Mere hours after Condé Nast announced that the venerable Gourmet was among the four titles to be shut down in the wake of their McKinsey evaluation, Curbed Media’s Eater blog, which recently went national, was already picking at the bones. Their cheeky proposal after the jump.

Yesterday Eater, Lockhart Steele‘s Curbed Media food blog, expanded its reach with the launch of a national site, Eater National. And, in order to make coast-to-coast domination a little easier, the site is paying anybody with a food blog $25 to hang it up and post an Eater ad as their final piece of content.