Wisconsin by the numbers:
Number of sausages consumed: 4
Number of beers consumed: 5
Number of beers consumed in the previous six months: 0
Number of the Wisconsin beers consumed on the same night: all
Number of ratio of sausages on the night in question to beers: 2/5
Amount of sauerkraut consumed: minimal
Number of artisan diet root beers consumed: 1
Number of times artisan diet root beer was sought after that: several
Success at finding artisan diet root beer again: nil
Perceived rarity of artisan diet root beer: high
Time of conference presentation: 8:30
Number of attendees at session: 10
Number of friends who later apologized for not coming: 4
Number who cited early time as reason for absence: 4
Pounds of cheese purchased: 4+
Amount of it shaped like Wisconsin: 0
Number of times downtown Milwaukee was circumnavigated: 5
Number of times in Crocs in the rain: 3
Feeling of Croc worthiness for anything after the fact: high
Number of things I wish I had seen in Wisconsin that I didn't: 2
What were they? Trek factory tour, Waterloo
Oldest bowling alley
Number of non-German food meals that were surprisingly good: 2
Food genres that surprised? Italian and Moroccan/Spanish
Times I checked e-mail while gone: 3
Times I checked on my blogleague fantasy football team: 5
Level of panic at Mike Vick's pseudo-injury: hysterical
How did Vick do? 4 touchdowns, 26 fantasy points
You didn't play him did you? Nope
So, how did Delhomme do? 14 fantasy points
Could you still win? Maybe
Would you have won with Vick: much more likely
You haven't won yet have you? Why, no, no I haven't
Will you? Maybe not
Anyway, back to Wisconsin...
Other purchases (besides cheese)? Spices, book, cheese stress squeezy
Number of visits to Milwaukee in sporkslifetime: 2
Number for the same conference: 2
Chances that sporks will go back if the conference schedules itself there again: low
5 comments:
Sounds like you had a good ol Wisconsin visit!
Glad you avoided the WI shaped stuff. But aged cheddar, and white cheddar are a good start.
Beer and Brats and Cheese, these would be the Milwaukee highlights, There is a large German population, but Milwaukee boasts a strong multi-ethnic population, and lots of good food. Plus it's 90 minutes to Madison and 2.5 hours from Chicago.
Glad you had a good time!
If the conference schedules itself there again, you should definitely go; conferences with the power to determine their own schedule must be heeded.
How come I didn't see the cheese stress squeezy? Hmm? Did you secret it away to your office lair?
AFS, huh? Was it the combined Ethnomusicology/AFS conference? Speaking of Wis cheese, a Wis.-based print vendor at the NYC conference I just attended was offering cheese curds at his booth (as an enticement to stop by?!) I tasted one. Not bad, like mild, wussy Wis. cheddar cheese, just shaped like a big curd (!) instead of a cube. I guess they see an unfilled niche in the cheese market...ST
Kurds seemed to be big in Wisconsin this time around. I rejected them as too soft looking. Wussy is exactly right.
No ethnomusicologists, unfortunately. It would have been better with them...
Number of Virginia residents totally demolishing some truly excellent sharp white cheddar?......... 2
Thanks again!
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