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back to the subject of maple syrup- someone wrote in to Dan Savage about not being able to get off without smelling maple syrup. I swear it wasn't me...

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=4887809

S/he seems more sincere than the original "how'd that happen?" letter-writers, but I still have to file this under fiction. It's about a step & an half above a group of seventh graders scouring the Urban Dictionary & writing a letter presenting one of those predilections as naturally-occurring.

How'd that happen!?

i made the johnny appleseed last week. it was fucking awesome. i wish i took this picture at a better angle

Even blurry, that looks really fucking goog jesus I just realized I'm starving.

mmm that looks good

we'll be making ours around march 8th, barring no more court appearances

the apples + the stone ground mustard really pushed this thing into the stratosphere

oh and the sourdough loaf was an excellent touch

for tomorrow:




ingreedgents:

brick cheese (had to check 3 different stores before i found some)
bbq sauce
peppered pork
onion rings
bibb lettuce
mayo
sesame bun

we'll be pairing this with sweet corn and probably some sort of bock or stout


That's the life of a country singer, Hoss. Sound good to you?

i went to twitter and saw that maple syrup was trending and was all like "wtf?". it's because justin bieber mentioned it.

This is kinda funny. You should go back and read my status from last night...completely oblivious to this talk of maple syrup.

great. now i have to go off the maple syrup because this moppy headed douche-rag of a 16 year old mentioned it.

dont let a 16 yr old decide what you can and can't drink by the bottle

word.

if you're still having trouble, just pretend it was flying rabbit who made it trend. he really was before the beeb.

aww, thanks guys. i'm glad i can count on you for aiding in my sugary addictions. i'm back on the bottle now.

My beard, the prognosticator.

time for a maple listerine cocktail

eww

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THE HONKY TONK

I'll just jump right in:

We started this thing off right with a batch of homemade onion rings, deep fried in cornbread batter. Ain't no state fair that can touch 'ese rangs...




I found a block of Wisconsin brick cheese after two days of looking around. Apparently this is a Wisconsin thing, and most chain stores don't care to get hip. Shera thought this one was bland and left a bad aftertaste, but my opinion of it was palatable and along the lines of squishy provolone. Like maybe if provolone and velveeta mated and had a bastard cheese child.




Recommended beer was a porter, so Shera picked up a sixer of Bad Elmer. Not her best choice, she admits, but she had two kids in the car and couldn't tote them inside the liquor store. An employee had to do the leg work. Named Elmer.




Sided this with fresh sweet corn.




(The tootchkins doin' a lil' juke joint shuffle for their victuals.)



And there we have it...


Beef patty, bibb lettuce, peppered pork, brick cheese, onion rings and bbq sauce on a sesame seed bun.

A little too much like meatloaf for my liking, likely due to the bbq sauce, onion and red meat flavor combo. Even though it was constructed well in a technical sense, I'd have to give this a score of:

and a half 1969 Mick Jaggers.

Damn toots, buy a grill so you don't have to boil that corn.

i agree with the 1.5 Mick Jaggers. this one was boring. the rings were a little too bready for me, the cheese tasted like moldy havarti, i had no butter for my corn, (and that's a necessity for me) and the beer was just OK. good thing the kids are cute and helped make cookies yesterday, otherwise i would have been mad like Wilford Brimley is about having the diabeetus.

i need to build a deck to support said grill first. you're not the first to cast damnation upon me for not having one at this stage in my adult life

Jeebus. Did you have to unhinge your jaw to eat that?

we usually have to eat at these from various coordinates as opposed to straight on