yum.
It’s seriously a wonder that I don’t weigh 300 lbs. I ate a lot of food this weekend, and I loved every second of it. I’ve been getting way too excited by food lately. On Saturday I went to the Phantom Gourmet Beach BBQ and was in heaven. First of all, I have to say, I’m not a huge BBQ person; I mean I like it, I eat it, but I never really get crazy excited over it.
Maybe it was because I hadn’t eaten all day. Or maybe it was because we waited in line for over an hour and a half. But the food was sooo amazing. We waited in line for Willingham’s BBQ from Memphis because everyone was raving about it, so we figured, it we’re gonna do it, we’re gonna do it right. No regrets. I legitimately stuffed my face. Didn’t care that everyone else in line was staring at us eating our food. Didn’t care that I had BBQ sauce everywhere. Didn’t care that I ate my pulled pork sandwich plus ribs in about 5 mins. Didn’t care that I’ve never eaten so much food in such a short period of time in my life. And I was smiling the rest of the day. I’d seriously consider hopping on a plane to Memphis for more of that.
The people at the “BBQ Beach Party” were of a mixed variety. I was expecting a lot of hickish NH sketchiness (yeah, I’m saying it) but I’d say it was mainly your average Boston person. Lots of interesting sites/people to watch though. One guy had a shirt on that said “meat is murder.” Why is he here and why is he in line for ribs??? Not really the best place to make a statement about the evilness of meat. We were confused, until we read the rest of the shirt: “Tasty, tasty, murder.” HA. In order to drink beer, you had to stand in the beer garden, which probably kept the place a lot tamer than it would have been otherwise.
I personally miss the Phantom Gourmet days of Billy Costa and I am not a fan of the Andelman clan. Wait, that’s the understatement of the year. I can’t stand them. And I don’t like funding events by them because quite honestly, I think they’re the most annoying people to ever get a job on TV and I refuse to eat at Kowloon or Firefly’s because of them and their excessive raving (not a fan of Kowloon anyway and their 84302 page menu…with items named after the Andelmans…and nasty sushi. I know, don’t ask me why I got sushi at Kowloon, my bad). My point is, I didn’t want to fund an event by them, but I did and I don’t regret it. Though I did get the strong urge to beat Dan Andelman up when I saw him (and the woman asking for his autograph…because I bet that will be valuable someday!).
And I’ll be funding the Phantom Gourmet once again when I go to their Lansdowne Street Food Festival in September, which I cannot wait for. And it’s 21+ so I’m sure it will be even more fun/entertaining. I hope Trani doesn’t run out of their ice cream filled cupcakes this time. Woww, I’m kind of sad, huh?
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