Monday, 8 April 2013
Jamaican beef patty
Yeah yeah yeah, I know I said I wouldn't put up any more pics of food cuz it's soooo 2010, but sheeit, this is different. This is much more than food. This is comfort in a greasy brown paper bag. This is the taste of perfection. The patty warms your hands before it warms your gut. Irie. Tastes like nothing else. Kinda tastes a bit like cardboard, but that's beside the point. Nothing beats walking down the street with a hot and greasy Jamaican patty in your hands. Bite off the crimped edge and burn your mouth.
Years ago, Rota and I went up to this sketchy little Jamaican 'restaurant' near Udisco, in a downstairs storefront that featured a small window (painted over with yellow, red, and green) covered in massive bars. We went in and all we saw was a big empty room with massive speaker stacks blasting out reggae crazy loud. Seven dreadlocked gentleman that were playing dominoes around a small table in the corner stopped what they were doing and looked at us. A standoff ensued. Somehow, we managed to leave with our lives, and even better, they heated up a couple of Jamaican meat patties for us in a little toaster oven that was sitting on two phonebooks on the floor.
This almost certainly happened to me, but it also may have just been a story I heard.
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