Whatever happened with that OGK? How was the smoke? So glad to hear the Critical+ is kicking your ass, something for me to look forward too.
It's just not fair. Tead sux in the smokin report department.
Didn't someone mention food.... I'll explain it in a gastronomical way.
We New Orleanians have a special kinda love for one specific and very simple dish... and like any other local bit, it comes with history... history I really dig. The French Quarter has seen waves of various ethnic inhabitants over the years... the Spanish, the French, the Italians.... you get the idea... at various points in history the French Quarter was predominantly one ethnic group or another. We'll focus on the Italians and their contributions to our culinary joy. As we roll back the pages of the calendar, we find ladies pounding their family's laundry on rocks at the shore of the Mighty Mississippi. They did it religiously every Monday. It was a big chore to process all the clothes for a large family and often consumed the lion's portion of the day for them. Of course, the little Italian ladies had many other required duties... feeding the family being one of the major ones. When one pounds laundry on the shores of the Miss. all day, one can find themselves very short of time for cooking, especially in the days before McD's. So... the little Italian ladies came up with a beautiful answer to this culinary hurdle.... Beans and Rice baby! Sounds simple... red beans, sausage, cajun trio. The magic is that they would set it simmering on the stove in the morning and come home to a nearly finished meal that could satisfy a small army. Since this was such good magic, the dish became a staple. To this day, you can find Beans and Rice served at almost every single restaurant on Mondays... including the non-national burger joints.
Anyway... as you can imagine, a dish with this much baggage has some serious local fans... and I'm surely one. Luvs me sum Beans and Rice baby! Eat it all up with a baguette of local french bread.... oh yeah. This leads us to the core of the issue really and the point I'm ever so slowly dragging you to... we do have a point here somewhere don't we Tead?
OH SHIT!!! What was my point? Wait... I'll brb... perhaps a bowl will help.
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Oh yeah... B&R and how we love it.... back to the beans.
So, any local that enjoys cooking anything will surely make their own little personal version of B&R. They'll tweak it over time and get it exactly they way they enjoy it. Despite the dish's apparent simplicity, there are many nuances that make a world of difference. As such, we often have a problem sharing what we love so much with others. I mean, it seems such a shame that my neighbor has the same strong love for their little version... but my version seems very different and worse... not because mine is bad... rather just because their love for their version is so strong. Side note... never bring B&R to a shared meal (potlock?) setting... you'll not please anyone but yourself.
This is similar to my love for the OGKs I grow. I mean, they're just wonderful in my world. They 'fit' into every category really well. Awesome quick grows. Great output. Incredible smoke. Clone slow but consistently. I just can't spread enough love upon them.
This leads me to my B&R kinda feelings for them. I love them... but everyone has their own version of the love and it can be very different from mine.
Hmmm... it dawns on me that I consume them like I consume my B&R. I do plenty of sampling along the way. I grab a bowl (or 50) of the early stuff before it's fully matured. I savor it slowly over time.
Anyway, it doesn't really lead to an un-partial report. The best I can hope for is some sort of relative comparison.
Yup.... loves me some OGK and loves me some Beans and Rice.
Damn.... now I'm hungry! This post has consumed 2 bowls of MJ covered by 4 scoops of keef... not to mention 2 cups 'o joe. Gotta put some food on top of all that.