An important thing to remember about Little Egypt is that, just like in Egypt itself, alcohol is prohibited. From the vantage point of a sidewalk patio, not a single liquor store can be seen. The adherence to culture and tradition combined with the entrepreneurship and coercion of storeowners is impressive and serves as a reminder that while you’re having your leisure time, others are working hard. While they offer sodas, teas, coffee and specialty beverages, plan ahead and make a hookah lounge your last stop of the night. That, or sneak in a fifth of spiced rum.

Arabian Nihiiights

As for the beer gardens, they open while it’s still light out for a reason; day-drinking.

BierGarten

Location: Make your way to 30^th and Steinway and wander from there.

Or a beer for those with a sweet tooth?

You decide.

yeup!

I once scoffed at Rob Hochberg for getting excited about new Bud Light labels. And here I am, posting a picture of the new Natty logo on the internet. Hypocrisy? Perhaps. Overzealousness for light beer? Sure. Saturday night? Uh-huh.

]]> http://thacant.com/cons/new-natty-logo/feed/ 1 http://thacant.com/rev/extramural-study/ http://thacant.com/rev/extramural-study/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:43:56 +0000 Riley http://thacant.com/?p=1316 Continue reading → ]]> Ithaca College has a co-op program with Cornell. It’s a bullet-point on the tour guide’s list, to mention that if you come to IC, you are able to take courses at Cornell.
My course of study has led me to take courses at the Ithaca Campus. But upon registering for my last semester, I realized, “I’ve never taken advantage of that – I should.”
So I did. I am currently enrolled in Understanding Wine and Beer – a 400 level Food Sciences course at the Ivy League institution across the hill. Aside from the professor putting up slides of complex chemical equations, the course is a breeze.
And, everyday, we’re served four wines and four beers.

w i n e

b e e r

To quote the professor; Wine is served with food, beer is food!

What to do with ten pounds of chicken and a huge appetite? Well I thought back to the summertime when my father shoved a beer can up a whole chicken’s ass, threw it on the grill, and called it dinner. Sorry, to any of you readers, if that sounded sexual, in any sense of the word. From personal experience, let me tell you that it is not sexual, nor is it even fun to watch.

So I headed to the Beverage Center. Unlike the then-classically American Bud Heavy my father used to moisture-infuse the summer chicks, I decided to go with some heavier beers. So I picked up an Ithaca Smoked Porter and a Smuttynose IPA. I made the purchase, placed the two bottles next to my two birds and headed home. “What are you doing buying two glass bottles of beer to make beer can chicken?” you may be wondering. All you gotta do is pour the beer into rinsed-out cans, and proceed.

I employed the help of fellow beer and chicken connoisseur, as well as camera-phone enthusiast, 2008 Ithaca College graduate, Jim Walker.

Now I could bore you by transcribing the recipe on to this page, but I’ll do so with some fine photos:

beautiful birds

beautiful beers

Now, to combine the two. As stated earlier, we had to pour the beer into cans, and insert the cans in the cavity left by the giblets, previously removed.

canal insertion

As I stated before, this is not sexual or glamorous. But in two hours it will be delicious.

slick rub

The next step is to grease the bird up with vegetable oil, and coat it with a rub of salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, and love.

give 'em time

Throw the chicks in the oven, and wait…

patiently!

In two hours, (at 375 degrees), your birds will come out looking, smelling and tasting like heaven.

mmmmmm

For more recipes, check out NotDrugs.com‘s future page of gourmet meals, brought to you by 6fu.

You Heard It Here First!

Santa con (refresh and get a new picture every time!) started in San Francisco with as an anti-commercial form of “guerrilla street theater” mixed with “pranksterism.” (Wikipedia, here.) Since its beginning in 1994, originally called “Santarchy”, it has since spawned different events and adventures in different forms all over the world. The one that Sam participated in was all throughout New York City. There were meeting points in each borough to start a massive Santa pub crawl. It was reported that 5,000 (or more?!) Santas took place.

As soon as I heard about this, I had to share it with you.

On the last Friday of every month, the Beer Co. hauls a firkin – an antiquated term for a cask used to hold liquids, about eleven gallons – to Korova. Since the last Friday of the month is Christmas, the Beer Co. is bringing the quasi-keg over this Friday, the 18th.

If you don’t know what Korova is, it’s the seemingly nameless bar near Taste of Thai and Subway in the Commons. It’s usually got some cool chalkboard artwork hanging outside, and some bangin’ specials – $3 Guinness, yes please!

So if you’re still in town, get to Korova and you’ll be able to tell your folks that you drank from a fricken’ firkin!

5 – 7 pm

cheers

I caught these people tabling and they were also hanging up posters showcasing of all the show’s characters, an intriguing little marketing trick.  I walked over and they were giving out condoms and pong balls with the show’s logo on it and drawing my attention to their upcoming premiere, tonight at 9 on ICTV, also streaming live at ictv.org

I know that a lot of us don’t care much for ICTV.  We aren’t really aware of them or the content they produce.  These condoms and pong balls, shameless self promotion, but what does it mean?  What is this show about?  Either way it pulls you in, so do those catchy posters.

Tonight at 9 on ICTV (Channel 16), or streaming live at ictv.org

All I’m saying is it caught my attention.  I want to see what happens, so have others I’ve talked too.  I think tonight I will be tuning in

I think you should join me.

According to the Ithacan article, “the policy would grant amnesty (pardon, let them be idiots) to all people involved in the situation: the person who called Public Safety, and the person in need of medical attention.”

I suppose this is a good thing, to relieve students of getting in trouble when their holding the hair back of a student crouched over a toilet screaming “I think I’m dying, I’m never going to drink again! EVARRR!” in between spews of vomit. Just because you won’t get in trouble, doesn’t mean it’s okay to drink a whole bottle of rum.

amnesty international

thumbs up to this policy

Not that I advocate drinking to the point that you black out, but some of my fondest college memories come from watching friends who probably should have gotten medical attention, but we neglected to, and a certain friend would scream about “the staple in his fucking ear” from a 300 costume on Halloween, or when I had to tackle him because mid-vomit he almost confused my computer for the trash can.

The Medical Amnesty Protocol has been in effect at Cornell since 2006. Authorities “practice the policy so students are not afraid to ask for help,” and it “aims to increase the likelihood of students calling for medical assistance in an alcohol-related emergency.” According to the Ithacan article from November 12th, “the amount of calls to Cornell’s public safety office doubled while the amount of alcohol consumed remained the same compared to before and after the policy was passed.” The policy doesn’t make it permissible to drink yourself to death.

Students, drunkards, and idiots, I urge you to oppose the Good Samaritan Bill: It is for weaklings. Drink up, vomit in your trash can, and drink a glass of water before going to bed. Alcohol Poisoning isn’t that bad, you just pass out for a long time so your organs can focus on getting all the alcohol out of your body, it’s the closest you’ll get to time traveling.

I jest, of course, if you have a friend in need, go ahead and call the authorities, but I do not believe the Good Samaritan policy should be viewed as an excuse to drink in excess of excess.