whole endeavor is.

The premise is about as simple as it gets, yet ends up being insanely complex. Take for example the most recent below shot:

Please meet the Key Lime Pie brought from LA's Fishing With Dynamite to NYC's Oculus train terminal at the World Trade Center. For once I did not drop the precious item on the crowds below. However, I did have a woman ask what I was doing, look up my IG account and start following. She promptly unfollowed that evening. What's better than getting unfollowed by a lady in NYC?

A post shared by Eat. See. Repeat. (@eatseerepeat) on Apr 3, 2017 at 6:36pm PDT

That’s the famous key lime pie from Fishing With Dynamite in the South Bay, except the background is the busy (and beautiful) World Trade Center train terminal. Not a crumb looks out of place, and the folks who run the currently anonymous account claim it’s definitely not a photoshop job.

Okay, so maybe you can correctly protect a delicate dessert during a cross-country flight, but what about this still-fresh-looking lobster roll from Son of a Gun making an appearance in Austin?

When visiting the Texas State Capitol building in Austin, one has two choices: 1) take the $53 Segway tour or 2) the self guided tour of @jonandvinnydelivery's lobster roll from Son of a Gun that I brought from LA. Did I choose wisely??

A post shared by Eat. See. Repeat. (@eatseerepeat) on Feb 28, 2017 at 10:04pm PST

And that’s far from all. Scroll through the page and you’ll find the Bay Cities Godmother sandwich enjoying a nice view of the Golden Gate Bridge, and even an In-N-Out burger (with fries) taking in the Azadi Tower in Tehran, Iran. Eater reached out to the folks behind the Instagram account, but so far hasn’t heard back.