Down In The Dumps/first Deer Season I Cannot Hunt. Blah!

[Sarg]

Oh god. Now I have to go google again! Oh! That sounds kinky, google.

Sarg


What the hell??? Looks like it's 12 klics from the North Pole!!!

 

[Wagon]

LMAO. Yes and people live there. Sometimes Moose get drunk and attack the city. But they are not very organized. Drunk....you know.

God bless the gulf stream. Without it Trondheim would be frozen and unlivable instead of wet, cold and miserable. We import sun from Dubai.

 

[Sludge]

OK mate, your thread, tell me about this establishment, a good burger is worth hunting.....

It is fitting to describe it here, as after a cold day on the hunt a scalding hot bowl of homemade chili and a Double Stella Cheeseburger with the works converts you from cold predatory beast to roundly slothful cushion like object that longs for a larger stomach and a good couch to sleep off the food-coma on.

Stella's is a little tiny pub just north of the base. I use the term pub loosely as they do sell beer and booze, but not much of it, even though they have a choice selection of the "good stuff". The real reason they are packed from open to close almost every day they are open is the burgers...

Six to eight ounces of choice prime ground beef is hand formed into a massive juicy patty and then cooked on the 70 year old griddle Stella herself bought used back in the 50's. Next the patty, or patties, are placed on specially baked buns from a local bakery and then smothered and covered with a wide array of add-ons from cracked black pepper thick cut bacon, to five kids of cheese, shrooms, veggies, peanut butter, even fried eggs. You choice, or choose one of fifteen or so "specialty burgers" like the portabello/grilled onion/bacon burger or the hickory smoke barbecue burger.

Each massive masterpiece of gluttony is served with your choice of Stellas made fresh daily hand cut frenched fries or onion rings. The true beauty is that the griddle is only for burgers and cooked burger toppings. The fries and rings each have their own separate fryers.

For ten USD you get that monster meal, burger served on a Stella Plate", that is a paper napkin, and a roughly one pound basket of fries plus a free refills soda or a damn fine handcraft beer. While until recently the place looked like what it was, a serious dive built in the front room of someone's house, the fact the locals and base personnel alike bring their kids their for burgers exposed it for what it really is, neighborhood beer-sot turned "secret" burger joint.

Just a few years back Stellas great (great, great?) niece took over the place and did a complete modernized remodel. Save for the griddle, you wouldn't recognize it if you went there pre-2007 In this case change is good, because When my wife to be took me there the first time in 2006 it was a dingy little hole of weathered formica and cigarette yellow paint. Just Google "Stella's Bellevue NE" for more details.


Also if you are a real wo(man) you can get a Stellanator, the sandwich that "Man vs Food" wimp is afraid to even try...
Dunno why, the beef content alone is just over 39 ounces...so they throw in some other stuff to even it out... do a google image search for that one, the pictures are too big to post here...

 

[Tim Cake]

Time to visit Stella's on my next trip to see some friends at Offutt AFB.

 

[Ned]

Ta Sludge, proper food, funny how really good places like this seem to be out of the crowded parts of the country...

 

[Tim Cake]

Ta Sludge, proper food, funny how really good places like this seem to be out of the crowded parts of the country...

Who the hell would want to live in NYC, LA or other such "cities"... Like a sardine's existence they are.

 

[Sludge]

Who the hell would want to live in NYC, LA or other such "cities"... Like a sardine's existence they are.

I prefer San Diego and Flagstaff, but it ain't so bad here. It seems really boring in comparison, but if you look around for a bit there are little gems of all the good stuff life has to offer-food, art, music, outdoors activity for all seasons and a really really low cost of living. thanks for helping me work out of this funk gang!

 

[T^3]

Awful Offutt ... lucky me, I was never in that much trouble

 

[Anglesachse]

One thing I realy miss from the UK these days is the good "Old" greasy spoon cafe. Most closed down in the 80`s and 90`s thanks to Motorway Restaurants, where you are guaranteed to get food warmed up at least 6 times that day, cold tea and stale bread. W*nkers!

Best greasy spoon I ever used, used to be just of the M11 on the A11 Cambridge-Norwich. You dared not sit down the place was that dirty but man could you get a mean Mug of Tea and a Plate full of good old English Fryup. Back in the day it was open allmost 24/7, 7 days a week. Guess thats why they never had time to clean LMAO

Last time I was in blighty I stoped at a cafe in Dover, Full English and a brew. cost a f*cking arm and a leg but the most disgusting thing was the fact the Girl serving hardly spoke English, took me 15mins to get her to understand all I wanted was a f*cking fry up. Great start to a holiday! And when she brought it out you could still see plate between the food? I mean WTF. It is a working mans breakfast FFS, you couldn`t have worked 30 mins on what they served.

Some nationalities just don`t get what a good meal is.

 

[Wagon]

Amen to that Angle.

The Commies here took both the fight and the food sense right out of these people. The lack of knowledge about any violence whatsoever is pretty annoying. Yeah it is peaceful, but allot of people talk shit.

I am going out tonight. 100% guaranteed somebody is going to talk shit. Either a foreigner taking a piss on a docile population or a local being stupid. A month ago a guy from Africa claimed he was Pirate and that I should watch out. I just walked out, but I wanted to wipe the floor with his stupid ass. It's kind of strange. What people say around here in public and the threats they make.....in 70% of the world they would be fighting words.

And food? Ha! Hot Dogs, canned stew and doped up lamb. Great stuff if you don't intend on living long.

 

[Sludge]

Over here, in this part of the country, greasy spoons are still pretty common, though I know they are gone elsewhere.

I agree with Angel, these big chain franchises wouldn't know a good meal if it was jammed down their throats. There is a momNpop greasy just a few blocks from my house so good it doesn't even have a real name. For just a few bucks one gets all the goodstuff a workingman's breakfast has here in the old-school midwest- hot strong coffee, eggs, bacon/sausages, toast, real hash or hash browns, biscuits and gravy. I can't get a decent bagel in this town to save my life though...

 

[Tim Cake]

The chain franchises sell civvy versions of MREs. Wait! Wait! These franchises make MREs on contract to the military. UGH!