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Post by countrygal on Apr 23, 2009 13:34:20 GMT -5
Saturday is Riggi Fest. Anybody going?
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Post by Clipper on Apr 23, 2009 14:11:39 GMT -5
Wish I could!!  |
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Post by kim on Apr 27, 2009 19:42:32 GMT -5
If I were there I would have enterd and I would have won. I think very highly of my riggies! I think they're the best around! :-)
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Post by frankcor on Apr 27, 2009 20:38:38 GMT -5
kim, it's awfully hard for me to judge, not having ever tasted your riggies.
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Post by lucy on Apr 28, 2009 10:19:29 GMT -5
So how was riggie fest? Did anyone on here go? It was too beautiful out to be inside.
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Post by bobbbiez on Apr 28, 2009 11:05:07 GMT -5
 Nope, I didn't go and never do. Just seems to me after the first few samples, all would pretty much taste the same.  Besides, I like mine better. ;D They did have a great turnout.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 28, 2009 11:24:20 GMT -5
The Seret Garden won. I had never even heard of the place. Where is it located?
I eat chicken riggies only if that is all that is on the menu. When I go out for Italian, I want pork, meatballs, or sausage, not chicken .
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Post by bobbbiez on Apr 28, 2009 12:00:51 GMT -5
Hey, chicken cacciatore is one of my favorite Italian dishes. Don't knock chicken in sauce. The Secret Garden is on Culver Ave. Never had anything from there, but others say their food is very good.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 28, 2009 12:45:35 GMT -5
Actually I eat very little chicken in anything. They are dirty damn things. I try not to eat anything that scavenges through the sh*t of another animal for kernels of corn thank you!  To me that is what they bring to mind when they speak of "free range" poultry. Once in a great while I do a chicken on my showtime rotisserie, but not often, and when I do, I make sure it is more than well cooked. Give me a good, grain fed, bovine for my protein. That or something from clean water, fileted and broiled or baked. |
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Post by bobbbiez on Apr 28, 2009 14:37:46 GMT -5
........................but you'll eat pork? 
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Post by Clipper on Apr 28, 2009 16:08:00 GMT -5
Good grain fed bovine. Is pork not a product of a bovine? Lamb, beef, pork, venison, nannygoat, etc. What, did I stutter? I just don't like chicken, and I think it is a nasty animal. I don't like the idea that chicken is so salmonella prone that you have to do everything but burn your cutting board, throw away the utensils, and soak your hands in bleach after handling it, to make it safe. I guess there is some minor descrepancy between the judge's taste and the taste of those attending. If you read the comments on UDN or the OD page, you will see that some those interviewed thought the Secret Garden riggies were terrible. Some indicate that the Secret Garden has great food, but that the riggies were not that special. I DO have to check out the Secret Garden when I am in town again. the reviews by Amanda at UDN said that the place has great food, and the portion sizes are large. Hey, Amanda has never steered us wrong, even back in the CNY Forum days. Sounds like the riggie fest is dying. Only 9 restaurants entering, and no McGills or Teddy's. I don't know if I would want to pay the price of admission to check out the riggies from the 9 that I saw listed, with the exception of the Route 69 Steakhouse. |
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Post by countrygal on Apr 28, 2009 22:56:30 GMT -5
I thought the same thing Clipper. They had advertised more than a dozen restaurants but there wasn't as many as there has been other years. Makes you wonder why.
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Post by frankcor on Apr 29, 2009 10:46:12 GMT -5
I could be wrong, but I thought bovine pertains to cattle, porcine to pigs and hogs.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 29, 2009 11:10:33 GMT -5
You are once more correct Frank. My intent was cloven hoofed animals, not bovines. Sorry about that. I guess that would include Satyrs as well, although I don't know of any farms raising those critters, or anyone who has ever eaten satyr kabobs on a skewers with yogurt sauce on the side. |
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Post by bobbbiez on Apr 29, 2009 12:05:55 GMT -5
Clipper is a hogger.
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Nope, I didn't go and never do. Just seems to me after the first few samples, all would pretty much taste the same. 
