{"id":72227,"date":"2019-09-23T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72227"},"modified":"2019-09-22T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:38:00","slug":"comfort-food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72227","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Food For Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Stouts Pub at Snelling and Larpenteur opened as an English pub, serving bangers and mash, fish and chips, and Guinness beer on tap. Lately, with the cool wet weather, I&#8217;ve been feeling a need for comfort food. Mutton stew with thick warm bread. Maybe a shepherd&#8217;s pie. <br>But when I looked at their menu online today, it&#8217;s all trendy stuff, the kind you could get at Applebee&#8217;s or Chili&#8217;s. Spinach and artichoke dip. Cheeseburger with sharp cheddar and applewood bacon. Margherita pizza. Chipotle BLT. And all kinds of wraps and salads.\u00a0 Yuppie Paradise.<br>I don&#8217;t blame them, that&#8217;s where the money is. But what happens to us crusty curmudgeons? Where can I go to get my pre hibernation food? <br><br>Joe doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You got me.  Most &#8220;comfort food&#8221; is well outside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70319\">my diet these days<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s hear it, hive mind.   Comfort food sources in the Metro? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stouts Pub at Snelling and Larpenteur opened as an English pub, serving bangers and mash, fish and chips, and Guinness beer on tap. Lately, with the cool wet weather, I&#8217;ve been feeling a need for comfort food. Mutton stew with thick warm bread. Maybe a shepherd&#8217;s pie. But when I looked at their menu online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,83,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-beer","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72234,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72227\/revisions\/72234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}