Controlled Chaos

I luv the sox!! FWIW...We weren't the first to 10. Dodgers were.

Edible smell: My mom making gravy on Sunday Morning Other Smell: Fresh cut grass

This should be Italian Beef in a landslide. What is wrong with you people?? Everyone serves hot dogs and pizza. They can be found in every state and probably most countries. Now we can lay claim to a certain style of both...yes, and they are significantly better than others, but da beef by far is 'Chicago' food. You hardly even see Italain Beef on the menu at stands outside chi-town. When the dictionary names us...you know it's right Italian Beef From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. An Italian Beef sandwich consists of thin slices of beef served inside of Italian bread or some other crusty bread, which has been cut lengthwise and into individual portions. (The "Italian Bread" seen in common use in Chicago is a white loaf with a high gluten content and little to no sourdough flavor, made to be reminiscent of what many think of as being Italian restaurant bread). Even though it is served on Italian Bread sliced lengthwise, this is the only thing it has in common with submarine sandwichs. Italian beef is made using tough cuts of meat sliced thinly and long simmered in broth with onions and sweet green bell peppers. The meat is served dripping wet from the beef broth, topped with the vegetables it was cooked with, or hot peppers (Giardinera peppers). thus the need to use a chewy bread for this dish: a softer bread would disintegrate. The Italian beef sandwich is a dish associated with Chicago, especially in the home cooking of families from working class neighborhoods on the South Side. It is difficult to obtain outside of the Chicago area. Italian Beef sandwiches can be found in many small restaurants throughout the city and its suburbs, although residents of Chicago's south side feel that what is served under this name may be of questionable authenticity. Possible origins As is the case with much of the life and culture of the lower socioeconomic classes during the turn of the 20th Century, this dish has seen little documentation in print, and its origins may never be truly known, having vanished into the realm of folklore. The usual story (when a story is offered at all) seems to be that this dish is known as "Italian Beef" because the vendors who once sold it in the street were of Italian descent. Other places it is told that the name comes from the idea that Italians put a lot of seasoning on their beef ([1]). Stylistically, the dish seems to be more Eastern than Southern European, to the extent that something this simple can be said to have a style at all. This would be in keeping with the ethnic mix of the region of Chicago this dish originated in, home to a large Croatian community, along with other substantial Eastern European presences. What is un-Italian about "Italian Beef" is the way in which vegetables intended for consumption as a solid accompaniment to the meat are simmered (as opposed to cooked in oil) well past the al dente stage, to the point at which their flavor has permeated the broth in which they cook, and vice versa. Further arguing against any sort of Italian origin for this dish is the demographic reality that the Italian presence in Chicago has historically been concentrated in the Tri Taylor neighborhood; the South Side home of the Italian Beef sandwich lies about six miles to the South, a considerable distance on a Chicagoan scale, showing the implausibility of the commercial product currently being offered by many pizza joints being taken as a substitute for the genuine folk article, and illustrating the dangers of taking ad copy as documentation. Some varations have mozarella cheese, however, the people who produced the homegrown product for some generations never even encountered mozarella cheese, much less worked it into their diet. This shows that is very unlikely that the original dish ever had mozarella cheese. On a side note...I found that bright neon green relish the other day at the store....It's called Rolfs and was right by the other relish. I'm not sure why I never found it before.

Congrats Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anybody watch this special?? A great inside look at the whole tragedy. God Bless the victims!!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 08:06 AM) I was half expecting a discrimination lawsuit to be mentioned in there... :rolly I was fully expecting it. When I saw the subject...I figured lawsuit....

I've done about 10 of them....you definitely get better the more ya do. I have never finished a Friday or Saturday one yet, but I breezed through Monday -Thursday last week...which was my first week doing them every day.

QUOTE(mreye @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 03:25 PM) JOAN CUSACK! You are most definitely one of the few in that club...

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 03:22 PM) Rach Ray is way cute. You have got to love that smile and giggle. Also Paige from that home makeover reality series. Another cute as a bug's ear. Put me down for both of them too....

I hated the NBA, but I used to watch NBA inside stuff just to see her. she had that I'm sweet and innocent, but so fricken hot thing goin on. Now she is on CNN.

Bartman with security, from halloween a couple years ago....and the other one is just a more recent photo with the wife and some peeps.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 12:20 PM) She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah f***ing genius. Milkman...one of your best posts ever Genius is right Baby you’re a rich man Baby you’re a rich man Baby you’re a rich man too You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo What a thing to do Baby you’re a rich man Baby you’re a rich man Baby you’re a rich man too...

So many Beatlephiles here. I personally have to go with Billy Joel. I thought he was going to have to be a write in when I read the subject, but to my surprise he was an option. Bottoms up Billy!!

yeah this whole post is weird....you talk about the tough stretch in August ....yet you think it's over cause we took 2-3 from the Yankees. Look I'm not one to knock down an optimistic fan, but dude...we're not even half way through yet. Talk about how it wasn't tough after playing all the games...not after one series.

I haven't seen it given away free for like a year. Gossip paper...and pretty much thinks the whole metro area resides on the north side of chicago

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 11, 2005 -> 02:54 PM) Why does everyone say that he's equating the two? He threw two different insults at the guy. The way I read it he called him one name and then the other...not "homosexual and a child molester" or "homosexual child molester" but "he's a homosexual! he's a child molester!" agree 100%. I had wrote a whole post pretty much stating this same thing earlier, but got busy here at work and wasn't finished with it, so I cancelled it and never wrote it again.

QUOTE(the People's Champ @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 04:07 PM) You can bet they'll be switching that setup around very shortly, to probably the way the Sox have it now. They cant risk letting that happen again, if he fell through onto somebody there woulda been hella lawsuits filed. I'm thinking he wouldn't win s***. In fact, to stop that from happening again the yanks should sue the fan and donate any winnings to charity. You can't jump off a building and then sue the building owners....

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 04:01 PM) Is this the girl flashing the web cam.. ??? Maybe the person she was chatting with said...Show me your tits for beads and she really wanted him to throw em to her.

Not for work. (brief boobage) OH.....Hi Dad!!

We need these three to imagine they are playing the Yankees every time they pitch. They were all just on the top of their game. I believe they all can pitch like that every start, if they're set right mentally. They were focused and determined and that's the same attitude they need to have when playing Cleveland, Detroit or whoever. Bullpen was dominating as usual.

I love how it's described on mlb.com... White Sox slide past Yanks and the overhead replay showed it was the right call....Don't make it sound as if the ump blew it.

Great win!! Enjoy the day off guys and lets nail those bosox!!!

HELL YEAH!!!!!!

I love that over the plate camera view the yanks have.

Yanks announcers giving Rowand his props saying he has taken a lot of hits away fromthe Yankee's