cultural differences.

The other weekend me and a couple good chums of mine decided we would drive down to America to catch a Steve Earle show. The plan for the adventure was to wake up early and cross the border before noon in time to get some greasy American small town breakfast. So we did just that. We found the local diner, sat down with eyes glaring upon us and picked up the finest menu Montana had to offer. From the pages of the breakfast menu popped up the local special. Eggs, your choice of dead animal, hash browns, and biscuits and sausage gravy? Biscuits and sausage gravy? What the fuck is that. Biscuits? ya i know what they are. Gravy? ya its pretty good on fries, especially Canada's own invention, the great poutine(by the way, Yankee spell check did not like this word). But sausage gravy? Never one to back down from a good breakfast challenge, the three of us decided to partake in this sausage gravy biscuit business. We were not disappointed. it wasn't the tastiest thing ever, and it certainly was not the healthiest, but hey! it was OK.

So off we went to visit the gun shops and glory holes of American and we hit the road for another four hours while constantly revisiting the idea of biscuits and sausage gravy in our conversations. We arrived at our hotel, did the American thing, went to Hooters and went to Famous Dave's where they serve you the entire barn yard on a garbage can lid. Somehow we once again ended up at a rodeo dance in America and then we hit the sack. The next morning we decided to give the smorg at the hotel restaurant a looksee. Down the aisles of buffet trays we travelled until our eyes feasted on the prize. Once again. Biscuits and sausage gravy. We were sold. All the biscuits our colons could handle. We found out from our helpful waitress that the biscuits are a staple in the northern mid west and that somehow the phenomenon had failed to make a showing in Canada. Perhaps one day I will feast upon this goodness from the confines of my beautiful country, but until then i will keep visiting that country that lies to the south of us.


currently listening to Billy Bragg