What a strange year it has been. And we’re all of two months in…
It’s Fat Tuesday! Let the good times roll, yes-yes, let the good times roll.
If you’re hoping for a traditional Mardi Gras celebration, find a local Cajun or Creole restaurant, and if they’re worth the salt they season with, they’ll be rolling out some good times, and perhaps, even some King Cake.
The cake is representative of the Three Wise Men, who brought gifts to baby Jesus, who wasn’t really a newborn baby when they eventually made it to visit him anyway–you can scratch that Christmas nativity scene from your head permanently…along those lines, it is unknown how many wise men actually came bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Sorry if that steals another slice of your childhood.
Once you throw down a little good eatin’, you are, as the French folk say, supposed to laissez les bon temps rouler, and who else to emulate when letting the good times roll other than the most popular American in the history of 2011, Charlie Sheen.
Forget the beads this year–do what Charlie does: Bust out a machete. In fact, if you long to enjoy Tiger’s blood coursing through your veins, TY KU Sake has devised a cocktail that’ll light your fire.
TY-ger Blood
3 oz. tomato juice
1.5 oz. TY KU Sake
pinch of wasabi
dash of soy sauce
squeeze of lime
As you wear in for the evening, and enjoy that fleeting moment of introspection while walking from the bathroom back to the bar, you can figure out what you’ll give up for the beginning of the Lenten season on Ash Wednesday. Which is tomorrow. This year I’m giving up Lent for Lent.
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