June 2010
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Sausage Race Results
As of June 24
Italian Sausage-9
Hot Dog-6
Bratwurst-0
Polish Sausage-10
Chorizo-6
Above are the somewhat current race standings from the sausage races at Miller Park, provided by Klement’s. I’m glad to see that Polish Sausage and Italian Sausage are doing so well this year, but Bratwurst is really letting me down. Being of German ancestry, I most closely identify with the...
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“Milwaukee became synonymous with Germans and beer beginning in the 1850s. The...”
– Fun facts about Milwaukee’s brewing history from our good friends at Wikipedia.
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“Dear Haute Dish:
I was in the other night. What a mess. The snail & ham...”
– Oh Snap! Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl sticks it to Haute Dish
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“Jimmy Dean, the musician and founder of the sausage company that bears his name,...”
– The Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Things I like about my job.
Lately, I’ve been going through a bit of a career crisis. Sometimes I wonder if I should have just gone to business school and worked my way up through management until I make a bunch of money and have a beach house somewhere (That’s how it works, right?). But then I realized, Dammit Chris! You love your job! Think of all the cool stuff you get to do every day! So I made a list:
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“Dollars had been moved from BLG to LBV, from Barrio to LBV, and then from LBV to...”
– Andrew Zimmern on the Thoma/McKee split.
My chef made a good point last night while we were talking about this issue, “This just shows how fucked up this industry is.” To which I couldn’t agree more.
I’ve heard some rumors about all of this money stuff going down for some...
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“If a vegan cop falls outside a vegan cafe and no one’s there to hate, does it...”
– A Gawker commenter brings philosophy to bear while discussing an incident in which a Portland cafe owner allegedly asked a uniformed policeman to leave because he was making customers uncomfortable. (via shutupfoodies)
Portland, you so crazy. 