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September 24-30, 2007
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| Sunday, September 30, 2007 permalink
We figured that this would be a good place to grab a hot dog so we scampered into the Dog Haus:
... for a cheap and cheerful lunch of a Chicago-style dog ($2.49):
... which had a good snap accented with a little heat from the peppers and rounded out by onions, pickles and tomatoes on a steamed poppy seed bun. Chubby got the Italian beef sausage ($3.64):
... with mustard, peppers, tomato and onions. Both were good, solid student chow. We took the advice of Sara C., (a Bunrab reader) and got some frozen Custard. We were transport impaired so we couldn’t make it to Kopp’s, but we checked out Bella’s Fat Cat:
... which is a simple burger place that features this regional specialty. I got a scoop of vanilla and chocolate while Chubby went with the rocky road ($1.79 each):
Rich, creamy and (if you are a cat) the warning label is printed after the word “Bella’s”. Dogg Haus Bella’s Fat Cat
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| Saturday, September 29, 2007 permalink
The architecturally stunning Milwaukee Art Museum:
... sits on the waterfront with its skeletor wings that open in the morning and close at night (I guess that’s when the giant fly is caught and digested in this venus fly trap of a structure. The collection inside isn’t too shabby. Once you pass through the hallway:
... that feels as though it should be lined with Imperial troopers, there are works from some of the old masters as well as plenty of modern wackiness:
We resorted to filling up on hummus and beer at a party:
When we told people where we were from, we learned that the assumption here is that if someone is from San Francisco, they spend their time being gay and eating Rice a Roni. We moved on to discussions about the local chow and the consensus led us to believe and that Milwaukee was trying to attract tourism with the art museum and not the cuisine. At least our eyes had something to feast on.
Milwaukee Art Museum
From today’s Bunrab email Dr. B. writes about our San Francisco cheat at SFO:
In regards to the SF Joe. Yeah, but it looks really good doing it. Who needs performance when you have style (and a captive audience)? Biggles
Dear Dr. B. I guess you’re right that if one must be deceived, it’s better to be swindled with style, but whoever thought of these false bottoms on the coffee cups is truly evil. -G
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| Friday, September 28, 2007 permalink
The Milwaukee public market sounded like a San Francisco Ferry Building away from home, but when we got there:
.. we realized that our expectations were too high. It’s easy to forget how spoiled we are in the Bay Area and as much as we wanted this food emporium to be a hub of culinary excitement, it was basically an Andronico’s with more aisle space.
To be fair, we didn’t visit during their Saturday Farmers’ market so it may be something more interesting than today’s visit led us to believe. Just north of this market is a gigantic Whole Foods which has a greater wealth of offerings and variety, but to keep it in perspective, it is still a Whole Foods. To ease our culinary pain, we took a stroll over to the waterfront and visited the aquarium at Discovery World, which had these eek-inducing clear floor panels:
... over the fish tanks as well as a tunnel:
... to check out the fish from below. Milwaukee Public Market Discovery World
From today’s bunrab email, Pepper writes about our German Haagen Daz stand-in: Gutenberg, I was really happy to see Magnum ice cream bars on your site. So many of the ice 'creams' we get in China are chemical tasting and unnaturally textured so they are especially loved. You can find them almost anywhere here and one of those bars usually costs 4 rmb (about fifty cents). Pepper
Dear Pepper, Wow, four bits for choco-ice cream goodness sounds like a great deal. It’s too bad Magnums aren’t readily available in the U.S. Maybe it’s because someone else is Haagin’ the market. -G
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| Thursday, September 27, 2007 permalink
S.F.Joe It doesn’t come as a shocker that the refreshment options at SFO:
... are in a holding pattern, but today’s cup of coffee:
... was a wake up call the airport’s new low. When I claimed my hot morning beverage, it was like lifting balsa wood. I removed the top and was surprised to see that there was a reasonable level of Joe, so I determined that all |
