Sunday, January 18, 2009

Mystery Meat


Sometimes the food at shows leaves quite a bit to the imagination.

There's the questionable salad that might be potato, but could also be macaroni... or even a sad, sad, coleslaw.

There's the jugs of ambiguous juice or lemonade or sweet tea or unsweet tea... Or the big tubs with nozzles containing who knows what?

That being said, the most amorphous food item on the tour catering menu is the Mystery Meat.

This is the steaming pot of brown sludge next to the buns and forks. Inside that pot, soaking in a gallon and a half of barbeque sauce, are gobs of a meat-like substance which is supposed to be shoveled onto a bun. I want to believe that this is pulled pork, but there really is no way of telling.

Now, for you southern folks, I don't want you to get the wrong idea here. I really do like proper barbeque. That is not what I'm talking about here... That is like the difference between a bentley and a ball of belly button lint. Or, if you prefer, apples and oranges.

There are a lot if southern folks on this winterjam tour, and we play a lot of southern cities. The southern hospitality of these people and places is wonderful... And we've had some great southern cooking on winterjam...

But the mystery meat has, and probably always will, give me just a little shudder.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

haha we have something at our school kind of like that! its called country fried steak. yea, not really steak, if you ask me.

Emma Bennet said...

yummm!!! umm wow looks great:) JK i dont think ive ever eaten anything like that before, but theres always a first for everything!

Jenny said...

ewwwww i would not eat that.
go to quiznos haha.

Anonymous said...

well if ya don't know don't eat it and advise ne one else not to too! :D i looks kinda like ground beef slushy if ya ask me :P

Kathy said...

um...that looks appitiszing(sp?)...kidding. reminds me of what Lifest fed us one day last summer(it has good food...just not this), crunchy tuna sandwiches...haha.

Anonymous said...

Well written, Jon-o. Great stories.