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A Japanese World Cup visitor writes about Southern biscuits and gravy
"When the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen. I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify. In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.
"I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South. It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in 800 years, never once thought to invent."
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Yep. My antennae go up when people try to tell me what to think.
I watch cooking shows where a celebrity chef like Gordon Ramsay (for example) describes food as slop, as vomit, something his dog wouldn’t eat, etc, and it’s all very entertaining.
But my senses tell me that brown food tastes best. Don’t gaslight me with your entertainment. I got eyes, ears, and taste buds of my own.
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Yeah, biscuits and gravy looks really really odd to someone who's never had it. I can imagine. And I've had some that were horrid. Ridiculous. Pure slop. But I've had some that were absolute heaven. It's just weird, how food is sometimes. The writer isn't wrong, "We eat with our eyes first." But damn, sometimes, you just gotta shut them peepers and go for it on faith.
Sadly you're not alone. We arranged a Chinese New Year feast at an outstanding authentic Chinese restaurant near Seattle some years back. One of the courses was a wonderfully prepared large fish, complete with head. Of the dozen folks around the table only three of us partook of it, the rest demurred because of the eyes....even though that wasn't the part to be eaten (by us anyway).
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There are damn few things I won't eat, but any insect - dead or alive - is on that list of forbidden foods. I did a work project in Lake Charles LA years ago and we had breakfast every day at a breakfast/lunch only restaurant that was owned by a retired US Army cook. He was also the cook and he made biscuits that you had to hold down with your fork or they would float away they were so light. And he made a gravy to cover them with that would hands down win any cooking contest anywhere in the world. O. M. G.! I thought I had actually died and gone to heaven every morning for three weeks.
I asked him for the recipe for the biscuits & the gravy. He just smiled and said I didn't have enough money. It took him 20 some years in the Army to perfect it and he wouldn't even tell his wife or kids how to do it. That was back in the late 70s and I can almost taste them today - they were that memorable.
On You Tube there are a couple of dudes from Great Britain that have toured the United States and tasted various foods and then the cook them for folks in Great Britain. Pretty fun stuff. I too have been following Freddy from Germany and other visitors for the World Cup on X (formerly Twitter) and have enjoyed reading and hearing their perspectives.
The two guys on You Tube are on a page called "Jolly!"
Last edited by Sweaty Paul; June 14, 2026, 04:47 PM.
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