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[littlefallsmets]

Provide me a manner in which to acquire or create this "Sweet Tea" in an authentic manner that I might consume it and I'll see what I think.

I just... I still kind of don't get the concept.

[theinevitable]

to clarify, st louis pizza is like... a really thin crust, slightly sweet sauce, and then provolone-like cheese that is not provolone.

[linnea]

Basic Variation of Sweet Tea

Orange Pekoe tea.
Boil Water, Brew Tea.
About 5 minutes into brewing add ~1 cup sugar per 1/2 gallon of tea.
Mix & finish brewing. I add ~two shots of lemon juice per quart as well.
Chill. Drink over ice and enjoy.

Adjust mix to taste with experience.

Holy shit, dude. That sounds like a recipe for sweet goddang hummingbird nectar. Does it come with an insulin chaser?

I am kidding. If I've learned anything as a Western girl with Yankee leanings and some Southern relatives, it's that Southerners love their Sweet Tea. It is an institution. You do not mess with the Sweet Tea.

[AugustWest]

there is also a style called St Louis pizza. Apparently I am the only person not from St louis who likes it.

No you aren't.  I'm looking forward to having an Imo's next week when I'm in town.

[side_show]

Huh.  I had assumed Boston Pizza was an American chain, but apparently I thought wrong.  It's a pretty terrible chain restaurant.  We had a really disgusting pizza (Spicy Perogie Pizza only sounds good in theory.  Potatoes, bacon and sour cream on the pizza is not good)  Even better our server was an actor who had auditioned for me (terribly) and gained some fame from throwing a hissy fit when the judges on Canadian idol (rightfully) told him he couldn't sing.

Also, I took a 45 minute bus ride to the doctors to find out that my test results weren't in and wouldn't be in until the New Year due to lab closures over the holidays.  Why was I called in?  To be told to continue taking my B 12 vitamins.  Sigh.

[littlefallsmets]

According to Wikipedia:

"In the mid 1990s, John Ratzenberger was hired as spokesperson and filmed a number of commercials for Boston Pizza. He was replaced by Howie Mandel, who was subsequently replaced by the character Louie, a Sasquatch."

Man. I am slightly happier to be on this Earth knowing that a paragraph like that can be a statement of fact and not just a humourous attempt at "random" humour.

[theinevitable]

yay for the fact that you will be in St Louis and will eat Imo's!

[Golfhaus]

We still haven't found a good pizza place in Charlotte. Apparently the "good" place to go here is Brixx, which is a local chain that does gourmet pizza. And by gourmet, I mean shitty. All crusts so hell of wispy a spider covets. All just enough cheese to technically call it a pizza. I was raised on Pizza Hut Pan Pizza, so if it ain't some kind of deep dish monster with much cheese, it's already got one strike and a 101 mph fastball halfway towards it.

[wombat]

Spicy Perogie Pizza only sounds good in theory. 

Um, no. Not even in theory. But what do you expect from a county that puts gravy and cheese curds on french fries, bless their hearts.

But seriously, fuck your doctor. Telling you they'll only ask you to come in if it's bad news and then telling you to take your vitamins? They should get only coal in their Christmas stockings this year.

[linnea]

But seriously, fuck your doctor. Telling you they'll only ask you to come in if it's bad news and then telling you to take your vitamins? They should get only coal in their Christmas stockings this year.

QFFT! What a bunch of assholes. They'd better shape up! Seriously uncool.

[theinevitable]

Golfhaus-- the Good pizza place in Charlotte used to be Mellow Mushroom. They had such good pizza. Now they are hell of wrapped up in legal bullshit and are not allowed to sell pizza.

The other place people like is Fuel pizza, but it's... it's just pretty basic Good Pizza, it isn't anything special. it is acceptable. There is one real close to you, I think, based on knowing you go to Quaker Steak and Lube. Having more than 2 locations is new, though, so maybe the pizza has suffered. The one I normally go to is up in... I think Plaza Midwood... and it's the original one. Hell of far from my house, but next to my favorite record store, and near where some friends live and hang out.

[linnea]

Golfhaus-- the Good pizza place in Charlotte used to be Mellow Mushroom. They had such good pizza. Now they are hell of wrapped up in legal bullshit and are not allowed to sell pizza.

The other place people like is Fuel pizza, but it's... it's just pretty basic Good Pizza, it isn't anything special. it is acceptable. There is one real close to you, I think, based on knowing you go to Quaker Steak and Lube. Having more than 2 locations is new, though, so maybe the pizza has suffered. The one I normally go to is up in... I think Plaza Midwood... and it's the original one. Hell of far from my house, but next to my favorite record store, and near where some friends live and hang out.

We had a Mellow Mushroom pizza joint (hurr hurr hurrrr) in Boulder, I wonder if they're also embroiled in the same legal woes? I never went there personally, I always called Fatty J's. Ahh, double entendre drug names. How can you go wrong.

[theinevitable]

no-- the issue is that one guy owned all of the ones in Charlotte, and somehow broke his contract, and they sued him, so he had to agree to change the name and stop selling Pizza.

in other news, an event at my school is mentioned in the Pitchfork "Year in News" countdown. This naked kid got tazed on the ass at a Girl Talk show.

[melack]

Today I'm gonna mentally prepare myself for tomorrow's 14 hour road trip from San Francisco to Seattle. It's a good thing I only have to drive a small part of the way; I get to play Jeanne d'Arc on PSP for most of the trip.

[Golfhaus]

I've heard of Mellow Mushroom - at some point, the Homestar Runner guys did their website. It would make sense of course that they're not around now that I'm here.

Mrs. Haus has gone to Fuel before - she agreed with your sentiment, that it was okay if that's where you were going, but nothing to write home about. Incidentally, I don't live down in Southpark anymore - they tore down my apartment building to build $180,000 condos. We live in Steele Creek now.