Musings from the God of Cities

merry belated thanksgiving to you all!

once again, the manpanion really brought it this year and cooked up another kick-ass thanksgiving dinner, which included a juicy-ass turkey

which admittedly looks kinda weird in this picture, but I assure you it was moist, tender, and delicious. the key is brining your turkey, doye!

there was a veritable plethora of yumtastic sides


the most adorable food item went to friend Cheri’s totes adorbs crafty corn cookies


which were made from simple butter cookies with white frosting, resse’s pieces, and green-apple fruit roll-ups.

love ‘em.

and while on the topic of fud I would like to take this opportunity to call mild bullshit on shake shack’s pink peppercorn custard. I’d gone to shake shack a few weeks ago and noticed on their custard calendar that their flavor of the day on Thursdays during November would be pink peppercorn. I’m no stranger to eating curious, slightly questionable food, so I figured this was right up my alley. I went last night to try some. I was expecting the custard to be, well, pink and peppery. What I got was what looked like plain vanilla custard, and at first also basically tasted like vanilla custard. It was only after I swallowed that I could taste the pepper. The peppercorn was more of an aftertaste, if anything. It complemented the vanilla well, and brought out a more floral taste in the vanilla, but ultimately the taste was subtle almost to the point of being imperceptible. In fact, if I didn’t know that there was peppercorn in the custard, I wouldn’t have guessed that’s what I was tasting. All that said, the quality of the custard is very high, since Shake Shack makes awesome custards, but I was hoping for more peppery taste… mmm, then again though more pepper flavor might be kinda gross. Ah well, bullshit has already been called, and there’s no going back now.