Wednesday, December 20, 2006

SVIECKOVA - the Elisha Cuthbert of food

Well the great Christmas journey 2006 is over, here I am in the great land of Kosice in Eastern Slovakia. And what a journey it was to get here. Through my journeys I have visited such notable tourist hotspots such as Koln, Bratislava, Petrazalka and now Kosice. It took trains, planes and automobiles to get here but now I am safe and sound and about to eat some SVIECKOVA.

Friends, I feel that I must let you all in on a little secret that only the few the proud and the travel weary of us hold and that secret is: there is no greater food than svieckova!!!



Meat, sauce and knedlou all in one place. You eat the meat and it's tender, you eat the sauce and it's great and then you throw in the knedlou to soak in the sauce's awesomeness and well it's enough to bring tears to a man's eyes. Tears of joy. Tears of pure, unadulterated joy.

If you have ever seen the film "The Girl Next Door", it's like the look on Emile Hersch's face when he realizes that the girl next door is Elisha Cuthbert. PURE JOY!!!! (See adjoining photo to see Emile Hersch's reaction to the news)



Ok it may not be equal to having Elisha Cuthbert as a neighbour but it's as close as food can get.



Just about the only thing that can ruin some good svieckova is having to eat it too fast and here in good old Kosice, the svieckova is always great but the problem is with the service. It's too fast. It seems that speed is the name of the game. Eat, eat, eat, move, move, move. Too much food too fast.

It's like poor Emile in The Girl Next Door, he got Elisha Cuthbert, everything was going great but it was all too fast for him. Too fast and he nearly blew it. Well that and the fact she was a porn star (and her pimp was trying to get her back so he stole a ton of money from the high school and blamed it on Emile). Nevertheless, I blame it on the too much good food too fast theory.

So anywho what does this have to do with my lunch? I have figured out how to slow down the serving process and make svieckova eating more enjoyable. So here is today's jonathanism: EAT GOOD FOOD SLOWLY and PROTECT THE PLATE. Not only will you digest better but you enjoy the food more. Oh, and The Girl Next Door is available at a rental place near you!

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