Grateful Dead

Hola Oro, thanks, yes survived winter, it was mild until March, then we got slammed with lots of snow for a month. They are still skiing up at Killington, it was 80 degrees up there today, shorts and tshirts. Meanwhile, down here in the valley, the ticks are wicked bad because of the mild winter temps. Cold water oysters, yee hah, love em. We get a great selection at a local co-op mostly from Maine and Mass. A Nepalese restaurant not far away in Hanover, the momos are great there. Foodie, in another lifetime... chef, did the tour de France back in the early 80s. Spent a week in a class learning how to do whole pig, snout to tail, everything possible edible. We asked the teaching chef, what makes French cuisine taste so good, they said: la nourriture, literally what the food we eat ate. Michael Pollan wrote on this, PolyFace Farm, before How to Change Your Mind. Just discovering the first defective CD ever from dead.net, disc one of Dave's 46 skips on the second song, Sugaree. No visible flaws, have sent a note to Marye, not sure how this gets handled.

....and not to upset the vegans here, made me want to make some bacon wrapped jalapeño poppers for game time.
Home and taking the 46 bonus for a walk. Pre-game tuneage.
C'mon Toronto. You can do it!

Didn’t know we had so many foodies, alas tge other one and I are not.

Speaking of, hola DMCVT, nice to see you survive another NE winter!
Samosas, loved em at this Indian place we had back home BITD. Of course didn’t last too long in our boring white mono cultural suburban wasteland!

WINGS, not just for breakfast anymore. Mammosers, BEST EVER, ANYWHERE, ANY PLACE!!! I’ll bet ya!
Anchor bar, meh, come in a lake of grease, real wings shouldn’t be greasy! Duffs, ok, but too greasy, Mammy’s is da shit!
Used to do deep fried shrooms and dip em in there chicken wing sauce, ffs I’m salivating like the neighbors dog! Woof!
We get the sauce shipped out since I went to school and partied in HS with the owner.

ISTSHOW, Boca Burgers are great, the all American flame grilled! Of course shitty market is going to discontinue : (
Yer right about fake chicken. Luckily still do dirty bird, only meat we do. Would/should do fish, but for whatever reason, don’t like stuff outta the water? I know, weirdos…
New summer fav: chicken breast on the grill with Mammy’s sauce, lettuce and blue cheese on a proper roll…with ice cold brew of course! Man you guys are making me hungry lol.

Yeah Crow that TOO is kinda different, definetly will need more “proper” research.

SPHERE: yeah check that beast out! I checked out some of the tech specs last year…SICK!

Hey Mikey! Good luck tonight, and I mean you, not the name we shall not mention so as not to induce any weird juju or jinxes, shhhhhhhhhhhh🤫

Colin, thanks for reminding about the review. Yeah too funny. A little yin yang lol

NITECAT: sweet, look forward to some summer binging! Thanks Bra!

CONEKID: heeeeyyyy, isn’t that Garcias Water chestnut app recipe? (see NYE 87 video at intermission, hilarious)

Okey dokey sports fans, it’s fri yea!
Be good and have a great WE!
Time for some beerskis!

Spectacular at good sushi restaurants.
I wouldn’t eat raw scallops from the grocery store.

Love sushi, generally don’t eat raw oysters.
Except one time I was in New Orleans in February and, according to the workers at Bourbon House (on Bourbon St a block or two from Canal), local oysters are best in February because of the cold water flowing out of the Mississippi River. Those oysters were really good. That place also has awesome crab cake. No breading, just lumps of crab pressed into a circular shape.

For bacon fans, if you haven’t had this before, wrap a water chestnut with a strip of bacon, push a tooth pick through it to hold it, and bake them in the oven. Consult the internets for full details.

DeadVikes,
I was in a beer store today and they had 19.2 oz single cans of Oberon. Never seen those before.

There was a really good film of that name made about...30 years ago, I think. Starred Bob Hoskyns and Cathy Tyson.

I've never had an oyster. Didn't people used to joke about them being aphrodisiacs?
My brother had a prawn once and ended up in hospital.

I love raw oysters, my wife hates them, too.

49 years ago today I was at the first wall of sound concert outside the bay area, at the University of Reno. Extremely windy day. The band had a hard time getting going, felt to me partially because the crowd was unresponsive. The band was probably worried about a speaker falling on them too. Truckin>Nobody's Fault>TOO was good, though.

BOC was my first concert.

Zilla, Zilla, Zilla . . .

That still doesn’t mean I am taking the GKs tonight, but good luck.

....wife hates em.
Also an oyster fan of the blue cult variety.

I had smoked oysters at a small little restaurant in Monterey. Unbelievably good. I’ve never seen them on a menu anywhere else. So yeah, those are up there.

I realize this may sound odd, but the Mona Lisa is one of the most amazing and overrated pieces of art I’ve ever seen.