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Treehouse BBQ courts greatness ... or mediocrity
By Bryce Crawford
http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/treehouse-bbq-courts-greatness-or-mediocrity/Content?oid=2965523
Treehouse BBQ is in a big, white, square trailer named The Jenny after Forrest Gump, towed by a big, white Dodge pickup truck. Brothers Brady and Taylor Boll run the joint, smoking their meats with hickory pellets. The menu dabbles in more areas than the name suggests, however. And more importantly, there's a pretty big difference between the food the truck makes fresh and the frozen food it buys from the grocery store.
These words are hard to keep in mind when eating generic crinkle-cut fries, even when they're combined with truffle oil and Parmesan ($3). There's just nothing interesting about frozen French fries, and a sense of accessing adventure is part of what defines the mobile-food movement. These are even well-executed in the sense that they're crispier and with more structure than you'd expect, but the boredom persists. Punch it up.
This makes fine business sense. But some of the other items at Treehouse are so good, driven by culinary training from Brady and culinary expertise from Taylor, it's just kind of dispiriting to eat one next to the other.
For example, I'd rather see a menu full of nothing but the Turducken Egg Rolls ($7). These two babies are fat and stay crisp to the end, until you're eating triangular shard-pockets filled with juicy, chopped bites of smoked turkey, duck and chicken with shreds of cabbage and carrots and green sprouts hugging the meat. The sauce is a sexy orange-Sriracha combination that cuts the fat and balances the whole bite in citrus tang.
Even the Colorado-made jalapeño sausage ($4) and linguiça are succulent rock stars (though the yellow mustard is a bummer). And maybe you'll find you dig the simple approach. But as for me, give me a steaming bowl of gluten-free, smoked salmon and bacon mac-and-cheese ($7) or give me nothing, for we need no more of the rest.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)The single greatest scene in "The Walking Dead" is when Rick takes apart Gareth with the red machete.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)I'm a huge fan of beat generation history, art, poetry, bebop and hard/straight/latin/soul/modal jazz from the era. Hipsters: they are not. Modern day yuppies are are disgusting.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Especially politics. And ESPECIALLY *education*.
Sheeezzzzz........Mother o' god.
LeftInTX
(25,089 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...it's one of those "local scene" free papers you find at the front door of every local business. Guy's a hipster, and a really annoying one, and he has some issues with a local food truck.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)It has one good regular Op-Ed piece by a really cool 80ish-year-old liberal guy, and the rest is hipster vomit.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Hipsters, I FUCKING HATE HIPSTERS!!!
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)find myself wanting to slap them upside the head.
Hard.
olddots
(10,237 posts)Bad art .
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...I do have to believe this is all one big joke, and that his amusement comes largely from being a hipster dick who knows he's pissing off anyone outside of his "base."
Pretty much everything the guy has to say makes me want to scream "What the hell is wrong with you?"
And that's the game. I really believe that's his intention, to get that reaction, because he's like Stefon on SNL, just a guy living in his own precious bubble for his own amusement.
"the sauce is a sexy orange-Sriracha combination"
"the Colorado-made jalapeño sausage and linguiça are succulent rock stars"
"the yellow mustard is a bummer"
"give me a steaming bowl of gluten-free, smoked salmon and bacon mac-and-cheese or give me nothing, for we need no more of the rest"
Kingofalldems
(38,417 posts)I am serious.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)and a couple of overall examples:
Kingofalldems
(38,417 posts)hibbing
(10,094 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)along with that they all have to think and tell everyone how utterly unique and immune to trends they are at all times.
If they're drinking out of Mason jars it makes them even easier to spot.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Although "hipsterism" is really a state of mind, it is also often intertwined with distinct fashion sensibilities. Hipsters reject the culturally-ignorant attitudes of mainstream consumers, and are often be seen wearing vintage and thrift store inspired fashions, tight-fitting jeans, old-school sneakers, and sometimes thick rimmed glasses. Both hipster men and women sport similar androgynous hair styles that include combinations of messy shag cuts and asymmetric side-swept bangs. Such styles are often associated with the work of creative stylists at urban salons, and are usually too "edgy" for the culturally-sheltered mainstream consumer. The "effortless cool" urban bohemian look of a hipster is exemplified in Urban Outfitters and American Apparel ads which cater towards the hipster demographic.
Also, the "Gareth" character on "The Walking Dead" was a hipster in the extreme, a guy so oily and arrogant that his demise was set up as a payoff for viewers having to deal with him. (WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIDEO BELOW).
Kingofalldems
(38,417 posts)My next door neighbors to a tee.
frogmarch
(12,152 posts)would be a good introduction for you to hipsters.
http://unhappyhipsters.com/
Example:
Eager to embrace populist trends, he set up shop in his glass
house and waited for the Occupy movement to join him.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)about 15 more where these came from. I'm a chef so I love these. Wish I could do one on the food people sent back and their reason why, or on the impossibility of successfully feeding some vegans.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)The guy in my OP just doesn't get it. And the worst part is that he doesn't WANT to. He wants to pay the same $3 for "FRESH CUT" fries drizzled in truffle oil with Parmesan.
Tom Kitten
(7,340 posts)would he know the difference between truffle oil and hydrogenated coconut oil....and "Parmesan" for three bucks he must mean the powdered stuff that comes in the green can.
Here in Portland we have two free weekly "alternative" papers full of writing like this.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)over sports jock guys any day. You know, the short hair, baseball cap types. So mainstream and boring.
Skittles
(153,104 posts)ALL DAY LONG