2020 New Year Winter Social

I love frog legs. I just had some Tuesday when my wife and I went to lunch on a day trip to St. Helena Island...the restaurant name; The Foolish Frog! My wife wouldn’t eat them either

I used to gig frogs with with dad when we were duck hunting in the Central Valley and we were waiting for sunrise so we could shoot. My dad would then bbq the frog legs for lunch when we got back to our camper at the refuge. 

Frog legs are pretty good. Better than nutria yet much worse than gator.

TRO

I really like alligator. Pretty common down here so its easy to get. There were gators swimming in the marsh by the deck while we were eating lunch at the place I mentioned above.  

You tried nutria? I bet that didn't taste like chicken

Yes, I tried nutria. It was in sausage form and I don’t know exactly how much nutria (compared to other protein sources) was in the sausage. It was not too different from a typical hot link where you’re more concerned with overpowering the flavors of the cheap proteins and fats in the sausage itself.

TRO

Ah NY:

Though wearing a mask, a man was not socially distanced from his partner as the couple had sex on a New York City subway platform, an underground encounter that was gleefully recorded and narrated by a construction worker from the other side of the tracks.

Video of the incident, which began circulating online yesterday, was shot recently in the Flushing Avenue station in Brooklyn. The clip shows a masked man positioned behind his partner, who is bending over next to a steel beam.

At one point, the man filming the action declares, “Yeah, I don’t care. I don’t mind that shit. That shit is like PornHub to me.” After turning the phone to reveal his face, the cinematographer--who was wearing a mask and a reflective safety vest--shouted to the male half of the duo, “Have a good one, bro."

It is unclear what time of day the sex act occurred.

I like some fish tacos and not so much others.

FEBRUARY 7--Confirming the suspicions of a New Mexico woman, a yogurt sample provided to her last month by a grocery clerk contained semen, according to test results that prompted police to secure a search warrant authorizing them to collect blood and DNA samples from the suspect.



The disclosure that the yogurt sample from an Albuquerque market tested positive for “sperm cells” and saliva is contained in a search warrant affidavit seeking blood and DNA samples from Anthony Garcia, the 31-year-old suspect.



The January 28 warrant, which was approved by a District Court judge, notes that the samples were needed to “make sure Mr. Garcia does not have any illness or disease that could harm” the victim, whose name TSG has redacted from court documents due to the nature of the incident.



When police arrived to investigate the January 25 incident at the Sunflower Farmers Market, they arrested Garcia after determining he was the subject of two outstanding warrants connected to a 2009 bust for criminal sexual contact with a minor. Garcia is pictured in the above mug shot.



According to a police report, the 28-year-old victim was shopping with her daughter in the store’s cereal aisle when she was approached by Garcia, who worked in the store’s dairy department. After accepting Garcia’s offer of a yogurt sample, the woman immediately thought the sample tasted “gross and disgusting” and, cops reported, “said it tasted like ‘semen.’”



In a handwritten statement, the woman said, “I spit it out on the floor many times cuz I was upset.” The woman recalled that when she talked to manager Catherine Flores, “she told me was a Greek yoghurt. People love it has lot of protein on it.”

You should try the liver my MIL makes as well as the eggplant vegetable stew my mom makes. Both in classic Eastern European style.

So she knows what the taste of semen  is? He's guilty

Ouch, sorry that you’re going through that. My wife had kidney stones...she also had two babies...and she says the kidney stones were way more painful! I hope you’re better soon. 

Hey now, central coast barbecue is barbecue. Indeed, it is difficult to go wrong with any style of barbecue and each brings its own benefits.

I like central coast barbecue because it really focuses on the flavors the meat itself brings without all the added sugars and spices. Just cooked over oak with some basic seasonings. There is more of a focus on sides with central coast barbecue while letting the meats do their own thing. Texas barbecue is all about the sauce and how it mingles with a slower cooked protein leading to a more tender meat. Carolina tries to, in my experience, do its own thing to a similar end as Texas. Carolina tends to be a slightly faster cook time instead using lower sugar and higher acid content in its sauce to break down the tougher proteins. Kansas City barbecue I found a little “tougher” than Texas and Carolina because it tries to be a little quicker to cook like Carolina while being a lower acid higher sugar sauce. Still delicious but probably my least favorite form of barbecue. Memphis is of course about the spice variety and cooked in a similar fashion to central coast (or, rather, central coast is cooked in a similar fashion to Memphis without the more involved rubs). I find the variety of Memphis barbecue it’s most interesting point. Hawaiian barbecue is it’s own thing because a true Kalua pig is amazing.

My US barbecue power rankings:

1. Memphis
1. Hawaiian
1. Carolina
1. Central coast
1. Texas
1. Kansas City

(all barbecue is good barbecue, just different.)

TRO

All of the things you aren't trying can be awesome.

I basically agree with this, and also that California actually does BBQ well, just differently from what a lot of east coast or southern folk are expecting.

I hate that basically all bbq and hot sauce out here tends to be vinegary. I prefer a true hot sauce that's largely just chili and oil. For bbq it's fine, I don't use it too often. I do need to bust out the smoker though. The spare ribs and pork shoulder have been calling.