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wendy's has frosties and superior fries, they don't have to worry about the nugget game.

 

You got it backwards, my dude! McDonald's has the superior fries, Wendy's has the superior nuggets! The breading on Wendy's nuggets is what does it for me.

 

but tomato sauce + brown sugar is basically bbq sauce.

I think my family pretty much just uses ketchup and brown sugar in their joes.

 

it's the breading for me, too. I guess we'll just trade fries whenever we get nugget meals.

 

Sounds good to me. I will give McDonald's second to Wendy's... although I'm torn with chick-fil-a.

 

Siggi's makes the best yogurt. I'm over the greek stuff.

 

Travel -

Part 3: The Drunkening

Sorry this has taken so long to write. I’ve had to do real work at work and have been battling bouts of writer’s block. I’ve been really hyper-critical about everything I’ve written lately and most of the shit I’ve written has been tremendously unfunny. So, fuck it, yolo, whatever the kids say these days. I’m gonna knock this part out and hope for the best.

Where were we when I last left you? Oh, right. Cider. Across the road from the very family friendly Cider Mill was a very family unfriendly adult novelty shop. Molly and I love adult novelty shops located in the middle of nowhere because like, how does that business even last? Most of them are propped up by truckers, I assume. And I swear to god the same people work at every single one and they are always wearing t-shirts and jeans. Like, you could just be giving your money to some random patron and you would never know. At least get like a t-shirt or something to identify your staff. Maybe with some like fake boobs over the breast (hehe) pocket or something. Props to those people though because they have just said “fuck you” to any notion of personal space and shame and, with every ounce of sincerity, will try to sell you a giant rubber fist without any inclination that you might want one. Anyway, there was nothing to eat there unless you count gummie dicks and they also had a hemp energy drink which I’m having a hard time figuring out. Like don’t stoners know you shouldn’t mix downers and uppers? Good grief. It was still good for a laugh. On to the good stuff.

The Alchemist

So this place is like really famous or something. Unfortunately they are really famous for a type of beer I’m not a huge fan of. I know it’s like blasphemy or whatever to not like IPA’s but seriously at a certain point if you put too many hops in something it becomes too hoppy to even discern any of the tastes that are supposed to differentiate it from another IPA. Look it up if you don’t believe me because I am too lazy to link proof. Anyway, by the time we got there they had already sold out of that day’s batch of their super famous beer, which was fine because I wasn’t going to buy it anyway but they did give free tastings of all of their beers. And, because they were IPA’s, and because I had one cider already the 3 free samples were enough to get me a little buzzed. I did buy a really cool glass (pictured below) that is supposed to make IPA’s taste better (not possible) and I use it to drink not IPA’s and snidely laugh at how cool and transgressive I am.


Unnamed Wine and Cheese Shop

I needed some time to let the buzz wear off before we headed anywhere else by car and it was a beautiful day in Vermont so Molly and I walked across the street from The Alchemist to look at a wine and cheese shop that I don’t remember the name of because I’m bad. First, though, we went to a bespoke toy store that sold things that were too expensive for me as an adult. Anyway, after looking at what hand sewn teddy bears rich children play with we went to a wine and cheese shop and got cheese. I fucking love cheese. Especially, bleu cheese (sorry @ChaseTx ). This was not normal bleu cheese, though. This bleu cheese tasted like a farm in the best way possible. It tasted like grass and hay and was sharp and moldy and none of that sounds great but you’ll have to trust me. It was like I was hanging out with the cow and we were sharing a lunch. It made Molly, who grew up on a farm, have too real flashbacks so she didn’t really like it. If that’s not a testament to how good it was I don’t know what is.

Craft Beer Cellar

After we hung out in the sun a bit and sobered up we headed just out of the town we were staying to visit Prohibition Pig (more on that later). Before that I spent an alarming amount of money at the Craft Beer Cellar. All liquor stores should sell individual beers. I should be able to make my own 12 packs with Miller Lite and Delirium Tremens if I want to. I left this place with a trunkful of beer, that isn’t an exaggeration, I filled my trunk. Highlights: Flat White Porter, Maple Breakfast Stout, Peach Berliner Weiss, Toasted Cinnamon and Coconut Porter, and an Orange Chocolate stout amongst a handful of others that I can’t remember all at once.


Prohibition Pig

This place made the whole downtown area of Waterbury smell like pork. I shouldn’t even say anything after that sentence because anything I type after that first sentence takes away just how good that first sentence is. I got another cool glass from this place and Molly and I had beer, house made pork rinds with their homemade spice blend which was amazing, and maybe the best pork tacos I’ve ever had. I’ve eaten a lot of tacos but these were specials. We got carnitas tacos with lime slaw, salsa verde, and crema and they were stupid good. If we hadn’t made dinner reservations and I wasn’t trying to not hate myself I would have eaten a dangerous amount of tacos. Also, look how fucking cool this place looks. And their motto is Pro Pig because that is clever and also beautiful.



This is the beer glass I got. Also they put their draft beer in take home tall cans which I also got (because I didn't have enough beer already).



So I think this thing is going to turn into a… Pentology? Maybe? That seems wrong but also right. Anyway, 5 parts because there is still a bunch more to write about. Thanks for sticking with me this long guys.

 

Bravo. That's the finest writing I've ever seen from a beaver.

 

Thanks, dood.

 

I feel the same way about IPAs. I like them, but some are just overkill. It's a trend that needs to die.

Your description makes me want this cheese. Badly. It sounds like the best blue cheese ever. It sounds like it would go great on a grass-fed 70/30 burger cooked in a blazing hot skillet with lots of salt and pepper and caramelized onions.

That sounds fantastic. Delirium is wonderful. Then again, I'm a sucker for Belgian beer.

The tacos sound perfect. Carnitas with salsa verde is such a wonderful thing. Any restaurant that has a motto like Pro Pig, is a restaurant I want to go to.

 

I'm not a huge fan of IPA's but didn't find them offensive until suddenly every brewery was adding hops to things that didn't need hops.

I'm so scared of finishing that cheese because I know I will be disappointed with all new cheeses.

I like Delirium Tremens but I'm not sure I would rate it as highly as it consistently is. Also if you don't know what delirium tremens are you should look it up and feel horrible about it.

I'm actually pretty bummed that we had already made dinner reservations because we only got a couple things off the pub menu here and I would have loved to eat at the actual restaurant. We will definitely be going back. Vermont is pretty amazing.

 

we just had a big pizza sale a few weeks ago and we had some back stock.

instead of throwing it away, my work decided to sell it to the workers for 99 cents each.

I just bought 10 pizzas and my total came out to $8 due to my discount.

I'm stoked on life right now.

 

Miss you, @dadbolt

 

Great job Beaver! i need that blue cheese.

 

miss u 2. food thread has been so quiet lately

 

Thanks, mayn!

Yeah, we've hit a slump.

 

I feel like I talk too much about food.

 

Not possible.

 

I also miss u2, they make good rock and roll um music

 

could you tell me who the members of u2 are again? and can i get some t shirts?

 

Bonobos
The edge
Larry Mullen Senior's Son
Adam Clay 2000 Pounds

Ask college girls

 

oysters tonight

 

I wish I was having oysters tonight.

 

Im going to have to relisten to that podcast. i legit freaked out when they actually got u2 to do the show.

 

join me.