Fave America Pix: #2

Prairie Sunflower Field
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Ella always told me the prairies would blow my mind, which they surely did when I finally made it up to Winnipeg. I tool a bunch of amazing photos of the Prairies but this one was my favourite. Even in the narrow frame you get a sense of the sheer enormity of the sky. It’s an awesomely cool sight.
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Also, and I almost hate to mention this but I am compelled, over on Tall Poppy Jack considers how to best prepare a Slippy Bar…

6 thoughts on “Fave America Pix: #2”

  1. I think the who “lard bar” conversation must be the longest running intermittent discussion I’ve ever witnessed… we’ve probably been at it for going on ten, eleven years now?

  2. It is a shame that Dean is not known to read these blogs, cause he would have a fair thing or two to say about your slippery bar. I dare say that there is NOTHING that that man has not though quite hard about deep frying (DF).
    At last DF count I think the most adventurous was a DF battered sweetened condensed milk sandwich. The bread of this delightful sandwich was of course cheese…

  3. Scott: I’d guesstimate its genesis in 96, so, yeah. It is the bar that doesn’t die. You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about chasing Anita or someone to see if the old BBS is still sitting around on a machine somewhere, as rumour sometimes has it. I’d love to dig through those old posts…
    Chuck: *shudder*

  4. Are you shuddering at the thought or the reality – it happened at Todman St, after the infamous 2xDF Mars bars RP session I seem to remember!
    I seriously think that those few sundays have curtailed my life by many, many years…

  5. Yeah, 1996. “Slippy” as a term for it 96 or 97.
    Incidentally (and I should possibly mail this to Jack as well if he doesn’t read it here), the solution to the liquifying-lard problem was very simple: use kremelta instead of lard.
    This also has a kind of poetic completeness: the idea of the lard bar was born of the discovery of deep-fried Mars bars. The use of kremelta ties back to that other pure-fat “delicacy”, White Christmas (not to mention chocolate crackles).
    If only I got royalties for this thing…

  6. I saw a Bill Bailey live dvd not too long ago (Part Troll it was called) and he asked the audience to give him suggestions for food you could dose with cannabis.
    Someone shouted out “Lard!” Hilarity ensued. If only Bill had been aware of the slippy bar…

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