Mmmm, heart attack on a plate
Apr. 22nd, 2005 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiIn yesterday's AJC, John Kessler writes about the Harndog, served at Mulligan's. It's a hot dog, wrapped in cheese half a pound of hamburger meat, the fried, and covered in bacon, chili, onions, and a fried egg, all served on a hoagie roll.
Also, Kessler says it's not nearly as good as it sounds. Which is a shame. But Kessler, being a talented critic, decided that he could do it better himself, and proceeded to make Harndogs at home for his daughters (two out of three of them wouldn't try it, the third loved it). He baked the dogs instead of frying them, which probably saved a year of his life, but they're otherwise just as unhealthy, and sound wonderful. I shall definitely have to try them.
Today, all of the folks who worked at the Educate conference earlier this year are being taken out to lunch at the Buckhead Club. As far as I can tell, they do not serve Harndogs there, but I'll make do.
It's also the first day of Passover. To celebrate, I'm drinking unleavened coffee*.
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I'd won an early-reader copy of the latest Elmore Leonard book, The Hot Kid, which I'm reading (and loving) now. It's a fun hard-boiled/western novel set in pre-Depression Oklahoma, and it's one of his better recent works. What they didn't advertise, and I don't see any mention of it on the Amazon page, either, is that it's an expansion of the very nifty short story he did for McSweeny's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, called "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman." I'm pretty sure the novel is better than the short story. I'm positive that the title of the novel is better.
Hey, if you download a million copies of Opera, you can cause their CEO to drown!
Training is over, btw, but now I've got two days worth of stuff to catch up on. But training was also worthwhile.
*Marge Simpson, to Homer: You like Shake n' Bake. You used to put it in your coffee.
Also, Kessler says it's not nearly as good as it sounds. Which is a shame. But Kessler, being a talented critic, decided that he could do it better himself, and proceeded to make Harndogs at home for his daughters (two out of three of them wouldn't try it, the third loved it). He baked the dogs instead of frying them, which probably saved a year of his life, but they're otherwise just as unhealthy, and sound wonderful. I shall definitely have to try them.
Today, all of the folks who worked at the Educate conference earlier this year are being taken out to lunch at the Buckhead Club. As far as I can tell, they do not serve Harndogs there, but I'll make do.
It's also the first day of Passover. To celebrate, I'm drinking unleavened coffee*.
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I'd won an early-reader copy of the latest Elmore Leonard book, The Hot Kid, which I'm reading (and loving) now. It's a fun hard-boiled/western novel set in pre-Depression Oklahoma, and it's one of his better recent works. What they didn't advertise, and I don't see any mention of it on the Amazon page, either, is that it's an expansion of the very nifty short story he did for McSweeny's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, called "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman." I'm pretty sure the novel is better than the short story. I'm positive that the title of the novel is better.
Hey, if you download a million copies of Opera, you can cause their CEO to drown!
Training is over, btw, but now I've got two days worth of stuff to catch up on. But training was also worthwhile.
*Marge Simpson, to Homer: You like Shake n' Bake. You used to put it in your coffee.
