Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
- Thread starter B-string
- Start date
- Status
- Oct 22, 2015
- 21,166
- 256,861
- Disclosures
- I am an affiliate for Ari Cap.
I'm so here right now
yeah poured myself a lemonade. Most relieved I've been in a week
yeah poured myself a lemonade. Most relieved I've been in a week
Learn to love/like/tolerate liver. As with all things, some are better than others.
Or you can spend good money on my friend's specialty, foie gras. He's currently executive chef at a new French restaurant in Chicago, Marchesa. He grew up in Bergerac, which explains his specialty. He now offers a chicken liver paté, which is ABFAB! When he had his own bistro-style restaurant on Clark (Cyrano's) for 20 years, he usually had an appetizer with 3 different house-made patés. I always started with that.
You'll find something that works for you.
Just watch out for those f'ing iron pills.NOT
It's not called foie gras, but one can get almost the same thing sometimes in the better supermarkets. I can get a small container of darn good chopped liver in local NJ supermarkets such as Shop-Rite and Stop+Shop... Tain't French, but it's tasty, and better IMO than iron pills...
Great town, Memphis... Especially during their annual Blues Competition Festival!
I prefer the German version - Braunschweiger. A thick slice with a slice of white onion on salt rye and I’m in Heaven.
Oh yeah, good stuff! And the domestic American brands of liverwurst ain't too bad either... It's almost impossible to ruin a good slice of liverwurst!
It's sorta funny(?). Can't stand liver, like an occasional liverwurst/braunschweiger sammich.
I'm so here right now
yeah poured myself a lemonade. Most relieved I've been in a week
Right now, while downing the last of the prep, mine feels more like
Attachments
We used to go to Memphis pretty often in the mid to late 70s. Usually ate at Fridays in Overton Square. Went to concerts at the Midsouth Colosseum or Cook Convention Center. Saw the Eagles twice. Ticket prices were outrageous at $4 and $7. lol. BTO, Point Blank, Eric Clapton/Santa, Dave Mason, Beach Boys, Andrew Gold. Might be a few others. Let's just say that period of time was a little hazy on occasion.
Stumbled across this site. Pretty cool.
rocktourdatabase.com
Nope, but you and my dad would have gotten along fine. The first time I tried it I thought it was something like bologna. I was wrong.
MeTV started running segments from the Ed Sullivan Show. Last night they had the Rolling Stones playing "Let's Spend 'some time' Together." It was a hoot watching Mick with the eye rolls and expressions. 
- Oct 22, 2015
- 21,166
- 256,861
- Disclosures
- I am an affiliate for Ari Cap.
MeTV, helping nursing home residents hold on to that one last piece of Gomer Pyle until bedtime.
Ah yes, liverwurst, all kinds of things in there. What's with me now is a packed knapsack, and there's no liverwurst inside. It's an open road to the Braunschweiger Internationale Aéroport.
La mask is in a pocket of this utility skirt. Expect I'll be wearing it for some good while today. And tomorrow.
Pictures or it didn't happen, yes? Stay posted
Viva la France
too bad about French beer but we'll survive, somehow.
Ah yes, liverwurst, all kinds of things in there. What's with me now is a packed knapsack, and there's no liverwurst inside. It's an open road to the Braunschweiger Internationale Aéroport.
La mask is in a pocket of this utility skirt. Expect I'll be wearing it for some good while today. And tomorrow.
Pictures or it didn't happen, yes? Stay posted
Viva la France
too bad about French beer but we'll survive, somehow.
MeTV has been providing The Addams Family for us recently.
Still getting a chuckle now and then.
I heard that some guys do wopped him on the street corner. Shame.
D
When in Memphis...We used to go to Memphis pretty often in the mid to late 70s. Usually ate at Fridays in Overton Square. Went to concerts at the Midsouth Colosseum or Cook Convention Center. Saw the Eagles twice. Ticket prices were outrageous at $4 and $7. lol. BTO, Point Blank, Eric Clapton/Santa, Dave Mason, Beach Boys, Andrew Gold. Might be a few others. Let's just say that period of time was a little hazy on occasion.
Stumbled across this site. Pretty cool.
rocktourdatabase.com
1) Must eat at Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous! (The Rendezvous)
2) Must stay at the Peabody! (Peabody Ducks | Memphis Attractions | Peabody Hotel Memphis)
That photo reminded me of a long forgotten piece of Texas history. In 1896, a temporary town was set up to stage a locomotive crash. It was called "Crush" after the man who staged the event, William Crush. (not associated with the orange soda)
Here is the Wikipedia account: Crash at Crush - Wikipedia
Two people were killed and several injured when the boilers exploded after the crash. What is no mentioned in the story, is that Crush was warned by railroad mechanics, in Cleburne, Texas, that what happened would happen. (Unable to locate the citation), but officials with the railroad assured him that it was safe.
The "Crash at Crush" was only a few miles from West, Texas, which was the site of a fertilizer plant explosion in April 2013.
Not sure why my mind wandered into these events.
Update: survived(obviously)the prep-whatever taste they were going for, they missed-and the procedure. Didn't go to eat as I have in the past. Came home and napped. Too much fun.
- Status
