May 15, 2011
Live, from New York, it’s Cheeseburger Saturday Night! Starring Old Town Bar, with special guest stars, Kari and Britta and featuring The Ready For Prime Beef Player, Marty Wombacher. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Kari, Britta and Old Town bar!
******UPDATE: Kari just posted photos and a blog from last night! Check it out here: Leaf Girl.
Okay, as stated in the introduction, I've got special guests coming over tonight. Most of you know Kari from the comments section and from her blog, Leaf Girl. She's in town tonight and she's coming over with her sister Britta, who also has a blog, check it out: Justice Girl. And when special guests come over, we all know what that means...snack time! Here's my patented snackologist bowl.
Tonight I'm making a snack I just made up invented earlier in the day, it's called "Potato Chip Potpourri." I start with a base of Utz baked potato chips.
And now I add Lay's barbecue chips, Muncho's, Utz sour cream and onion, and the icing on this classic snack invention is...
A layer of Funyuns on the top! And, a gentle reminder, PLEASE, don't try this at home. I'm a board-certified snackologist with years of training under my belt. Now we wait for the guests to arrive.
And through the magic of the internet, you'll never know that they were over 40 minutes late (but they did call to tell me.) And here they are, from left: Britta and Kari! Welcome ladies and enjoy the snacks!
They don't drink booze, but they are serious Cokeheads! Couple of Kari's friends had made suggestions on where to go, but one involved something like a nine pound cheeseburger and sounded a little gross and the other suggestion was Jackson Hole. I know of Jackson Hole, but the name makes me think of Michael Jackson's sphincter, so we decided on...
Old Town Bar! Yeah, I know we went there last week, but Kari and Britta had never been and I wanted them to experience a real New York bar, so we here are!
Here's Kari and Britta taking shots of the bar. Check their blogs to see if the photos made it to the internet.
And we'll head to the back room. If you have a sense of deja vu looking at this photo, it means you probably watched David Letterman when he was on NBC, they filmed the opening sequence in here.
I knew what I wanted, so I left Kari and Britta to go take a table full of strangers photo.
Hello table of strangers! Cheers!
I also stopped in to visit our old friends, the giant urinals!
It's been a while since I took an obligatory bathroom mirror shot, so here we go!
And when I came back, Lucille was serving up our dinner! Lucille is Pamela's sister by the way. And Pamela was our lovely waitress last week for those of you keeping score. Hike!
Britta got the hot dog in honor of Biff! To quote Biff: "Ta-da!" (For those of you who don't know, Biff invented the phrase, "Ta-da!")
Kari got the Bison Burger...
And since I'm Mr. Redundant, I got the same meal I got last week. The food was delicious and before we knew it, it was time to go. And as we learned last week, when you're at Old Town, when you gotta go...
You gotta go! (Yeah, I'm going to milk this joke everytime I'm in here!) Goodnight everybody and we'll see you tomorrow after dark.
Cheeseburger rating:
See last week’s post.
Further reading: 365 Bars, Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York, Serious Eats and Wikipedia.
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