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22 November 2009
Want! Some more of this, too (my Loosianan buddy Billy brought me some). and some of these. But they don't sell any of them around here. What regional delights are you craving and denied?
I think you can get Shiner in Chicago, now. I don't drink it, but my sister does. I would like a Shandy Carib, but I have no idea where to find it anymore.
As for regional delights, I miss the biscuits and gravy at Bob and Edith's.
I had never heard of savory macadamia nuts until I clicked that link, jonmc, but now I have to have them RIGHT NOW. I'm not crazy about plain macadamias, but a little garlic and onion sounds just right for them.
What regional delights are you craving and denied?
Blue Bell vanilla ice cream. I like it with a handful of salted peanuts on top.
Jalepeno peanuts from the Peanut Shop in Williamsburg.
Oh, my. I just had a brainwave: Blue Bell vanilla ice cream with a handful of jalepeno peanuts. Oh. Oh. WANT.
This isn't so much a regional specialty as a regional deficiency: I haven't had good Chinese food in years. We just don't have a good Chinese restaurant in the area, at least not one I know about. Come to think of it, I miss a lot of the fare I used to find in Chicago and Houston, especially Mexican (or even Tex-Mex!), soul food, and Polish food.
There is --- or used to be, anyhow --- a very, very good bagel place in Bangor, Maine, of all places. I would give a good deal right now to have one of their sesame bagels, toasted, with scallion cream cheese. And maybe a piece of mandelbrot after.
I hear that Scratch Bakery in South Portland has good bagels, but I haven't tried them myself.
I'm going to tackle bagelmaking this winter, to offset the local bagel deficiencies. Also, homemade doughnuts.
Shiner's okay, jon, but if you want really good beer brewed in Texas, you need to locate some Saint Arnold's out of Houston. The Fancy Lawnmower is my favorite sweltering sweaty Summer day beverage.
I'll mention it to my source, fez. The Bock he brought back was terrific, though. I'd love to try the Junior Johnson moonshine, too, but I don't have a source in any of those states yet.
mygothlaundry, we have Utz crab chips down this way! Come visit!
jonmc: i'm sure there's someone in NC who is going up to NYC at some point. (I don't have current plans to, but if I ever mention it, remind me and I'll bring you a bottle, providing the ABC store carries it.)
amro: I know Yours Truly. I have eaten most things on the menu. I love The Envelope and the Chagrin Broil and that breakfast thing, the YT Medley, fried eggs on pita bread with bacon and cheese. And I love love love their cottage fries but don't be mad at me, not so much with cheese.
I miss: Amster's pretzel bagels, Wise potato chips, East Coast Custard, Euclid Beach candy kisses and popcorn balls, DanDee Corn Twistees and Heinen's chicken salad.
Poutine from Belgian Fries on Commercial Drive in Vancouver. Best hangover food ever. Sits in your belly like a greasy potato fist, in a good way. Also, Aero bars, Smarties (real Smarties are made of chocolate, not that weird chalky sugar, and you will never convince me otherwise), good salmon, good smoked salmon, and loose tea from Murchie's (which, as bmarkey pointed out a while back, I can mail order, if I can convince BOP that mail ordering tea isn't silly and extravagant.) I was missing HP sauce, too, until my dad sent me some. Yay, Dad.
Kangaroo, I lived off those fries in law school (back when I could still get away with that and not gain weight). I think there was one other thing on the menu that I got sometimes, but I can't remember what. I was a vegetarian back then, so it was something meat-free.
Chocolates from the provider to the court in The Hague. Best chocolates I've ever had.
Shiner Bock, huh? I've drunk Shiner Hefe Weizen in SF since I always drink the local beers. It failed to impress me. But then beer is very subjective. Maybe I should have tried the Bock.
Seems funny that monks were on a fast and compensated for that with a high-calory beer. Doesn't seem to fit with the spirit of abstinence of a fast I'd think.
I'd just about kill for a big plate of the greasy nasi goreng made by the little guy in the underground food hall in Sydney Chinatown. That was all sorts of awesome.
Little Kings Cream Ale. in 7 oz. bottles(Chick beer) Vic Cassano & Mom Donisi's Pizza. Thin, thin, chewy crust. pepperoni & green olives. So salty, you're gonna need lots of Little Kings.
Huh. I've got Shiner at every grocery now that the town's gone wet. Tell you what, I'll send a case, and you send however many pounds of books. :)
As for me, I'll go with Amazon and streaming movies from Netflix. And if that's not fast enough, I can reserve movies on the nearest Redbox from my house.
I've also got Shiner everywhere (and a couple varieties, even--they make a pretty good Hefeweizen).
If you want to work out some kind of exchange involving, say, Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, Southern Tier IPA or almost anything from Ommegang, just say the word.
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