As far as I can tell from seeing all the ads that reference “the big game”, you’re not allowed to say “Super Bowl” or the NFL licensing people will hunt you down and take all your money. Well, I’m not too flush, and I’m curious to ask some New York lawyers their opinion on Sixpoint versus Brooklyn Brewery, so whatever.
Anyway, there’s apparently this football game on Sunday, during which much of America goes to someone’s house and ignores the television while drinking, talking, and eating unpleasant amounts of mediocre party-platter food.
Our public service to you on Sunday is that we’ll open at 10am with some really nice food you can eat (and nice drinks too), so that if you end up going to someone’s house, you won’t be hungry and won’t feel you have to eat the 7-layer dip from Costco. (I know, I’m a sucker for that stuff. Fake food or not, it tastes really good to the lizard brain.)
The real, good food we’ll be serving on Sunday includes:
* Hangtown fry
* Croque madame with house cured country ham
* Breaded pork loin sandwich
* Hot boudin
Oh, and a Berkshire pig from Hilleman Family Farm cooked over local oak for Smokehouse Sunday.
Our other public service is that you can buy some cured meat from us to take to your friend’s house, too. Warning: because our meat, unlike the party platter kind, is from pastured animals and is cured by real people, it is in a different price league than the supermarket stuff. (We think it’s also in a different quality league.) If you bring it, you might just want to stash it somewhere only you know, so you don’t waste it on people who don’t care anyway.
We’ll also be open during and after the game, too, in case you either (1) don’t care about the game and want to enjoy a nice meal, or (2) would rather eat some Linkery food while you watch the game in our place, with the sound off. We’ll of course have some Louisiana-themed food, mostly because we’ll take any chance we can to make and serve boudin. (If T-Mac still worked here, we’d undoubtedly have some Indy food too. Maybe Ritual has that taken care of.)
If it wasn’t for our Big Game (Cal-Stanfurd), we probably wouldn’t be able to say “the Big Game” without the NFL litigating either. Luckily we had that name in place long before the Super Bowl came along.
Uhh, Doug, while you might be able to say “Big Game”, I don’t think you can actually add “The” to the front of it. That would surely call forth the wrath of the NFL.