Sunday, June 10, 2007
Go Meat!
| If you haven't seen the new Hillshire Farms Go meat! commercials, you're missing out. You can see all of them by clicking the link above. I admit the first one or two I saw I found to be annoying, but they started to grow on me. Much like everyone's favorite commercial, the Ranch Tooth. I'll be the first to admit I am quite fond of meat (not fish). As you have probably figured by now, I am a big fan of pork products. One of the greatest foods on Earth is bacon. Ask any chef and most will admit that bacon and pork fat are perhaps the greatest invention ever. I mean most people believe filet mignon is the best eating cut of beef there is. If it is so great why do you always find it wrapped with a thick strip of bacon? Because bacon can improve even the best cut of beef. As you look over any menu if you see "bacon wrapped..." you know it's a cut above. Crispy, crunchy, salty, smokey, slightly greasy. Given a choice of bacon or sausage, I always pick bacon. However, that is not an option when you buy a Krystal Sunriser.  Simply open the sunriser, and extract the sausage (courtesy of Jimmy Dean) and replace it with 2 or 3 strips of bacon. And now I present to you 
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Labels: Bacon, Cheese, Sunriser
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Square Peg, Round Hole
Obviously, Krystal has a thing for squares.
Now here's where Krystal throws a curve. (Get it? A curve? Oh, yeah, you dont get the joke, yet.) All my life I have heard the saying about the "Square peg" and the "Round hole." Now why the hole is round and not the peg, I do not know. However, I struggled for years to understand the problem. If the square peg wont fit in the round hole, get a bigger hole or a smaller peg. Or get a sturdy knife and whittle the corners off the peg. But then I always was one to think outside the box (square, whatever). Well, somehow, thru the power of the Krystal the square peg round hole situation has been resolved. At breakfast. OK, run to Krystal right now (while they're still serving breakfast) and order a Sausage Gravy Scrambler combo. It comes with a side of Kryspers or a biscuit. Get the biscuit. Also order a Sunriser on the side. Or, you could just enjoy mine:  The sausage gravy scrambler comes in a bowl, a ROUND bowl. And yet, we have shown the biscuits are square. The scrambler is made by placing half the square biscuit on the bottom of the round bowl, then putting sausage on top of that, and then a heavy helping of real sausage gravy. Finally the square biscuit top if placed last. So yes there are squares in the circle. Now let's back up and address the sausage. The Sunriser is square and that means the egg, cheese and sausage on it are also square. Square Eggs? Well that's another story. The square sausage is the important part. Krystal has square sausage.  To show that Krystal has mastered not only the mini-burger world, but the world of geometry. So take that Pythagoras! (And for the record, I have been called a square on more than one occasion in my life.) |
Labels: Cheese, Scrambler, Sunriser
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Beautiful Sunrise!
| So my new working hours are 6:00am to 3pm. Certainly the early quitting time is nice, however, waking up before the newspaper arrives is no fun. One perk I have found though is, on the occasions when I am running ahead of schedule, I pass a Krystal on the way to work, and they're open 24 hours a day. in the past that wouldn't be a shocking statement, since Krystal used to be open 24 hours a day all the time. Sadly, now that isn't always true. Anyway, last week as I was zipping down Highway 247 (or I call it the Warner Robins Road Race) I realized I had a bit of free time so I swung into Krystal for some breakfast. Since I needed to get back on the road, I decided that a Scrambler wouldn't do. I opted for the Sunrisers. The #1 breakfast combo to be exact: 2 Sunrisers, hash brown Kryspers, and an OJ. (I don't drink coffee, but I have been told Krystal's new Columbian coffee is yummy. It does smell nice!). It wasn't til I had stuffed both Sunrisers down that I realized, I finally had the "missing" boxes from my collection. If you recall, Krystal is undergoing a face lift, and the box designs are all changing. I got the Regular, Special, and Cheese Krystal boxes a long time back. Then I got the Double Krystal (which also "Doubles" as the Double Cheese Krystal box). Finally I got the new Chik box. I tried for a new Sunriser box a couple of times but it never panned out. Finally, though, I now have em:   I know they've redone the drink cups and the frech fry cups. I guess about all that's left is the styrofoam containers used for Chili Pups and Chili Cheese Fries. They's also redone the menu and reorganized a couple of the combo meals. There's a new Combo, I think it is #5, the extreme Cheese Combo meal. It's like 5 cheese Krystal, Chili Cheese Fries, and a Drink. That's a lot of food. I'm gonna have to work up to that one, I think. |
Labels: Cheese, Chiks, Chili, Pups, Scrambler, Sunriser, Warner Robins
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Brunch Combo
A long time back when my boxes first hit the street people were having a tough time finding them, including me. Back then I thought of things you hear about but never actually see. I think I have found the ultimate mythical creature:  Yes, my friends that is a fresh Sunriser sitting beside a fresh Krystal. "How can this happen?" you ask. Well most folks don't know that you can order a Krystal any time you want. However if it is during normal breakfast hours it may take a bit for them to set up a grill and get everything out. I have never had the urge bad enough to actually request that. However, always in the bad of my mind one one tiny little fact. At roughly 10:30am Krystals stops serving breakfast and goes to lunch. There is about a 10 minute time period when they are serving both. This magical 10 minute "changover time" is what I will call "Krystal Brunch" time. You can order off the breakfast or lunch menu and not get funny looks. Expect a bit of a wait and a fair amound of commotion behind the counter and they try and get the breakfast orders out and get the lunch orders started. Also, be certain you tell them you want a #1 breakfast or a #1 lunch combo as it may get confused and you might go home unhappy. Since the greatest Krystal manager ever, Bernida is now managing the Sunday morning shift, I was fearless in ordering this morning, and as usual, Bernida was awesome. She runs a great crew, easily sliding from the register to the grill to chatting with her regular morning lunch crowd. Bernida rocks. OK, so normally people order lunch or breakfast. What on Earth was I thinking when I ordered this:  However, one of the things on my list was "Eggs." I once saw somewhere a hamburger place with a huge list of toppings and I saw they had "fried egg" in the list. Strange, sure, but not completely unreasonable. So I got to thinking about frying an egg an putting it on a Krystal. Then it occurred to me. Krystal already makes great eggs and shaped to exactly the size I needed. Why not let Krystal do the work for me? The problem was getting to Krystal during that magical few minutes. Yes I could have gone any time during breakfast hours, but again, I try not to be too much of a pain to my Krystal friends. Lord knows I cause enough trouble as it is with my BCCBA (aka the Holy Crap! Burger) or my Super Pups. So as I was saying, I'd been contemplating a Krystal topped with a Sunriser, or a SUnriser topped with a Krystal for a long time. This morning I happened to be out and about and couldn't resist the power of the Krystal. I drove down the street, placed my order, and rushed back home to see what I could do. Assembling the creation actually created two tough decisions. Which one goes on top? And do I keep one bun half in between, like a double Krystal? As you can see, I couldn't decide on the last one:  Well, lets just say it turns your tastebuds for a loop. You can taste the sausage and egg so your tounge is thinking "Ahh, Sunriser!" But then the pickle and mustard and oniony Krystal comes through and your tounge does a double take. Sadly, when I ate the second one, I believe my tounge got so confused it might need therapy. Or a corn pup. Did you know that Corn Pups work just as well as therapy? And they never ask how you feel about your parents! Corn Pups rule! (And Corn pups will return here later this week.) So in conclusion, the Brunch Combo was worth the wait. in the future I might ditch the pickle, but the onions must certainly stay! However, maybe it's better to keep the peace by keeping your Krystals and Sunrisers seperate. People will stare at you less, for sure! Then again maybe they were staring out of jealousy? |
Labels: Onions, Pups, Sunriser
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
My To Do list for the day
| My week is winding down and my vacation is swiftly approaching. I have so much going on, I decided I needed a checklist. Here's how things are going: Stop the mail and newspaper delivery. CHECK. Gather my birth certificate, ID and other documents. CHECK. Mask, snorkel, underwater camera, and other assorted swimming stuff. CHECK. Empty the fridge of perishable foods. CHECK. Hop online to Cruisecritic.com to check the latest updates on the jellyfish stampede at Coco Cay. CHECK. Check weather channel to see hurricanes lining up to run right over my cruise. CHECK. Get plowed into by a mini van while stopped at a crossing guard, while I am on my way to work. CHECK. As you can see, the world appears to have a master plan to either prevent my cruise or to at least ruin it. It Won't Work! I am working in the office on campus today and tomorrow. Gonna stuff myself full of Krystals tomorrow for lunch. Finish packing tomorrow night. Friday, I will be back to the base (at 6am) to teach Hazardous Communications, Twice. At 3pm, I am done and on the highway to Florida. If you listen closely, you'll probably be able to hear me whistle the looney tunes theme song and I drive off into the southern sun. Jennifer has assured me we'll stop by Krystal on the way out of Orlando for late breakfast/early lunch, so I can get my Krystal Kontraband. Since she'll be driving, she wont be allowed to have a Scrambler. I will get one (probably the 4 carb or the original) just to taunt her. She'll probably be having Sunrisers. Which seems appropriate since we'll be driving into the sunrise. In case it hasn't been made clear already, I am half rabid with excitement and it grows a little every minute. By the time I get on board I'm sure to be a raving lunatic. Don't take this the wrong way, but I am certain that when the gangway is liften, I'll have forgotten about about work, Krystals, this blog, car wrecks, and hockey. But on Thursday evening, my mind will wander back to the small and steamy bundles of joy. I am hopeful to have one (slightly old, not very steamy, flattened but still square) as a late evening snack. And I'll be sure to document the event as well. As long as Jennifer isn't laughing to hard to hold the camera. I'll probably get one more short post in tomorrow, but then you'll likely wont see or hear from me for about 10 days. You're probably looking forward to the peace and quite too. It just can't get here fast enough. |
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Good grief, I'm everywhere!
| Toby made a comment in his recent email about how I had perhaps taken on some sort of mythical status where people have heard of me but don't believe I exist. I laughed when I heard that. But now I am starting to reconsider. Events of this past week have left me wondering if I am, in fact, absolutely everywhere. If you ever thought I was kidding with all of my Krystal Koincidences, get out a pen: Tuesday of this week I had to go meet with my Edward Jones rep, Skip, to do a little paperwork. The list of coincidences surround Skip and I is amazing. I first got with Edward Jones (or 'EJ' as it's called) when a my friend Jarrett worked for them. You have heard me refer to Jarrett and his parents here before. I moved an old account over to him with EJ. Eventually Jarrett left EJ and turned my account over to another local rep. In the transfer of the paperwork, Jarrett discovered Skip knew me. I played baseball with Skip way back when we were around 9 years old in Conyers. Now if that's not strange enough, Skip has an assistant named Colleen. Colleen was the one who I called last week to set up my Tuesday appointment. When I got off the phone, Sharon who sits in the cube next to mine rolls around and asks if I had just called EJ. She figured that out because Colleen is Sharon's mother. Any phone call involving a Colleen and a Skip simply had to be Edward Jones. In one last twist on the whole Skip thing, I found out that Skip coached youth baseball this past season and one of his players was the son of the President of the school I work for. Simply too weird, eh? But how does this relate to Krystal? Very easily, Skip had caught my article in the paper a month or so ago and despite the fact we hadn't talked in years (decades?) he recognized me and got quite the chuckle out of it. Fast forward to Friday. Exterminators are coming to do some spraying. I need to take a key to LaFaye to ensure they can get into my place since I won't be home when they come by. When I walked in, I remarked that it's been a while since we'd seen each other. LaFaye then replied she'd seen me on a big banner at Krystal not too long ago. She got quite the laugh out of that. If you go back to my induction ceremony you'll see pictures of the 3'x6' banner they had hanging. I let the store keep it up for about 2 or 3 weeks before I brought it home. This morning, I need a haircut so bad it's not even funny. When my hair is hanging in my eyes it's long overdue to be cut. So I hop in the truck early this morning on the way to my barber who is out in Lizella, a little west on Macon. On the way I decide to get some breakfast. I turned into one place and after sitting in their drive through line for about 10 minutes I left. Let's just say: I may be able to have it my way, but apparently not any time soon. I pull out of there and go 4 doors down to the Krystal on Bloomfield. You can't go wrong with a Sunriser Combo. As I am 3 cars from the window I saw some big plastic cups in the drive thru window. Oddly enough I had one of my cups in the truck. So I am holding mine up and comparing it with the ones in the window and it looks the same. As I pull up to the window it is obvious the stack is all my cups. I ask the girl in the window what it'll take to get about 6 or 8 of my cups. She laugh at the fact I kept calling them My cups. She said if I could come back about 6pm they'd probably just give me a whole sleeve of them. Excited I drove off to my barber, enjoying my Sunrisers. As I pull up to my barber, Bill comes walking out (it was a slow morning) and says "Well there's the Krystal Man! We've been waiting for you!" After a few minutes of laughing he showed me he had my newspaper article hung up on the cork board in his shop. He told me he had been sitting at the shop reading the paper one morning and saw the article. When he saw the picture he instantly recognized me. I've been going to Bill to cut my hair since about 1992. He cut the article out and hung it up waiting for my next visit. I asked if he'd seen the cup yet. I gave him the cup I had with me and promised to bring him a box next time. He said he'd put them both up so everyone could see them. As a side note, his neice Michelle cut my hair today and did a great job. So if you're in Lizella and need a hair cut ask where Bill's place is. Lizella's so small everyone knows where it is. Once I got home I hopped on the computer and went on over to Krystal-lovers blog. I hadn't been by in a while and sure enough it had been updated. Once again they were picking on Kenny and his desk. Way back in the beginning of Krystal-Lovers they were picking on Kenny for his messy desk. I did my best to defend Kenny as my desk usually looks much the same. While I was reviewing the new picture something was clear to me immediately. Kenny's desk looks neat, but you'll notice a growing pile of stuff on the floor. Again since Kenny and I both appear to use the "Chronological Vertical Filing System" (older stuff on the bottom, newer stuff on top) I knew of the strategy of placing stuff on the floor. You see if you have a stack that is 8" tall sitting on your desk, you can move the stack, intact, to the floor and it doesn't look nearly as tall. That's using perspective to your advantage. However, while I was looking over Kenny's desk I noticed a few other things. You can open the link above and follow along, starting at the top: Of course you have the obligatory Krystal Lover stickers as seen here on Krystal Adventure. You can also see what appear to be proofs for the upcoming Krystal Square Off hamburger eating contest. On top of his monitor is a KLHOF box, but it appears to be a mock up of the box for the Krystal Burgermobile Bandit, inductee #20. If you go to Krystal.com and go to the KLHOF archived inductees you can see the Bandit. Kenny explained the story to me at my induction but I'll let him give the real story later. I doubt they'll ever put out a box for the Bandit so Kenny's copy is probably very valuable! But perhaps the most important thing as far as I am concerned in Kenny's office is bottom center. Its my cup! Sitting on Kenny's desk!! Woohoo!!! So as you can see, I just might be everywhere! Oh and I did get back to the Krystal on Bloomfield and I did get some cups, but sadly it wasn't the bargain suggested earlier in the day. No whole sleeve, only 8 cups. And I had to buy them. I guess that's what I get for going into Johnny Solomon's territory (Johnny is inductee #15 and he eats at the Bloomfield Krystal every day). So if you want a Jason cup, hit the Krystal on Bloomfield, they have tons! Lastly, I know I said I would revisit the Monte Krystal recipe from earlier. Well I retried it again tonight. I'll give a more in depth review including a recipe tomorrow. I promise! |
Labels: Conyers, Macon, Recipe, Sunriser
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
A Beautiful Sunrise[r]
| Over at Krystal-lover blog they're putting up a teaser for a new addition to the Krystalcom web site. Tiffany has posted a Krystal themed wallpaper you can download and use on your computer. When I saw it, I thought, 'How cool!' Now before you go all spastic, I do need to tell you that I am not in the graphic. That's the 'First Class' of KLHOF inductees, numbers 1-20. You can see Johnny Solomon in there if you look close. Now I am sure once the site is up and running they'll have plenty more wallpapers and other cool stuff. I personally want to get my hands on that addictive background music from the web site. (Well, and as I have stated before, I'd also like to get my hands on 'Krystal' the web hostess.) With Krystal.com and Tiffany rolling out some new computer related stuff, and the fact that I am supposed to be a computer guy, I figured I'd throw in a contribution. As you know, most Windows XP desktops are beautiful happy scenes. I figure perhaps one of the greatest things in life is watching the Sun[riser] come up over the horizon. So now you can have that wonderful sight every day at your desk!   |
Labels: Sunriser
