June 19, 2004
Drunk Meal #437
I have gotten drunk in many nice restaurants. Otto and Eleven Madison Park were two recent drunk eating expierences. But those of course were not drunk meals.
A drunk meal is defined (at least to me) as: A meal or food item gotten while walking home drunk from a bar far enough away from your apartment that the sudden urge to eat is too strong to stave off the first junk food you see.
But sometimes you do it right. And New York city has a very high good-drunk-meal quotiant. The pizza/fallafel factor is of course there but there are other drunk meals to be had. And last night for the first time I got a Gray's Papya hotdog and papya drink. Let me tell you its sad that I have never expierenced this instituion before. The papya drink isn't that exiting - a nice talcam powder taste with what I think was papya flavoring. But those hotdogs. Its not the best i have ever had i guess but 75 cents ( or the ever rising recession special -2 hotdogs and drink for 2.75) for a nicely grilled hotdog, a toasted bun, and all the free toppings you want, is well so damn beautiful it almost made me cry.
Thank you Gray's Papya.
(ok so I did not take this picture - Andrew Merelis did - i just swiped it from his site. Hopefully if he ever saw it on my page he wouldn't be mad especially because I am giving him credit. And giving him a link too - So everyone go to his page and look at his post on a rediculously indulgent food day)