[Food] I Has a Bukket

A little announcement: In an effort to simplify my life, I’m going to consolidate my five blogs into one. So expect more geeky/Portland/fiscal posts on this blog.

Having said that: DOUGHNUTS! Voodoo Doughnut Too, to be specific. I decided to pop in because I LIKE DOUGHNUTS!

At Voodoo, to the uninitiated, they will sometimes put the day-olds in a pink box and sell ‘em for five bucks. And sometimes, when they have, oh, say, an empty bucket that used to hold 43 pounds of maple icing, they will fill the bucket back up with day-old doughnuts and sell the bucket for five bucks.

I thought to myself, “You know what? I work in a big warehouse. I’m sure they can eat an entire bucket of doughnuts. Plus, free bucket!”

My inner redneck really likes buckets, the freer the better. Buckets are useful, okay!?

Do you know how many doughnuts can fit in a bucket that used to hold 43 pounds of icing?

- 17 Maple Bars
- 3 Memphis Mafias
- 5 Blazer Blunts
- 8 Vegan blueberry
- 4 Oreo Peanut Butter
- 5 Oreo covered
- 2 Chocolate Bars
- 4 No Name
- 3 Raised Chocolate Covered
- 11 crullers (That’s ridiculous. It’s not even funny.)

It’s 11am in Oregon

Which means the Oregon Brew Fest has officially begun!

I’ll be volunteering on Saturday from 12-4.30, hopefully in the token tent, so stop by and say hi. Afterwards, for the first time, I’m meeting up with some friends to enjoy the Fest (previously I attended solo. Because that’s how I roll).

Said friends are coworkers, and they know I like beer. I think they’re finally understanding because I told one of them I should have a finalized spreadsheet on Friday afternoon sorted by popularity, my interest level in tasting them, and reviews from other folks.

Dinner Menu at Chez Mon Ewe

- Ice Cream
- Beer
- Green Peas

Yeah, it’s been one of those days where I’m a pair of goggles and a freeze ray away from evil villanhood.

Scandalizing the Neighbors

I keep a couple of bottles, sized from 750mL to 1.25 L filled up with water and chilled down in the fridge at all times.

It’s a nice Portland evening, so I took my laptop, my nachos, and my bottle of water out to the porch. Several of my neighbors are also on their porches, watchin’ me watch them.

I just realised that it looks like I’m guzzling a bottle of chianti.

Glug, glug, glug.

(For ease of recorking once you’ve filled the wine bottle with water, cut off a part of the bottom of the cork. This works a lot better if you use a bread knife and one of those newfangled plastic corks)

Yeah, you know how we do it.

I think I just invented marionberry sticky rice.

And it’s tasty.

And I’m having it for dinner.

Being an adult is sometimes so awesome I just can’t stand it.

Random Tidbitles

1) I currently am working on two seperate laptops at the same time. It’s because Moco, my Asus EEE, has the card reader, and my G4 iBook Newbly has the screen I can actually, you know, read.

2) What the hell are you doing inside, Portlanders? Get over to the Mississippi Street Faire! It’s on until 4 and there’s food and tchotchkies and COMIC BOOKS.

Also? Pirates.

3) Also seen on Mississippi, share-a-wall next door to The Fresh Pot.

Update: Turns out it was a hoax from Mississippi Records, who gets a bug up their arses every year during the street fair and close up shop. Because they don’t want business? I don’t get it.

Yes, that is a *$ going in NEXT DOOR TO THE FRESH POT. Two blocks from the Blue Gardenia. Three blocks from Moody’s, or Muddy’s, whatever that place is next to Por Que No that has the really yummy brownies. No wonder *$ is having fiscal difficulties, if this is the kind of brilliant strategy they are using with regards to new store openings.

4) Stumptown Tart. I liked it.

I thought it had a flavor profile similar to dry sparkling wine. And a kick in the ass alcohol content wise (yes, I drank the whole bottle last night). So a lot of people didn’t like it. You know what that means? MORE FOR ME! Bwahahaha.