{"id":211,"date":"2009-12-03T15:49:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2009\/12\/03\/food-frakker-frakking-about-chicago\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:24:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:24:01","slug":"food-frakker-frakking-about-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2009\/12\/03\/food-frakker-frakking-about-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Frakker: Frakking about Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my ongoing series on my recent trip to Chicago, I would like to show you some of the things I put in my mouth.<\/p>\n

The journey begins in the airport at Austin, where I have an early morning breakfast that consists of the most expensive and worst tasting breakfast taco I’ve ever bought.
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\nYou can clearly see the slice of American cheese.<\/p>\n

Looking for some Chicago-style pizza, we wander into a restaurant that actually has "pizza" in its title, only to discover that they don’t actually serve pizzas at all. They do have this pizza pot-pie, that’s all the fixings for a pizza baked in a dish, and then inverted onto your plate.
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The Mexican groceries in Chicago appear functionally identical to the ones in Austin. But Julia, the food-frakking deputy, pointed out these series of advertisements for Jell-o dishes.
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Near where we were staying there was a Mediterranean grocery and bakery. So I bought this flatbread straight out of the oven, and then we smeared it with labna, some sort of yogurt thing.
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\nThe flatbread was about the size of an extra-large pizza and piping hot. One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in a while was not buying two of them.<\/p>\n

I also got this "traditional floss-style halvah."
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\nImagine cotton candy flavored like pistachios and sesame paste.<\/p>\n

These Turkish cookie things prove once again, that only America should be allowed to make cheap cream-filled cookies.
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Then Ms. Thora took Julia and me to see a meat and sausage shop in the Lincoln Plaza area.
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They had a bowl of turkey necks right out on the counter. They were only 50cents each!
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Yum! Julia satisfies her turkey neck craving.
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There is surprisingly little meat on them turkey necks.
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I also had the deli guy shave off a pound of the "Tongue Blood Head Cheese."
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\nThe deli boy said that it was probably good as a cold sandwich meat, but he was too candy ass to have tried it for himself, so he didn’t really know. <\/p>\n

It tasted exactly like wafer-thin sheets of tongue packed in gelatinous blood paste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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