So last night I broke in the new fryer that HT and LaChoi got me for my birthday. And I think we broke it in damn well if I do say so myself. One could say we spanked that fry daddy's ass! We started off with tostones (fried plantaines), then went to tater tots, followed up by popcorn chicken, then it was time for onion rings, of course it would not be a fry party without crab rangoon and for dessert coconut fried shrimp. Ahhh, just a Monday night at the CHUD house!
It seemed like such a good idea at the time, but now I feel like I am weighed down by a gallon of canola oil and my apartment smells like fried. We've all shared plenty of discussions about fried food. What we enjoy the most, what is the weirdest thing we've had fried, what we really should try and fry. It is not a foreign topic to the OWFL, and in fact I believe it is most often held in the highest regards after a particularly rough night of drinking. Fountain sodas and fried food....ahhhh...a cure for the common hangover.
But now it is the morning after a night of excess fried food consumption and I feel dull, sluggish and a bit queasy....FF hangover. Ok, so if you eat fried food to help with an alcohol hangover, do you drink alcohol to cure a fried food hangover? Will a salad do the trick, or do I need something carby to soak up all the excess grease floating in my belly? How do you get rid of the fried food blues?
And of course, WFL???
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Dry toast. No butter. As an appetizer. Then your stomach will be ready & able to digest a salad. I know I've talked about my all-fried all-oil (the soup! My god, there was a half-inch of oil floating on the surface!) meal in Bermuda. I've never felt so gross in the morning without being drunk the night before.
Hey, DC OWFLers - Cosi has a two dollar off coupon in the Express today! Which brings their sandwiches down into reasonable range! I may break my no-Cosi rule & go there today. Hm.
Drink alot of water to loosen up the oil in your belly and then go for a big salad lunch.
I'm not quite sure what I'll be eating yet, but I need to get something soon as my energy level is very low.
By the way, The OWFL went over the 25,000 visit threshold yesterday. Very exciting stuff.
Something with milk ... one of my favorite things is cottage cheese with a large dollop of strawberry preserves. The sugar will help the funk and the creamy goodness of the cottage cheese wikl clean out you stomach.
LC knows about a green diet tea that will also help.
Lunch is breakfast meeting leftovers. Right now I'm eating a pig in a poke. Yum! It won't be enough, though. Maybe I'll hit Bostom Market for some sides later.
definitly OJ and coffee.. the OJ's acid does something to neutralize the grease and the coffee helps expell it from your system as well as being a godsend in general..
what i fucking hate are smoking hangovers.. now i think they are worse than alcohol hangovers.. infact im dealign withone now and i expect loads of pity.. a pack of camel filters is a torture i don't wish on anyone...
ugh... then add that to the joy of the five hour drive i have coming up tonight adn just want to cry.
miso: you going to be in the area for the holiday?
ugh, i am going salad...au natural today with some low fat dressing. and then i'll top it off with some other set of roughage. yes, some kind of diaretic tea would be nice. maybe even an enema.
this is the ONLY time i'd ever say the master cleanse sounds good. i mean, seriously, if i wasn't going into the holiday season with a massive amount of eating to do, i might have considered embarking on that "shitting out ropes" journey.
btw, misschibi will be coming in late this evening and then joining me for lunch tomorrow. i want to take her to breadline. any OWFL dc-ers around should join us. it's not like you'll have work to do.
To be clear - the Master Cleanse is not the same as the "shitting out ropes" Colonix program LC is referring to.
I don't actually feel that bad today. I think maybe because before I picked Lady A up, I promised myself I would not be a glutton and would not eat a lot. (I still feel bad about skipping the onion rings, and only having one shrimp) I did eat the hell out of some tater tots and popcorn chicken, though.
I'm off to the gym in a moment to sweat out the grease. I'm not sure WFL after that.
Robert Altman died. :-(
I say the alcohol and grease hangovers both have the exact same remedy.
Hair of the dog.
So get thee' to a fast-food joint ASAP and order some deep-fried whatnots and whozits, you'll be good as new in no time. And if not, well at least you enjoyed trying
My lunch: Turkey club with mayo and honey mustard. potato salad and chips. Power-C vitamin water.
still feel like shit from my cigarette dinner last ngiht. lunch thus far is a coke and a nutragrain bar.. (and more smokes)
ive spent the morning listening to Califone: Roots and Crowns and the new Tapes 'n Tapes: The loon... both are pretty tight.. highly recommended
So M, you are a believer in the hair of the dog method of recuperation as well?
Dang, Watchdog jumpped in while I was reading and stole my answer, so I'll have to go with my back up suggestion
I would say either;
deep fry something healthy. Green beans. Yeah Green Beans rolled in butter and bread crumbs.
Or a Watchdog salad, ; 3 olives and a quart of Vodka.
i believe in horribly addictive drugs.
that and quitters never winning
Roughage. Plenty of water. Flush all that grease out of your system. Sounds like you're having a rough day, but what a fabulous night!
Today i got a salad from California (Knows how to party) Tortilla.
Its a BBQ chicken ranch salad. With lettuce, carrots, corn, tomatoes, black beans, cheese, and nice big hunks of chicken. Plus some BBQ sauce which i'm not a huge fan of and ranch dressing. All in all quite good, and its BIG.
Which reminds me of a food related complaint. Why do restaurants think that just by putting BBQ sauce on something its then BBQ. BBQ involves GRILLING, its a lot more than putting a squirt of tangy brown sauce onto something. Damn!
EQ, aint you a veggie? Ain't turkey a meat of sorts?
Watchdog, Liters are just French Quarts. You ain't a frog lover are you? Well, they're like a quart with a little poured out for your homies.
Just landed in Chicago, and I'm deadset on an Italian beef for lunch. With sweet peppers and wet, I think.
LA, booze is the cure (and cause) of all ills. Perhaps, in your case, fried booze.
I had flambe turtle chocolate fondue for dessert last night. That's sort of like fried alcohol.
Earthquake on the Road: Somewhere in Chicago.
Lunch is at the end of a quest for Italian Beef
Dang, Earthquake posted before me. I am slow on the draw today
Thanks, Peep. On my way there now.
God bless OWFL!
And thanks, sunshine, but it turns out, in the immortal words of those sages and poets ZZ Top, "I'm bad. I'm nationwide.". Today, at least.
just watching a little standup before i hit the road and during a Lego Starwars II commercial out of no where my closed captioning reads:
"Time of Death: 6:20"
shit. well i loved you all and if i haven't posted by eleven am on friday assume that i am dead.
Woah, that's freaky, M. I hope you don't die of a tryptophan O.D.
I'm outta here. I'm getting my hair chopped. I wonder what it will look like. Wish me luck!
Wfl, Eq? Indeed , I went to Johnnie's at 7500 W. North Ave. In Elmwood Park. (It was only a slight lie to claim it's "on my way" in to town from O'Hare.)
Super suggestion. I had a juicy beef with sweet AND hot peppers. Also fries. Skipped the Italian ice because it is somewhere shy of balmy up here today, although - truth be told - ridiculously warm for two days pre-Tgiving.
So, today is the day I officially acknowledge the blog giving me something more than a more or less willing audience and substantial workday entertainment.
My thanks to all of you, particularly the soon to be deceased.
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