My new favorite food.

It's 07:00, I got in from Leesville, La. at 1:00 this morning.

Hess was right, Ft. Polk is best seen through a rear view mirror.

Nothing but cheap motels, tatto/piercing parlors and why all the mexican restaraunts?

I shipped my gear out on Friday, overnight Fed-Ex and it arrive at the hotel on Saturday. I arrived Monday afternoon and there's no equipment! The weapon I am to inspect is going to a railhead next week and off to Afghanistan, WTF?

My junk was on one side of the lobby, someone else's junk was on the other and the woman behind the counter knows nothing. I contacted Fed-Ex, they told me who signed for my stuff and it was the same woman. Now she remembers, maybe the Fed-Ex guy made new tags, put them on your equipment and sent if off to Florida.

One container had a camera on a stick, high resolution forward camera and a dise facing camers that shoots photos and video and can also lay a grid pattern down for measurement, it's about $25k. All day Tuesday I had nothing to do in a town full of rain and flat. Ate breakfast out, had a Mexican lunch, mexican dinner, drank Coronas for dessert.

Anywho.... They sliced a hot pepper down the middle, gutted and roasted it. Put a chicken finger thing in the center with a chunk of dense cheese, wrapped the whole thing in bacon and either broiled it or deep fried it.

{robably deep fried, this is Louisiana. Served with rice, tomato and avacado.

I'm going to experiment, but is anyone has this or a similar recipe, lemme know.

Thanx, Dan

I don't think my doctor would let me eat that.

I hope you never have to go back.

In reply to 914Driver:

That sounds like a local variant of Chile Relleno. They're wicked good, I'm going to try that style myself.

I learned a variation of that from a Louisiana duck hunter.

Chunk of duck or goose, jalapeno or other hot pepper, cream cheese and bacon. Built the way you describe but cooked on foil over a fire. We pin it together with a toothpick or put 1/2 dozen on a shish kabob skewer. I am making these at the sno-drift rally tomorrow.

Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote: I hope you never have to go back.

Me too. Luckily I flew Atlanta to Albany, NY. Have you seen NYC today?

Dan

Sounds good - but did your $25k in equipment ever show up?

914Driver wrote: My junk was on one side of the lobby, someone else's junk was on the other and the woman behind the counter knows nothing. I contacted Fed-Ex, they told me who signed for my stuff and it was the same woman. Now she remembers, maybe the Fed-Ex guy made new tags, put them on your equipment and sent if off to Florida.

So some woman in the swamps of Louisiana mishandled your junk and now it's missing?

Wally wrote:

914Driver wrote: My junk was on one side of the lobby, someone else's junk was on the other and the woman behind the counter knows nothing. I contacted Fed-Ex, they told me who signed for my stuff and it was the same woman. Now she remembers, maybe the Fed-Ex guy made new tags, put them on your equipment and sent if off to Florida.

So some woman in the swamps of Louisiana mishandled your junk and now it's missing?

And what's this about someone else's junk? This is getting a little weird if you ask me.

pilotbraden wrote: I learned a variation of that from a Louisiana duck hunter. Chunk of duck or goose, jalapeno or other hot pepper, cream cheese and bacon. Built the way you describe but cooked on foil over a fire. We pin it together with a toothpick or put 1/2 dozen on a shish kabob skewer. I am making these at the sno-drift rally tomorrow.

minus the duck in the middle, thats how I have been making jalapeno poppers on the weber grill.

I think the cream cheese is the best, but swmbo prefers cheddar cheese. Just a tip, dont try velveeta, naturally it turns to liquid and 90% just pours out into your grill/fire. haha.

if you want a little extra kick, gut some habaneros and throw some seeds in with the cheese.

Wow that sounds good. Definitely trying that some day.

I've been making something similar for a while. Cut a jalapeno pepper in half, put some cream cheese on it with a chunk of chorizo sausage on it, then wrap it in bacon. Bake it in the oven until the bacon's cooked, and enjoy.

I'll have to try it with a chicken finger instead of the sausage.

Bob

The camera is a 2" diameter tube with a camera facing forward and another facing out the side. It takes photos and video. On the photos you can also lay down a .100 square grid pattern to determine the size of the anomaly you're interested in. The 2" tube has collapsable rods with inch markings to show depth into the tube and a (something) that shows radial position, i.e. 12 oclock = 000, 6 oclock = 180 etc; shows up in the photo.

The equipment showed up but the good folks in Florida that didn't recognize the box as theirs, opened the box, fingered up the camera and put it back incorrectly. The lid wouldn't close so they mushed it, breaking off the control knobs to the camera.

The hotel lady blames Fed-Ex, Fed-Ex claims they were following directions, the people in Florida know nothing, it was broke when it got there.

When a shell gets stuck in a 155mm cannon, they tilt the tube up, fill it with water, drop in a cake of C4, cap off the muzzle and blow the C4. Shell exits hastily out the breech.

My job is to determine if the gun looks like the snake that swallowed a rat.

It's fine, all is well, the equipment is on its way home, I chatted up a petite blonde paleantologist on the plane home and the Paladin is headed to the car wash for shipping.

Whew.

Where's the beer?

All's well that ends well, but your employer should invest in a locking case for this $25k in equipment. Beer's on me next time you're in/near Rochester or I'm in the smAlbany area

I used to put a cable tie through the snaps, but with TSA there's no way to cut them when I get to the site.

Dan

25K? I wouldn't let that out of sight! I've actually been quite lucky in my travels, but have heard way too many sad tales about lost, damaged, goods. Too big for the overhead?

Oh yeah. 5 X 18 X 60". (camera)

The other one is 18 X 18" X 6.5 ft. and weighs 98 lbs.

Dan

Let me get this straight - the primary obstacle to the secure transport of an instrument required for the maintenance and safe operation of military ordnance vital to national security is... the TSA?

Never mind - let me get this straight: was the chicken finger batter fried or plain? I'm definitely making these this weekend.

TSA never touched the instrument for the maintenence and safe operation of military ordinance. It was Fed-Ex or minimum wage hostel winches that buggered it up. From now on it goes to a Fed-Ex drop point, I'll pick it up there.

Chicken thingie was plain. Very crunchy, evenly displaced crunch in the bacon makes me think deep fried. Broiled or pan fried = light dark spots.

Dan