(well, not really) because I am a stickler for grammar and word usage. I get annoyed with the plethora of restaurants claiming to serve “Kobe Burgers”, when they are not. It’s tantamount to selling “California Champagne”, which doesn’t exist. Champagne comes from the region of the same name in France. Kobe is a method of… Continue reading My Wife Gets Annoyed with Me
Category: Miscellany
My Mom’s Rule of Threes in Cooking
I’m not sure why I thought of this, or why she did, but often my mother’s home cooking recipes, which were very simple, included groups of three ingredients, or multiples of 3 ingredients. Maybe there was some speed-cooking theory at the time. Her pancakes, 3 cups flour, 3 cups milk, 3 eggs. We kids sat… Continue reading My Mom’s Rule of Threes in Cooking
“Hat Up” for Hot Dogs!
Reducing my inventory of dog and burger merchandise, you need these Vienna Beef paper hats for your summer cookouts! Get 3 for $5 plus a buck for shipping. Mailed by USPS same day as your order! One size fits most. Secure purchase thru PayPal.
Diner Lingo
Are you old enough to remember these diner terms from back in the day? Plain and Dry – Burger without the trimmings Two Cows, Make “em Cry – 2 Burgers w/ onions Walk a Cow Through the Garden – Burger with lettuce, tomato, onion Wimpy – Hamburger Burn One – Put a hamburger on the… Continue reading Diner Lingo
Weekend Decadence
Decades ago, I was with a buddy, having a “boys weekend” away from the girlfriends. He was excited, because to him, this meant one thing, which he exclaimed to me: “We can eat onions!” Well, yeah. Fast forward, my wife is leaving for the weekend, and so the house is stocked with burgers, and dogs,… Continue reading Weekend Decadence
Man Makes Love to Hamburger
Too weird for words – at the regional championships tonight of the “Air Sex Contest”. Posted on You Tube
St. Helens, Or – Klondike Bar Sliders
Stopped in this place I had previously spotted on a drive-about, about an hour north of Portland on the road to Astoria. St. Helen’s is an old, old shipping port on the Columbia River, and the Klondike was originally a rooming house for sailors and mill workers. It being between lunch and dinner, we eschewed… Continue reading St. Helens, Or – Klondike Bar Sliders
Street Dog
Spotted in Scappoose, OR. I would have snarfed it, but my wife slapped it out of my hand before I could.
Nice Pic of Krystals
From Twitpic today
Top 10 Dog Companies
How does your dog rate? Here’s the rundown for the 52 week period ending Feb 22, 2009, according to Information Resources graph in MeatingPlace magazine: 1. Ball Park 2. Oscar Meyer 3. Bar-S 4. Hebrew National 5. Nathan 6. Private Label 7. Gwaltney 8. John Morrell 9. Bryan 10. Eckrich