Weekend Plans Post: The Most Important Video You Will See This Year
I’ve mentioned before that Buffalo Wings are a favorite for the various sporting events we enjoy on the television. The big WWE PPVs, for example, benefit immensely from several dozen wings of various flavors and heat levels for the various people enjoying the show.
I’m a “Mango Habanero” man, myself. Though I do very much enjoy the Lemon Pepper and Garlic Parmesan variants.
The local Safeway has a hot wing bar that doesn’t have particularly good wings, really, but sometimes you’re on your way home and you don’t want to cook and you don’t want to spend a whole lot but you want hot food and, seriously, you don’t want a taco or a burger… well, the hot wing bar has good enough wings for dipping in some bleu cheese or hummus or similar and so, if you’re not trying to impress anybody, the Safeway hot wing bar is good enough.
Well, one day while walking past, the deli lady dumped a bunch of Salt & Vinegar wings into the tray as I was debating whether to get some wings or something else for dinner. I figured… why not? I got my usual bunch of the various bbq flavors and thought well, I’ll just put three of the S&V wings in there. If they’re bad, no big loss. Holy cow, I got them home and they were some of the best (non-spicy) wings I’ve ever had. You know how the Pringles S&V chips are? Well, these were about that good. Quite pungent, quite tangy, and I ate the third thinking that I messed up by getting the other wings when all I wanted was another half dozen of these.
The deli has no problem dropping a couple dozen for you if you want and so I put in an order of 24 of the things for a gaming night and after a bunch of “OMG, these are awful!”s, they were gone in a couple of minutes.
Seriously, those Safeway wings have no business being that good.
Well, for the really big Wrestlemania event, I put in my order for Wing Stop and check the box for “all drumsticks”. In the past, I’ve noticed that the drums are the first to go and so, if you’re going to have a feast, why not have a feast full of the things that are the first to go?
Well, seeing this video, I now realize that, perhaps, I have been eating my wings incorrectly for my entire life:
And so, this weekend, I will be getting chicken wings. And I will try to eat them correctly.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Stretch”. Photo taken by Maribou.)
That might be a more efficient way to eat wings… you might get more meat off the bone… but to me part of the joy of eating wings is the process. Hard pass from me, dawg.Report
It’s one thing to know about it and to decline to practice.
Quite another to have lived almost 50 years without knowing about it.
I have wasted a lot of time.Report
I’m desperately working on a treatise on why that method is wrong.
So far I’m just staring at a blank word doc.Report
“If I wanted chicken without a bone, I’d have ordered the boneless ‘wings.'”Report
Those are almost always chicken breasts or tenderloins.
Don’t be hornswaggled.Report
I am decorating for Christmas. I don’t CARE that it’s too early and some people hate it; I travel for Thanksgiving and then when I get back it’s a mad dash to the end of the semester so it won’t be worth doing if I waited. I put up the (artificial) tree last night and got the lights on. If I can get the take-home exams graded this afternoon I will put the ornaments on tonight, if not, that’s a Saturday thing.
it’s been a Hell of a week – started off with the plumber finding an opossum in the crawlspace of the house, which had to be evicted (a live trap baited with Friskies’ “Chicken and Liver Dinner” did the trick). He also replaced the old line to the shower that had cracked, which drained a decent amount out of my checking account. Then Wednesday I had three meetings – one acrimonious, one mercifully short, and the third not acrimonious but just long. Gave and graded an exam yesterday and now am questioning whether my students didn’t study at all, or if I just have lost ANY ability to teach I once had. And today’s been a comedy of errors of forgetting things or people needing things at the last minute.
*sigh* It’s a good thing I’m not a drinking woman.
as it is, I am considering getting carry out pizza for dinner instead of going with some healthful option I’d have to cook myself.Report
Just let them know:
I thought that Colorado Springs had a radio station that switches to Christmas music in November.
As it turns out, we have THREE radio stations that do that.Report
I have taken to blaming “supply chain issues” for lots of things, legitimate or otherwise.
For instance, I usually don’t start the Christmas Wish List with the kids until after Thanksgiving because Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I like to enjoy that without Christmas madness taking over. But this year, we actually need to start shopping early. So, wish lists began.
But then also, like, my girlfriend found that the Hallmark Channel Holiday movies began on Halloween weekend and she started watching those so I started drinking wine by the fire because, well, supply chain issues.
Win-win-win.Report
You’re a man after my own heart. Thanksgiving is also my favorite and if I didn’t draw such a hard line about it my wife would start the Christmas decorating at 12:01 AM on November 1. Stay strong. These are the kinds of stances keeping full on societal collapse at bay. No G– d— trees and tinsel until all of the turkeys have been fried!Report
There are ways to fight back that are socially acceptable.
“Why ‘Christmas Alphabet’ by The McGuire Sisters has baggage and why we need to talk about it.”Report
I take a general “one holiday at a time” approach for various reasons. Son the Younger loves Halloween (he gets Halloween-themed cakes for his March birthday) and would celebrate Halloween all year long if I didn’t put a “NO HALLOWEEN BEFORE OCTOBER 1” rule on the books.
No XMas decorations before Thanksgiving. Hard line. Non-negotiable.
I’ll allow Christmas music and Christmas movies and Christmas drinks… but those goddamn gourds are staying on the mantle until I’ve polished off my final stuffing sandwich.Report
yeah, the supply chain issue here is happiness and personal motivation
though it’s kind of a shame Hallmark doesn’t do spooky romance movies for halloweenReport
I started thinking about this too much this past Halloween, when all the streaming channels were pushing horror movies. Why would I be more inclined to watch horror movies in October? Should I be watching movies about harvesting this month? If people really love turkey and cranberry sauce, why don’t they go out and buy turkey and cranberry sauce the other 51 weeks?Report
Mid-October, they were setting up the Pepperidge Farm cookie display at the grocery store and I thought “calm the heck down, Christmas” but then I saw that the Peppermint Ice Cream Fat Boy sundae-on-a-sticks were back so I bought some.Report
The ritual is what makes the activity meaningful.
This whole conversation reminds me of when my wife was pregnant and made a huge Thanksgiving dinner in like April. Then of course she couldn’t eat a bite of it. I was getting some weird looks in the break room by the third day of pulling a giant tupperware full of stuffing out of the microwave.Report
Boys got dose 1 today. Big day. LFG.Report
[misthreaded]Report
Awesome! (Did they experience the whole “I’m out of gas” thing?)Report
You mean feeling wiped? I dunno… we had 4 sporting events already and everyone is still kicking. But we’re still a couple hours from the 24 hour mark.Report
I felt like someone drained my tank about 4 hours after the shot.
So if they’ve not said something like “I’m worn out” yet, they ain’t gonna.
Which is good!Report
Hmmm… a 6PM shot on a Friday night. WHY DID WE DO IT ON MOM’S WEEKEND?!?!
So far, all the PfizerPfolks (including all wee ones) in our fam had minimum effects and the ModernaMob moreso. But the boys also spent 5 days with pre-symptomatic mom and never got sick so may have some inherent immunity.Report
I got my booster yesterday (Pfizer). The only commonality between all three shots was a mild, persistent headache the next day and some arm soreness.
Although, to be fair (to be fair!) the mild, persistent headache this morning could just as easily have been from the Epic brewery sampler I picked up yesterday…Report
Ritual means nothing to me. Yeah, I know, I’m the guy who posted the address for the Latin Mass in Baltimore last week. But I’ve never been a ritual guy. Ceremony itself, unattached to eternal truth, doesn’t inspire me. If anything it highlights the absurdity for me. If stuffing is good, it’s good out of tupperware in April, and if it’s not good, then no stuffing on Thanksgiving.Report
I am the opposite. To me ritual is the path to truth. Focus and discipline is what it takes for a glimpse… and then you lose it. My best moments at being a Catholic are through repetitive work. Or so I think anyway?
But I’m open minded! I certainly don’t judge. And amusingly enough my Latin Mass exposure was not in Bmore, but I worry I’d dash my semi-anonymity if I posted the town.Report
I once got the best of a standup comedian who was making fun of the way I was eating a wing (not the drumstick, the other part). It involved a lascivious look, some tongue flicks and one word: “practice.” The audience roared.Report
Callback to last year’s oatmeal post: Crushed red pepper in steel cut oats is HOLY COW AMAZING.
Just finished a bowl that had some butter and brown sugar to round it out. Absolutely amazing.Report
What’d I tell you? Everything is better with red pepper.Report
I can’t imagine how the 2 even came together. This is on the level of what would make a caveman eat oysters (which I love, love, love).Report
I was experimenting last year. One of the things I tried was cooking the oatmeal with blackberries.
Hey, I love blackberries. I love oatmeal. Let’s bake them together!
That was a disappointment. I would have been happier just eating the berries by themselves after eating the oatmeal by itself. But whenever I tried something like a spice (cinnamon, brown sugar, vanilla) in the oatmeal as it cooked, I always ended up delighted.
I looked at the red pepper flake and noted that the worst thing that was likely to happen was that I ruined 38 cents’ worth of oatmeal.
So I tried cooking the oatmeal with the red pepper flake already in it and IT WAS GREAT. Seriously warm breakfast. It wasn’t painfully spicy like a jab, just nice and warm. I would not recommend it for people who do not like spicy food at all.
But if you think that they should recategorize Hot Pace picante sauce as “mild, but at least you can taste it”, then you should give it a shot. (The worst thing that happens is that you ruin 38 cents’ worth of oatmeal.)Report
Read Rex Stout’s Too Many Cooks, ignoring the racism and misogyny, just for the bits of Nero Wolfe’s speech on “Contributions Américaines à la Haute Cuisine”.Report
Did some quick googling and found this.
I mean, if I were to throw together an American meal for some guests who had no idea what American food would be like, I’d want to cook three meals:
1. Breakfast. Americans do breakfast better than anybody.
2. A cookout for lunch. Something like what you’d get at the 4th of July. Not steaks, but grilled hot dogs and burgers and potato salad and coleslaw and beer in brown bottles. Bonus points for yelling kids running around while you’re eating it.
3. Dinner… jeez. I don’t know what I’d do for dinner.
But I read that blog post and think “that’s American cuisine?”
Other than the biscuits and the sponge cake, I don’t know that I’ve ever had any of those other dishes.Report
You’d have to do three or four dinners!
Here’s the pizza night. We’re going to be watching Raiders of the Lost Ark while we eat it.
Here’s the steakhouse night. Salad, steak, loaded baked potatoes.
Here’s the Northeast seafood night. Lobster. Blue crabs. Rice pilaf.
Here’s Minnesota Lutheran. Beef Stroganoff, Swedish Meatballs, Green Jell-o.
Tex-Mex and Southwestern. Carne asada, chicken, different torilla delivery of those, fajita style veggies, beans and rice.
And I’m sure I missed twice as many.Report
Breakfast. Americans do breakfast better than anybody.
I’m only inclined to lean that way because I lack experience. I’ve been reading various things set in Britain, and I’m not sure that we would beat “full English” or “full Irish” or “full Scottish” breakfasts.Report
The pictures look great but they don’t season it properly.Report
The longer I have lived, and greater variety of foods I have tried, leaves me in awe of our distant ancestors who (a) tried eating so many things and more importantly (b) found ways to prepare them to release nutrients and deal with toxins. Well, and (c) bred things to where they’re useful.Report