Good Day Grover Pickers,
October is easily a Top 3 Month. Every major sport, and most of the minor ones, are in season. The weather shifts to human scale. The environment makes a lovely transition. The modern Holiday Season, that stretches through the Super Bowl, officially begins at the State Fair of Texas. Then, at the end of October, we get free candy.
The State Fair of Texas is particularly important. First, Texas plays Oklahoma on Saturday in the old Cotton Bowl. Almost as important, The State Fair of Texas is also the official launch for all of America’s best new foods for the coming year!
So, welcome to the Grover Picks Annual Food and Football Picks Post! Read on and learn about the newest concoctions at the fair and how they relate to your favorite team. As a bonus this year, The Commissioner has gathered extensive research from a single internet article from Tasting Table. Now he can include the great food inventions NFL teams contribute to our culture, too! If you are not a lucky person, you are today. If you are a lucky person, your streak continues! You are welcome.
This research is about food for fans, not media. If you are into the media food scene, I recommend this guy, Jimmy Kempski of the PhillyVoice, who wrote a post even longer than a Grover Picks Blog post reviewing and ranking the food service at every NFL game for media. It’s what the media elites do.
Important Food Related Updates
WARNINGS
NASCAR recently introduced us all to the real and actual website usedhotdogs.com. It allows you to post photos of half-eaten ballpark food and people in your section can bid on purchasing it. This is real.
FOOD FOR CAPITALISTS
You want to know what’s REALLY wrong with the world these days? Then ask an expert, a political authority, a business with a firm hand on the pulse of America- Steak and Shake.
The purveyor of healthy cheeseburgers and milkshakes has launched a campaign to fix our out-of-control corporate proxy voting procedures, index funds, and general cronyisms. In the name of capitalism.
Editor’s Note We used to call the Steak and Shake in Gainesville “the Steak and Shoot” because of the murders that occurred in the freezer there one awful night when the staff and management had a disagreement. I do realize this is the third different murder story from Gainesville mentioned in this blog in the last three weeks. Gators are just built different.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE STEAK AND SHAKE
Beef tallow lip balm handed to you through the window of a hamburger stand. Get some!
FOOD BOURNE ISSUES?
The Russians have quarantined 200 people due to a plague mishap in a lab. San Diego State football is enduring a mumps outbreak, allegedly, and their opponent this week, Oregon State, has vaccinated players against mumps.
It’s nothing. Don’t worry about it. Have some more nachos.
HEGEMONY OF BIG FOOD
It’s OK to celebrate food, but never forget that we are all scammed at stadiums. The stadiums, except maybe for the Atlanta Falcons, hire giant food service companies to manage concessions. This is a monopoly situation. Branded foods – Chick Fil A or a local barbecue place – are there in brand only. Some other group is managing the food. Then, these Giant Food Companies hire ‘Volunteer’ groups – usually schools groups or other youth organizations – to work the concessions. The Groups get money for ‘volunteering’. Oh, that sounds nice, until you realize the Giant Food Company is paying about $2 an hour for labor and charging $20 for garbage food you have to eat on your lap from a paper box. The ‘Volunteers’ are committing to an 8 hour workday, plus travel. The math only favors the Giant Food Company. If we are over-paying for the food, they should at least hire real employees and pay them as such.
Fight the Power. That’s all I’m saying.
THE STATE FAIR OF TEXAS
This is the reason we are here and it’s not their first rodeo. It’s big, rowdy, and mostly unhinged. Plus, there is a classic college football game in a classic old stadium right in the middle of it all. Fully awesome.
TWINKLE TWINKLE BRISKET STAR*
Hollowed out Twinkies® get a smoky, creamy filling of slow-smoked brisket, bacon, fresh jalapeños, and cream cheese. Dipped in ‘special’ batter, rolled in panko breadcrumbs, and deep fried to a golden crunch, the sweet and savory creation is finished with a drizzle of raspberry chipotle sauce and topped with bacon crumbles and fresh jalapeño slices. Get yours at the Texas State Fair.
Texas Longhorns vs. Oklahoma Sooners (Sat 3:30 PM ET, Cotton Bowl, Dallas)
Texas leads 65-51-5. Oklahoma is the nominal home team. The august and very normal Oklahoma state legislature took time in 1988 to declare the following menu as the official Oklahoma State Meal: chicken-fried steak, fried okra, barbecue pork, biscuits and gravy, grits and pecan pie.
Food-wise, for any American, the combination of Oklahoma and Texas cuisine is the most universally accepted version of ‘Delicious’ our great nation knows.
Football-wise, Sooner’s QB John Mateer is the definition of a hollowed out Twinkie. His counterpart, the Manning, is all drizzle.
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
MIXED FRUITS TANGULU
Mixed Fruits Tanghulu is a traditional Chinese snack where sweet meets crunch. Juicy strawberries, blueberries, mandarin oranges, and green grapes are placed on a skewer and coated in a thin, crunchy sugar shell.
So, it’s sugar coated sugar fruits? Did we need the Chinese to bring this to Texas? Get yours at the Texas State Fair.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Dallas Cowboys (Thu 8:15 PM ET)
America’s Team, the Dallas Cowboys, are, definitionally, sugar-coated sugar fruit on a stick. On the other side, there is no sugar-coating the Buccaneers. That’s a non-playoff team.
TUSH PUSH TATER
The Tush Push Tater is a deep-fried russet potato stacked with pimento mac and cheese, green-dyed fried chicken cutlets, bacon hot honey jam, Philly’s signature 215 special sauce, and scallions. Get yours at Lincoln Financial Field.
Philadelphia Eagles @ Jacksonville Jaguars (Sun 9:00 AM ET) Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, England
The Tush Push Tater is nearly perfect, both gastronomically and branding-wise. Like many stadium dishes, this is just a play on the classic nacho concoction, but the potato elevates the experience. The taters look like tushes. The green-dyed chicken is too spot-on. Is the point that an eagle tastes like chicken? That’s problematic. The Commissioner is not from Philadelphia, so he is wise enough to understand intuitively that anything called “Philly’s signature 215 special sauce” has a 73% chance of being fatally toxic, just for kicks.
Otherwise, it’s perfect.
The Eagles offense is not perfect. The Jags, London’s official NFL team, could very well shove all these taters right up the Eagles tush.
DIRTY DR PEPPER® DO-SI-DO FLOAT*
It starts with a drizzle of creamy coconut and an ice-cold Dr Pepper®, then topped with real Dr Pepper® Dippin’ Dots®, fresh lime, whipped cream, festive red sprinkles, and a Dr Pepper® jellybean! Get yours at the Texas State Fair.
Indianapolis Colts @ Pittsburgh Steelers (Sun 1:00 PM ET)
There is no such thing as ‘Dr. Pepper Dippin’ Dots” because Dippin’ Dots are not real. Like the Steelers QB. And the Colts QB. And what is the fresh lime all about? Is there some acid in the lime that kills the poison in the Dippin’ Dots? Was that Aaron Rodgers’ idea because he’s grumpy and awful?
PIGGYMAC WITH HOE CAKE
It is assumed that this dish is mac and cheese and what could be pulled pork, piled atop a hoe cake. Get some at Nissan Stadium.
Houston Texans @ Tennessee Titans (Sun 1:00 PM ET)
Two teams, 8 total games, no wins.
I’m not making a joke about hoe cake, you are.
MIAMI DOG
This combines a classic hot dog and a Cuban sandwich, layering ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard, zig-zagged with the stadium’s signature Cuban-style sauce. It is one foot long. Get yours at Joe Robbie Stadium, or whatever they call Joe Robbie Stadium these days.
Cincinnati Bengals @ Miami Dolphins (Sun 1:00 PM ET)
There is a question about the proper way to make a Cuban sandwich in Florida. It usually centers on the inclusion or exclusion of salami, the shape and texture of the bread, and when and how you arrived in the United States from Cuba.
Similarly, the Bengals and Dolphins disagree on the best way to build and NFL roster. Cincinnati chose players who are always hurt and cannot tackle. Miami chose cheap, practice-squad all-stars who cannot tackle.
Which is better? Who knows, however, here is some advice. You can get a Cuban style sandwich at Publix. It’s fine, as long as you do this in a Florida Publix. If you order a Publix Cuban sandwich outside of Florida, it’s 100% guaranteed the staff has no idea how to make it properly or even wrong. You’d be better off with the hot dog.
RETURN TO THE HORSE COLLAR
The Return to the Horse Collar features a Johnsonville kielbasa sausage covered in beer cheese sauce, beer mustard, and sauerkraut, stuffed inside a massive horseshoe-shaped Kaiser bun. It looks a little like Lambeau Field. Get yours at Curly Fries Lambeau Field.
Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers (Sun 1:00 PM ET)
Green Bay leads the NFL’s oldest rivalry 109-98-6. While the Bears have been busy winning three games with three different quarterbacks, the Packers have been busy building stadiums out of pretzels and eating cheese. There should be more pretzel-based foods that look like stadiums. Wisconsin limburger stinks less than the Packers offense.
CRABBED STUFFED PRETZEL
The handcrafted crab-shaped pretzel is stuffed with lemon tarragon crab dip, brushed generously with garlic butter, and dusted with Parmesan cheese. Get yours at Northwest Stadium in Maryland, but near Washington, D.C.
New York Giants @ Washington Commanders (Sun 1:00 PM ET)
Jameis Winston wants one of the crab stuffed pretzels so bad, he will likely forget to pay for it. The Commanders have never been the same since they started serving lemon tarragon crab dip. Proper Hogs would never indulge or tolerate such fru-fru nonsense.
HOT DOG FLIGHT
The Hot Dog Flight features three slider-sized dogs: The brisket dog comes with smoked brisket, fried onions, pickles, bourbon BBQ sauce, and gouda cheese. The Buffalo Blitz dog has Buffalo chicken dip, celery, blue cheese crumbles, and Buffalo sauce. The Italian Stallion is covered in spaghetti, chopped meatballs, marinara, Parmesan cheese, and fresh basil. Get yours at Huntington Bank Field at Lake Erie in Cleveland, OH.
Cleveland Browns @ New York Jets (Sun 1:00 PM ET)
I can see why this hot dog flight makes sense to the the editors at Tasting Table, but in football terms, has anyone from Cleveland, a real and actual Cleveland, ever wanted anything in a ‘flight’? NO! Until the Browns revert to one triple sized hot dog with mustard, instead of these fancy flights, they won’t win another, or any, Super Bowl.
The Jets ran 32 offensive plays last week. The Bears accumulated 34 first downs against the Jets. The Jets are the quarter-cup-of-broth and a-slice-of-moldy-bread-prisoner-of-war-dinner of football.
FETTUCCINE NUTELLA CREPE
This Fettuccine Nutella Crepe slices the crepes into ribbons, drizzles them with Nutella, and tops them with fresh seasonal fruits and whipped cream. Get yours at the Texas State Fair.
Las Vegas Raiders @ New England Patriots (Sun 1:00 PM ET)
I’m suggesting that all three white-bread quarterbacks in this game, Drake Maye, Kirk Cousins, and Fernando Mendoza, could all find something nice to say about this unnecessarily weird dish, even though none of them knows what a crepe is. Also, if this was at an all-you-can-eat Vegas buffet, you still wouldn’t eat it.
PORK AND ALLIGATOR BURGER
The pork and alligator burger uses a mixture of the two meats on a toasted square-shaped cornbread bun, next to collard greens and spicy Cajun ranch. Get yours at the Caesars Salad Superdome.
Minnesota Vikings @ New Orleans Saints (Sun 1:00 PM ET)
That’s an unfortunate use of gator.
Fittingly, both Kyler Murray and Tyler Shough are sporting a square-shaped cornbread man-bun hairdos this week.
SPICY CARBONARA RAMEN KOREAN CORN DOG
A Korean corn dog is wrapped in crispy Buldak Ramen Carbonara® noodles and finished off with a drizzle of Buldak Ramen Carbonara® sauce and cheese powder. Get yours at the Texas State Fair.
Denver Broncos @ Los Angeles Chargers (Sun 4:05 PM ET)
Denver’s most famous food is Rocky Mountain oysters. They are not oysters. Chargers QB Justin Herbert is a spicy corn dog wrapped in crispy defensive lineman. The Chargers have two kinds of powdered cheeses: Jim Harbaugh or Mike McDaniel.
REZ DOG INDIAN FRY BREAD
Wood-smoked Big City Reds hot dog covered in chili, shredded cheese, fresh lettuce, diced tomatoes, crema, and a roasted jalapeño sauce on traditional native fry bread. Only available at The Big Toaster, home of the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale.
Detroit Lions @ Arizona Cardinals (Sun 4:25 PM ET)
Fry bread is the best. You can never go wrong with fry bread. Think of the most deficient food you ever ate. Now consider wrapping that in fry bread. BOOM! It’s better! Fry bread can cover up almost any gastronomical mistake.
Unlike the Lions secondary, which couldn’t cover up a baby with a circus tent.
Even Cris Collinsworth, who loves everybody and everything, especially fry bread, said on national and streaming television that the Lions can’t play zone very well, but they suck at man coverage, too. Imagine if he was trying to be critical.
JERK SALMON NACHOS
Jerk salmon nachos are topped with locally-sourced smoked salmon that’s seasoned with a house-made juniper-jerk spice blend, and layered with pickled jalapeños, Fresno peppers, and melty cheese sauce. Bonus: the first letter of each word spells out J-S-N — for Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who collaborated with Levy Restaurants (a Giant Food Corporation, so Beware) to curate a special menu. Get yours at Lumen Field in Seattle.
San Francisco 49ers @ Seattle Seahawks (Sun 4:25 PM ET)
Two good teams, one great stadium menu item. It’s on brand with a tie to a player and a locally sourced ingredient that makes sense, salmon.
The Niners have 23 players they are paying to play professional football currently unable to play professional football due to injuries directly related to the location of their practice facility next to an electrical substation.
A little known health benefit for the Forty Niners. If you place 3 tablespoons of hand-picked jerk spice and 1 tablespoon of fish oil, and two squirts of WD-40 in a mortar and pestle, mix for 2 minutes at room temperature, then hand-rub that paste onto your hamstrings, quads, and arms, you can prevent sprained ankles and you will also be pre-seasoned for the barbecue later.
RACK-O-RIB VOLCANO
The Rack-o-Rib Volcano- A round, BBQ-slathered rack of ribs is the volcano, and an overflowing mound of macaroni and cheese is the lava. All that sits on a bed of kettle chips. Get yours at the Mercedes Benz Dome in Atlanta.
Baltimore Ravens @ Atlanta Falcons (Sun 8:20 PM ET)
Ribs shaped like a volcano? Is this what we do with the McRib parts when McRib is out of season?
Derrick Henry versus Bijan Robinson also sounds tasty, especially because it is served in a stadium.
MINI SMOKED TURKEY LEG
Cured with the same spices as a holiday ham, the Mini Smoked Turkey Leg is smaller, but still tender, and juicy, with flavor that packs a punch. Available at the State Fair of Texas.
Carolina Panthers vs Bye Week
Sure, the Panthers have the weekend off, but if you think The Commissioner, who lives in Charlotte, is missing the chance to make a short quarterback joke with Mini Smoked Turkey Legs then you must be new here.
Bryce Young is the flavor that packs a punch, with the same spices as your holiday quality quarterbacks, but in a smaller, more tender package.
BARBECUE
Here are a few uncontroversial and 100% factual truths about barbecue, according to The Commissioner.
Barbecue is a cooking method. Barbecue needs proper timing, smoke from wood with varying flavors, and seasoning (even sauce!) from whoever is cooking the barbecue.
Sauce is tasty, but… for barbecue, consumer added sauce is an apology, a cover-up, for messed up, improperly smoked meats.
You can pick your own favorite barbecue joints, cuts of meat, styles, or anything else, BUT, if you come in here leading with ‘Great Sauce’ you will be dismissed as an non-knower of ‘cue.
It’s OK to like sauces. The Commissioner loves barbecue sauce. However, if the sauce is your favorite part, just get some pasta and pour it on that. Use the sauce on anything you like, even grilled and smoked meats, but don’t claim the barbecue is good because you like the sauce.
It’s OK to put sauce on your barbecue IF you are the chef and that sauce is part of how you season the meat before serving. The sauce is only an issue if the consumer has to add it to ‘fix’ the barbecue. If whoever made your barbecue says, “You don’t need sauce, I already did that,” then you are in the right hands.
What if the smoked meats are presented fully cooked, but intentionally plain so the consumer is required to add sauce to create their own unique and custom meal?
Maybe. That’s the unfinished furniture approach to it. The Commissioner does not consider that ‘good’ barbecue since the creator of the meal did not complete it. However, The Commissioner will eat that all day, any day, because it is still smoked meats.
Corollary- If you are insisting on sauce before you eat your barbecue, you should just go get Thai food.
Barbe-Truth
Here are The Commissioners Favorite Barbecue Spots, in no particular order. It is OK and Highly Recommended that your list vary.
- Kojak’s House of Ribs, Mango, FL
- Stanley’s Barbecue, Tyler, TX
- Lewis Barbecue, Charleston, SC
- Rodney Scott BBQ, Charleston, SC, Atlanta, GA, Homewood, AL
- Pecan Lodge, Deep Plum (Dallas), TX
- LC’s, Blue Highway, Kansas City, MO
Where to consistently find the best local barbecue:
Not in North Carolina– In the Tar Heel state, “Barbecue” means chopped pork only and consumer added sauce is expected and essential. This stuff tastes fine, but there is a fundamental misunderstanding of barbecue as a cooking method, not a specific meat. Also, the argument about mustard sauces and red sauces is… tiresome and uninteresting to anyone whose great-grandparents didn’t grow up in the Carolinas.
Not in Memphis- Good things leave Memphis, they are not IN Memphis. Memphis is the New York Jets of places. That said, dry rubbed ribs in Memphis is not a bad meal at all.
Not in Asia- Although very tasty, we are talking about American barbecue. This is no time for international diversity, no matter how well it’s done.
Definitely in Texas and Oklahoma – This is based on style, if not location. You can get good Texas style barbecue outside of Texas, but it’s better in Texas the way a Guinness tastes better in Dublin. The trick is smoke, wood choice, seasoning, ability to barbecue multiple cuts of meats and attitude.
Definitely in Kansas City (Missouri or Kansas) – If you are arguing about which is the best barbecue place in Kansas City, then you are having a great day. The only way to answer that question is to try them all, preferable over a single 24 hour food quest.
PROFESSIONAL AMATEUR FOOTBALL
3D FRUIT ICE CREAM
3D Fruit Ice Cream! Creamy mango or peach ice cream is dipped in a thin chocolate shell shaped like a peach or mango. Get yours at the State Fair of Texas.
Florida State Seminoles @ Louisville Cardinals (Fri 7:00 PM ET)
Two teams that need a lot of comfort food right now, but don’t deserve to be comforted in any way. Both might be better at football if they had fewer skill players shaped like peaches and mangoes.
That’s mean. I don’t apologize.
THE NIECE
A savory, gooey grilled cheese brisket sandwich on French toast, it comes with bacon and scallions, and is dusted with powdered sugar and submerged in bourbon sauce. Get yours at the State Fair of Texas.
Texas A&M Aggies @ Missouri Tigers (Sat 12:00 PM ET)
You can’t have BRUNCH without french toast. Add in grilled cheese, sugar and bourbon and you are ready for a noon kickoff. I almost used the 3D Fruit Ice Cream here because one of the coaches looks a little like a mango, but that would be mean and I would apologize, and I didn’t feel like apologizing today.
Footlong Ribwich
Nebraska’s creation includes maple barbecue boneless riblets, onions and dill pickles on a Rotella hoagie roll. Get yours at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, NE.
Indiana Hoosiers @ Nebraska Cornhuskers (Sat 12:00 PM ET)
As mentioned in this blog before, Nebraska is a hotbed of food scientists. They make their own cheeses and ice cream on campus. They have special labs to research and develop new foods. The Footlong Ribwich started out as a 6-inch fish sandwich, then a grad student discovered that Lincoln is hundreds of miles from the nearest grouper and thousands from fresh tilapia. So the lab pivoted to pork. They are scientists after all.
Why the footlong? Watch the game closely, specifically the chain gang. The chain is actually 30 foot-long Ribwichs, linked by twine woven from corn husks, naturally!
Indiana, the reigning National Champions of Football, is the house salad of states, universities, and football.
FRIED GOBBLER ROLL
It’s an egg roll loaded with smoky chopped turkey leg meat, fire-roasted corn, sweet peppers, rich cream cheese, and a bold blend of savory seasonings. It is hand-rolled and deep-fried until crispy and golden brown. Fried Gobbler Roll is traditionally served with your choice of sweet-and-spicy honey hot sauce or a cool, creamy cilantro sauce. Get yours at the State Fair of Texas.
South Carolina Gamecocks @ Florida Gators (Sat 12:45 PM ET)
Gator RB Jaden Baugh brings the leg meat and the Gators egg roll the Gamecocks and afterward, Shane Beamer will be crispy and done and may go get sauced.
FOCACCIA ALLA PORCHETTA E SALSA VERDE
Soft, golden house-made focaccia layered with slow-roasted porchetta and finished with a vibrant salsa verde. Get yours at the State Fair of Texas.
So… a ham sandwich.
Miami (OH) RedHawks @ UMass Minutemen (Sat 2:00 PM ET)
UMASS has somehow won multiple games this season and the stadium is sold out, which is the football attendance equivalent of Indiana winning the national championship.
Dress up UMASS all you want in a fancy bread bun, it’s still just a ham sandwich, and not Boars Head. It’s Oscar Meyer loaf ham.
FRIED BROCCOLI
This tempura-battered broccoli is deep-fried and drizzled with honey garlic sauce, creating a bold snack full of deep flavor in every bite. Get yours at the State Fair of Texas (or anywhere you can buy broccoli and drop it in oil).
Ole Miss Rebels @ Vanderbilt Commodores (Sat 3:30 PM ET)
If I told you that Vanderbilt is the sugarcoated vegetable of the SEC, you’d have to believe me. Not much to it. There’s a vegetable in there, so it may be slightly healthy, buuuuuut we’ve doused it in the rich sugar of SEC money, so it’s also trying to be a little ‘dangerous’. In the end, nobody wants this.
LOVE ME JAM SANDWICH*
The Love Me Jam Sandwich is a “bold Southern-style sandwich” stacked on buttery, grilled Texas toast with melty peanut butter, homemade banana jam, thick-cut bacon, and a crunchy layer of crushed potato chips. Get yours at the State Fair of Texas or, if you come camping with any of The Commissioner’s Scouts, we make a weirder version of this all the time.
UCLA Bruins @ Oregon Ducks (Sat 3:30 PM ET)
Conveniently, the Nike branded Oregon uniforms look like someone smeared banana jam on bacon, or, like a bunch of Scouts wore them camping over a weekend.
DEEP FRIED BOURBON BANANA BREAD
Warm, homemade-style banana bread is hand-cut, rolled in a ball, battered, and deep-fried until golden and crispy. Finished with a rich bourbon brown sugar caramel sauce and dusted with powdered sugar. Get yours at the State Fair of Texas.
LSU Tigers @ Kentucky Wildcats (Sat 7:00 PM ET)
Rolled in a ball, battered, deep fried and finished with bourbon? Isn’t that just Lane Kiffin with a sunburn after a long day boating with co-eds?
FOOT-LONG FRIES
A foot-long, deep-fried, mashed-potato-style fry is seasoned or drizzled with your choice of sauce. Get yours at the State Fair of Texas.
It’s just a footlong potato with apology sauce. Potatoes are not a foot long, so this is an abomination.
Georgia Bulldogs @ Alabama Crimson Tide (Sat 7:30 PM ET)
Dreamland barbecue is an abomination. White barbecue sauce, which is mayonnaise-based, is the worst kind of apology sauce. That stupid new documentary about anti-capitalist Nick Saban is gross. I assume. I haven’t seen it, but why should that matter?
There’s a big storm a-brewin’ in the Gulf that could become a hurricane that would overrun the entire state of Alabama and interfere with the game.
Recent research by leading insurance firms discovered that instead of sandbags, you should protect your property with large stacks of foot-long fries. They absorb the water, which you can later boil out and then reconfigure your starches into a new Alabama National Championship trophy.
DEEP FRIED RANCH
Deep Fried Ranch are pocket-sized bread balls stuffed with creamy ranch sauce. Get yours at the State Fair of Texas.
Tennessee Volunteers @ Arkansas Razorbacks (Sat 4:15 PM ET)
A blogger online, on the internet, recently described Vols future National Champion Coach and former Heisman Trophy winner Josh Heupel as a, “Bread ball stuffed with ranch sauce.”
The blogger did not apologize for the unnecessarily mean comment.
Instead, the blogger got up, went to his fridge, pulled out a bottle of barbecue sauce and poured it over a mixed leaf salad and told himself he was having barbecue for lunch.
Happy Picking,
The Commissioner
