Thursday, November 18 through Sunday, November 21: Provided you survive your touchy-feely airport experience, a week from today you will be eating cranberries from a can and watching teevee footage of large floats wandering the streets of New York, to give thanks for smallpox blankets and other Important things. Prepare for the Fun that is spending time with family by spending this weekend drinking. Zaytinya is making this easy by hosting an Ouzo Celebration, where they will be offering a flight of three Ouzos for $12. [Zaytinya]
- Monday, November 22: Only a few more weeks left for the drinking of beer and eating of meat while watch men in tight tights hit each other, for fun. Don’t miss Hudson Restaurant and Lounge’s Monday Night Football deal: Angus Prime Burgers are $5 and Miller Lites are $4. [Hudson Restaurant and Lounge]
- Tuesday, November 23: Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N’ Fruity, IHOP has come to town and next Tuesday they will be giving a FREE short stack to the first 1,500 customers. What is becoming of this city — yet another brunch establishment where the food comes in LARGE portions? We do not know. BUT, if having a new affordable restaurant in D.C. that will give lots of people jobs saddens you, the gourmet cupcake shop Crumbs Bakery will be giving out 1,000 cupcakes for FREE on Friday, November 19. [IHOP: Prince of Petworth/Crumbs Bakery 1,000 Cupcake Giveaway: PQ Living]
- New Food: A new luxury sports bar, Redline, has opened in D.C., and it is yet another place where you can fulfill your lifelong dream of pouring yourself a beer while sitting at a table in a money-making establishment. Haha, what kind of luxury bar makes you do your own work? [RedLine]
- Food Trucks: District Taco was once just a food truck, but it has gone and opened a “brick and mortar” establishment. This means that you can eat their tacos while under a roof, and all waiting will take place inside. Does going from truck to restaurant break some sort of food truck code? Are we allowed to like the restaurant as much as the truck? We are UNCOMFORTABLE with this new development and the many unanswered questions it brings. [District Taco]
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Yeah, but how much are Anus Prime Burgers?
It would mean more handlers, but why can't we just inflate fat 'Murkans and tie them to strings for the parade?
Would you take your children to stand in the cold to watch Rush Limbaugh float by?
Ooh ooh! How about if the wind catches him and the handles lose their ropes and he gets caught on a skyscraper and explodes?
I made a turducken once. I was exhausted after boning a turkey, chicken and duck all in one sitting. Ducks are especially tough to bone.
Yeah I said bone you dirty minded libtards.
I am impressed. I am going to spatchcock a turkey this year. Did it last year and it worked well.
(Go look it up, everyone. It is not poultry porn)
I do not believe you and I refuse to look it up. As far as I'm concerned, spatchcock is very dirty and you are oh so naughty for doing it.
Am I on some kind of sugar high? I think so.
From hoarded Four Lokos? They must be worth $$$$ now.
Is that a turkey stuffed with a cockatiel stuffed with a spatula?
I will let you speculate.
I might go to KFC, if I don't forget.
You know that kooky lady on NPR who gives out her family cranberry relish recipe this time every year like any of us could possibly give a crap? Just sayin'
Anyway along those line could someone dig up Ken's boozy cranberry business recipe from last year?? That one rocked. Had the mother-in-law dancing on the table.
Update: Found it!
http://wonkette.com/412410/wonkettes-actual-aweso...
Susan Stamberg, and I cannot stand her. Every report she does she sounds like she is talking to kindergartners.
Opa!
As if we need further proof that Murka has gone to hell in a handbasket of overindulgence (Horrible-Mixed-Metaphor-Alert!), there is now a pie called "cherpumple" – cherry, apple and pumpkin all hawt together.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/dining/17pies.h...
And here I thought a Cherpumple was a zit on Sonny's long-ago-ex's butt.
Good one.
So what you're telling me is that my Thanksgiving should l now consist of Turducken with Chermpumple for dessert. Topped off with several glasses of Champipple – champaigne and ripple (TM Sanford & Son).
And Tater Tots – made w/ taters and real tots!
See that is just silly. If you use wonderful ingredients, simple and elegant is sublime. The most I add to apple pies is a cream, honey, rosemary, sugar mixture, tossed with the apples. Really good.
Sounds good. I'll suggest that to spouse. (Wait! This is turning into a recipe site? We're all going soft for the holidays.)
Hey, that's OK. T'giving is a great holiday. Food, friends, family if you want, food, football if you like, and food (I love to cook).
I like it, too. It's my favorite holiday. The opposite of my feelings about Xmas – not because of the religion thing; the endless materialism nauseates me.
I think it's only appropriate that we all reserve room for a little of this good stuff.
Link not working for me.
Moi neither. I keep getting "blank page," which is probably not what bitchincamaro had in mind.
total fail. self flagellation to continue all day today.
If anybody in Wonkette Nation finds their way to my neck of the woods, the Wednesday prior Thanksgiving is the Dylan Fest at Linneman's Pub in the boho Riverwest 'hood. You should go. Even if it means not being able to malinger with me. (I do not go to these baby-boomer nostalgia trips, & in fact have worked at my second job each of the past three years it was going on. This year, no different. I will be working, or seeing the new Hathaway-Gyllenhaal rom-com "Love & Other Drugs", or both.)
I once had an Ouzo Celebration in 1980. Bad things happened. Bad things.
Ouzo = "Bring the pain" in Greek.
My god, that stuff is like turpentine. You have stomach lining left?
I think the point of Ouzo is to destroy the stomach lining.
Turducken sounds like the name of the next Palin spawn.
Too many syllables = Too hard.
Cranberries. I always used to hate cranberries, and then I moved out of the U.S., to Prague.
Now, don't get me wrong. I am not a fan of Czech cuisine. They spread lard on bread and think it's just delicious, they think that ketchup is a spaghetti sauce and they serve boiled potatoes with NOTHING on them, but when it comes to the use of cranberries, they've got the right idea. Just a few little berries, to give a nice flavor to the gravy.
Not that big fucking purple slab that sits there wobbling on your plate like retard jello.
Isn't 'Flight Of Three Ouzos' an opera by Verdi?
we are going away- not to family for Thanksgiving- I look forward to a not Turkey dinner in a warm beach location. I do live in the DC area but would not travel to IHOP for free pancakes or downtown for a free cupcake. Metro fare(if the ceiling doesn't kill you on the red line) is more than these things are worth.
I used to take the family out after Thanksgiving Dinner and we'd hunt down a homeless guy and kill him; but those happy days are over now, shit, they outnumber us.
I am an atheist, but always liked T'giving better not for religious reasons, as well. Just a nicer time and a nicer sentiment than "give me lots of shit or I will pout".
I actually give thanks on T-giving, for family, friends, health, employment. Amazing.
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