To make amends for the lack of a puzzle last week, I give you my largest puzzle yet. Good luck, we’re all counting on you. This week’s quote isn’t very liberty oriented but the title of the book I’ve been reading includes one of the least used letters so eligible quotes were few and far between. On the book-related front, KK wants suggestions for non fiction books, I don’t read much non fiction anymore, I used to but now the political stuff is just one talking point after another and the philosophical stuff is either shit I’ve heard before or shit that’s stupid. I should probably read some more history, but most of it is just so so fucking boring. I did enjoy the Jeff Shaara books about all the wars but they were ‘fictionalized’ history, I think he’s written a few more since last I read any so maybe I’ll dive back in. Anyway, enjoy this massive puzzle and let KK know your non-fiction suggestions in the comments…or don’t, I could or couldn’t care less (I forget which one is correct in this case).
Music to solve Glibcrostics to link
With all these clues I’ll allow 2 googles/DDGs/AskJeeves’s
*Covered by The Boss recently and it may have been the most un-inspired cover ever. Totally worthless.
Reminder: The last Sunday of each month is “What Are We Reading” Day so if you want to participate get your reports in to HeyBuddyStopDoingThat@protonmail.com by the second to last Sunday.
“I could or couldn’t care less (I forget which one is correct in this case).”
David Mitchel will explain it for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
And thanks for doing this TH!
Glad you enjoy them.
I prefer the silent h in herbal.
“There’s a fucking H in it.”
heh. I knew a guy in high school named Herb. Of course, he was on the soccer team, so it got changed to ‘erb.
https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?t=67
S and T are the same.
I totally did that on purpose.
Maybe you (Hype) need to read some different non-fiction: The Annals of the Former World is a great mix of geology, travel and biography, or A Year in Provence is great. Join me in attempting to understand Nietzsche himself, and not the bullshit everyone says about him. Read stuff written in another era – just for the style difference if not the perspective.
Agree with Annals, Anything by McPhee is worth reading. If A Year in Provence is the one by Peter Mayle, I would pass.
As far as history, I would recommed The Great Game, by Peter Hopkirk.
I’ve never read Mayle’s other stuff, not even the sequel (which he was reluctant to write, but of course money talks), but I loved AYiP.
Moi aussi.
AYiP reminded me of all kinds of quirks/foibles of my Normandy rellies, so there were a lot of laugh-out-loud moments in that book for me. Some of his sequels were okay, and others were pure “gimme money,” but I hold no grudge.
I also ran into another book written around the same time called A Walk Across France, about another British couple who, well, decided to do what the title said. A very pleasant diversion on a cold Edmonton winter day by the fire. And has inspired me to do the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, hopefully next summer/fall, and hopefully the “French route,” which is the longest of the ones in that area (around 770Km, supposedly takes a month to walk it).
Spousal Unit has no comment at present.
If I recall, Mayle spent a lot of his book as a superior Brit looking down on the local Frogs. It was years ago when I read it, but that’s the impression it made on me.
The tone of the book is most assuredly “bemused”, not superior.
His affection for his adoptive land shines through.
KK wants suggestions for non fiction books
The non-fiction I’ve read over the last few months have been gun books.
‘Spray & Pray- The Brianna Taylor Story”
Anything particularly good?
I learned a thing or two from Doug Bowser’s “Rifles of the White Death”.
I think I picked up my copy for about half of that copy on Amazon.
Let me check the shelf…
I collected old non-fiction books for a long time. Here are some favorites:
In Search of the Primitive by Lewis Cotlow: true stories of meeting primitive tribes, many of them headhunters. He later wrote Twilight of the Primitive which covered what happened to the tribes after contact by civilization.
The Ra Expeditions by Thor Heyerdahl: After Kon Tiki, Thor did it again with a barge made of Egyptian reeds he used to cross the Atlantic. He didn’t quite make it the first time.
Manta by Hans Hass: Story of one if the pioneers of underwater photography. He’s a good read, and an ex-German soldier.
Why would hyerdahl pick reeds? The Egyptans had better boat-building supplies and expertise. The problem was they were bad sailors. The wind carried boats south and the current carried boats north, so there were only a few spots that were tricky along the nile. Yes, they did occassionally send expeditions further afield, but these definately used better materials than reeds.
Also, the archeological evidence along the red sea coast indicates that the Egyption naval expeditions would be along the east coast of africa or towards India. They didn’t need to wander the mediterranian when there were so many merchants who came to them there.
I am not your supervisor, go grouch to Heyerdahl’s grave.
I’d love to listen to Kon Tiki, but, alas, the Audible version is only in German.
Helmet for My Pillow was great. Fun, easy read.
The price is right, too! Free on kindle, a few bucks for paperback. The usual 1 credit for audio.
Added to the list.
I just got a copy of “The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America – The Stalin Era” in the mail. I don’t think it’s available as an eBook.
Should be an interesting read. Goes over just how deeply Soviet spies, including Americans, got into US secrets and institutions.
I have a copy of that. Combine it with the Mitrokhin archive; Sword and Shield, and you have a humdinger.
https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/
I highly recommend 1177 B.C. : the year civilization collapsed, by Eric H. Cline. The title is no exaggeration; there might be parallels to how our times, or the times immediately following, will be spoken of.
Kate Colquhoun’s The Busiest Man in England: The Life of Joseph Paxton, Gardener, Architect, and Victorian Visionary is marvelous. A great tale of the early years of the Industrial Revolution and its impacts in Great Britain.
Bill Bryson’s At Home, and One Summer: America 1927 are light but cover consequential topics.
The Bronze Age collapse is an interesting enigma, I might check that one out.
Here’s the Bronze Age Collapse episode of Paul Cooper’s Fall of Civilizations series.
https://youtu.be/B965f8AcNbw
I’ve been watching those in order, just finished the Sumerian episode.
Still occasionally dipping into Wealth of Nations which seems to be absolutely the wrong way to do it. It really wants your full attention and some lengthy sessions. Perhaps that’s just me, though.
LIMEY!!!!!! So happy you’re back!!!!
+1 million
I loves yous guys
*raises glass*
Cheers!
Now that Limey’s back, I can have gin and tonic again. Gotta protect against scurvy and malaria somehow.
Another stray sheep wanders back. So many in the last week or two.
Inoright! We might have a new flock.
Huzzah!
Keep em coming.
It’s a good book but by god was he ever tedious. I have Theory of Moral Sentiments looking balefully at me from the shelf. It’s been waiting a long time to be read.
I have a hard time with old-timey English
it’s so weird with the old endings for tense, plurals, gender
Even though French/Latin dominates the English vocabulary now, the most-often used words and our first words almost all come from the Anglo-Saxon side or Old Norge
Ever in search of history books that engage me, and mainly looking for pre-modern English and European history, I turned up what’s turning out to be a handy overview of the English monarchy starting with William the Conqueror – Crown & Sceptre by Tracy Borman. I have trouble keeping English monarchs straight if they’ve had neither a Shakespeare play nor a Masterpiece Theatre production created about them, so this is helping some. I expect I’ll need to delve more deeply into specific periods to feel more fully familiar with all the “characters,” but this is a good start.
I’m finding I also want a better understanding of pre-modern continental European history, too. At the moment, I’d be interested in a good biography of Charlemagne and/or an overview of the history of the Holy Roman Empire, so any recommendations would be most welcome.
I’d also go back further in British history: at least start with a king who is “English,” perhaps Alfred.
Unified England is interesting, but before that were all kinds of power centers including different languages and heritages. Research the Dane geld, the seat at Winchester, Danes versus Norse versus Norman (keep your Vikings straight), Angul vs Seaxan vs Jute, London versus York. Find out why Scots is a mysteriously Germanic dialect!
Indeed – the current book mentions the pre-Norman kings, including Alfred, in its Introduction, but a deeper dive into that period would suit me, too. (Titles! I need titles!)
poopsy doodles.
Ahhhh! Now I’m having flashbacks to The Six Wives of Henry VIII.
Speaking of which, before anyone else links to it. (And to make up for that, better H’s Hs.)
I would have posted this.
Well there’s always this six wives. The final one is the only one I really like, but what the heck.
But…but…they’re in the wrong order! ::eyelid starts to twitch::
You know musicians, you are a musician. Which do you think mattered more — historical order or musical flow.
Still, I get it — we’re all ob-com about some things 😉
Yay! I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembered that album!
Yes, it’s somewhere in my collection.
I knew it was coming up, sooner
You might want to consider Churchill’s History of the English Speaking People – that is, if you are tolerant of something as much (if not more) literary than history.
Lots of dogs at the Frogs.
“digs”
I avoid printed nonfiction like the plague. I will listen to it on audiobook, though. I quite enjoy that.
Glibbooks.
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So, are you Team Ham or Team Lamb? Or even something else?
When I was a kid, Easter Sunday dinner was an Italian feast. Then I married a southern girl, and ham became the order of the day. Tonight, though, will be pappardelle with lamb ragu and a decadent Amarone.
We were always ham. Which is good because I found out later I don’t care for lamb.
I’m ok with very fresh lamb done right. I can’t have 2nd day lamb—it’s already too gamey for me.
Today I made pretzel crusted chicken frittata with honey butter, with asiago potatoes and roasted Brussels sprouts as sides. Not exactly Easter tradition, but yummy.
Lamb is probably 1/3 of what my wife and I eat. Love, love, love it.
We were always ham or beef. Dad was from western rancher stock and the cow/sheep divide was deeply ingrained. I never tasted lamb until I was in my late 30s or early 40. It was okay. Then I had some wood fire grilled lamb and OMG.
I love lamb, but mainly in curries. Team Ham for holidays.
Oh, and my grandmother would always bake a lamb cake. I looked all over her house for that pan after she died, but never found it. Apparently they’re still a thing, though — you can find the molds on Amazon.
That’s kind of horrifying, lol.
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-04-14/lamb-cakes-the-easter-dessert-that-will-give-you-nightmares.html
LOL
Just ordered one for the wife. Her birthday is in a couple weeks, and this will go over… well?
I hope it’s red velvet cake under the frosting.
I’m southern and I hate Easter ham.
I’ll take the Italian version, thanks.
Dad and I had steak tonight.
Poor white trash here. Having some burgers and fries.
Even poorer — peanut butter & jelly, both straight from the jar.
This is The Way.
Leftover Sauerbraten upcoming here.
Defrosted and warmed up spare ribs from my last batch, baked beans and pepper slaw.
Lamb. Duh!
Lamb is expensive here, so it’s always been ham.
We have ham and kielbasa.
Well considering we had twin lambs born today, I think i know which direction I am going.
Lambs are ok, mom is having vision problems we think.
I’m reading Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science And Myth
Basically, vaccine science appears to be mostly myth.
Most pharma research seems to be a desperate search for a statistical signal.
if we amalgamate all the results of all the studies, 0.05 just keeps coming up over and over
The Covid BS left us all a bit gun-shy but there have been successful vaccines. Smallpox and polio come to mind.
Smallpox, yes. But that’s mostly because smallpox has such a high fatality rate.
Polio… maybe, maybe not. There’s a large debate over the actual causes of polio and it being related to compromised immune systems from environmental toxins. But it’s not worth arguing over considering the reality of current vaccines.
The upshot is that all randomized control trials for modern vaccines either used previous generation vaccines or an adjuvant for the control group. None used an actual placebo. This goes back all the way to the first generation of vaccines which weren’t subjected to randomized control trials at all. Each succeeding generation used the previous one as a control.
So we have no actual real data on any of them, and that is assuredly by design and fraud of the first order.
A dear friend’s mom born 1935 got all the covid vax
after not having had any such since the live smallpox jab paralyzed her for two weeks
it has been an interesting run
smallpox has such a high fatality rate
Not really. It was about covid level.
More ironies: the OG vaccine was derived from cowpox, not live/killed smallpox. And killed the recipients from time to time, such Jonathan Edwards (the angry hands sinner not politician).
YAAAAAASSSSS! I just downloaded The Devil in the White City about a serial killer in Chicago during the Columbian Exposition. I saw a cheesy conspiracy documentary about it a while back, where it was posited that the killer was Jack the Ripper, who emigrated after the London murders.
Oooh! I read that one! Also a lot of info about how they organized and pulled off the Exposition, but the serial killer stuff is nice and creepy!
Oh yeah, the architecture and logistical stuff is also really interesting 🤓
Definitely read the Paxton bio I mention above. He designed and supervised the building of The Crystal Palace for The Great Exhibition of 1851, amongst countless other feats.
He was also likely the single greatest influence on the relationship between a non-farming Brit and his bit of garden.
There is a much cheaper ebook by Ms. Colquhoun, A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton, possibly a draft of the above referenced book as it contains substantially identical material and even passages.
That was written by the guy who wrote In the Garden of Good and Evil. Murder in Savanah.
Midnight in the Garden was written by John Berendt, who also wrote a tome called The City of Fallen Angels, which you might be confusing with KK’s book.
Devil in the White City was written by a guy named Erik Larson.
J.J. Holmes, executed at Moyamensing prison in Philly.
He bears an uncanny resemblance to one of my coworkers.
Other Erik Larson books I’ve read (listened to):
The Splendid and the Vile (Churchill family during the Blitz)
Dead Wake (Lusitania)
In the Garden of Beasts (Nazi rise to power)
That’s a great book, KK.
That was one creepy book.
Today was not a good day for ol’ BEAM, but the Spousal Unit’s happy with how it turned out.
After Easter dinner last night with friends (Ukrainians who send money and supplies to their rellies in the Ukraine, so they made a full pyrogy dinner for Easter and invited a gang), my wife decided that today would be dedicated to insulating the ceiling of our downstairs guest bedroom so’s we can’t hear the moans of pleasure when our rellies show up and get their freak on, ’cause our master bedroom’s directly above ’em. (Okay, okay, it’s more about the snoring, but you know, it could happen…)
So I’ve been stuffing rock wool into the suspended ceiling all day. I hate, hate, HATE working with insulation; itchy, scary, easy to get into your eyes and cause major damage, and not friendly to the lungs either. I’d rather mud, tape and sand without a respirator than work with insulation, although rock wool’s still better than fiberglas pink. PTOOI!
Tomorrow I paint the guest room, ’cause why not? It’s already completely empty, and the Spousal Unit’s mom is coming Thursday to spend five days with us. It needed paintin’, Yer Honor…
I know how to live during a holiday.
Hope you all are having a better one. At least it’s warm here tonight; gonna grill steaks.
All I’m seeing is happy wife, happy life…
Finished up trim painting and minor projects, getting packed up for this week, and making tuna casserole.
I don’t pull my own teeth
and I don’t touch insulation
Back in ye olden days when I was building my first house my (home-builder) brother pointed out that it was cheaper to hire the local insulation installer that to buy the materials to do it myself.
Not here. Job was too small for any contractor anyways, the insulation cost close to $300.00 (!), and if I could’ve actually found a contractor to do it, I foresaw financial rape/pillage in my near future.
$100.00 worth of paint and it should be good to go.
“gonna grill steaks”
So, a good day.
I mowed, trimmed, cut down grasses, raked, bagged, washed 2 cars, painted trim and steps (still have to do the door itself), primed outdoor furniture (new to. us, but vintage metal motel chair and glider) for the front porch, and did laundry.
What’s a weekend/holiday?
“OnlyFans” doesn’t fit for D.
Bored, not broke housewives.
Belle de Jour
Good advice to a Firster is actually “GET BENT”
That works but it didn’t fit the puzzle.
Do you use some kind of program to build these? They’re really fun.
Yes, I has one that I really liked (search for crauswords.com) that I could do it all in and customize my word library but my old computer shit the bed and I could never get it to load properly on my new box. Now I have to use a combination of sites, this one to build the anagrams from the quote and attribution and this one to make the puzzle, then I load it into another to embed the puzzle and get to screenshots for the post.
Operation Kitty-Kats rescue was a success today:
https://imgbox.com/51Ta9CRG
And now the name search begins. But first, I need to get these little fuzz balls to the vet, as they have colds. But, they let me pick them up, hold them, and one even fell asleep in my arms.
Tabby toms! 😃
Awwww get well soon so you can start terrorizing the household.
With Sloopy in mind, as a true (g)libertarian you should hold an auction for names.
I’ve got $1 for “Pussy Galore”.
One of my favorite bits from Austin Powers was “Alotta Fagina”.
Adorbs.
Super cute!!
Hope they rest of your zoo gets along with them👍
Cute! They look like younger versions of our adopted cat from last summer.
I had an identical twin of theirs long ago named Gina. My bf called her Allergina.
Non fiction in the queue (or being listened to):
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Nobel Prize winner in Behavioral Psychology)
To Destroy You is No Loss by Joan Criddle
Free Women, Free Men by Camille Paglia
Noise by Daniel Kahneman
The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
Recently Finished:
The White Pill by Micheal Malice
Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
Well, here’s some welcome news.
Vogtle unit 3 began supplying its first electricity to the grid on 1 April, Georgia Power announced. The AP1000 reactor – the first new reactor to start up in the USA since 2016 – is scheduled to enter commercial operation by mid-year.
Heh it looks like a salt shaker.
That is good news indeed.
Now we just need MOAR.
63 wins for the Bruins and counting.
*barf*
I suspect they’ll be swept in the first round like the last time they won the President’s Cup.
I’m there with you.
Regular season record is nice and all but it don’t mean shit in the playoffs.
Harvard could beat the Flyers this year.
Gratuitous Chadwick
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The pitbull of Che-huey-hueys.
Keep ’em coming.
What a great pup!
Cute! So when is he going to be featured in your avatar?
“Hey, maaaaaan.”
aw, what personality!
Boo boo. TN expelled two disruptive racists.
Looks Asian
On Twitter:
“No darling, you can’t have any Taiwan until you finish your Ukraine first.”
Funny
He has Firsted.
Is that what you’re calling it now?
Ozzyman with an amusing toad vs lizard video.
https://youtu.be/pwLd10BSnz0
Just finished The Pirate Coast. Can’t believe they haven’t made this into a movie. It’s got pirates, a harem, a damsel in distress, Thomas Jefferson answering the door to the White House in his pajamas, and one of the first successful missions by the Marines. The “shores of Tripoli” part of the song comes from this chapter of US History.
Still working on Shelby’s Civil War. No spoilers please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Pirate_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli_%28film%29
I listened to all three volumes of Shelby Foote’s Civil War on audiobook during my daily 1 hour each way commute to the Nevada Test Site. It was a good driving companion.
+1 Jack of All Trades theme
Link
That led me to Cleopatra 2525. Somehow I missed both shows.
The best on screen chemistry in Doctor Who was in City of Death. Not a great story, but genuine affection between the lovebirds of the time.
Also, John Cleese.
Happy Monday morning. 😁
Morning.
Did you get your Peeps?
🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤
Good morning, Sean & U!
For whatever reason, I don’t recall that we ever had Peeps for Easter. All I remember is real Easter eggs and little chocolate eggs. What more do you need?
A fixed date for the holiday so that I don’t find out by arriving at the store to find it closed.
You’ll probably have to take it up with some guy named Frank in Rome.
I don’t recognize Comrade Frank as having any authority to determine such matters.
It’s easy to calculate: 40 days after Mardi Gras.
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Now in some parts of the country, it can be difficult to figure out exactly which day of debauchery is Mardi Gras proper, but not up here.
You didn’t have Peeps for Easter because your parents loved you.
No Peeps. I did get some sugar free Ashers chocolate and some other stuff.
Mornin’
Mornin’ all.
Still thinking about the lamb I had. Anyone visiting or passing through Lansing owes it to themselves to try ChouPli Wood Fired Kebobs. Mediterranean cuisine fast food. Great sides, the Bulgur wheat is terrific.
Good morning, Shirley & DEG!
Now I want tabouli! 😋
-Role Reversal: The Collapse Of The Dollar-Enforced Empire
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/role-reversal-collapse-dollar-enforced-empire
The weaponization of the US monetary system is going to be the end of all of us, well our retirement accounts anyway.
So…maybe not such a mistake to put more of my money into my CU employer’s CDs instead of into my 401(k)?
My primary retirement is soup. Hundreds of cans of soup. Go ahead, laugh all you want. I remember shelves full of canned goods in fallout shelters, if it’s good enough for Armageddon it’s good enough for me. Try eating paper money, cash, precious metals, or bitcoins when the SHTF.
I really have no idea what I’m going to do.
All of my effort has been towards a status quo or slow decline situation.
There’s a pretty good stash of various edibles (and potables) in the basement – right underneath where I’m sitting, as a matter of fact. Including some MREs.
You DO have a manual can opener down there too, right?
I have multiple manual can openers, zero electric can openers and enough timber in the backyard to keep the fires burning for a while. Old school.
“Have you looked into a reverse mortgage?”
-Tom Selleck
I remain more concerned about the political reaction to all of this.
The neocons are hell-bent on pursuing the national security angle in every direction and in every way. They’re liable to either lash out even harder, lock down the American populace even harder, or both. Their Trotskyite predilections are coming to the forefront and I think we’re about to find out what that really means.
They’re also planning on threatening various European allies who are going/have gone a little weak in the knees over the Russian sanctions, a doubling down on idiocy if I’ve ever seen it.
It’s no coincidence that it’s two officials from the Treasury that are making the rounds. If I had to guess, Yellen is running the country now.
It ain’t Biden. Harris is a non-entity. Blinken is a secondary player.
Because this war is primarily financial in nature, Yellen is the administration’s general, and that should scare the shit out of everyone.
“Awwwww!” story of the day. It’s a trifle dated – l heard about it via the local Humane Society’s newsletter.
Thanks for that, a good way to start the day.
It’s reassuring to hear they’re all OK – from the pic, it looks as if they may have gotten some smoke damage. 😄
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! Did Mrs. ‘patzie get the official okee-dokee to go out and terrorize other motorists?
Yes. Other motorists and also passengers.
Youngest Patzer is interviewing for a summer internship with a very small software company this morning. Fingers are crossed.
Good Morning Glibs….
Gawd, I am exhausted. Pretending to be a farmer is the hardest job I have ever had. Two newborn baby sheep are cute though.
Happy Monday everyone.
Another one?
+ 3 this spring.
Mornin’. Congrats on the new arrivals!
I believe you mentioned that Mama Ewe may be having vision problems? Hope it’s nothing more serious than… 😎… seeing double.
The only reason I’d get sheep is as an excuse to get border collies.
Shhhhh Dont tell the wife.
Although if they can round them up better than me I will resoncisder. How did i get so old? LOL.
Well, clearly you waited too long.
Honestly, I’ve never seen them work a flock without human.
But I HAVE seen them move goats and cattle unsupervised, so I don’t know if sheep are just more difficult or what.
Can they herd cats?
Probably not, but I’ve heard of border collies that would herd kids – or at least do their darnedest to keep them away from the street.
What kind of sicko puts avocado on a salad – then hides it under chicken!?
Chicken Avocado Toast? That’ll be $35.
There’s no toast. This salad didn’t have croutons.
Ah, “Lo-carb Chicken Avocado Toast Bowl.” My mistake.
That’ll be $40.
Nope. It’s a ‘Santa Fe Salad’ for $6.99, and overpriced at that price point.
I’ve had those, but I don’t recall any avocado. Distinguishing ingredients were corn, black beans, and a zippy dressing.
This one had corn and avocado. They don’t pre-dress the salads at the grocery store (so you can buy a bottle of whatever over in Aisle 2)
Someone is clearly in the pocket of Big Avocado – the Mexican cartel of which none dare speak.
Hmmm…I should grow my own avocados.
Never mind.
There’s one more thing to remember – Avocados grown from pits won’t be your standard cultivars. You only get the standard cultivar by grafting a cutting from an existing plant to new roots. If you just grow the pit the culinary character will be different.
Can work but if not expecting it yeah can give off a weird texture
I seriously dislike avocado.
#metoo
I can stomach small amounts of guacamole but then someone thought it was a good idea to slice it up on sandwiches?! Blech.
Burger+ bacon + avocado + pepper jack = yum.
*misses Austin*
There was this amazing food truck not too far from work that made those, plus real fries and pork tenderloin sandwiches. Apparently those were pulling the midwesterners in from across town.
Unfortunately Austin banned food trucks and it was killed. It was so good.
Drop the avocado and you’d have a good burger there.
“Monkey brains” is a dish of a pitted avocado with the center filled with crab meat.