If there is one station that could pull off the low brow outrageousness that could deliver on everyones' dreams for this show. It's VH1.
Did some more work on the pit, sealed a few more areas (mainly the fire box) with gasket material to improve air flow. Tomorrow is a test brisket. The better I get at trimming, temp and time, the less rub I gotta use to get the same flavor. Also a lot of rub can disguise little mistakes. This is the 12th brisket I've done on the pit so I'm starting to get a bead on where my sweet spot is for BBQing them.
The last few years I've made a point of giving myself a birthday present. A couple years ago I bought my Schecter guitar, last year I bought my land in Missouri. This year I didn't really go all out, but it cost me a few bucks regardless. I moved my 1962 (My birth year) baseball card collection to the current #50 set of PSA graded 1962 Topps cards in the world. One of these days all these cards are going to pay for my well, septic tank, and house to be built.
Best $100 I ever spent? Getting student tickets to gopher hockey games. Got 7 for that price and its gen admin. Tonights game against UND was insane.
In DC on election weekend, and Facebook along with several fuck tards in guy fawkes masks reminded me of the 5th of November.... Never thought I'd be praying for Wednesday.
We're all moved into lake house for the winter. The bad news... absolutely shitty cell phone reception. Only works outside, without my otter box on it. The good news... I have a baited rod in a rod holder on the dock at all times. I can see if I catch a catfish from my recliner.
Real question. Why do people eat taco bell? Everyone knows that what they put in there has to be described as meat or previously wasn't and everyone knows they'll get the trots after eating it. If I want gas and diarrhea I don't need to eat taco bell, I can just drink some milk. ...I, I just don't get it. Why eat taco bell?
I know you guys were worried when I ran out of yarn for my shawl last weekend. Well I have good news! I custom ordered another skein from the dyer and it got here today. So my shawl should be finished in no time! You can all rest assured. And I agree with xrayvision, Taco Bell is delicious.
To be fair you also like sloppy joes and brussel sprouts... Excuse me now while I drink champagne eat oyster sand then enjoy some wagu beef, which isn't happening but nothing is more pretentious than all that in terms of food. Actually I'm wrong. Anyone who talks about Uni can go fuck themselves, that shit is gross.
In my defense, I only eat at Taco Bell maybe twice a year. It's not my favorite fast food establishment but every once in a while I just can't turn down a chicken quesadilla. I will not make excuses for my love of Brussels sprouts though. If you don't like them, you're cooking them wrong. End of story.
If you don't pretend that Taco Bell is Mexican food, it is definitely delicious. Salty meat. Lots of cheese. Cheap. It's not good like a steak house. But then again I'm paying $5 a plate and not $100 so I don't expect it to be. It's also open until 3am in lots of places. I definitely prefer it over McDonalds, Burger King, Arby's, Wendy's, or KFC. I will turn it down for Chick-fil-a, 5 guys or in and out.
I've worked in the meat industry for awhile and 95% of what you read is bullshit. Not as in they're spinning it, but it's literally making shit up because the animal rights activists are pushing all those articles. I ran a department that made patties for burger king and there's nothing exceptional or scary about what goes into their burgers. It's just cheap cuts off the animal. There's literally zero additives to the formula, it is 100% pure meat. The unhealthy stuff is in the way you cook it and the condiments. I didn't run the taco bell department, but the company I worked for did and I sat in meetings with those guys on a weekly basis. It's the same. Major companies like the fast food giants also have a lot of control so you can't really fuck with what they ask for. If you're going to take a hit on profits it's better to piss off a customer who sells to a retailer than one of the big chains. The contracts are huge, can't risk losing them to a competitor. Hot dogs can get pretty nasty because that is the absolute bottom of the barrel. The hot dog departments are where meat goes when short term market fluctuations can't be predicted and you have to get rid of something. The expiration date on raw product after the kill ranges from 4-8 days before you can formulate and package/freeze it, so when customers suddenly back out they just dump the excess shit on the hot dog departments and they adjust the additives to make it 'work'. What you buy in the grocery tastes similar, but you're getting something different every package. And taco bell is delicious.
They discovered r/realgirls and r/onoff, etc. I am very happy that you confirmed my suspicions about meat at fast food meat. I had always suspected it was the same.