Thursday, September 9, 2010
Good morning crew,
On Sunday I went to Fall Fest which is in a suburb called
Frankfort out here south west of Chicago. They have quite
a little arts and crafts show there, which attracts a lot
of people. Plus they have a big beer tent with live enter-
tainment. But my reason for going every year is the pig
roast in back of the Old Plank Trail Tavern.
They have a nice, big yard and beer garden behind the tavern
where they set up a big tent for the patrons and a couple of
huge pig roasters. They do about two pigs a day over the three
day event.
I showed up with a small group of friends and while we were
standing in the beer line who do you think we should see but
my brother Nino.
Actually, it wasn't surprising to see him there at all since
pig roasts attract Nino like a moth to a flame. I would have
been more surprised if I didn't find him there.
He told me he had been there for several hours already but
was determined to wait around until the next pig came off
the roaster, about an hour from then.
Fortunately there was plenty of beer to keep us from getting
thirsty during the wait.
By the sheer dint of his hanging around the roasters all
afternoon Nino was able to make friends with the chefs, who
seemed to tolerate his presence at their elbows fairly well.
The practical upshot of this, in Nino's estimation, was his
ability to scavenge bits and pieces of the pig while the
chefs were carving it up to be served in the food tent.
So while the rest of us were sitting at the table eating
food we had foolishly bought, Nino would occasionally wander
away and come back gnawing on a stripped joint or a burnt
end of skin.
Which is fine. Everybody is entitled to a little extra if
they can manage it. But when he came back to the table with
an entire segment of pig spine and sat in front of everybody
happily cracking vertebrae apart and sucking the juice out
we decided it was time to abandon the Old Plank Trail Tavern
and remove the temptation for Nino to work his way up to the
brain.
After that we stuck to beer since eveybody had pretty much
lost their appetites.
Laugh it up,
Joe
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