Hmm, so right now everyone is just devastated because that which we knew was going to happen actually happened, except somehow for Harry Reid. Progress is now in peril, everything is ruined, et cetera and so forth, but maybe not all is lost? Can things that seem terrible/horrible/very orange be okay in the end? If America takes its cues from two seemingly strange things that are in fact great — the leftover parts of dead animals turned into bite-sized happy hour treats, and macaroni and cheese served out of an 18 foot truck that’s decorated with large orange and yellow macaroni noodles — then everything should be just fine in the end.
Bar Pilar recently launched an “Offal Happy Hour,” which runs Monday through Friday from 5-7PM. What is offal? The entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. And why would one of D.C.’s top restaurants feel a need to be resourceful and make meals from the scraps of dead animals when times aren’t tough at all in the northwest quadrant? Who knows. But offal tastes good, we swear! The offal items on the menu include chicken liver pate served with fresh sliced bread, crispy fried pig ears with lime, and sauteed lamb liver with garlic and caper sauce. The items are strange and overly chewy, but also really, really tasty. And cheap! At $4 a plate they are something even the newly unemployed can afford. And, in fact, just about everything on Bar Pilar’s menu is affordable and tasty, meaning that this place where the my-pants-are-too-tight crowd typically congregates for just drinks is also a fine, fine restaurant as well.
CapMac is the newest food truck to come to D.C., and it is orange, hideously, hideously orange. The truck serves different varieties of gourmet macaroni and cheese that will, so the gourmet macaroni chefs insist, “satisfy not only your stomach, but also your soul.” Hopefully not all orange things are that satisfying, but hooray for something orange that is more satisfying and exciting than a man who chokes up while reading his resume.
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Mmm pig ears — not just toys for your doberman anymore.
Find me a restaurant that serves peanut butter in a Kong!
Why no fried sweet potatoes? They are cheap, and make you feel almost as good as a malt liquor and nicotine buzz. Why does DC hate sweet potatoes and therefore uhMERika? Oh yeah sweet potatoes are orange. Damn you Boner! Now I will think of you when i gorge on sweet potatoes.
I had oven baked "fried" sweet potatoes last night. They were good and very, very orange. I didn't think of Boehner at all.
Thanks for the cheering up there Arielle. I needed that. By the way, I understand why the Orange Boner cries so much. I get that way when I've been drunk for more that a week at a time. Its hard on your nerves when you try to sober up.
Same thing used to happen to me when coming off a 4-day meth jag. Without the orange complexion, though.
Hasn't he been orange for more than 4 hours now? Perhaps time to call a doctor.
Why are you making fun of Mr Boner? Without Boners there would no little baby Vitterses in diapers.
Excuse me, must dunk head in bucket of bleach. Oh hey, snacks!
MUST FIND SILVER LINING
Awful Things Can Be Great Things Too, Sometimes
Oh! You're talking about food.
For a minute there I thought you were talking about the fact that Rand Paul won't be practicing medicine for a while.
I dunno about the whole "offal as food" thing. We're talking here about stuff I wouldn't want to even touch with my hands, and you want me to put it in my mouth?
I am sure you have had worse in your mouth and no one heard you complain about it. In fact you wanted seconds. I remember. It hurts my delicate sensibilities that you don't remember. sheesh
all yall keep rearranging them deck chairs.
in truth, i envy you your savwah fairs and zhwa-day veevers.
Isn't CapMac the name of Boner's political action committee? That would explain the hideous truck coloration.
I thought is was the Republican plan to bathe gross polluters in Mac n Cheese…
Sweet Lord, the offal offers descriptions made me hungry. I am such white trash.
Boenher's tears (and empty liquor bottles) are barely dry and already the teabaggers are lining up targets for 2012.
Scott Brown
Orrin Hatch
Richard Luegar
Bob Corker
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/03/scott-br...
You know, I almost feel sorry for …
wait …
no …
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!! Good luck riding that teabagger wave Repubs! It's Jim DeMint's party now and you're all just so many bitches.
(I think I may be losing it.)
Orrin Fucking Hatch is not enough of a wingnut for those people? Or is he too intelligent? Did I just type that? The center, she will not hold.
I guess he was too cozy with Kennedy when he was alive. You know, too willing to find common ground?
On the other hand, who or what would actually be worse than Orrin Fucking Hatch?
A man who may actually have a few functional neurons, but who has dedicated them all to the memory of Joseph Fucking Smith.
To get my mind on something besides politics this morning, I put the teevee on Animal Planet and saw that in Louisiana, the upside to their giant, 10-lb rat problem is that chefs have begun cooking and serving up this critter as haute cuisine.
Having grown up in Louisiana, I was a little surprised, but then again, not so much. Cajuns have always eaten weird animals and other gross stuff that, as it turns out, tastes pretty good, but it's a tradition that grew from a history of necessity. Doing it just for kicks in D.C. at Bar Pilar looks extra stupid.
There's a new-fangled restaurant in downtown LA that serves stuffed sheep entrails. Personally, I think these artistes de cuisine have gone too far. Time to call in the Food Nazis.
Hurray for Orange (except the future speaker of course). Today actually was a day for the orange and Black, baby. My hometown gave a great homecoming for the San Francisco Giants. What a great sight. Would have been there but for a head cold. Watching the parade made me feel like the day after the 2008 election — psyched about Hopey, but bummed about Prop 8.
Surprise: Rob Schneider is a rabid, long time Giants fan with an encyclopedic baseball head. He must quit "acting" and join CSPAN or our local news station.
I, at least, have my state which swept in democrats. Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and they are going to make things interesting. The props are going to be problematic. We now only need a majority to approve a budget but 2/3 voter approval for any new taxes or fees. We got to keep our anti-global warming law, but now have to get voter approval to give corporations any fees for polluting. People didn't want to tax themselves to keep our state parks up *boggle*. Okay it is going to be weird, but it is nice to know we bucked the madness for the most part.
Word on the street is that 2012 they will try to legalize pot again. 46.8% voted yes this time. That is pretty good. It will happen. Every time there is a budget problem I can always reminded people, "We could have solved our budget problem, but nooooo…you weren't ready for pot."
Different truck.
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