Sunday, May 07, 2006

"Our chili will make your hot dog bark!"

Last month, I flew down to DC to spend Easter weekend with friends. After a Good Friday night of drinking many, many really, really cheap pitchers at Hawk n' Dove, three of us cabbed it -- thinking back, the cab ride itself is worthy of its own blog post -- to U Street, known as "Black Broadway" back when Washington was officially segregated and U Street was home to jazz clubs frequented by the likes of Duke Ellington and Miles Davis.

We made the trip across town for one explicit purpose: to eat half smokes covered with chili and fries smothered in melted cheddar cheese at Ben's Chili Bowl.

Now fast forward to this morning when I turned on NPR and heard a story about two Gourmet magazine writers who traveled across America for three decades in search of the perfect meal. After three million miles on the road and tens of thousands of meals eaten, they chose to highlight, you guessed it, the half smokes and cheese fries from Ben's Chili Bowl.

I feel like my street cred as a modern-day "American Explorer" just advanced considerably.
posted by The Head Kid at 12:03 PM

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