The Gurgling Cod's efforts to speak truth to power have availed not. Not even a foe as formidable as LSU can persuade The National to get with the program and abandon its pernicious turn-your-back-on-the-Bulldogs-eat-delicious-food initiative. Once again, Hugh Acheson's band of Bolsheviks will be offering a prix fixe special during the LSU game. It's a shame, esp. when one considers that the same effort applied to , say, leaving corn dogs in the middle of busy intersections could really reduce LSU's rooting presence.
The news is better a few exits up I-85. At a small agricultural institute, a group of revolutionaries are dedicated to spending Saturdays the right way. This is tailgating Realpolitik -- it's not what you want to know, it's what you need to know. Viva la Revolucion!
Can't stand liquid smoke. You can make your own by passing smoke through a homemade condenser (a tube through some ice water), but most people aren't up for that shit.
My easier substitute is the following. Take a pork shoulder or a rack of ribs or anything else you've barbecued and smoked, and save all the stuff you don't eat (fat, bones, cartilage, etc.). Put it all in a pan with some water; you can also throw in onions you've grilled with the meat (just add more smoke flavor). Simmer it like making a stock. Then put it in the fridge. Pull the fat off the top - that's fat that tastes like smoke. Put the stock back on the stove and reduce it until it looks like syrup, you want to get rid of as much water as you can without burning it. This is concentrated smoky meat stock. Freezes for ever, doesn't take much to impart flavor as it's concentrated, etc.
Also - cheap frozen patties? I'm not even sure those things all come from actual cows.
Posted by: rockaintdeadyet | Friday, 02 October 2009 at 02:29 PM