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August 20, 2003
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Posted on 08/20/2003 5:48:28 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: mhking; MomwithHope; DrNo
141
posted on
08/20/2003 7:50:12 PM PDT
by
dighton
(NLC™)
To: mhking
Remember the notes clipped all over his coveralls?
Didn't he have turtle races?
142
posted on
08/20/2003 7:50:42 PM PDT
by
DrNo
To: mhking
Dirty Dragon was great, and then the Gigglesnort hotel. Heck I remember my mom put into our tickets when I was still in the womb and my sis was about a year old. I think we went when I was 5 or 6.
To: DrNo
And a REAL duck!
144
posted on
08/20/2003 7:52:20 PM PDT
by
DrNo
To: Chi-townChief
Buffalo NY English
---"dat big mall where da Leonard Post used to be dere"
---"yawanna go for brekfas or what..."
To: Charles Henrickson
Downstate: Anywhere in Illinois outside Chicago, even if it's north or northwest of Chicago. LOL. Great thread. I Love Chicago. Born there. Worked there. Partied there. It's a great town with a lotta heart. Make that hert.
146
posted on
08/20/2003 7:52:20 PM PDT
by
WRhine
To: dighton
Fraizer Thomas was great on Garfield, but couldn't hold a candle to Ringmaster Ned on Bozo
To: X-FID
The one's in Milwaukee are Ok, but nothing compares to a Chicago gyro.
I remember being in Germany in 1981 and at a "Balkan Grill"
they had all beef gyro's. I gues the typical beef/lamb gyro was too much, as lamb is apparently too exotic for the Germans.
My parents are German and they won't eat corn because many Germans consider it as "pig feed".
Amazing all the cultural differences.....
148
posted on
08/20/2003 7:55:28 PM PDT
by
Milwaukee_Guy
(The Law of Unintended Consequences - No Good Deed Shall Go Unpunished.)
To: DrNo
Remember the notes clipped all over his coveralls?Ray Rayner should have gotten the patent for Post-It Notes. He did have turtle races, but don't forget the ill-tempered Chelveston the duck, and the trips to Lincoln Park Zoo with Dr. Lester Fisher
And I've REALLY got one for you: Around Christmas time, they'd run that black and white thing with song - "I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe..."
149
posted on
08/20/2003 7:55:48 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: sharkhawk
Did you know it is absolutely impossible to get a decent
Kaiser roll here in the south?
Coffee and a danish ring on sunday morning with the funnies.
We lived out in Arlington about three blocks from the track.
the Legion post was right on the highway and come deer season they had a big rack out front and when the guys would come back from hunting they'd stop in, have a snort and hang their deer up for everyone to see, I recall seeing 9 or 10 deer and a bear hanging all at once. A parking lot of red and black wool plaid. They were PROUD of their prowess and didn't care if you didn't like it.
Survivors of WW II.
150
posted on
08/20/2003 7:55:52 PM PDT
by
tet68
To: sharkhawk
but couldn't hold a candle to Ringmaster Ned on BozoWith the arrows on the Grand Prize Game?
151
posted on
08/20/2003 7:56:33 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: Chi-townChief
Ha!!!! I've been waiting to post this again!!
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM CHICAGO IF...
- The "Living Room" is called the "front room" (pronounced fronchroom)
- You don't pronounce the "s" at the end of Illinois.You become irated at people who do.
- You measure distance in minutes (especially "from the city"). And you swear everything is pretty much 15 minutes away.
- You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Des Plaines."
- Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
- Your school classes were canceled because of heat.
- You've never had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
- Stores don't have sacks, they have bags.
- You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. "Where's my coat at?","If you go to the mall I wanna go with"
- Your idea of a great tenderloin is when the meat is twice as big as the bun,"everything" is on it and a side of slice of dill pickle.
- You carry jumper cables in your car.
- You drink "pop.", and think soda has Ice cream, and whipped cream, oh yeah, with crumpled nuts and a cherry on top.
- You understand that I-290, I-90, I-94, and I-294 are all different roads.
- You know the names of the interstates: Stevenson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Dan Ryan, and the Edens. But you call the interstates "expressways."
- You refer to anything South of I-80 as "Southern Illinois."
- You refer to Lake Michigan as "The Lake."
- You refer to Chicago as "The City."
- "The Super Bowl" refers to one specific game in a series of 35 played in January of 1986.
- No matter where you are, when you hear the term "Downtown" you assume they're talking about Downtown Chicago.
- You have two favorite football teams: The Bears, and anyone who beats the Packers!
- You buy "The Trib."
- You think 35 degrees is great weather to wash your car!
- You know what goes on a Chicago Style Hot Dog.
- You know what Chicago Style Pizza REALLY is.
- You know why they call Chicago "The Windy City."
- You understand what "lake-effect" means.
- You know the difference between Amtrak and Metra, and know which station they end up at.
- You have ridden the "L."
- You can distinguish between the following area codes: 847, 630, 773, 708, 312, & 815
- You have at some time in your life, used your furniture to guard your parking spot in winter, (A CHICAGO CLASSIC!!)
- You refer to a specific group of people as "Yous guys"
- You respond to the question "Where are you from" with a "side","WEST SIDE", "SOUTH SIDE" or "NORTH SIDE."
- You know what the phone number is to Empire Carpet!
- You know that "a Beef" is, A) an Italian spiced sandwich, B) a proposed disagreement, C) the missing substance of a situation and not a living soul outside of Chicago knows what in the Hell your talking about!
152
posted on
08/20/2003 7:57:59 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
(http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
To: mhking
the trips to Lincoln Park Zoo with Dr. Lester Fisher
I got you green alligators and all my geese some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees
Cats and rats and elephants but Lord I'm so forlorn I just can't find the unicorn
To: carlo3b
You know what "The Hawk" is, too...
154
posted on
08/20/2003 7:59:59 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: mhking
Oh yeah, that bozoputer thing they replace it with just wasn't the same
To: sharkhawk
You've actually got me singing that....
156
posted on
08/20/2003 8:00:31 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: mhking
Shock of my life when I recently found out Svenghouli is now being carried in Milwaukee on TV41. I forgot all about that show!
Also Rich Coz (Sven) has a new Stooges show called Stoogeapalooza.
Great Stuff!
157
posted on
08/20/2003 8:01:16 PM PDT
by
Milwaukee_Guy
(The Law of Unintended Consequences - No Good Deed Shall Go Unpunished.)
To: dighton
158
posted on
08/20/2003 8:02:03 PM PDT
by
lizma
To: Charles Henrickson
You are of course talking of none other than "King Richard".
To: Charles Henrickson
Ok, You want the recipe to a Chicago Beef... You have to follow the rules! First sit down.... be sure you are alone!!!! Make sure nothing is crossed! (we have eyes everywhere) If I give you this recipe, you must belong to "
the secret society", and must take "
The Oath"... repeat after me:
"
I L*#@," ......use your own last name, maiden name preferred, that one never changes...... I digress ..."
I promise to accept this, 'Carlo's Chicago Beef recipe, the one just like Carm's on Cicero Av., the greatest in the know universe'", you have to say the whole thing ....sigh ......."
and that my tongue will fall off if I change one thing, or tell anyone other than blood relative", preferably sons because they will never marry a girl that can be as good as Mom, and we all know daughters don't want to cook anyway.... hehhhehe!!... you especially can not give it your idiot sister-in-law, or your (make sure there is nothing liquid in your mouth when you say this name) mother-in law, as if you'd want that old bat to produce anymore of those 'special meals' for your 'hen pecked fat Momma's boy' husband anyway!! Back to the oath...... "
I will follow this recipe to the letter, and think of THE CLINTON LEGACY COOKBOOK, as I chew every morsel" ....and that "
none of those other moron chef's on the stupid TV( that French pigmy or even Bam Bam) have ever brought you such a gift as a 'Beef Sandwich to die for', only Carlo3b" you have to say the whole thingy, or it won't work, ...
"CARLO RULES" three times! OK your in!!
Chicago-Style Italian Beef Sandwiches Ingredients:Oven 325* at 25 minutes per pound2 oz real Olive Oil, (not the wimpy extra virgin stuff, limp-wristed chef's try to pass off) we all know Virgin anything is a lie!
1 5 to 7 pound rump roast
2 C. of boiling water
2 bouillon cubes (beef flavor)
1 t. each: dried marjoram, thyme and oregano
1 t. hot pepper sauce, or more if you like it hot, or use less if you like it more mild
salt and pepper to taste, go easy on the salt because the bouillon is salty!
2 T. Worcestershire Sauce
1 or more garlic cloves, I use at least 6, peeled and mashed
6 cloves of garlic, small to medium, chopped ( the smaller the cloves the stronger in flavor), or 1 T. granulated garlic
1/2 C.
chopped green pepper2 whole large peppers (I use 1 green, and 1 red, just for color)1 T. Hot jardinière peppers (optional) These are called different brand names, but they are the chopped mixed vegs in oil.Italian or Vienna bread, French or any hard, crusty bread, you will need at least 2 loaves, slice down the center, lengthwise, but not all the way through to the other side, then cut in serving size pieces.
Instructions:
Place roast on a rack, in an open roasting pan, I use an 9" X 13" baking pan with the rack in it. Pre-heat oven to 325*, allowing 25 minutes per pound, roast will be rare. Cool, and slice very thin, I use an electric slicer to do this. To the drippings in the pan, add the boiling water, bouillon cubes or granules (1 bouillon cube for each C. of boiling water used). You may add an extra cup of water if you wish following the formula, but include a teaspoon of garlic powder.
Peppers;
Place, each pepper, cut in half and rubbed in oil under pre heated Broiler close to heat source, or even better, over an open flame until they blacken or blister! remove skin and inners, ribs and seeds, and slice and store in olive oil, until ready to use (they freeze well). When ready to place on sandwich, first dip in Beef sauce, and slice those bad boy inside, and soak in juice.....OHMYGAWD
I know you know, everything gets better, (execpt your cat) after being left a couple of hours in the refrigerator, they all freeze well and can be rejuvenated in microwave.
I have encoded this recipe in the book with a diversionary ingredient to throw off any liberals that might want to copy it!
Chopped green pepper...shushhhhhhhhhhh, Any real Italian from Chicago would never put that in their mouth anyway! Enjoy
160
posted on
08/20/2003 8:02:11 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
(http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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