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Afternoon Snacks
On today's Afternoon Snacks: canned beer, antiquated food words, a simple post-binge dinner, and a bacon sale!
Afternoon Snacks
Today's edition of Afternoon Snacks has beers in cans, food words that were nearly lost, a simple dish to recover with in between holiday binges, and bacon on sale!
Meticulous types will welcome this opportunity to plan out the first half or so of December: Starting on Saturday, Percy St. BBQ (900 South St.) is launching the 12 Cans of Christmas. That's twelve straight days of happy hours, each featuring a different brewery, with half-price cans and free bar snacks and other fun extras. You can even add your empties to their can-decorated Christmas tree, which they'll light at the end of the twelfth night. The specials run from 5 to 7 p.m. each night from Dec. 1 through 12; check out the current schedule below.
Dec. 1: Yards / Cape of Good Hope
Dec. 2: Sly Fox / Christmas Ale
Dec 3: Sierra Nevada / Celebration Ale
Dec. 4: Sixpoint / Diesel
Dec. 5: Narragansett / Gansett Porter
Dec. 6: Abita / Christmas Ale
Dec. 7: Brooklyn / There Will Be Black
Dec. 8: Oskar Blues / TBA
Dec. 9: Victory / TBA
Dec. 10: Olde Forge / Overbite IPA
Dec. 11: Lagunitas / Brown Shugga
Dec. 12: 21st Amendment / Zambo Red Ale
So, you may have heard by now about Sarah Ogilvie's upcoming book and its claims about the many words that were deleted from the OED throughout the '70s and '80s. But even if that didn't scandalize you or even particularly interest you on its own, this great blog post from Bon Appetit gathers a bunch of food words that were cut. From "milk sociables" to "cabbage land" to the fantastic "swaly," the antiquated or obscure entries are particularly fun, while inclusions like "dairy" raise the kinds of questions about usage and conceptions of "correctness" usually raised only by linguists.
Saveur came through today on Twitter with this recipe suggestion—a quick and frugal dish of mushrooms, bacon, and chiles, which is just the sort of thing we're craving right now. As much as we love Thanksgiving and all it entails, there is a particular need in the stretch between T-day and Christmas—not always for things that are light or healthy, per se, but for things that are simple. Quick, tasty things that aren't going to be presented to guests. Things with flavor profiles that don't include any sage. You know.
And speaking of bacon, Fair Food Farmstand at the Reading Terminal Market is doing 20% off right now on their really nice double-smoked bacon from York County. Good bacon on sale is always newsworthy.
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