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With Big Jones stepping up its game, and Garden & Gun arriving any day in the mailbox, it seems like Low Country's the new something this year. And we're one hundred percent fine with that. Boils, shrimp and grits, baked oysters, black-eyed peas? Yup. It's enough to make us forget that South Carolina has also given us Strom Thurmond, Myrtle Beach, and modern day racism.
We're getting this thing started tonight at Revolution Brewing's Lowcountry Beer Dinner and Shrimp Boil. (Looks like tix are still available.) The menu for this thing looks silly, especially the boil itself: head-on shrimp, house-made andoullie sausage, red skin potatoes, corn, and house-made hot sauce. We expect to get more head tonight than Wilt Chamberlain at Senor Frogs.
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Ira (3 years ago)
usually the north side is too far for a booty call, but: would.
Mad Jack Deacon (3 years ago)
Hell yeah you should, Ira. And try the lengua tacos. They’ll make you slap yo mama.
And while d’s suggestions for toppings are good, step up to the plate and try the chicarrone stewed in salsa verde, and huitlacoche. Sure it’s a fungus (farmer’s call it “corn smut” and anything with “smut” in the name, I’m down wit) but it’s fuckin’ tasty.
Ira (3 years ago)
someone told me ‘huitlacoche’ means ‘shit of god’, another compelling reason to eat it. i’ll report back.
d (3 years ago)
SHIT OF GOD! Im going to Bayless with this one.
Mad Jack Deacon (3 years ago)
Other web delving has turned up “raven’s excrement”. In my research so far it appears that unlike the North American native tribes, the Aztecs/Nahuatl didn’t seem to have a Raven god. So perhaps it’s called that just because it looks like bird poop.
d (3 years ago)
Ira, this is per Bayless via Tweet:
Rick_Bayless Ive always heard it translated “excrement” RT @chicagogluttons Can you confirm? @Rick_Bayless. Does ‘huitlacoche’ mean ’shit of god’
Mad Jack Deacon (3 years ago)
hey d!
If you’re ever in Edgewater and wanna grab some huraches, ping me and let me know, I’m always down for a trip to Dona Chio
nikkos (3 years ago)
Whattup Gluttons? Y’all to famous to post now? Saving up your posts for a book deal?
d (3 years ago)
Nikkos-Yea, were pretty much ass out these days.
Anna M (3 years ago)
Love Dona Chio, and if I run into you there, know that I will remind you again that is *Derrion Albert*, you trying-too-hard-motherfucker.
d (3 years ago)
@Anna M
whoa, fall back anna. i push muhfuckas off cliffs.
Whore-hey (2 years ago)
Last summer I was up in Edgewater/uptown and cruised by this place they were closed.
Finally made it up there cause I have to pick up the kid from Joel Hall.
Try the huarache de flor de calabaza. Hard enough to find squash blossoms on any Chicago menu. But those of us who grew up with a backyard garden and a mamá who knew how to cook em hunt for proper renditions. The huarache tried to kill me with its sheer size but I disposed of it properly Check it.