Hungry T's Eating Journal

Monday Nov 7, 2005 - Love Your Goat

A friend's birthday dinner (I guess he is now known as Scoop online?) was held at Montego Bay on SW Jefferson last night. I caught the Max down, and as usual, I missed the first train. There is nothing worse than walking toward the max station and seeing the train you are tying to catch arrive in the station, let passengers out, takes passengers on, and depart as you sprint to the platform (well, there are some things that are worse, but it was really cold out last night).

So, I sat and read Garbage Land while waiting for the next train. iPod was on my person, so I had some tunes. Watched a somewhat brutal fight, considered trying to stop it, but realized the fight erupted when one of the man told the other to stop yelling at a barking dog, and that me saying 'stop fighting' might turn their anger toward me. Anyway, the train came, and I headed downtown. After quick hop off to get cash at the ATM and to change trains, I arrived at Montego Bay only 30 minutes late.

apparently, I missed everyone betting on what I would eat. A few folks voted oxtail (which is what Scoop got). Not a bad guess, really. That would have been my second choice. Miss Tasty (who, by the way, beat me to this story on her blog, Miss Tasty's Cafe) voted goat, the correct answer. My new years resolution was to eat horse this year. Haven't found it yet, but I have tried both Rabbit and Goat for the first time.

So, curried goat with gunga pea rice and plantaines. Delish. And what else but a greyhound to wash it down. Am I becoming predictable or what? By the way, I googled 'gunga' to get the spelling correct, and it appears that this may be what Jack planted in Jack and the Beanstalk. Peastalk might be more accurate.

One thing Ms. Tasty's account of this tale fails to mention was the presence at dinner of an unnamed local radio personality.

Afterwards, a few of us (Ms. Tasty, Scoop, and myself) wanted coffee, so we tried to go to Stumptown Annex, Stumptown SE, Stumptown Downtown, Gilt Club and Saucebox (last two for Spanish Coffee) but all were closed. We finally stopped into Backspace for some coffee. Not bad, but certainly not stumptown.

Alma had chicken.

posted by Hungry T @ 8:20 AM