Better with bacon
Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008 6:14 PM by Will Femia
Looking at
this recipe for bacon vodka (basically bacon infused vodka) reminds me of when I was a bartender and went to a ridiculously expensive bar on the recommendation that the watermelon martini was out-of-control yummy. At the time it was common to make a watermelon flavor with peach schnapps and Midori but the result was always a little syrupy. This fancy expensive watermelon martini was light and refreshing. "How does he do it," I asked my friend-with-connections. "He uses real watermelon juice - squeezes it himself." I was shattered at the answer because to that point I'd thought all flavors had to be a magical concoction mixed from the wall of bottles behind the bar. On my next shift I "invented" the pickle martini. Mostly plain vodka with a bit of Citron and I'd sneak a small ramekin to a waiter and have them go in the kitchen and scoop out some of the pickle juice in the big bucket for the burger garnishes. Customers would taste it and marvel at how well I'd approximated the taste of real pickles. Amazing! So you can see how a piece on bacon vodka with a link to a
pickle juice sports drink would bring back fond memories.
P.S. If you're
going to do it, at least use the good stuff. And this is
definitely not the way to do it.
I recently saw a picture of the Enterprise from the new Star Trek movie. I don't know much about the movie but when I saw
NCC-1701.com I knew right away what it was for. (Funny, I don't think I could have told you that number off the top of my head but I didn't even have to think to recognize it.) Right now I can tune in three of the four screens so I'm guessing whatever they're revealing it incrementally.
Well, we probably could have seen this coming:
Warner sues SeeqPod. I still use SeeqPod regularly.
"Some women in Springfield are regretting their decision last week to
get a tattoo from a door-to-door tattoo salesman." I mean honestly...
Top 5 Most Creative Uses for Old CDs - That mini-hovercraft idea is fun.
Battlestar Galactica prequel possible. (Even though I've now been working in the same building as the Sci Fi channel for at least a month I still have no insider info on this.)
Speaking of insider info,
the whisper in last night's GOP debate has been a bit of a hot topic in
my corner of the cube-o-sphere today. Just as Romney answers a question about Reagan you can hear a
whisper, "He raised taxes." The most interesting aspect of the story is
the changing nature of conspiracy theories. To me, the first, most
likely conspiracy theory associated with hearing a whisper on TV is
that the TV is trying to brainwash viewers with subliminal messages.
Most of the wild accusations I've seen online, however, follow in the
vein of the theories that followed the 2004 debate in which many
believed they could see the bulge of a listening device in Bush's
jacket. So the conspiracy preference seems to have shifted from media conspiracies to puppet candidate conspiracies.
ADDING: This turned out to be a hot enough topic that
Alex wrote up a story for last night's cover.
I've not found anyone here on the inside with a definite answer
as to whose voice you're hearing doing the whisper.
MSNBC's official
statement says something about a microphone malfunction but I've never
heard a microphone malfunction by generating speech. The good-sounding
theory that it was Brian Williams prompting Tim Russert to clarify his
question
is false.
Double amputee walks again due to BluetoothHere's one for anyone having a bad day: It could be worse,
a bird could poop in your mouth on live TV.
A gallery of inside out teddy bears - Still pretty cute and nowhere near as creepy as
a naked Elmo.
Pinks the drag racing show on Speed Channel (definitely in the top 5 best things on TV right now) has a new version called "All out." I caught the first one last night. Surprise ending: A female driver won.
A Wheel-Shaped Hotel is Planned for DubaiYesterday there were a lot links floating around about the internet war on Scientology.
This Grupthink collection is another good indication of just how much trouble the church is suffering at the hands of online detractors. If you check out the front page of Digg right now it's almost all about destroying Scientology.
