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March 18, 2015

Iconic Margarita Stand in Disney Springs

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One of my favorite spots in Disney is the Margarita Stand at Downtown Disney. It has been gone for about a year now as the redesign of Downtown Disney to make Disney Springs takes place. But the Margarita Bar will reopen soon. And this artwork for the stand is awesome.

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August 12, 2014

The Trailer Trash Bloody Mary is Awesome

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This thing is a meal in itself. It has shrimp, three stuffed olives (chream cheese, pickle and slim jim respectively), a slice of bacon, celery stalk, and you drink it with a hollowed-out slim jim, called a “Meat Straw.” It was spectacularly delicious. Got it at Robbie’s in Islamorada.


May 14, 2014

Alton Brown’s Ultimate Grilled Cheese

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You actually have to grill the cheese. I’d have gone with butter, however. Love the squirt gun of olive oil though!


December 4, 2013

This Guy Really Loves His Five Guys Burgers and Fries

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I saw this the other day and I had to get me some Five Guys too.


July 26, 2013

Its 2013. They Finally Re-Engineered the Bottle Opener

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Meet the Gropener. Oh yes, I want one.


January 16, 2012

Sad: Cracker Barrel Founder Dies

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So sad. He was a wonderful restaurateur and a good businessman who had great success with a good product. Dan Evins has died.

From WTOP here:

The founder of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store chain, Dan Evins, has died at 76.

He fashioned the restaurant after the country stores of his youth in rural Tennessee and used a number of family recipes. The restaurant was named after the practice of customers gathering at country stores to share news and play checkers on top of an empty barrel that had been used to deliver crackers to the store.

Evins helped build the chain into a national brand as CEO from 1969 to 2001 and chairman until he retired in 2004. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., headquartered in Lebanon, Tenn., now operates more than 600 restaurants in 42 states.

So long, Danny and thanks for all the gravy.


November 12, 2010

Cheeseburger Mecca

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I’m wrapping up a week of travel to the West Coast. After work I was dropping off the rental car and I saw a sign on the side of the freeway that made me take the next exit- An In and Out Burger sign. The burger chain is pretty famous out here and I’ve heard so much about it and I just had to give it a try. And yep, its pretty good.


I got their classic Double Double and the bread was nice a fresh and well toasted. There were two great all beef patties and a load of onions, plus fresh tomato and lettuce. And outstanding thin cut fries. Glad I got to go there. Next time I’m in LA I’m getting me some more!


October 18, 2010

Belchers Wanted for America’s Got Talent

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I got an email asking for my help to recruit gastric superstars for season 6 of America’s Got Talent on NBC.

I got the following email:

Hey Pat,

I’m a producer on the NBC television show, America’s Got Talent.

I’m looking for unusual new talent to come on the show this year and would love to get a champion belcher.

I wondered if you might be able to pass my contact details to any great belchers you are in contact with. I’ve attached a flyer below with our casting information.
Feel free to give me a call on 818 748 1208 if you’d like to discuss any of this.

Thanks so much!

Ciuin Doherty
Producer
America’s Got Talent
818 748 1208

You can download the flyer here.


July 26, 2010

Pasty for the Train Ride

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I am in London and picked up a Cornish Pasty from the pasty stand in Marylebone Station for the trainride back to Aylesbury.

I have no idea why this isn’t a universal food that supplants the hamburger as the ideal fast food. Delicious, easy to carry and makes a crowded train ride bearable.


June 16, 2010

Mussels Fettucini

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How lucky am I? My wife whipped this up for dinner tonight. Mussels in a white wine sauce with shallots and garlic poured over fresh fettucini.


April 20, 2010

If You Went to Heaven, These Would Be in 7-11

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This is the pinnacle of mechanical contrivances if you love food.

Thanks to Tosh’s blog here where they say:

The Bob Evans Sausage Gravy & Biscuit Machine.

Have you died and gone to heaven?

And then, in heaven, you get to eat out of The Bob Evans Sausage Gravy & Biscuit Machine and then you have a heart attack and die again and get to go to an even better heaven!

Nommy Nommy Nom.


August 20, 2009

Cheers, Angelo!

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After 77 years of pouring beer and tending bar, Angelo Cammarata is quitting.

From the PostGazette here:

Angelo Cammarata, whom the Guinness Book of World Records recognized as the world’s longest-serving bartender, is coming up on last call.

At least at Cammarata’s Cafe, the West View watering hole where he’s been pouring for most of his 77 years of tending bar.

“Camm,” as people call him, started serving beer at his father’s North Side grocery the moment Prohibition ended at midnight on April 7, 1933. The memory is as clear to him as the strike of the library clock that signaled it was time to start opening bottles of Fort Pitt.

Way to go Angelo. You’ve undoubtedly made a lot of Joes very happy over the years.


June 16, 2009

My First Cajun Meal

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I am currently on travel to Shreveport, LA. I stopped into the Blind Tiger pub to have my first cajun meal. Now I realize that bar food is not often the best judge of a category of food, but sometimes it is. In my case, the Blind Tiger was awesome! I loved the blackened catfish, at 9 o’clock on my plate below.


This food was awesome!  Starting from the 9:00 position on the plate, I ate the following:

  • blackened spicy catfish
  • deep fried corn on the cob
  • spicy meat pies
  • shrimp et touffe
  • Jumbalaya
  • Crawfish tails
  • Cajun dipping sauce

For me, the best part was the fried catfish.  I have to stay in Shreveport for two more days and I promised myself that I will eat at least three more helpings of this catfish.  YUMM!


September 24, 2008

Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub 123 LB Burger

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Wow, now this is a cheeseburger. It weighs about as much as a supermodel and can feed three African villages for a week.

The burger was apparently made for a charity event.  Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub homepage is here.


July 25, 2008

Cornish Pasty to Finally Be Trademarked

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Mmmm. The Cornish Pasty. (pronounced PAH-stee) I have been to Cornwall and have eaten some of these wonderful meatpies, and they are indeed a regional treasure that deserves protection.

From Reuters here:

Cornish pasty makers in Cornwall moved a step closer to securing branding and marketing rights for the traditional snack after the government backed their European bid for regional protection.

If successful, only pasty makers in Cornwall that use traditional methods and recipes for the meat and vegetable snack will be able to use the trademark, barring copy-cat like products from branding and marketing their products as Cornish pasties.
Any trademark would cover the Cornish pasty’s traditional recipe and appearance. A genuine Cornish pasty has a distinctive D shape with the pastry crimped on one side, never on top.

It is filled with minced or roughly cut chunks of beef, swede or turnip, potato and onion.

The pasty originated as a meal the tin miners could easily pack for a lunch. It contains hunks of beef and local veggies. Think of an American pot pie, folded in half with heartier fillings, and you get the picture.


July 3, 2008

God, I Wanna Lick the Griddle

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Wow. Below you see a whole griddle used to create the Lutherburger, which is a bacon cheeseburger and you use tasty, yummy, heavenly Krispy Kreme Donuts instead of a bun.

Is the USA great or what?

And Homer Approves. Thanks to Al Dente here by way of Fark.


April 4, 2007

The Ultimate Tailgate Item

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So you like to go to the game?  Hang out with friends, have a few beers and some dogs on the barbecue?  Heck, tailgating is half of the fun on game day.  So what would be the perfect item for tailgating?

 The ultimate self-contained Tailgating Trailer.

This trailer has it all:

  • LCD TV
  • Satellite
  • DVD Player
  • Generator
  • Propane Grill
  • Running Water
  • Hand Washing sink
  • Cold Beer on Tap
  • Yes, Even a Toilet

Just hook it up and take it to the game.  Be the envy of everyone on lawnchairs with their pathetic folding tables.  Go to Gameday Customs here.


March 8, 2007

Coolest Mini-Fridge Ever

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A Duke University Engineering Grad built this awesome mini-fridge that will catapult a beer into your hand at the command of a remote control button.

From AP here:

When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.
It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.

With a click of the remote, fashioned from a car’s keyless entry device, a small elevator inside the refrigerator lifts a beer can through a hole and loads it into the fridge’s catapult arm. A second click fires the device, tossing the beer up to 20 feet — “far enough to get to the couch,” he said.

Is there a foam explosion when the can is opened? Not if the recipient uses “soft hands” to cradle the can when caught, Cornwell said.


November 19, 2006

Heart Attack Grill is Official Restaurant of Belch.Com

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You want food, right? Good, American food, made the way it should be? I mean real juicy burgers, stacked high, and fries deep fried in lard? And dammit, those burgers and fries should come with a great big beer. And a pack of smokes! And none of that wimpy Marlboro Lights, I’m talking the real deal, the Marlboro Reds baby!

And to top it all off, if you are working on your next heart attack, you may as well be wheeled to the dining table in a wheelchair by a scantily clad nurse in high heels, right? Damn right!

So if you are in Tempe, Arizona, stop in and get a Double Bypass, or check out the rest of the menu here. The restaurant was so controversial it was featured on 20-20 here.


August 24, 2006

Milwaukee, Wisconsin is America’s Drunkest City

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Congrats to Milwaukee! You are hereby awarded special recognition by Belch.Com as being not only the city that drinks the most, but by association, the city with the most belches!

From the AP here:

MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee has been ranked by Forbes.com as “America’s Drunkest City” on a list of 35 major metropolitan areas ranked for their drinking habits.

Forbes said Tuesday it used numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rank cities in five areas: state laws, number of drinkers, number of heavy drinkers, number of binge drinkers and alcoholism.

Minneapolis-St. Paul was ranked second overall; followed by Columbus, Ohio; Boston; Austin, Texas; Chicago; Cleveland; Pittsburgh and then Philadelphia and Providence, R.I., in a tie for ninth.

Rick DeMeyer, 28, said Wednesday as he was celebrating his birthday at G-Daddy’s BBC he could understand Milwaukee’s ranking.

“I have had people stay with me from London and Chicago, and they can’t get over how much we drink,” he said. “I guess we do.”



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