Salt Pepper Ketchoop For Here Or To Go?

Allow me to take a momentary break from all the serious entertainment biz stuff I’ve been rambling about and share with you one of the most insane things I’ve seen in a while. My good friend Dave has an annual holiday project that involves combining copious amount of candy with classic Lord of the Rings battles. This year, he and his crew opted to take on the mines of Moria. The result is nothing short of spectacular. I mean how can you go wrong when you combine classic fantasy literature, jujubes, and tentacle rape? You be the judge.

This is 10 different kinds of amazing.

http://salvatp.com/go-gather-a-culinary-opportunity

I’ve gotta hit one of these up soon. It’s not every day that you get invited to a legendary musician’s place to cook a vegan meal.

For good measure, here’s bellhead by liquid liquid, which is to this day one of my favorite records.

Liquid Liquid – Bellhead

I’m not normally into the list and report kind of thing which is the blog equivalent of the horrible email forwards my aunts and uncles send me in the off chance that bill gates will send them $100 and their crushes will give them a kiss, but this piqued my interest this morning.

I’m up to 68 of the hundred and a bunch of the ones I’ve not knocked out are really easy to get, fugu notwithstanding.

Instructions: 1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Alpine slide? Check.

Craft Beer? Check.

Waterfall-fed swimming holes? Check.

Deep Tissue Massage? Check.

Lobster Rolls? Crazygood Organic Pizza? Country Cooking? Maple Soft Serve? Checkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

4-month old Bernese mountain dog puppy playing witha garden hose?   Big fat check.  Kicking myself for not taking pictures.

Crashing two big fat Jewish Weddings? No check, but sure as hell thought about it for a minute til Nathan backed me down.

The bottle cap kind of sums it up:

killer way to end this ever-so-truncated summer.

Finally getting back to living life.

Chorizo-poblano-zucchini frittata fresh from my garden.

Thief Playing on the speakers:

Cup of green tea in my hand.

Sun shining down on my face.

Best friend at my feet.

Life is good.

I’m convinced that Pepperidge Farm is the ultimate comfort food company. There’s a Pepperidge Farm thrift store right around the corner from my house where they sell all the stuff that’s not quite right for retail where I spend far too much money. The place brings me right back to my childhood. My favorite lunch in grade school was pepperidge farm cinnamon raisin bread with cream cheese. Their apple turnovers, sausalito cookies and butterfly crackers are tops. Goldfish are an obvious winner as well, especially floating in a bowl of tomato soup.

Also, watching stoners attack their frozen layer cakes is also one of the simplest pleasures in life. I’ve never seen a pack of piranhas skeletonize a cow, but I imagine it’s something similar.

I can’t advocate for those chessmen cookies though, because if you get them wet they smell like assy feet. Just saying.