A lot of discussion of martinis in the threads today, so I’ll give you my new favorite recipe: five parts New Deal Gin No. 3, one part Vya dry vermouth, shake etc., with an olive. Fee orange bitters optional.
Also too, saw this at the shopping center today. We are all Burkeans now, I guess.
mr. whipple
Go BUTLER!
Anne Laurie
Probably still not a salad bar — if it’s like a lot of similar chain offers (Chili’s, Olive Garden) the servers just bring you as many plates of their pre-mixed salad as you can bear. Full salad bars would require reconfiguring the whole restaurant, gutting the public areas, not to mention dealing with a vast change in resupply and health licensing.
mr. whipple
OMG, what a game!
MikeJ
I’ve been pushing Vya on here everytime you mention vermouth. Glad to see you try it.
And go Butler!
Comrade DougJ
@Anne Laurie:
The kind of guy you’d see being brought all-you-can-eat salad at Applebee’s doesn’t have quite the same ring.
Parallel 5ths (Ionian Steel)
@Anne Laurie: You’ve really thought about salad bars.
And Go Bulls! Oh, wrong roundball.
Moonbatting Average
$6.99 all-you-can-eat soup/salad/bread “lunch” is truly a triumph of the marketplace.
My bracket is so busted (no one cares!), and Butler is up 1 with <1min remaining. I love the NCAA BB Tournament.
NobodySpecial
Go Cubs! Glad to see them come back after a five run first…
Corner Stone
Man this Butler FL game is the balls.
Maude
@Anne Laurie:
And the sneeze guard. I worked at place with a salad bar. They are a real pain.
$6.99 ain’t a bad price.
Prolly lunch menu. Dinner would be more.
kdaug
Tullamore Dew. From the freezer.
mr. whipple
Wow. That was awesome!
Anne Laurie
@Parallel 5ths (Ionian Steel):
I’m allergic to the stuff the manufacturers spray on salad-bar ingredients to keep them from wilting/browning, so I avoid them altogether. Only some of the commercial pre-mixed salads are treated with those particular preservatives. In a better world, I wouldn’t be eating at chain restaurants so often, but I’m (a) lazy and (b) married to a supertaster who grew up in the Midwest with a Norwegian mother, which means that most inexpensive local restaurants (Mexican, Indian, etc.) sell food far too alarmingly flavorful for his palate.
Corner Stone
@Anne Laurie: Was it you who one time said he can’t eat garlic in a dish?
Parallel 5ths (Ionian Steel)
@Anne Laurie: Hmm. Very interesting. As is, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster
…which I had never heard of before.
Mr Stagger Lee
The Butler did it again
The Butler did it again
My Bracket’s busted
Cause the Butler did it again.
PanAmerican
Those places are useful if dining with the 2-6 year old set. Kids can be loud as hell, fling shit, and no one will care.
US vs. Argentina on ESPN2 for the footy fans.
MikeJ
Obama’s bracket in the 99.6 percentile, ranked 23,449.
stuckinred
Fuckers keep sneaking these hoops threads in 2 hours after the games start.
Anne Laurie
@Maude:
Yeah, I think they count on a lot of the users being office drones who only have 40 minutes at best to eat’n’run. So they’re lucky if they can even get seconds — on the smaller luncheon plates. Of course, portions in most chains are too big, we eat too much at each meal, etc. etc. etc.
PSA: Anyone who’s eaten a Wendy’s burger and gotten a headache, or other unattractive side effects, may be (to use the medically preferred term) sensitive to the sulfites used in the grease-filled tubs that enable Wendy’s “fresh never frozen” advertising. Also in pre-cut salad-bar ingredients, liquid eggs & egg whites, salad dressing, et al. (MSG takes the rap, but in my unscientific experience, it’s the sulfites that trip up people who trust the ‘MSG free!’ advertising.)
I have a theory that one reason so many Heartland Americans(tm) look upon salads suspiciously is that their first exposure to the concept is in school cafeterias and/or chain restaurants where they eat the nutritionally-approved, sulfite-booby-trapped Green Option and then spend the rest of the day with a headache and/or upset stomach. So they assume, not always consciously, that salads are a punishment, not a choice.
suzanne
Bear DOOOOOOOOWN!
Moonbatting Average
@MikeJ: and yet 3 of his final four are toast. Goes to show just how busted everyone’s brackets are.
stuckinred
@suzanne: One of the worst things in my life was when my dad became a die-hard Arizona fan. I hated Lute so much from his time with the fucking Hawkeyes that I could never shake it. I hope he’s looking down enjoying this team, I find myself able to pull for them now and it makes me sad. (Also Bill Walton should never have been allowed to call Cat’s games when Luke played there).
demz taters
Does David Brooks get a royalty for every salad sold?
Linkmeister
@suzanne: Hear hear! I actually saw a game or two at the old Bear Down gym. The first time I went to McKale Center it was for registration in 1975, not for a game.
stuckinred
@Linkmeister: Ever eat at the Pizza Mill?
Yutsano
@suzanne: Quick point: did you see JPL’s announcement she accepted a position at UA Med?
Pontiac
On my last visit to Portland in Feb. I came away with a bottle of New Deal #1 and found it to be outstanding. I haven’t tried any of the others.
Portland, OR has a surfeit of awesome. The hard liquor is only sold in state stores AFAIK in Oregon; inasmuch as the one in Sellwood (next to Milwaukie (stet) which is just south of Portland) has something like a dozen locally produced gins is evidence that whatever problems such a system might have it doesn’t automatically count among them keeping good local things from getting to market.
Comrade DougJ
@Pontiac:
The Clear Creek Poire may be the best eau de vie I have ever had.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Thank you, Comrade Doug J, for recognizing the components of an actual martini. I’d like to start making some with a nice craft gin come late spring, when the budget will support that. And of course I still want SPandT’s views on martinis, but she’s not real likely to show up in a basketball thread.
stickler
@Pontiac: Pontiac, it’s not for lack of trying. The OLCC (Oregon Liquor Control Council) is staffed with a bunch of bluenoses who pine for 1920 to come back.
The Legislature just had to pass a law (!), making it legal again to bring homebrewed beer & wine to competitions for others to sample. Why? The OLCC had one of its typical spasms and decided out of the blue that this had become immoral.
But kudos to Comrade DougJ for finding our Oregon distilled loveliness. Have you tried Aviation gin? Or Medoyeff vodka? Totally agreed that Clear Creek is the nectar of the gods.
I’ve also heard it said that we have firms here which produce beer and wine, too. I’ll have to look into that rumor.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
thank you butler bulldogs, i have no end of shit to unfurl back at florida fans who have been chucking it, since they beat pitt.
and uconn making the argument that only march matters.