I'm feeling powerfully hungry tonight. Hey, Shirley "Wife-of-Pat" Boone, got any ideas what I should fix myself for dinner?
Chili, eh? Sounds great! I'm always up for Tex-Mex cuisine. Let's see if I have all the ingredients on hand. Yep...I think those still ought be to be good..yep...yeah...WHAT IN THE NAME OF HOLY HELL?
That's got to be a misprint. I mean that's just fucking insane. Let me clean my spectacles and doublecheck the instructions...
Hmm... A bold precursor to the fusion cuisine movement? Or another example of the 1950's white Protestant normative culture cluelessly lumping all non-WASP ethnic groups into a single mass under the contol of the Vatican? Either way, it's making me lose my appetite.
Y'know, Shirley, I appreciate the help and all, but I think I'm just going to make a run down to Dragon Garden from some sweet and sour chicken and crab rangoons.
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - Beans and Cornbread (from Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five: 1947-1949, 2002) - Jump Blues: It's more than good. It's good for you. A heartfelt plea for culinary harmony that features one of the best (and most fattening) wind-ups and finishes in any song, ever.
The Adicts - Chinese Takeaway (from Sound of Music, 1982) - So where'd you put the menu? No, it's not by the phone. Hey, I didn't have it last. Look, it's not worth arguing over. I'm not using that tone, but I'm hungry and the place is going to close in half an hour. You found it? Where was it? Being used as a bookmark in my DC Showcase: War That Time Forgot trade? I don't know how it got there, honest. All right, let's not play the blame game; you order and I'll pay, ok? (I smell a frame up.) What? I didn't say anything, honest!
Sunday, August 19, 2007
like hotcakes and molasses
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thanks!!! I've loved beans & cornbread since i heard it on that cable show. awesome.
You're lookin' at Cincinnati-style chili right there, as currently available at the chain fast food restaurant Skyline Chili (among others). When I used to travel for work to Cinti 3 times a year it was always worth just one meal. You can get it in the Cinti/N. KY Airport too, if you want.
As far as I'm concerned it isn't really chili--it's too soupy and not spicy enough, plus there's that served over spaghetti or salad aspect of it-- but if you assume it's an entirely different meal it isn't bad.
PS: One of my favorite food songs is Phil Harris's "That's What I Love About the South," most of the lyrics of which is a menu of all the things Phil is gonna eat when he gets back home. Delightful.
Won't you come with me to Alabamy
Let's go see my dear old Mammy
She's fryin' eggs and boiling hammy
That's what I like about the South
Now there you can make no mistakey
Where those nerves are never shaky
Ought to taste her layer cakey
That's what I like about the South
She's got baked ribs and candied yams
Those sugar-cured Virginia hams
Basement full of those berry jams
An' that's what I like about the South
Hot corn bread, black-eyed peas
You can eat as much as you please
'Cause it's never out of season
That's what I like about the South
Aahhh, don't take one, have two
There's dark brown and chocolate too
Suits me, they must suit you
'Cause that's what I like about the South
know this tune from the cable show "Dinner And a Movie," where they would show a movie and cook a dish. The dish was themed around the movie in some manner and always sounded delectable!
Kbab, Sparkina: Yep, the wife and I loved that show, until it was disposed of to make way for repeat showings of Happy Gilmore. Sigh.
Bully: Interesting... Next you'll be telling me about a heretical "clam chowder" they make down your way that uses tomato base instead of cream. ;)
That Phil Harris song gives me the idea for another post. I'm going to have to check the archives and see if I have the other material I need to round it out.
mmmm food, after another day trying to reign in some of the local headcases, i'm hungry, cooking roast pork for my co-workers tonight as we're all off to see The Living End tonight, i predict bruises and a hangover, but at leadt it will be on a full stomach, having now read the word chilli, i'm having to add spicyness to tonights repast.
A.J
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