"Joe and Bob"

Gary Sax wrote:

ubarose wrote:

Diane, I only know what it is because my Dad likes it. He told me that when he was a kid during WWII, they called it Shit on a Shingle. He claims my grandmother would serve them toast covered in lumpy gray sauce, made with meat grease and scrapings collected over the week, and claim the lumps were meat.

Mmmmmm, non-meat lumps.

Believe it or not, we have a family tradition on Christmas morning of having a huge family breakfast, and one of the featured attractions is S.O.S. It's frakkin' DEEE-LICIOUS. Don't knocks it to you tried it.


Well, okay, we don't make it with leftover nasty junk but actual fresh sausage, but the spirit's the same.

Ken B. wrote:

Well, okay, we don't make it with leftover nasty junk but actual fresh sausage, but the spirit's the same.

There's a difference?

I think Rosen probably began the piece as a serious one on transforming more traditional board gamers into eurogamers, but when he realized the reaction it would get, he ratcheted up the rhetoric a bit, knowing he would get some extra comments. It came across serious, not tongue in cheek, so it got the reaction it deserved. Good for him if that is what he wanted.

However, if thats what he wanted, he was probably unpleasantly surprised to see most of BGN totally supported his tongue in cheek parody point... Imagine if all of F:AT had shown up on Moss's Vegan Agricola thread to chime in full wanker mode in support of vegan gamers everywhere. That kind of backfire would have made Moss's head explode. I wonder what Rosen thought of his parody post when all of BGN saluted his efforts to assimilate those two guys into the carc collective?

ubarose wrote:

Vegan Agricola was clearly meant to be humor, in a Monty Python way. You can just see one of them delivering the 7th level vegan line.

Tom may have "ratcheted up the rhetoric" to provoke discussion, but he didn't really push the envelop all the way to LOL funny.

Alas, he's only a 4th level Eurogamer.

Nick Warcholak wrote:

Ken B. wrote:

Well, okay, we don't make it with leftover nasty junk but actual fresh sausage, but the spirit's the same.

There's a difference?

If you haven't eaten fresh pork, whether sausage, ham, or chops, you haven't lived. I am constantly baffled at how New Yorkers think they have the best food in the world. Best prepared food? Sure. Tastiest ingredients? I think not. That is reserved for farm country. Give me fried chicken who was clucking and running around an hour ago, corn on the cob picked straight off the stalk, and fresh tomatoes from the garden over a restaurant meal anyday. Same goes for pork, especially sausage. Bonus points if you grew the sage yourself.

[gets off of food soapbox]

DEATH TO MANUFACTURED FOOD

LONG LIVE CREAMED HAMBURGER

SOUTHERN CUISINE UBER ALLES

Hah, I just heard that old Dead Kennedys song on the radio yesterday, "California Uber Alles."

Wow...the meter of all those phrases fit _right_ into "California Uber Alles"...just imagine Jello singing "Long live creamed ham-bur-GER!"

hancock.tom wrote:

Tastiest ingredients? I think not. That is reserved for farm country. Give me fried chicken who was clucking and running around an hour ago, corn on the cob picked straight off the stalk, and fresh tomatoes from the garden over a restaurant meal anyday. Same goes for pork, especially sausage. Bonus points if you grew the sage yourself.

For those who live in the city, go for a short trip and get your hands on any sausage made by a group like the Mennonites, or Amish, or whatever you have near you. You will not be sorry.

Ken B. wrote:

Gary Sax wrote:

ubarose wrote:

Diane, I only know what it is because my Dad likes it. He told me that when he was a kid during WWII, they called it Shit on a Shingle. He claims my grandmother would serve them toast covered in lumpy gray sauce, made with meat grease and scrapings collected over the week, and claim the lumps were meat.

Mmmmmm, non-meat lumps.

Believe it or not, we have a family tradition on Christmas morning of having a huge family breakfast, and one of the featured attractions is S.O.S. It's frakkin' DEEE-LICIOUS. Don't knocks it to you tried it.


Well, okay, we don't make it with leftover nasty junk but actual fresh sausage, but the spirit's the same.

My dad was from Oklahoma and grew up during the great depression. SOS was one of his favorite comfort foods. He would make cream gravy from scratch along with the biscuits. Add in some pork saussage and you had a meal. It was amazing to see somone take bacon grease, flour, salt, pepper and a little milk and make something delicious out of it. Damn, now I want some.

-Will

Bulwyf wrote:

Ken B. wrote:

Gary Sax wrote:

ubarose wrote:

Diane, I only know what it is because my Dad likes it. He told me that when he was a kid during WWII, they called it Shit on a Shingle. He claims my grandmother would serve them toast covered in lumpy gray sauce, made with meat grease and scrapings collected over the week, and claim the lumps were meat.

Mmmmmm, non-meat lumps.

Believe it or not, we have a family tradition on Christmas morning of having a huge family breakfast, and one of the featured attractions is S.O.S. It's frakkin' DEEE-LICIOUS. Don't knocks it to you tried it.


Well, okay, we don't make it with leftover nasty junk but actual fresh sausage, but the spirit's the same.

My dad was from Oklahoma and grew up during the great depression. SOS was one of his favorite comfort foods. He would make cream gravy from scratch along with the biscuits. Add in some pork saussage and you had a meal. It was amazing to see somone take bacon grease, flour, salt, pepper and a little milk and make something delicious out of it. Damn, now I want some.

-Will

My mom is from Oklahoma and I was born there -- she makes this dish frequently. It is nothing short of excellent.

My wife's family kept (and ate) pigs and cows when she grew up. She is a gravy ninja, but her fried pork chops are god on a plate.

hancock.tom wrote:

My wife's family kept (and ate) pigs and cows when she grew up. She is a gravy ninja, but her fried pork chops are god on a plate.

If I am ever in W. Virginia, I hope to get some games and fried pork chops -- I can return the favor if you are in Missouri, minus the pork chops.

Shellhead wrote:

Hah, I just heard that old Dead Kennedys song on the radio yesterday, "California Uber Alles."

On the radio? Holy cow. But then again, Holiday in Cambodia is a song on Guitar Hero III.