Food Thread: Mailed In Edition (First Class Postage Though!)

This is exactly what I am talking about when I refer to English pub food as being quite good. That is a carefully boned rib chop, cured and smoked as bacon. Topped with a fried egg, and served with some sauce that was a mystery to me but quite tasty, and some onion/apple relish off to the left. I am not usually a fan of anything apple within 50 feet of my dinner plate, but that stuff was delicious!

The chips were wonderful. The beer was delicious.

If you don't like that sort of food you are simply taking the contrarian position and you will be sent to your room.

[This is going to be a bare-bones Food Thread. I am recovering from some sort of malady that I caught from some Frog trying to weaken Anglo-Saxon culture so they can express contempt for us without fear of getting punched in the nose. Plus, the snowblowing kicked my *ss!

So you people will have to open up a can of whoop-ass on the Gun Thread snobs and put them in their rightful place at the bottom of the famous and coveted AoSHQ 4:00pm-10:00pm Sunday Time Slot! Can you do it without the guiding hands of Dildo? Wait... what?

By the way, does anyone know where this competition came from? I suspect it was from a 9mm enthusiast, but who knows, it might even be a shaken Manhattan troglodyte!]

Which first? That was the question posed to me, and I must say, I was a little taken aback. I think it is obvious.

Your thoughts?

I did not think it was possible to make Mac & Cheese unappetizing, but the health/environment Nazis in the UK figured it out!

I took that photo at the tail end of the lunch hour, where pretty much everything else was picked over. And because I adore sausage rolls in their every form... even the most humble from a supermarket, I was just about to grab one when... yup! Fake meat!

And right next to that display was an empty display of... come on ... you can guess!

Yeah... the real deal.

It made me laugh. Even in effete, soon-to-be-authoritarian London, they can't force people to eat zee bugz!

[Hat Tip: Weasel]

Who are those poor deluded souls We know who shake their Manhattans! These are the same people who drink fine bourbon with coke, and probably shake red wine with ice too.

$1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty of fifty years, but it is worth it!

posted by CBD at 04:00 PM

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