If you’re thinking of attending this restaurant, thinking it’s a “fancy place to take the little woman”, I don’t recommend it. For my birthday, I said I wanted to go to the “meat on a sword” place, figuring it would be a “once every few years” luxury. And the time is ticking on how long I can take advantage of such things before my doctor says I can’t go anymore (“Your LCL must be this high to ride”). The novelty is responsible for its notoriety. But like Disneyland, the reality isn’t as great. Said novelty is that it’s a form of buffet-style. The meat-men occasionally come around with skewered meat…
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McDonald’s Ain’t What It Used to Be
So I had a bachelor weekend recently and watched a lot of movies. One was The Founder, the biopic of the Ray Kroc, one of the co-founders of McDonald’s as we know it today. Let me get this out of the way first — I LOVE McDonald’s. I love it for the nostalgia, the family quality, the food, the decor, the smells. Those were the days of the styrofoam clam shells. I LOVE the fish sandwiches, mostly because of the tartar sauce. I would get a fish sandwich in place of a hamburger for my Happy Meal (my Dad would eat the hamburger). The house I grew up in was…
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My Problem With Okja
Here’s some more “I’m old and all you young people are wrong” blog posts that I know everyone loves. I’d been looking forward to Okja since it was announced. Netflix produced, made by the same guy as “The Host” who blended comedy and horror into emotion, and plus I’m a sucker for “A boy and his X” stories ever since E.T. (Other formative favorites include Short Circuit, Flight of the Navigator, Homeward Bound, The Never-ending Story, Norby, The Enormous Egg, Charlotte’s Web, I even had “A Boy and His Blob” on NES.) But there’s also the message of the small-town farmer against Mirando, the big mega-corporation that wants to use…
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So Long and What’s With All the Fish?
Yeah, I know it’s lent, and apparently that means you can’t eat meat on Fridays, except for fish. Catholics and their rules (shakes head). (Disclaimer: my wife is Catholic, so I’m allowed to poke gentle fun, right?) But hot damn, son. They’re all coming out of the woodwork this year. It’s standard to have McDonald’s deal, that’s what the Fillet-o-Fish was created for in the first place, beating out Ray Kroc’s “pineapple burger”. But everyone’s getting in on the action this year: Arby’s, Wendy’s, Burger King. Famous Dave’s had this e-mail promotion where they brought back the Sweetwater Catfish fingers. McDonald’s added the Fish McBites to their already prevalent fish…
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Sketti
I think I have a strong stomach. I’ve seen people eat weird shit. I’ve seen a few episodes of Fear Factor and Survivor where they’re eating cockroaches and spiders. I’ve seen lots of horror movies and Japanese pornography. I’m no stranger to gooshy visuals. But for some reason I have never been more nauseous looking at sketti from “Honey Boo Boo”. Starts at 2:54 Sketti is made with noodles, ketchup, and melted butter patties and I am getting ill just writing that. There is nothing more indicative of trailer trash than the food one eats. I thought it was bad when I saw Britney Spears dad making “cheese grits” in…
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Hot Girls You Don’t Know About: Morgan Smith Goodwin (The Wendy’s Girl)
Here on “The Hot Girls You Don’t Know About”, we aren’t just about highlighting attractive and talented women, we’re also about discovery, and exposing truth where you might not think about it. Take the new Wendy’s girl. If you’ve never thought about this new fresh-face is, here’s the skinny. This woman is Morgan Smith Goodwin, but her Facebook says she’s Maggie Mae Morgan. She’s an actress/singer, but I don’t see any IMDB page for her. Her website is supposed to be here, but I get a 404. Does this woman exist? Aside from information more contradictory than the bible, she’s from the south and been in a few plays/musicals. And…
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Things I Like: Hannah Hart & My Drunk Kitchen
YouTube is overloaded with TV shows, webcam series, and just about everything. I can’t remember where I heard of it, but one of my favorites, even though it doesn’t update very often, is My Drunk Kitchen hosted by Hannah Hart. What is My Drunk Kitchen? Pretty much what you think it is. A cooking show with copious amounts of alcohols, usually wine or mimosas. What makes it fun is the host, whose patience for baking extends slightly longer than a mosquito’s nose. She makes grilled cheese but forgets the cheese, puts cookies in a muffin pan, and calls tacos “a most versatile fruit”. Besides Hart’s fairy-like charm as she flits…
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Michaelangelo’s Iron Chef Pizza
Some people (including my much revered James Rolfe A.K.A. The Angry Video Game Nerd) take the time to put Michaelangelo’s classic recipes to the taste test. Hilarity ensues (and the video is worth it for the nostalgia alone).
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Giant Kit-Kat Bar
Ohhhhhh, daddy wants. see more Hacked IRL – Truth in Sarcasm
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My Wife’s Cake
Last year, I tried to make my wife a cake for her birthday, because A) she doesn’t like ice cream cake and B) no one should have to make their own cake on their birthday. I made a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles. Unfortunately, I did not use frosting from a can. I used it from a buttercream recipe, and I made it too thin. So the top layer kept slipping off the bottom. I had to fasten the layers to each other with toothpicks. And no one wants to pick toothpicks out of their cake. This year I made a zucchini cake because we have a ton…
