Hungry. All. The. Time.

[opabinia]

It's easier to get up in the morning these days, because my appetite is chasing the drowsiness away.

I took today off for routine medical follow-up stuff. When I got home from the appointments, I took a nap. I dreamt I was eating pretzels (low fat!). Woke myself up when I opened my mouth to pop one in, because I made a snorty sound. I've done this before, I think. Fell asleep on the 77 once, coming back from NEMC. Dreamt about scones or something.

Anyway, today is just Day Nine. By the end of this project, I'll be ordering sides of beef for breakfast.

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[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, I wanted to ask you if there's anything in PR like this. It's a post from a travel writer I know on another forum:

We want to do this at a big party at the end of June. How does this sound.

The dish is served at weddings in Chihuahua, specifically the village of Mata Ortiz, where they fashion pottery to sell for high prices to buy cows. They're cowboy potters.

Anyway, Rick, my brother, goes there all the time and owns a house there. I asked him how they do the meat for the wedding. Rick recalls:

The bride and groom sit up all night, peeling garlic, a lot of it.

A pit is dug to about chest deep. A fire is built and it burns all night until all you have are smoldering coals.

A cow is killed and butchered. the parts are put into a 55 gallon drum. This is a special drum with a top that can be screwed tight onto the lid, so no steam escapes.

The drum is filled with cow meat. Garlic is thrown in along with onion. A case of beer is poured in. The lid is screwed down. The drum is lowered into the pit then covered with dirt. After some time (?), it is dug up. There are special iron rings on the drum. An iron bar is slid through the rings and several strong guys pull it out of the ground. It is unscrewed.

The meat is fabulous, fall off the bone stuff. Some of the women take part of it and make stuff (?), but mostly you eat meat, bones in hand, or in tortillas.

Rick thinks you can get a half drum.

I asked if they didn't put chilies in it, and he said he didn't know, but, yeah, probably jalapenos. He isn't sure. His job is to generally to watch the fire and drink beer.

He said he'd call and see if there are any other ingredients or something he forgot.

How does this sound.

Someone else pointed out that it sounds like a bomb; do it wrong and hot coals, molten garlic, smoking pieces of beef and boiling beer will be raining down on the crowd.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

it sounds like a bomb

That's what I thought, too. Meat bomb!

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

I briefly thought of it as an "erupting meat volcano," but that's something else.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Yeah no that's different.

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

You realize, of course, that the vision of a 55-gal drum rocketing into the sky, trailing cow parts and coals, begs for a cartoon.

[julishka.livejournal.com]

will someone please send me a new monitor and keyboard?!!!

bwahahahaha!

[halo.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's so awesomely northern Mexican. Meat! Cowboys! Meat! Danger!

I have a friend from Chihuahua, I'll have to ask him if he knows about this.

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

I assume that if there is a PR equivalent it involves a goat?

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

I know of no platos típicos that feature an enormous sealed container buried in a burning pit. Spit-roasted beef and pork are very common (and uncommonly tasty), but everyone does that.

That pressure-cooked cow thing sounds delicious.

[cris.livejournal.com]

heh ... near the end of finishing the 300K on Saturday, I was climbing up this stupidly huge hill in Lincoln and hallucinating that I could smell Blue Ribbon BBQ near the top. Visions of ribby goodness were all that kept me from getting off the bike and walking the rest of the way.

[talesinsdaughtr.livejournal.com]

Welcome to having the metabolism of a jack rabbit on crack :)

Are you at the pint where you're ready to gnaw through your own fist an hour or two after you eat, yet?