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Post subject: Chili, football and Fenders
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:25 pm
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Finally have a couple days off. Worked 14 straight. Not been getting enough sleep with all the guitar adrenilin flowing as high as it has been. Still buzzing from my new Strat, new Gretsch and now Son's new Gretsch, arriving Monday.

Was thinking about making a pot of chili tomorrow and just watching football and playing guitars all day.

I'm reminded of the different ways to screw up a good pot of chili.

Had a friend once who didn't understand the difference between a clove of garlic and a whole garlic. And he was using the elephant ones.

Had another friend who mistakenly used cinnamon when his Moms recipe called for cumin. That was the first pot he tried to make us.

A month or so later we all decided to give him another chance. But he sorta messed that one up too.

He invited a bunch of us over for a Husker game. Things were going pretty good until one of my other friends drug part of an old sweat sock out of the pot when he was getting himself some seconds. That kinda got everybody's attention.

There were a couple dozen of us, including the women. Everyone sorta rapidly migrated to the kitchen wondering why Steve kept yelling, repeatedly, (only he wasn't abreviating), WTF!? WTF??

Craig came running in (the guy who owns the house and made the chili), and Steve reaches into his bowl and lifts up this partial old sweatsock stuffed with something and twisted off at the other end with a nasty blackened red rubber band that came off a newspaper, and Steve yells "Cheezer!!!(that's Craig's nickname. He's from Wisconsin) W in T F is a F'ing sweatsock doing in the F'ing chile??? The F'ing chili that you're feeding all of us??

Pretty funny really, looking back on it. All the women and several of the guys kinda just laid their bowls down on the closest horizontal surface to 'em. (I'd already finished mine). Nobody said a word though. Steve was pretty freaked. Man, his face was real red, his veins and even his eyes were kinda bulging out as he's holding this dam sock that's dripping into his bowl of chile. Don't think I'd ever seen him quite like that before.

Come to think of it, he always was kinda picky about his food.

Anyway poor Cheezer, man. You talk about a sheepish, tail tucked between his legs look. He mighta even started tearin' up a bit. I think several of the women were. Steve was yellin' pretty loud.

Cheeze said "Oh, sorry, I meant to take that out. Guess I was pretty excited about the game and all. I musta just forgot."

Steve shifted gears. Hell, I thought he was already pretty much floorboarded.

Nope.

"YOU MUSTA JUST FORGOT?? YOU MUSTA JUST FORGOT???? WTF WAS IT DOIN' IN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!?!?

Dang thing was still drippin' as he's holding it and screaming. Got me chuckling a tad as I write this.

Cheeser says "well I'm still kinda new at makin' this chili. I told my Mom about the cinnamon thing that last time, and after she chewed me out she made me promise not to forget to wrap all the spices up in a piece of cheese cloth. She calls it a spice ball".

Steve's real intent on trying to understand the explanation, but he's not quite getting it.

I'd already figured it out.

"YEAH...SOOOOO...WTF'S THAT GOT TO DO WITH THIS SOCK????", Steve asks.

Cheeser says "well I forgot to buy the cheese cloth, and it was gettin late and...but it was a clean sock"


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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:54 am
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That's a pretty funny story! :lol:


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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:52 pm
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Man, that's even worse than the time one of my roommates (back in 69) messed up noodles and butter.

How he managed not to be able to boil water, add noodles and melt a little butter on top is still beyond me. They didn't come out soggy like you'd expect to get from overcooking, but as a massive, rubbery amorphous blob. No matter what we tried, there was no taming that mess and the worst of it was, that was the only food in the house.

Neither of the other two of us had much money between us, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway. Where we lived and at that time, there'd have been no stores or restaurants nearby open. I had somewhere between empty and less than empty in my car, and that had to get me two more days. The other guy's car hadn't even run for months.

Then we remembered that there was a bowling alley with a couple of snack machines maybe 3 - 4 miles away. We pooled our money and made him go get something to eat for destroying the last of our noodles. We sorta felt bad because it was a cold April night in upstate NY and he had to walk there and back. But ... .only sorta!

After we'd eaten, this whole image of one of my dad's favorite sayings hit me right in the face: "Boy, if you get hungry enough, you'll be hands and knees grateful for anything you can get." The fact was that I'd just been pretty darned grateful for some old stale peanut butter crackers from a bowling alley vending machine. That and the fact that my job was at a grocery store (closed for the night) just a block down the street were too much, and I ended up rolling on the floor for 10 minutes. Just too many ironies all at once!


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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:14 am
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Another way to ruin a great pot of chili is to use high quality meat (steak does NOT belong in chili). I'm not saying to use absolute crap but "scruffy" beef makes the best chili. Remember this ain't "haute cuisine" it's "trail chow". Select your ingredients appropriately. My "Hot $@!" chili (Logo of a sweating donkey) has actually won a few small time chili cook-offs.

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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:17 am
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"Chili, football and Fenders"


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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:04 pm
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I'll often watch football with my strat and lil 15W peavey.

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