Good Morning!
It’s Thursday, which means that we should be preparing for a game on Bezos Prime, but instead we have to deal with this offseason crap. And when we talk of crap, we talk of chili. No, not the long skinny country.
Talkin’ about the kind of chili you eat. It’s good on a warm or cool day. It’s good with beer or with (shoot, what do people drink besides beer?) non-alcoholic beer. You can top it with cheese or sour cream or onions or tortilla chips or all of those things. It’s full or protein and healthy vegetables. It might be nature’s perfect food. (I assume it grows on trees or perhaps in-ground like a yam or vole.)
Why the chili talk today? Is it because there’s no other post yet? And we’re trying to get to a certain word count? No one can say really. But somewhere there’s a bowl of chili waiting for you. Grab it with both hands and don’t let it go. I mean, grab the bowl with both hands. Grabbing the chili itself will result in a mess.
What we’re really doing is creating a Meta Four, where chili is life. And it’s appropriate, since you need food to live, and we’ve established that chili is perfect as food. So go forth, and eat chili, and fart like your life depends on it, and tell everyone the good news: You are here to stay, and full of chili, and ready for the world!
Gonna do my best Brick impression:
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as viewed from an Embraer 135
Got some nice color on the salt pans today
That’s a lil baby plane. Flying from Santa Clara?
Nah, out of Oakland on JSX
I’ll get some good photos into Vegas too
Oh she fancy!
I get a $250 credit per half on one of my credit cards so it cost me a whopping $7
I have voted, have you?
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I hope INXS doesn’t miss out because of hanging…chads.
Tres Leches French Toast vs. Churro Waffle?
Yes
Yeah, I kinda knew that was gonna be the answer, though I purposely didn’t use ‘or’ in a futile attempt to get actual preferences lol
Worst. Wrestling. Feature. Ever.
Sounds fun to me.
Especially if edible chunks fly into the crowd
Get confident, stupid.
Smoke Yourself Thin!
I’m just not even sure what. I have none, and yet every day I see genuinely evil people having social circles and relationships and God I wish I could blame autism. I’m just a loser.
If you’re genuinely evil then:
a) you can tolerate hanging out with other evil people
b) you are pretty kickass at manipulating people
And
c) don’t really care if you even like the people you’re hanging out with as long as you can get something out of them
You probably don’t want the sort of relationships those people have, they aren’t fulfilling unless you’re a psychopath
Speaking of which, I couldn’t stop laughing at this. No Cleopatra, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIxJYKsYBQk
You cannot explain Ohio weather; you can only experience it.
That happened on Valentine’s Day 2007 in Albuquerque.
Ok so, that Ready For The World video up in the post?
In the mid-late 80s I worked at Disneyland, at a restaurant called The French Market. Cafeteria style setup with an outdoor patio that faced the river (Tom Sawyer’s Island was in the middle, surrounded by the river). ANYWAY, I had to work the occasional Grad Nite, which featured busloads of high school seniors taking over the park from like 11 PM to like 5 AM. I think they still do that? So they set up a stage on this island, directly across the river from our restaurant, and the featured band pretty much every night was Ready For The World. I heard “Oh Sheila” twice a night for the entirety of that Grad Nite season.
Thank you for your time, this has been another episode of Nostalgia That Means Nothing To Anyone But Me.
I REMEMBER THE FRENCH MARKET! It was great!
I may have bused a table for you or overcooked your fried chicken.
But I was never high while working, unlike many of my coworkers.
Chasen’s chili:
“Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are so fond of it that they had gallons dispatched to Rome while they were over there making ‘Cleopatra”
I bet Liz could really let ’em rip…
Imagining a mash up between “Cleopatra” and a certain scene in “Blazing Saddles”
Accent! My mother used that. I think it was just MSG.
True WCS Fact:
When the ex-wifey was in med school or whatever it was at Penn, we lived in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philly. There was a Mt. Airy/Germantown/Chestnut Hill neighborhoods festival of some kind in spring 2013. They had a chili cook-off for anyone to enter. Out of 14 or 15 entrants, I took bronze with mine. That is, and will probably remain, the peak of my “cooking” career.
This has been your latest Useless WCS Fact.
So while you may not be the Pope of Chilitown, you are at least a Cardinal…
More of the Stanford Tree sort of “cardinal.”
At one of Mrs. Sharkbait’s old jobs they had a chili cookoff that “she” took second place in. I made mine with a combo of ground beef and lamb, and liberal use of adobo peppers. I lost out to a venison chili. I’ll take beating out a bunch of scientists in a cooking contest.
Scotchy’s entry:
ha ha, The Cult laughed at Scott’s tears
Works with chili too, I never seem to let it cool enough.
I was thinking about making some chili this weekend and this poast has sealed the deal.
I might even make it with a braised chuck roast instead of the usual ground beef.
My favorite way to make chili.
Damn, Texas chili sounds incredible.
/ updates grocery list
I’ve started using turkey instead of beef. It takes more flavorings, but is healthier and to me doesnt sit like a rock after eating it.
Turkey chili is fine! Especially with beef prices like they are. (Although ground turkey is also more expensive for some stupid reason)
We started getting ours via a bi-weekly farm share delivery. Between beef/meat prices and egg prices, were basically paying the same amount as the grocery store, but getting much more variety of products, of much better quality. Plus we’re supporting a local farm.
Great option for those near bi farms.
Eggs are back to pretty much normal pricing here (assume the same everywhere), but beef is just out of control. Chicken is still affordable, and pork seems to be ok. Damn bougie cows.
I bought a pound of ground beef the other day- just regular moo cow, not Wagyu or Kobe or anything- 9 fucking American dollars! I’ll get 4 meals out of it, but still, if this shit keeps up I’m going to have to start selling my organs on the black market.
You don’t need BOTH kidneys. Come on now.
Ridiculous. And it’s harder to get Kobe meat since they cleaned up the crash site.
I made a big pot for the Owl, most of it is in the freezer. I have no idea how to make a small batch.
I don’t even understand the point of making a small batch that only lasts a single meal and maybe one more the next day. Why?
We’ve been buying Costco chili lately and it’s not half bad. I usually cool up some black beans in the Instant Pot and add them for extra propulsion purposes.
My mom and dad used to make awesome chili. They’ve stopped making it themselves, and buy enough Costco brand to field a platoon, then freeze 90% of it for later.
Listening to this right now. Such unquestioned genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxOjIj18I9E
I could use even MOAR gas!
Well now . . .
We had been pulled out of the gate for SLC-DCA. And then we got pulled back in. They said it was a light on the dash indicating one of the engines was on fire or fell off or something.
In the meantime, here’s a 5-way Cincinnati chili at Hard Times Cafe in Old Town Alexandria VA, which is fucking great:
The perfect meal right before a flight!
CAN YA SMMMMMEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL WHAT
THE BRICK
IS FARTIN’?!