The stuff you put in your foodhole
Just got home from the Chicago meetup at the Blue Line Lounge and Grill. Great to see other Avocados in the flesh and big ups to MLA for bringing name tags. Blue Line has a bigger than average pub menu … Continue reading Sunday Food Thread 8/18 Pub Grub
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Menu! Featuring: McDonald’s Through The Ages
I’m out of town this weekend and almost forgot what day it is. I just had some really tasty watermelon, what’s been on your plate? Continue reading Sunday Food Thread 8/11
I had a plan for the food thread but ended up getting hit by a drunk driver tonight (everyone involved is okay, just a big hassle and now I have to go to a body shop and the rest of … Continue reading Sunday Food Thread 7/28
What’s on your plate this week? Continue reading Dig in! Sunday Food Thread 7/21
Coffee is without a doubt my favorite drink. I prefer it strong, hot and black but do make an exception every now and then when real cream is available. I don’t really compare coffee and tea because I see them … Continue reading Coffee, Tea, or… Sunday Food Thread 7/7
Okay so it’s approaching the July 4 Independence Day holiday in the USA, what do all you ‘murucans do for this day? As has been tradition for us the past 6 or so years the community band my wife and … Continue reading Food Thread Sunday 6/30
What are the famous foods from your area? I’ve lived in or near Chicago my whole life so of course deep-dish pizza and no ketchup on hot dogs are both well known Chicago food proclivities, what are yours? I’m not … Continue reading Brag (or not) Food Thread 6/23
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Menu! Featuring: The Pirates’ House, Savannah GA, 1966!
It’s kind of a common sense axiom that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” but is that just a marketing slogan or does evidence back it up? This article has some good reasons to eat a morning … Continue reading Who Eats Breakfast? Sunday Food Thread 6/16
Tuesday was National Cheese Day as noted in the Day Thread. If you’re like me one day is barely enough time to celebrate the deliciousness that is cheese, we should have a cheese week, or better yet month. Continue reading More Cheese! Sunday Food Thread 6/9.
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Menu, Featuring: Smalls’ Paradise, Harlem, New York, date unknown c. 1930s
Okay, so it’s not Tuesday and we are all free to eat tacos any day of the week (or time of day) that we please. Got any good taco stories? What’s your favorite taco? Is it a sandwich (no)? Hard … Continue reading Taco Tuesday! Sunday Food Thread 6/2
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read An Old Menu! Featuring: Baur’s, Denver, CO 1949
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read An Old Menu! Featuring: The Holding Company Mexican Food and Disco, Missoula, Montana 1977!
I’m on the road again this weekend, anything goes! Continue reading Sunday Food Thread 5/19
It’s come down to this. Two powerhouses enter, having handily vanquished both Cheesesteak and Breakfast sandwiches. Which of the two remaining shall emerge as the Avocado’s favorite? Put in your vote, and fight for your choice! Continue reading Best Sandwich Tournament – THE FINAL
At the beginning of the tournament, many thought Peanut Butter and Jelly had a lock on the finals. As the voting went on, the Club sandwich gained steam and began to dominate. But now, both of them have been knocked … Continue reading Best Sandwich Tournament – Final Four
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is the first in what I hope will be a new weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes … Continue reading Let’s Read An Old Menu! Featuring: Aunt Emma’s Pancakes, San Diego, 1961
Historians will write of this day. “Twas a day like no other,” they’ll write, for it was the day you knocked out heavy hitters such as Reuben, French Dip, Pulled Pork, and Banh Mi. Joining them in ignominy are the … Continue reading Best Sandwich Tournament – Final Eight
I happen to love a good tuna fish sandwich, but if in your infinite wisdom, you monsters wish to nominate both Tuna Melt and Tuna Salad and then knock them both out with your confounded democracy, then so be it. … Continue reading Best Sandwich Tournament – Final Sixteen
