I make a "big mac" sauce of ketchup, mayo, touch of Worcestershire, and a head of roasted garlic. Except it is way better than some shitty big mac. I pretty much use ketchup on fries, burgers, and occasionally eggs. I got tired of everything tasting like ketchup. Dude I knew covered everything in ketchup. Everything. Chips, meat, chicken, drowned his burgers. He had the palate of a 5 year old. For hot dogs I make a relish of homemade pickles, roasted red peppers, grilled onions, and several cloves of garlic. I've also got this cajun mustard called Rex's that is pretty tits. That mustard and relish on a dog, together beat 90% of my fine dining experiences. No lie. I also intend to make a chili garlic mustard sauce with stout beer one of these days. That'll be my next hot dog project. Who doesn't like hot dogs? Magical meat in a tube. I don't care what's in it. Goddammit. I'm getting hungry.
For those people who are ripping on lard and frosting, consider this, bacon fat is a magical thing. If there is something that is inedible, say my moms pork chops growing up, put some bacon drippings on there and all of the sudden those pork chops are a gift form God. Lard is good, mayo is still bad.
Damn... I do love a good hot dog and that relish sounds insanely good. It HAS to be natural casing though, anything else is a travesty. Are you particular about the bun as well? I didn't plan on firing up the Weber grill tonight but it has been way too long since the last time, and I can actually stay outside without being miserable now. Real hot dogs and venison brats, yeah that'll do it, now the big question is what kind of beer to get.
Are you hitting on CharlesJohnson? That sounds a little provocative. I don't think future wife would like this conversation.
That's what's so funny. I saw George Carlin in concert and he joked about how all guys think of blowjobs when a girl is eating a banana. The guys I was with laughed and nodded their heads, agreeing with him. So in public I don't actually bite bananas I'm eating, I'll break off a piece and eat it that way. But I still break it into three even pieces when I put it in my mouth. This thread is killing me right now. Because of my surgery I eat just a little and my stomach hurts. But I'm so hungry. I had an orange and that's all I could eat. I woke up at 5 am with hunger pains so bad I felt nauseous. I had some pretzels by the bed and that helped, but it's like I'm piece-mealing everything and it's killing me. My family was talking about getting pizza tonight. It's like they hate me. That made me laugh. Which hurts. Wah.
I like hotdogs, but I have also been to a place that makes them and believe me-- that is NOT magic they put in it. It's meat... I think. Or it was at some point before a Wizard turned it into a hideous blob of goo.
Don't be jelly. Sometimes two men have to talk about slick, oily cylindrical meat slid between buns toasted the color of a Tahitian native. There's nothing strange about that. On the subject of buns, must go potato. Those mass produced ones are gummy. I don't understand why people need or want gummy bread. I'd sooner go with less to get bread from the store's in-house bakery. $2.50 instead of 99 cents. If your grocery budget is that tight, maybe you should just not buy bread. Most sausages are made in a similar fashion. It's called Force Meat (insert joke here). You basically chop up your meats until it is almost a liquid, stuff it in a casing then either smoke or poach the sausage. See also: English bangers, mortadella, blood sausage, weisswurst, chicken nuggets.
I like Colbert, though I don't watch Comedy Central because they have an assload of commercials. I've also boycotted Comedy Central because they edit movies. I can't stand when a station edits for content. If you have to edit for content, and YOU pick the movie, pick a fucking movie you can show in its uncut state. I don't know why that makes me angry, but I guess I hate the fact that American TV is anal about saying things like 'shit' but you can show dead bodies, war and rape all you want. And the world comes to an end if you show a nipple on network TV. The hypocrisy makes me gag.
I like beer Yo, I want to be clear: just because I know how it's made, I was not slandering Oreo stuff. I fully agree that it is delicious.
I'm pretty excited about this, Colbert is great. It'll be a good balance to the diabeetus Jimmy Fallon imparts on his show, and going against Jimmy Kimmel who is trying to be Letterman 2.0. Funny enough Boston Billy called this. Then again, I think they have the same agent...
I am anti pickle and tomato. The pickle on the plate? Yeah it's gross juice runs all over that section of the plate, normally near the burger BUN. Once it touches that, it's all over. Ick. And tomatoes are like snail trails that leave little seeds behind, encased in red saran wrap. SO MUCH GROSS. I got a bee up my butt this weekend and made some good food. Friday night was applewood smoked bacon blue cheese burgers. Saturday I made a big batch of potato salad (NO PICKELS, only some sweet pickle juice), a rack of pork ribs and corn on the cob. It was spectacular. PS Sorry funball!
France continues to encourage the complete implosion of its economy... <a class="postlink" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3028945/work-smart/france-just-made-it-illegal-to-answer-work-emails-after-6pm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.fastcompany.com/3028945/work ... -after-6pm</a> Part of me thinks its cool cause work burn out is awful and I have friends who are just slaves to the grind cause thats "how it is" at their company, but the capitalist in me just thinks France is a joke. 35 hour work week, now its illegal to work outside of that, plus if you're working there you're getting taxed to hell and back, its basically just caustic to any corporation.
See I always thought the 40 hour work week was silly. As an accountant, outside of times where I have to put in the hours (year end close for example) it's ridiculous that we use this 8 hour work day as a catch all. I can understand in the service industry where you need to be attentive to customers, but in the corporate world I know that if I come in, bust my ass, and get my work done by 2 pm I still have to stay, so what's the incentive? It's created, IMO, a culture of time wasting and idiotic needless shit like weekly useless meetings because we feel as if we need to fill up this time. Also this is a very good piece on the 40 hour work week.
But at the same time, I don't see this as an efficiency measure. I work for a Fortune 100 company, and at least in my division, its very much "get your shit done on your schedule." People come in from 7-9:30 and leave anywhere from 3:30-6. Its not like you're chained to your desk. But part of what makes this work, is the availability of people after hours and an acknowledgement of the ebb and flow of business. This isn't sitting on call at 10:30 on a weeknight waiting for a VP to drop a fire drill on you, but rather acknowledging the freedom you have and checking email once or twice at night in case something pops up after you left. Reading further, I see that Germany has a similar situation, but that is a country built on mechanical efficiency. Not to get overly political, but France just seems like it can't stop taking as much personal responsibility out of things as possible.