MetaChat - Cuban Sandwich

Yum. Yes, please.

posted by me3dia 20 October | 12:45

La Vuelta, 44th Drive/11th St., LIC, Queens.

Salt-grilled St. Peter's fish (John Dory)

posted by Hugh Janus 20 October | 12:56

I like them without the pickles. There's a nouveau cuban joint on my street called Fatty's that makes one called a chavvorayo: grilled chicken, jack cheese, avocado and garlic mayo. Best washed down with a mojito. Yum.

My taste for Cuban food, coffee and music was acquired during my 2 year exile in the Hurricane State.And it's about all that I remember fondly from there. Well, alcohol was legal in full-nude strip clubs (there were 3 within walking distance of my pad)and lap dances were only 10 bucks. So that was nice. And nude beaches, too. Everything else about it sucked.

posted by jonmc 20 October | 12:57

All Nude, I invented that. Before that
it was just nude.

I was just wondering what everyone was having/had for lunch.

janus, check your email podna.

posted by Divine_Wino 20 October | 13:12

I'm having a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos, an apple danish, and a glass of water. I usually save my heavy duty eating for home.

posted by jonmc 20 October | 13:16

I wish I had a Cuban sandwich for lunch.

Tuna salad.

posted by gaspode 20 October | 13:16

Mrs. Murphy: Help you two?
Elwood: Do you have any white bread ma'am?
Mrs. Murphy: Yeah.
Elwood: I'll have some toasted white bread please.
Mrs. Murphy: You want butter or jam on that, honey?
Elwood: No ma'am, dry.
Jake: Do you have any fried chicken ma'am?
Mrs. Murphy: Best damned chicken in the state.
Jake: Bring me four fried chickens and a Coke.
Mrs. Murphy: You want chicken wings or chicken legs?
Jake: Four fried chickens and a Coke.
Elwood: And some dry white toast please.
Mrs. Murphy: Ya'all want anything to drink with that?
Elwood: No ma'am.
Jake: A Coke.

Jon,
I think the only thing that remains open for debate is how both of us can be Joliet Jake at the same time for different reasons. Right now you are clearly channeling Elwood.

posted by Divine_Wino 20 October | 13:21

I had Gouda cheese and sliced tomatoes for lunch. I haven't had a Cuban sandwich in over 10 years. *Cries*

posted by taz 20 October | 13:25

I'm on a mission from Gahd.

Also, I never understood the no-booze-in-full-nude-clubs rule. What are they thinking? "Drunk men can handle the sight of boobies and thong-butts, but a glimpse of hairpie and all hell's gonna break loose!"

That aside, Matt Guitar Murphy, your white hoodlum friends are here! Shake a leg!

posted by jonmc 20 October | 13:25

Orange whip? ...orange whip? ...three orange whips!

I'll be eating eggplant casserole that my aunt made.

jonmc, yeah, me neither. Here in Portland, it's all nude and full bar. Lap dances are $20, though. And there's all these cute alterna chicks, you know, with real bodies and no big hair or fake boobs.

posted by Specklet 20 October | 13:44

Vegetarian chili. It's cold and rainy here today, seemed to fit the bill.

posted by tr33hggr 20 October | 13:46

It's blue laws yo! Doesn't make sense to us, but believe me, the founding fathers had very good reasons to not want to get all charged up on beer and ogle lady business.

posted by Divine_Wino 20 October | 13:47

Here we have all nude full bar, but there's also a place where you bring your own booze. What's up with that?

posted by tr33hggr 20 October | 13:48

That's to do with the Magna Carta. It's all very complicated, nudity.

posted by Divine_Wino 20 October | 13:50

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, a banana, and a cookie.

posted by safetyfork 20 October | 13:58

And there's all these cute alterna chicks, you know, with real bodies and no big hair or fake boobs

I like the alterna-chicks and I loathe fake boobs, but you gotta remember my headbanger past and outer borough residence/history. I'll always have a soft spot for the big hair.

And to anyone who dosen't get the stripper thing: I love mrs. jonmc and am faithful, but every now and then I need to see a strange naked woman in the flesh and she understands that. She's even come along occasionally.

Strip clubs on the east coast are weird, though. Back in my old neighborhood in Bridgeport, there was a dive called Scruples. It was in a bad neighborhood. The floor was concrete, the only beverages were $5 Buds in a can, the bouncers and much of the clientelse were outlaw bikers, and the girls were willfully crude, often picking up tips without their hands, or mouths, even.

On the opposite extreme you have the clubs in NYC near Queensboro Plaza which aspire to "gentlemens club status," where the mini-ATM charges $8(!) for a withdrawal and bouncers who look like extras from Goodfellas patrol vigilantly yelling "Don't touch da goils!"

posted by jonmc 20 October | 13:59

but every now and then I need to see a strange naked woman in the flesh

Word.

posted by tr33hggr 20 October | 14:02

a strange naked woman in the flesh

Visions of Diamanda Galas cavorting nekkid through ground sirloin.

posted by Divine_Wino 20 October | 14:05

Wouldn't it be nice if faithful men could just pick up women and say, "I don't want to sleep with you, cause I'm taken, but would you mind getting naked?" It'd be more...personal than going to a professional, I think.

And yeah, you have those girls who like to flash their boobies when they're drunk, but I've only encountered that twice, so I think it's largely an urban legend.

on preview:mmmm, ground sirloin.

posted by jonmc 20 October | 14:06

When I lived in Baltimore, when nearly all of my close friends were men, 80% of the time we went out we ended up at a strip club. Which was made more amusing by the fact that the four of us who usually stayed on till the end were me, two gay dudes and one straight guy. After a few years, it was just habit.

Yep, I saw my fair share of nekkid ladies.

posted by gaspode 20 October | 14:14

Except Wiggles, jonmc (W/R/T the opposite extreme/Q'boro P. comment). That place is classy.

Divine_Wino, I hope it's something that can wait 'til I'm off work tonight -- my space-alien overlords won't allow me to check Yahoo mail here.

And the salt-grilled dory was what I wish I had, not what I had. I haven't yet. Had, that is. Lunch, that is. That is.

That is.

posted by Hugh Janus 20 October | 14:16

Also, when I lived in Florida, one of the strip joints was in the same stripmall as a Gymboree. How utterly quaint. The strippers can drop off their tykes when they go to work.

Reading that back I realize that I own, not one, but two songs on that theme "Mama Was A Dancer At The Clermont Lounge" by Redneck Greece Deluxe and "Daddy Was A Preacher, But Mama was a Go-Go Girl," by Southern Culture On The Skids.

This cultural vein is far from mined out, folks.

posted by jonmc 20 October | 14:21

It can wait.
I've only ever been to one strip club, which was so seedy and crazy that it felt much more like being in a movie than not. My friend, the Ecuadorian Gorilla was in such a state that he turned to me and said "I am totally going to seduce that bartender, I love her." The woman had just been all kinds of digging in her butt like the most depraved gibbon ever and had been trying to buy heroin from us, there were bugs like abandoning ship, leaping off her. There was a 200 pound chinese lady with ribbons in her hair sorta flopping her breasts at us peeking from behind this piebald velvet curtain, it was all too much, in a wonderful way. More than enough strip club for me forever.

posted by Divine_Wino 20 October | 14:29

is it nightfall somewhere?
i'm starving

posted by ethylene 20 October | 14:53

it's starting to rain! it looks darkish--

posted by ethylene 20 October | 14:54

It's been raining all day here eth, cold and dark. Makes me want to curl up with my recently purchased Sedaris book and fall asleep half-way through an essay.

posted by tr33hggr 20 October | 14:56

jonmc - I flash my boobies. But not in an I'm-drunk-look-at-my-boobies way, but like as an equivalent of mooning. Like a funzy kind of insult.

posted by rainbaby 20 October | 15:17

trust me, the recipient dosen't feel insulted, rainbaby.

posted by jonmc 20 October | 15:19

shoot

posted by ethylene 20 October | 15:26

No, it's all in the facial expression. That-statement-has-no-other-response-but-to-flash-boobies. Although I guess I wouldn't do it to someone I despised.

posted by rainbaby 20 October | 15:29

this is not chefboyardee on my chin

posted by ethylene 20 October | 15:29

Rainbaby
I was kinda imagining it like a amazon kinda thing, somehow it made total sense, I admire the punkrockness.

Eth (can I call you eth?),
You just fired a cher bomb into this thread, for which i heartily congratulate and castigate you. I am buying lottery tickets tomorrow and I promise if I win I will get you something.

posted by Divine_Wino 20 October | 15:32

No, it's all in the facial expression. That-statement-has-no-other-response-but-to-flash-boobies.

Still, I betcha they write those statements down in hope of it occurring again.

posted by jonmc 20 October | 15:33

Well I don't do it often. Can't loose the shock value.

posted by rainbaby 20 October | 15:51

bring it
*does the two flick finger flip a la [everygoddamnnewmartialartusingmovie]
do i get to pick?

posted by ethylene 20 October | 15:52

I will get two things for you, you get to pick one and be surprised about the other one.

posted by Divine_Wino 20 October | 15:54

an island?
a pony?
a [to be disclosed in privacy effort that should be almost harmless]

posted by ethylene 20 October | 15:55

A private island full of wild (but tightlipped) ponies.

posted by Divine_Wino 20 October | 16:03

it's no private universe but i dunno

posted by ethylene 20 October | 16:29

20 October 2005