<<Midwest Coffee Talk: The Tens>>

[LMich]

Egyptian domiati?! How guache! What are you, some kind of poor? Brie Noir is the new black.

[Centropolis]

shit i'm going to walk back for a shot of jaeger.

[Centropolis]

ok I went and it just made me sleepy.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by LMich

Egyptian domiati?! How guache! What are you, some kind of poor? Brie Noir is the new black.

....Oh yeah....I, uhh........well......MY DAD GOT ME AN EXECUTIVE POSITON SO JUST SHUT UP!!!!

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by LMich

"What? Wegmans doesn't carry aged artesian Cabot clothbound cheddar, or Canadian heritage wheat varieties?! Bah. Fie. How common. Better yet, why the f%ck am I in New Jersey? Ewww. My driver is SO getting fired for this."

You think I shop at a regional chain store with the unwashed masses and kraft cheese, cheap butter, caged chicken/eggs, and (gasp) corn-fed beef?!?!

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

Her words: "I don't know what we're going to do without you."

Your boss sounds kind of like Chris Brown. Has your replacement bitch been chosen yet?

[Robert Pence]

All this gourmet food talk makes me crave a grilled velveeta sandwich on white bread with bacon, lettuce, and tomato. Maybe I'll chase it with a bowl of Campbell's Cream of Tomato soup! I need to make a run to Kroger ... in my truck.

[mobyhead]

Corned beef hash for breakfast is about as gourmet as I get.

[vid]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

You think I shop at a regional chain store with the unwashed masses and kraft cheese, cheap butter, caged chicken/eggs, and (gasp) corn-fed beef?!?!

Nothing wrong with corn-fed beef.

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by Robert Pence

All this gourmet food talk makes me crave a grilled velveeta sandwich on white bread with bacon, lettuce, and tomato. Maybe I'll chase it with a bowl of Campbell's Cream of Tomato soup! I need to make a run to Kroger ... in my truck.

If you like smoked pork with cheese sandwiches you should really have a croque-monsieur. The last time I was in Zurich, I smuggled back some smoked mangalitsa belly that I fry up like bacon. I use fresh bakery bread (i.e. one with a wood or coal oven), heirloom tomatoes, arugula, and a bit of garlic aioli. Zabar's makes a "passable" garlic aioli if I feel like being lazy. As for the tomato soup, you should avoid the corn-syrup and MSG in Campbell's and make your own tomato-basil bisque from heirloom tomatoes - it's will make you want to beat anyone you see picking up canned tomato soup with the can.


/ part SNL Stefon, hipster, and banker faux persona.

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by vid

Nothing wrong with corn-fed beef.

Vid, we're talking about cows and not your fantasies. Free range grass grazing beef is superior to that corn-fed, antibiotic stuff that you can see in any youtube animal cruelty video.

[vid]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

Vid, we're talking about cows and not your fantasies.

When your neighbourhood is full of cows, you need fantasies.

[Robert Pence]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

If you like smoked pork with cheese sandwiches you should really have a croque-monsieur. The last time I was in Zurich, I smuggled back some smoked mangalitsa belly that I fry up like bacon. I use fresh bakery bread (i.e. one with a wood or coal oven), heirloom tomatoes, arugula, and a bit of garlic aioli. Zabar's makes a "passable" garlic aioli if I feel like being lazy. As for the tomato soup, you should avoid the corn-syrup and MSG in Campbell's and make your own tomato-basil bisque from heirloom tomatoes - it's will make you want to beat anyone you see picking up canned tomato soup with the can.


/ part SNL Stefon, hipster, and banker faux persona.

Does sound tantalizing!

I posted my comment tongue-in-cheek, hoping to get a rise out of the same folks who responded to my truck photo in Skybar. The stuff I wrote is a sort of comfort food, or at least the thought of it, for me; it's what my mom fed us kids sometimes when we were little, and among people of my generation it's probably quite familiar. Our family wasn't exactly well-to-do when I was a tyke, and both of my parents graduated from high school right at the beginning of the great depression. They learned the lessons of frugality early on.

Oh! And how could I forget Franco-American Spaghetti; just open the can and heat it up.

[vid]

I am on Robert's side, you can't beat "girl cheese sanniches" and "chicka-noogle soup". The only thing Franco-American sells in Canada though is really cheap and odd-tasting canned gravy. Substitute that for Kraft Dinner, of which we ate plenty when I was growing up.

If I had twitter, here are two examples of what I might write on it:

"They should call is necritosis. My breath smells like a rotting corpse!"

"Sixteen hours later and I still smell like shitty bodywash! Thanks, Gillette!"

Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to brush my teeth.

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by Robert Pence

Does sound tantalizing!

I posted my comment tongue-in-cheek, hoping to get a rise out of the same folks who responded to my truck photo in Skybar. The stuff I wrote is a sort of comfort food, or at least the thought of it, for me; it's what my mom fed us kids sometimes when we were little, and among people of my generation it's probably quite familiar. Our family wasn't exactly well-to-do when I was a tyke, and both of my parents graduated from high school right at the beginning of the great depression. They learned the lessons of frugality early on.

Oh! And how could I forget Franco-American Spaghetti; just open the can and heat it up.

Hopefully you didn't take me seriously. I've never been to Zurich, never eaten (probably pretty expensive) mangalitsa pork, etc. I was doing an impression of an elitist forumer here. My mother was born and raised in Alabama and my father was born in West Virginia so BLTs, Campbell's tomato soup, and grilled cheese sandwiches were high brow compared to some of my favorite snacks growing up and which I continue to eat.

I will not touch chitterlings, but hog head cheese/souse, canned sardines, canned vienna sausages, and pigs feet - DELICIOUS!

[Robert Pence]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

Hopefully you didn't take me seriously. I've never been to Zurich, never eaten (probably pretty expensive) mangalitsa pork, etc. I was doing an impression of an elitist forumer here. My mother was born and raised in Alabama and my father was born in West Virginia so BLTs, Campbell's tomato soup, and grilled cheese sandwiches were high brow compared to some of my favorite snacks growing up and which I continue to eat.

I will not touch chitterlings, but hog head cheese/souse, canned sardines, canned vienna sausages, and pigs feet - DELICIOUS!

Got it! It was an impression well done, too. I've not had chitterlings or souse and don't yearn for them, but dad new them well. He missed them, but Mom wouldn't have anything to do with them. I know all those other things and like them. After we moved to the farm, we didn't have a lot of supermarket snacks because we grew most of what we ate. Fresh veggies in season, often picked within a couple of hours before the meal, and every year my dad would get together with his uncle and they'd butcher a hog or cow and divide the meat. Hog butchering meant bags of cracklin's.

Before we got a freezer, every year Mom canned a winter's supply of garden produce. A long wall in the basement was lined with shelves full of everything from green beans to catsup and other goodies from plump, ripe tomatoes. My grandma made sauerkraut and several kinds of pickles and relish in several big crocks, also in the basement. Her sauerkraut with dumplings and pig's feet was one of the best things I've ever eaten, and I've never found any to match it in the 52 years since she passed away.

[Centropolis]

Damned proud to be Midwestern. At the least we keep old NYC spiced up enough.

[uaarkson]

So I recently discovered Cool Calm Pete, a Korean-American rapper from Queens who is blowing my mind a little right now.

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Next time you sift your way through a large NYC photo thread, put this song on in the background.

[UglymanCometh]

what the hell is going on in here...?

[EuphoricOctopus]

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