Krev wrote: Thu Aug 31, 2023 12:43 pm

twelvepoint wrote: Thu Aug 31, 2023 12:35 pm

Krev wrote: Thu Aug 31, 2023 12:14 pm Man, I haven’t heard about Moxie in years. I thought it tasted like sugarless root beer. My uncle drank it.

Basically it's like a brown soda with bitters. Definitely a cult beverage, that I didn't like as a kid, but I understand better as an adult who's been to old man bars.

Apparently, it's a popular mixer for that Allen's Coffee Brandy. Like most Mass natives, I've never tried that.

Coffee brandy and Moxie sounds gross by any definition. Maybe it's just an attempt to be "peak Maine" (which itself isn't a very Maine thing)

penningtron wrote: Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:31 am Man.. Currywurst sounds like it would be awesome: thick Asian style curry sauce, maybe a sweet/spicy chutney, dash of chaat, etc. The reality looks like some drunken bullshit you'd find at Oktoberfest. And why have it cut up.. are you 5..

Agree, currywurst is some bullshit. The idea of it sounds great, but the reality is that it is one of the blander sausages with a sweet ketchup based sauce with a hint of curry in it. When I got it in Berlin I was expecting something that was 50% German and 50% Indian curry. Which would be excellent. Aside from Düsseldorf mustard, Germans just don’t like spicy things.

Teacher's Pet wrote: Wed Aug 30, 2023 4:22 pm All hot dogs are beautiful and deserving of our love and appreciation.
This thread is nothing but mean-spirited chauvinism.
Shame on all of you. Enough. Be better.

correct, i guess i figured it went w/o saying i'll eat any hot dog essentially, as long as it does not have ketchup on it. or, i guess, jam or something

tommy wrote: Germans just don’t like spicy things.

I have a friend from Germany whose sister came to visit the US for the first time and complained that, aside from the giant portions, American food was too spicy. Buffalo wings, nachos, Mexican & Thai food, that kind of thing.

Teacher's Pet wrote: Wed Aug 30, 2023 4:22 pm All hot dogs are beautiful and deserving of our love and appreciation.

After watching the Hot Doug's documentary, I'll have to kindly disagree. There is such a thing as a bad hot dog, even a bad Chicago Dog (in fact, there are at least a handful of places in Portland doing not-quite-right Chicago Dogs), and then there is the sublime perfection that was a dog from Doug's.

I've been playing with making my own Portland Dogs at home though. Trying to parse the "local" ingredients that make it:

-Olympia Provisions Frankfurter (or in a pinch, Kirkland Signature all-beef jumbo dogs (Kent WA is regional enough, if not immediately local), steamed and broiled under a salamander
-Franz bun
-shredded Tillamook 2-year white cheddar
-Mama Lil's peppers
-chopped red onion
-pickled green tomatoes (from my backyard - heavy on the allspice and cumin seed)
- Beaver brand Deli Mustard (from Beaverton)