{"id":6485,"date":"2011-11-27T23:58:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2011-11-27T23:58:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T07:58:26","slug":"superior-wi-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6485","title":{"rendered":"Superior, WI &#8211; The Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/superior3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6487\" title=\"superior3\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/superior3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>Back in the day, some day, I was working on occasion at an oil refinery in Superior, WI.\u00a0 Our work was outdoors, and once and awhile, we&#8217;d get rained out.\u00a0 On days requiring &#8220;liquid refreshments&#8221;, we&#8217;d head to a bar called the &#8220;Manila&#8221;, and thus rain days became known as &#8220;the Manila Monsoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other days we&#8217;d head to a little diner called &#8220;The Kitchen&#8221;, for\u00a0 ample servings of home cooking at bargain prices.<\/p>\n<p>Kawikamedia and some of the Minnesota burger posse headed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/pages\/The-Kitchen\/310212891020?sk=wall\">The Kitchen <\/a>for brunch today, and Kawika&#8217;s Hawaiian roots led him to order the Superior version of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loco_Moco\">Loco Moco<\/a>, which The Kitchen calls &#8220;Pupu Kaka&#8221;.\u00a0 (Make of that what you will).<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin version was a pile of hash browns, a burger patty, a couple of eggs, and &#8220;just for fun&#8221; Kawika subsituted sausage gravy in place of the usual brown gravy.<\/p>\n<p>He felt it a tasty bargain at under $7 a plate, says they will return, but next time he&#8217;d go with the brown gravy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6495\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/superior1png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6495\" title=\"superior1png\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/superior1png.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plate of Pupu Kaka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/129\/1321984\/restaurant\/Duluth\/Kitchen-Superior\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1321984\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Kitchen on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, some day, I was working on occasion at an oil refinery in Superior, WI.\u00a0 Our work was outdoors, and once and awhile, we&#8217;d get rained out.\u00a0 On days requiring &#8220;liquid refreshments&#8221;, we&#8217;d head to a bar called the &#8220;Manila&#8221;, and thus rain days became known as &#8220;the Manila Monsoon.&#8221; Other days&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6485\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Superior, WI &#8211; The Kitchen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12,16,34,26],"tags":[1223,2128,2305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}