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FIre on the mountain, pizza in the belly

When I was dumping my iPhone pix into my computer the other day I discovered this pizza.

It was at Fire On The Mountain, which is a pizza/microbrewery. Portland has microbreweries all over the place and lots of pizza places, and this was both.

It's a fig and prosciutto, with blue cheese and carmelized onions. And mozzaella. I like good old-fashioned pizzas with a good red gravy and sausage and pepperoni and peppers and mushrooms. But this pizza was undoubtedly the the best pizza I've ever eaten. We also split an order of hot wings too. I particularly liked the Jamaican jerk sauce for the wings. And the beer was delicious. Wonderful. Those are Joan's arms offering up that pizza goodness like Demeter at harvest time. Mmmm.

All the weight I'd lost during the stress of my move to Oregon from California seems to be finding its way back to me.

Pee guitar

In my neverending search to find important developments in mankind's growth I give you Pee Guitar.

Reminds me of a joke by George Carlin that involved a group of men, a keg of beer and a Kent micronite filter.

 

a most curious legal defense

Here.

In this case the legal defense was so good that Pepsico chose to change its attorneys.

Plaintiff Ronald Ball filed suit against the Pepsi defendants two years ago.

He claimed that after buying a can of Mountain Dew at a vending machine at work, he began to drink it only to spit out the soda, finding a dead mouse within.

The plaintiff then alleges he sent the mouse in a Mason jar to Pepsi which then allegedly destroyed the mouse's body.

Ball's suit also included the owners of the Shop n'Save grocery chain where the soda was purchased for the machine.

However, those defendants were dropped from the suit.

Pepsi had at one point sought summary judgment in the case.

It cited the testimony of a scientist who testified that if the mouse had truly been in the soda since its bottling, its body would have dissolved into a "jelly-like substance."

Attorney Steven Danekas of the Swanson firm also withdrew on Feb. 17.

Original story in the Madison Record.

Readers want to know

A reader named "FGF" which I believe stands for Former Girlfriend has asked if those plump nutria are edible.

I personally don't know. I've never seen them on any menu. However, after my first reference to nutria here at Flannel Shirt, another friend of mine wrote to say that the only time he'd seen nutria was at an alligator farm down south. The owners had frozen nutria and when it was time to feed the beasts they threw the nutriacicles into the gaping jaws of the gators.

The nutria remind me of the mythological shmoo.

It was a creature in the "Lil Abner" comic strip about fifty years ago. Shmoos reproduced rapidly, tasted great and wanted to die to serve the purposes of mankind. Anyone else remember shmoos?