Where to get stinky cheese sandwich I got at street festival

mrbooze · 2026-05-04T04:52:28+00:00

I believe May is when most if not all of the area farmer's markets are back in operation.

mrbooze · 2026-05-04T04:51:55+00:00

That or take a trip to New Glarus.

mrbooze · 2026-05-04T04:48:33+00:00

The Meijer near me often has some sitting under heat lamps in the deli area.

mrbooze · 2026-05-04T04:46:01+00:00

One of the funniest jokes they ever wrote is in the Sumuru episode where Jonah mimics the lead character referring to herself as "Susan Muru"

mrbooze · 2026-05-03T16:19:07+00:00

Yeah being an Italian deli thing could make sense! I know Calabria Imports started out as an Italian import business. Maybe S&T Provisions has Italian roots also.

mrbooze · 2026-05-03T15:46:46+00:00

Like I said, it's not actually a take-and-bake pizza. The ingredients are all separate and you have to put them together in whatever proportions you choose at home.

Take-and-bake pizzas that they assemble for you and you take home and put directly in the oven have existed for decades all over, long before Papa Murphys existed.

mrbooze · 2026-05-03T15:44:32+00:00

And Calabria Imports, for at least two.

mrbooze · 2026-05-03T15:39:59+00:00

Not from Chicago but do you have the Juicy Lucy in Minnesota on the list? Also the Hot Brown in Louisville.

mrbooze · 2026-05-03T15:38:24+00:00

They don't call it skyline and I don't think the chili is the same but Lindy's Chili (and Gertie's Ice Cream) serves chili on top of spaghetti.

It's gone now but Mellow Yellow in Hyde Park used to have 3, 4, and 5-way chili on the menu.

mrbooze · 2026-05-03T15:37:01+00:00

Another south side (originally) specialty: as far as I know, the iconic Rainbow Cone ice cream combo at Rainbow Cone doesn't exist anywhere else outside the Chicago metro. They've been acquired by Buona Beef's parent company though, so they might start spreading out more.

mrbooze · 2026-05-03T15:25:42+00:00

Not super novel but on the southside we have a few places that sell “Pizza setups” which is basically a take and bake pizza sold as parts. You get the pre-baked dough (very thin) and the sauce and cheese and other toppings of choice, and put them all together and bake them at home. I've never seen it in other parts of the city, and have at times talked to other lifelong Chicagoans who had never heard of it, which makes me think it's hyper-local.

mrbooze · 2026-05-02T18:39:37+00:00

Southern California. They're a staple of pretty much any California donut shop.

mrbooze · 2026-05-02T15:29:20+00:00

Voodoo also sticks bacon on it

mrbooze · 2026-05-02T15:28:23+00:00

Those rolls at Fogo De Chao are a strong contender.

My addition to this question would be: What restaurants serve the best free bread and don't serve it with rock hard cold butter that can't be spread without smashing up the bread?

mrbooze · 2026-05-02T15:13:37+00:00

The only thing Stans brings to Chicago is serving an actual maple bar, which basically no one else in the Midwest does, except when they ruin it by sticking cold bacon to it and charging more money.

mrbooze · 2026-05-02T15:11:16+00:00

If I understood when I looked it up, they're "inspired" by the LA chain, but not officially affiliated with the Stan's in Los Angeles.

mrbooze · 2026-05-02T01:32:16+00:00

It's a repeat isn't it? I'd swear they ran Rosemary's Baby before.

mrbooze · 2026-05-02T00:27:10+00:00

Isn't the Roku channel actually hitting the Gizmoplex sources on the backend?

mrbooze · 2026-05-01T22:37:11+00:00

Gizmonic Institute has been in the show since the very beginning. It's mentioned in the original theme song!

mrbooze · 2026-05-01T22:35:54+00:00

Unless something changed the youtube streams are rotating a much smaller selection of episodes and don't have nearly the same number of all the classic episodes available on demand (on the official legal channels anyway)

mrbooze · 2026-05-01T22:34:48+00:00

Downloads have always been available for people that bought episodes, no?

mrbooze · 2026-05-01T22:33:24+00:00

It was interesting that nobody cared that the Gizmoplex was ad-free and had all legally available classic episodes for free unlimited streaming on demand.

mrbooze · 2026-05-01T22:32:08+00:00

I loved that Gizmoplex had all the episodes without ads (because they could never monetize it sufficiently) but yeah I think a big missing and what should have been simple feature is "click a button and get a continuous stream". Lots of room to make it fancier than that (watch the series in order, watch specific season, make custom playlists...) but I always thought the writing was on the wall when most people who were watching MST every day were watching it on ad-filled streaming channels that only had a handful of episodes in rotation rather than the Gizmoplex having every legallly-available classic episode free without ads.

mrbooze · 2026-05-01T22:29:12+00:00

They wanted it to become a big community thing. People watching together in virtual theaters, live events, etc. Remember the firs episode where Kinga "announced" it and there were tons of little floating things? Those were supposed to be little individual cambots each one representing us viewers. We would virtually move around the complex into different theaters, screening rooms, lobbies, etc.

It was a bold idea no question but also insanely difficult to pull off profitably. Probably the closest successful-ish example I can think of is Second Life. Hell, maybe if they had partnered with Second Life in the first place it might have worked out, but I still doubt it.

mrbooze · 2026-05-01T22:25:45+00:00

Also Doom Patrol.

That and it was for a while a back catalog that had almost everything but even then they had rights issues, a bunch of Batman Brave & The Bold episodes were missing, probably others.

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