Saturday, December 21, 2013

White Christmas and Peanut Butter

There's nothing like  White Christmas with Bing Crosby on the big screen in a 1936 movie house. Actually, it was more like a medium screen in the updated Kiggins Theatre. Still, it was thoroughly enjoyable. I wanted to sing along and clap after all the big numbers. No one else did so I behaved myself. But the fifty or so patrons seemed to be having a good time, laughing at all the right places, and bursting into a cheerful applause and the film's conclusion. It was a fun way to watch an old classic - in an old classic.

Beforehand, we ate at Charlies Bistro where they offer Myrtle's Turkey Salad Sandwich. This is no ordinary turkey salad, let me tell you. It has the usual ingredients, of course: turkey, mayo, celery. Pretty standard stuff. It also has black olives. I like black olives. And it has peanut butter. I also like peanut butter but wait, what?

We'd been to Charlies a few times before and we had seen Myrtle's sandwich on the menu. But we never had the, ahem, guts to try it. (Who is this Myrtle anyway?) But last night, we tried it and you know what? We liked it. It sounds like a mess, I know, but it was really good. I don't know if it's destined to become a classic but you never know. 

Cincinnati Chili did and I bet you never saw that coming, did you?

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