[DISCLAIMER: I am not in this picture. I did not take this picture. I did not witness this picture being taken. (Not that there's anything wrong with that ...) I just google imaged "sausage fest" and found this picture (and one for the Last Supper with that same tag line that seemed awfully controversial (although technically accurate I guess).]
As I sit here typing to the strains of the music being performed at Sausage Fest (now does the picture make sense?), I realized that some Chicagoans are talking about sausages -- at least those who attended this block party right around the corner from my apartment here in Wrigley (and could there ever be a more aptly named title for a party in this particular 'hood).
Other Chicagoans are talking about Wieners, as in the food establishment institution the Wiener Circle, which now has its own TV show airing on TruTV (the first season ended, so hopefully you'll catch it in reruns if you haven't seen it). The beauty of the half hour program is that it is filmed in the late late hours, which means it delights in the drunken antics of the rich white kids partying in that 'hood (and with a staff that is all African-American, it does have its interesting post-racial moments as they play games that gently poke fun at both communities).
And if Sausages and Wieners are old hat, then it seems like for those Chicagoans, they are talking empanadas -- as no fewer than two brand new empanada eateries are opening in the same stretch on nearby Broadway. Like the proliferation of yogurt shoppes that inundated this area last summer, I predict 2012 to be the "summer of the empanada overload" here in my 'hood.
STILL HAVE MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG AT SAUSAGE FEST:
http://findlocal.chicagotribune.com/listings/lake-view-music-fest-chicago
YOU CAN WATCH FULL EPISODES ON LINE:
http://www.trutv.com/shows/the-wieners-circle/index.html
IT's BEEN A THING SINCE 2009, NOW PREPARE FOR EMPANADA OVERLOAD:
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/December-2009/Empanada-Madness-Best-places-in-Chicago-to-get-the-classic-turnovers/
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