A while back, I attempted some Bacon Bourbon. These pictures show the attempt:
First- Slowly fry up 4 to 5 slices of bacon. You’re looking to get about 2 ounces of rendered bacon fat. I would using quality bacon. The stuff below is some nasty President’s Choice Smoked stuff that I had in the fridge. You will really notice a difference in the quality depending on the bacon you use.
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A rainy, pissy day in Vancouver. Took shelter in Two Parrots and ordered the 2lb Burger (probably closer to 5lbs if you include all the accoutrements).
Two Parrots Perch & Grill (their website appears to be down. You can check out their Yelp page here) is located on the corner of Granville and Davie. I’ve know them mostly for karaoke and quick drinks in the afternoon, but I was curious about their 2lb burger. It’s sorta advertised on their front door, but not listed at all on their menu.
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So, through a comedy of errors, I accidentally ended up with an extra ticket to the Festival de la Poutine last Saturday. Normally, not an issue, but with each ticket, you also get a free serving of poutine from La Belle Patate.
Most normal people would shrug this off. Me, being an idiot, thought it was a good idea to try to eat both servings.
Like I said: I’m not very smart.
The Festival, held at Heritage Hall on Main Street, is split into time periods: Day and Night. I was there for the daytime stretch, which was pretty low-key. Besides the serving from La Belle Patate, there wasn’t much else going on. Just many friendly staffers, a long line of poutine hungry festival goers, and a t-shirt/tattoo stand.
The Night shift apparently has the live music and ‘alternative’ poutine tastings. This is all stated very clearly on all of the Festival’s literature, so I really don’t have any one to blame except myself.
Overall, the poutine was excellent. They had a Build Your Own table staffed by super friendly volunteers. (For my first serving, I went with Poutine plus Bacon, Mushrooms, and Onions. Second serving was Green Peppers, Onions, and Jalapenos.)
Will happily return next year, but maybe I’ll have to make sure to check out the evening’s festivities instead…
Is this really a surprise? I’ve always said, if you can’t find a glass of water, a Bud is the next best thing…
Budweiser accused of watering down its beer in class-action lawsuit – The Globe and Mail.
So, for tonight’s drink, I thought I’d try the new Maple finished whisky from Crown Royal.
Very short review: Too sweet to drink straight. Feels like I’m sipping straight Maple syrup. Think it will be useful to play with in some cocktails (or maybe just in the morning coffee). For my future Crown Royal needs, I think I’ll be sticking to the original stuff OR their relatively recent Crown Royal Black release.
Okay. Short post. Back to the whisky and Fallout: New Vegas. I’m about to get to Hoover Dam.
Vancouver’s food carts headed for Portland-style clusters.
Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.
Hope everyone is having a lovely Valentine’s day wherein you get to be gross with a loved one (or at least someone you kinda like…).
Spent the day running around the city, accomplishing very little. Last stop of the day was picking up the above cookies at Fratelli’s.
Fratelli’s Authentic Italian Bakery: Where you will stand in line getting angry that you cannot eat all of the things.
Ah, Heart Attack Grill: How I love you.
I believe that this would be the second regular customer of the infamous restaurant chain (do two locations really constitute a chain?)
From the Globe & Mail article:
John Alleman, 52, suffered an attack while waiting at a bus stop in front of the diner last week. He was taken off life support Monday, the Las Vegas Sun reported…… Alleman came to the restaurant daily and encouraged passing tourists to try its calorie-laden offerings….“He never missed a day, even on Christmas,” …Alleman became an unofficial mascot for the restaurant, which features waitresses in nurse garb. His caricature as “patient John” graced its merchandise and menus.
(Note: As of this writing, their website still has pictures and contact info for “Patient John” under their Diet Program tab.
I visited the Heart Attack Grill’s Las Vegas location last year for a bachelor party and had a lovely time. You’re made to wear a hospital gown upon entrance. Our Nurse/Waitress was awfully lovely (apparently, a single diner from each table gets a paddling from the waitress with what looked to be a small cricket bat. According to my selected friend, they do not hold back. A little stress release for the staff, I would imagine, that might serve other tourist establishments well.)
There is a large digital scale located in the middle of the dining room floor. You are encouraged to weigh yourself before and after your meal. I’m pretty sure that besides a few children who were in attendance, I was the only guy there under 200 lbs.
Their menu is pretty simple: You can get one of their burgers (Single/Double/Triple/Quadruple Bypass varieties), french fries (Deep Fried in Pure Lard!), milkshakes, cheap booze, and cigarettes. And that’s it. Vegetarians, unless you are drinking your dinner, you’re shit out of luck.
I went with the Quadruple Burger (2lbs of beef + 20 slices of bacon. 10,000 calories), because, well: You go big or you go home. And if you finish the whole thing, they wheel you out in a wheelchair. Glory!
The damn burger was almost the size of my head. And it was the same height as the tall boy I was drinking from.
It was excessive and wrong. And delicious. If it was a quarter of the size, I probably would have loved it. Instead, I wobbled out of there (No wheelchair for me, sadly. I came a little short of polishing off the meal) pale and a little sick. And according to the restaurant scale, I gained about 6 pounds during the meal.
HOWEVER! I would very happily eat there again. I would just steer away from the Quadruple Bypass though. That was just a stupid amount of meat. It’s a fun place that revels in the excesses that society is trying to curb. And its needed.
If you eat at the Heart Attack Grill every day though? Well, it’s got Heart Attack right in the name. They’re not lying to you.
I mean, just look at it…
Portions are not a problem here.
On a recent trip to Portland, we stopped off at the Iron Skillet in Sedro-Woolley. Our attention was grabbed by a road side sign stating “Good Food, Lousy Service”. The food was good. The service was actually pretty good as well.
I had the Biscuit and Gravy + Two Eggs & Meat for $7.99.
Yup. All of that for $7.99. Tasted pretty great too. Of course, the heaviness of the meal pretty much put me out for the count for the rest of the day. I could have very happily gone to sleep immediately after I put the fork down.
Heartily recommend. Just don’t expect to do anything super active right after.
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