Bacon Soda

Got a special taste test for you this evening.  While browsing Rocket Fizz in Valencia, CA, The World According to Rich decided it would be fun to do a vlog testing a few of the hundreds of peculiar sodas that dawn their walls.  Here's what happened:

Cock Cola - as the only "normal" soda of the bunch, this one should have been the best since it's basically just cola.  But it was flat and boring.  The funny name is all it had going for it.

Martian Poop - I expected this one to be fruity and sweet.  Instead it was moderately fruity and tart.  Tasted kind of like a Jones Soda with the aftertaste of a tennis ball that had been mauled on by a rhino's butt. 

Cucumber Soda - this one was nasty.  Potent smell and a really terrible taste.  What's interesting is that I've seen people with drinks that have cucumber slices floating in them.  So I actually had expectations for this one going in that it may taste like something not horrible.  But I was wrong.  Oh so wrong.

Pumpkin Pie Soda - just weird.  Tasted like pumpkin.  Not much else to say.

Bacon Soda - rancid.  Really powerful smell and a repulsive taste.  It's almost as if someone drained a pan of bacon fat and carbonated it.  

The thing is, though, none of these blew us out of the water from any end of the spectrum.  They obviously didn't taste good but they weren't "holy crap I gotta puke" disgusting also.  

So if you wanna puke - check out the bacon soda. 

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Good Ole Junk

You know the drill:

The big lumber leading off

An Emma Watson act-alike on Facebook trashed this photo.  I'm not quite sure what that means.

Transition Plate

This was supposed to be a dessert plate but I kept piling stuff on, so it wound up being a second giant Transition Plate

The real dessert plate with a bunch of fake sugary things

Seriously, this NEVER gets old!

Mobile Blog

Note: Well now, it appears that none of my SWF files are loading properly.  Now I need to figure out why.  Thank you, Blogger.

Note 2: I've fixed the problem.  I'm guessing the links to the SWF's were all switched around when the servers were updating.  All Flash files should be working as normal.

Just a quick note here - Blogger finally made it easy to to change the interface of the blog as it's seen on mobile devices.  Maybe it's been there all along but I never knew about it.  But now the blog looks specially simplistic and cool if you're accessing it on your phone.  I was never excited about having to go through the fifty miles of code to figure out why it looked funny on mobile devices and thankfully now I don't have to.

The whole interface of Blogger has changed, so maybe there's some new stuff here to play with.  Maybe they've finally fixed the thumbnail issue or finally added on a photo rotation tool.  Or maybe they've finally acknowledged Greg's Gourmet as an elite powerhouse in blogging and will feature the site's name sandwiched between the Search and Image tabs on Google's homepage!

Enjoy the week.

Third Time's the Charm

First of all, a happy birthday to my most excellent friend, Josh!

It's become an annual tradition to celebrate Josh's birthday dinner at Outback Steakhouse. Last year he was in Japan so obviously we couldn't do it, but the two years prior I left feeling very unsatisfied.  The first year I ordered their Outback Special which is their signature piece of steak but it was really, really mediocre.  The next year I ordered a bacon cheeseburger - and that was really, really mediocre.  I mean, how does that happen?

But last night was a little different.  Ordered the Ribeye (I'm being told that ribeye is actually two words but I'm taking a stand and making it one) and it did the trick.  Really tasty and perfectly cooked:

It's dark in those steakhouses and my camera doesn't have a flash, so I had to slightly adjust the lighting.

I was surprised by how filling the ribeye was.  I was debating over whether I should try their Outback Special again but get a bigger cut at the same price.  Overall this was the better choice and it was very tasty.  Josh had like a 20 ounce porterhouse.  That thing was massive.

Here's a salad even though I know no one cares about that

It's funny with all this new legislation forcing restaurants to have healthier menus.  I remember a couple years back the steak would come with two sides of your choice, so naturally I went with fries and mashed potatoes.  I know - I'm horrible.  But now they force down soup or salad and only give you one side.  Blah.

This is a bundtlet from Nothing Bundt Cakes - it's a pun. Bone Crusher told me about these things so I finally got to check them out and they're really, really good.  Rich and sweet and filling.  Highly recommend. 

Happy birthday to Josh!

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Gourmet Word Search

Here's a little nugget I programmed this week. I call it: Food Finder! Pretty delicious word search of epic portions, just find the words in the jumble (left, right, up, down, backwards, diagonal) and click and drag to highlight them.

Note: May not work on certain mobile devices. Also click here to download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

Written with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS5.5. 

Happy playing!

Happy Passover!

Friday marked the start of Passover. Last year I actually forgot to take pictures of the food prior to eating it. Pretty dumb, I know. What kind of scam am I running here? But this year, my friends, I came through. For the most part:

Ok, I lied about taking picture since this is the only one of the meal I have. But here's what my dad, the Talented Stephen Baldwin, had on his plate which, in some bizarre twist of fate, looks exactly like mine:

We got some chicken here, meatballs as first cooked by my great grandmother who lived to be 102, matzo stuffing (I refuse to call it dressing), and potatoes. Good stuff. 

And just for good measure again, the dessert:

Thanks to the Bone Crusher for traveling halfway around the world to get the GOOD fruit slices. 

Happy Passover and Happy Easter!

Boston Fruit Slices Part II

Happy Passover! I'll have a post dedicated to this most excellent holiday soon, but I wanted to talk about something else this evening: fruit slices. Last week I wrote about a disgusting candy I bought at CVS called Boston Fruit Slices. Thankfully, the Bone Crusher sought out and found the quality stuff of what I was talking about and provided me with not one, but TWO boxes:

Oh yeah!

I was so excited that I ate one before taking the picture

The fruit slices with these chocolate-gel fruity o-thingies for Passover dessert

I seriously feel like these fruit slices fought off some horrible virus that was living in my stomach since I ate those gelled pieces of crap last week. Many special thanks to Bone Crusher for hunting them down. 

Happy Passover and Happy Easter!

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