Dropped by my new favorite neighborhood coffeehouse yesterday, Black Hole Coffee, for Happy Hour. Yes - Happy Hour in a coffee shop. It's just about the greatest idea ever. (Though I might also contend that every hour in a coffee shop is Happy Hour.) Monday-Friday, 4pm-7pm, free coffee with the purchase of a pastry or brownie or some such item (free coffee? those are two of my favorite words, right up there with incognito, serendipitous, and riboflavin).
So I got the brownie, which was really more like brownie cake, the size and shape of a slice of apple pie on my plate. Or like the brown Arts & Literature piece for a really giant game of Trivial Pursuit. Sat down with a book (Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; highly recommended), a cup of coffee, the enormous brownie. It was OK (how can a brownie not be at least OK?), but there was something odd about it. Some flavoring that one doesn't usually encounter in a brownie. I couldn't put my finger on it...but I eventually put my tongue on it. Between my teeth, that is - I put my tongue on the odd flavor by extricating a foodbit from between my teeth: bacon.
Now, don't get me wrong, I like bacon as much as the next guy. But in a brownie? Please. Don't mess with my coffee, and don't mess with my chocolaty dessert treats. Shouldn't there have been a warning on the brownie, at least for vegetarians? (Not that I'm a vegetarian myself, but I'm trying to rally some allies in the fight against the bacon-brownie.) Next time, I'll play it safe with the blueberry muffin.
I'm with you, JP. There are certain things that just don't need to be "improved," and brownies are one of them. Brownies: perfect as is. Bacon: also perfect as is. There's no need to combine the two.
ReplyDeleteAs a vegetarian who loooooves brownie, I want to thank you for supporting this important cause! Can you also please protest the use of bacon in chocolate bars?
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