Bassballs – A sour cream and dumpling soup. Why? Two reasons: A. Heavy, round, and an acquired taste, and B. It’s got some Russian flavor to it. Only someone from the Eastern bloc, a nutritional anthropologist, a legitimate nutcase, or any combination of the three would ever eat it, especially since it is a cold soup.
Q-Tron – Roasted breast of duck, atop a vinegary salad of arugula, spinach and carrots. Reason: ducks quack, and that is the most unlikely candidate for the best meal ever to have existed.
And I’ll have to think of something to call fishsticks and custard. I’d call it the Amy Pond, but this is about EHX, and I don’t have the heart to make bad jokes about Karen Gillan (of whom I have become quite fond over the course of this season). I’ve got it: it’s the White Finger.
Seriously, the White Finger can also be a drink – buttermilk and 151-proof rum.
Believe it or not, there is a steakhouse here in Madison, WI, that sells a steak at roughly that price. 48 oz. of wonderful USDA Choice goodness, and, if you finish it in under an hour, you get your name etched in stone, a personalized apron, and a free steak that isn’t that one.
This thread, for what it’s worth, combines two of my greatest interests in life: effects pedals and cooking.
Switchblade – Scotch with a cube of 10-year-old Wisconsin – and ONLY Wisconsin – cheddar in it. Cheese works in a drink; there is a bar in La Crosse, WI, that garnishes their Bloody Marys with Brussels sprouts, a cube of Pepper Jack, and something else I can’t remember. Best bloodys you’ll ever have.
Slapback Echo – Three fingers of Bourbon in one glass, two fingers in a smaller glass, and so on down. Definitely a drink special, never mind the fact that the really powerful Bourbon isn’t particularly cheap.
Ring Thing – A giant basket of onion rings, with a variety of sauces.
Wow you are from Wisconsin!!!!
I love your state and go through Madison all the time.
My love is the Spring Green area.
I would live there if I could.
Wi has THE BEST cheese in the world…hands down.
The cows are the happiest cows I have ever seen!
Congrats on living in Mad city
You are so lucky!
Bill
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Switchblade – Scotch with a cube of 10-year-old Wisconsin – and ONLY Wisconsin – cheddar in it. Cheese works in a drink; there is a bar in La Crosse, WI, that garnishes their Bloody Marys with Brussels sprouts, a cube of Pepper Jack, and something else I can’t remember. Best bloodys you’ll ever have.
Slapback Echo – Three fingers of Bourbon in one glass, two fingers in a smaller glass, and so on down. Definitely a drink special, never mind the fact that the really powerful Bourbon isn’t particularly cheap.
Ring Thing – A giant basket of onion rings, with a variety of sauces.
Crying Tone: Onion soup. A really freaking good onion soup, but an onion soup, all the same.
Hot Tubes: Obviously, stuffed rigatoni. I like a mutton, basil and ricotta stuffing. Maybe a mushroom, walnut, basil and olive oil stuffing would be acceptable, but I’d have to flesh either of them out before passing judgment.
I can’t legally say what a Screaming Tree would be, because the DEA would shut us down.
Sonic Boomer: A stew, made from kangaroo meat (which would be very hard to do, because kangaroo meat has absolutely no cholesterol, and is especially tender), parsnips, rutabagas, and white asparagus. The base liquid would be an Australian bitter; I live in the US, and we only get Foster’s, so that’s right out.
The Silencer: Ribs. Yeah, it sounds rather plain, but I have observed that when ribs are served, all conversation stops. The sauce/glaze would have to include Bourbon (I’d go with the really expensive, low-production stuff that my uncle used to buy), tomato paste, garlic, onions, molasses, honey, black pepper, cayenne, paprika, liquid smoke (three drops), and possibly some thyme. The ribs, by the way, would be the spare ribs, as opposed to the baby backs, because of their fat and collagen content – longer cooking time at a lower temp = AMAZING results. They also have more meat on them, so better value for money.
Golden Throat: I would have to say that the Golden Throat would be a drink – the restaurant’s own rye lager, brewed on the premises, and served as soon as it’s ready (which, for those who brew beer, is about three or four weeks). No preservatives, no Pasteurization, no filtration, no adulteration, of course; we have to keep high standards, you know.
Graphic Fuzz: A pomegranate, añ§ai, and sloe gin smoothie. For the health-conscious drinker. It’s a stupid idea, and I’ll come up with something better in the future.
That’s all for this round of my culinary and verbal nonsense.