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My Confusing Horoscope

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  1. Kinder's a little north of Iowa, Louisiana. Iowa has Big Daddy's (Cajun restaurant) and I believe a well known boudin or sausage maker at a grocery store there. Small town. Probably can't miss it.

  2. This is a fascinating thread, because it has veered towards peoples favorite everyday, staple low-man work-a-day get-em-and-go sandwiches, even though there hasn't been any particular impetus to do so.

    Citronelle's lobster burger (and wagyu burger?) and Palena's hamburger are contenders, sure.

    But for everyday stuff?  A great sandwich must start with great bread, and despite the imbalances, Breadline sure makes a pretty good run for the money.

    Still waiting for a Po Boy at Johnny's Half Shell.

    I can agree with Don Rocks on the lobster sandwich at Citronelle's! Took my wife there recently one Sunday night for her birthday and it was on the menu. I was blown away!

    I usually don't think of a sandwich when dining fine, but was very glad to see it.

    I think of sandwiches more toward the work-a-day, I guess, like a poboy. Some of my favorite sandwiches are from down in Louisiana where I come from, largely because of the bread. If you should ever go down to Cajun country around Lafayette, give me a holler and I can definitely point out some great sandwich places for you. Don't know as much about New Orleans.

  3. Half Moon Barbecue on Georgia Avenue Silver Spring near Thayer St. has gotten some good reviews lately from the Post and the Gazette. Their ribs are great! Texas-style sausage links and pulled pork, too.

    Good music piped in, and live local bands too.

    Lots of music memorabilia on the walls from the owner's old days running the fabled Twist and Shout and Tornado Alley music clubs.

  4. Dammit! My dad loves Webb Pierce. He worked at KMLB as a DJ in Monroe after the war (I think he was from Monroe or West Monroe, my hometown). I forgot all about that guy.

    Nevermind, the Country Music Hall of Fame has much more than that concerning Webb Pierce.

    Now, back to food, as I am as prone as anybody to drift off topic when it comes to food. Do you still go back to Abbeville at all? There are some seriously good places to eat in Vermilion Parish . Black's and Dupuy's are two of my favorites in Abbeville. I like Landry's Boiling Pot in Kaplan as well. I get invited duck hunting in Gueydan every year ( although the last few years have been terrible for that pasttime down here-no ducks-warm winters up the flyway :angry: )

    Yeah, I am a big country-western fan, especially the stuff pre-dating the countrypolitan movement.

    I go back home at least once a year to visit family. You're right about the food down there! We cover it pretty well in your forum on Louisiana.

    Not familiar with Landry's in Kaplan. I'll have to try it out. Sound's like Richard's Patio in Abbeville.

    If you go south of Kaplan there's a place called Suire's Grocery that has great lunches like turtle sauce piquante, fried catfish, etc. It was mentioned in a New York Times last year, along with Black's and Dupuy's and a bunch of others.

    Sorry if this is off-topic for the NY forum!

  5. Welcome to eGullet. Always good to see another one of us around here.

    "It has a sweetening effect on kids" would be  a great ad slogan!

    Who is that cat in your avatar? Vin Bruce?

    That's Webb Pierce, country-western star from the 1950s, around Vin's time. I thought "Webb Pierce" was a good way of saying Internet penetration.

  6. Dominic's Pizza on New Hampshire Avenue in Colesville, Maryland, formerly Gus's Pizza, formerly Valencia Pizza.

    Budweiser-swilling, cigarette-smoking, Lotto-playing yahoos - there simply isn't any reason for anyone to go here, and yet I've been getting their carryout pizza since the Mesozoic era - it hasn't changed since then, either, and it isn't all that good.

    Ah, but I still pine away for the long-forgotten Sammy's Villa in nearby White Oak Shopping Center - now that was good pizza.

    Good God! I live just about across the street from Dominics.

    Have you had their subs? Nothing fancy, but so many subs in this area have the toughest bread, whereas Dominics is just about right. I sure do miss poboys in Louisiana.

  7. It's so interesting, reading through this thread, to note how many of the best meals were in foreign countries, or at least far from home.  What is is about being cut loose from everyday reality that makes food taste so good?  And then the other category seems to be nostalgia meals, those that remind us of how things used to be, before they got so complicated.  It's fascinating.

    I was wondering the same thing!

    I'm sure I can't single out my best meal ever but I had a few memorable ones in Germany when visiting a girlfriend in Tubingen. I appreciated it when she took me to a place for pizza, something familiar to me, and it turned out to be the best pizza I have ever had in my life! Something about the cheese. It was a ham and egg pizza, and I still remember it.

    Then she took me home to Unlingen in the Schwabish area to meet her parents and I really appreciated the hospitality. Her mom was a super cook making everything from scratch on a wood burning stove. She made the most delicious soup, hasenpfeffer, and spaetzle, then topped it off later in the afternoon with several cakes, including a Black Forest Cherry cake.

    That's a bit about meals in far away places. Don't get me started on nostalgia meals! I am a Cajun now living in the Washington D.C. area, so my nostalgia meals involve some good stuff.

  8. We have a strict division of labor at our house: I buy the beer, she buys the wine, except of course when the roles are reversed. What was the question?

    Oh. We cook together usually. She's a great taster, knowing just when to add the right thing. I am glad she bakes because that is a mystery to me. I am too sloppy with my measurements. I don't know if that's because I am a man or a typical Scorpiaricorn.

  9. foodie52 beat me to it, but I would love to reunite and cook for my departed family members and relatives.

    Besides that I guess I would like to cook for some of my musician heroes so they could make music in the kitchen while I am getting things ready. Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds! "When's it gonna be ready?" they ask. "Not before a few more songs!"

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