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Oh! And also go to Cooter Brown's and have Scotty and Big Ron make you a killer sandwich with some alligator sausage. When you're done eatin' and drinking off of their ridiculous beer menu head next door and have Dave give you a tattoo and Uptown Tats. Yeaaaah! That's how you do New Orleans!

OK now I gotta go book a ticket to get back there.

Years ago a genius friend of mine created some sort of photo project for grad school that involved babies stored in cardboard box, like kittens. He created jello molds of babies in a variety of colors/flavors. I begged one off of him after the fact for no real reason and I still have it in my freezer. A little red, jello baby. I've moved three times since acquiring this oddity and am about to move again and it will come with me to the new freezer where I will have to explain it to someone else eventually.

Recipe reads:
4 cups canola or safflower oil
1 1/2 cups (10 ounces) granulated sugar. divided
2 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon, divided
*1 teaspoon freshly grated, divided*
3/4 teaspoon ground ginger, divided

1 teaspoon of WHAT freshly grated and divided?? Nutmeg?

As a transplanted New Yorker who has lived in Chicago for 11 years i called BS on this place when they opened. I asked how charging $5 a slice was "new york style" when in NY you get a slice for a dollar or two. The doofus hipster behind the counter shrugged and said "I think we import the water."
Please.
Piece is a better pie. Eat that, not this.

I think my fondest pork memory would be last year's Thanksgiving when we all showed up for the pot luck and realized that every dish had bacon in it and that's the way it should be every year.