Meat Weekend

I’m back from a long week­end at the old stomp­ing grounds in South Bend. Fri­day night I missed Frank Jack­son’s appear­ance at the Lit­er­ary Café in order to plow through a Gold­en Domer at the new and improved CJ’s Pub. For those of you who don’t know what the Domer is let me enlight­en you. The Gold­en Domer is a 20oz hand­made burg­er, inject­ed with CJ’s spe­cial sauce and spiced with a bit of Lawry’s. It is then smoth­ered with white Amer­i­can cheese, bacon, mush­rooms, toma­to, onion and let­tuce and served with a large pile of criss-cut fries. My bud­dy Jere­my took a few snaps with his cam­era phone, and as soon as he emails them to me, I’ll post ’em here.

Sat­ur­day dawned and Jere­my made some break­fast bur­ri­tos with deli­cious sausage from Tip­ton, KS for me and his wife Christy and his baby girl Katie. We then walked to cam­pus, which looks a lot dif­fer­ent than it did even a year ago. They’ve been build­ing build­ings super fast. We grabbed the nec­es­sary steak sand­wich from my old Knights of Colum­bus coun­cil’s steak sale and caught the end of Knute Rockne All Amer­i­can [star­ring Ronald Rea­gan as The Gip­per]. We vis­it­ed the Grot­to, watched the team walk from the Basil­i­ca to the sta­di­um, and then went to the JACC where I made a stop by my home away from home while I was in col­lege, the fenc­ing gym. Coach DeCi­c­co was there, and he def­i­nite­ly did­n’t know me from Adam, but that isn’t sur­pris­ing, con­sid­er­ing how long he’s been emer­i­tus.

Once we got to the sta­di­um, I grabbed a hot dog and coke as we watched the teams warm up. Then I watched us beat on BYU. After the game and the walk home we got a meat-lovers piz­za from Piz­za Hut and watched the blithe­ly vio­lent Boon­dock Saints. Sun­day dawned and after Mass we went to Bibler’s and I had my sausage and eggs, hash browns, pan­cakes and oat­meal before hit­ting the road back to Cleve­land. If I had only stayed a few more days I could have gone to Macri’s, Eli­a’s, the Mishawa­ka Brew­ing Com­pa­ny, and Bruno’s. Alas, I’m cube­farm­ing it again.

7 thoughts on “Meat Weekend”

  1. The pics on the cam­era phone did not turn out at all. It was a bit too dark in the bar. Sor­ry Adam, you’ll have to come out and get anoth­er Domer in a few weeks.

  3. Glad you had a good time back home! I’m hop­ing to head back to cleve­land for a bit this hol­i­day sea­son, $$ pro­vid­ing.

  4. You should nev­er skip a side trip to the Choco­late Cafe when you’re in town. I think that’s against the rules. Sor­ry for inter­rupt­ing, but I kind of stum­bled on your site when I was look­ing up South Bend in blog­ger:)

  5. Groovy, Patrick. I’ll look for­ward mak­ing fun of you.

    No inter­rup­tion at all, Jenn. I’ve nev­er been to the Choco­late Cafe, that must real­ly be against the rules. I’ve always been a rebel though.

  6. Fun­ny thing the ridicule. It’s weird. Not work­ing at West and work­ing a job I love and hav­ing a good time at school, I’ve sad­ly found myself lack­ing in sar­casm. I am afraid, by the time I return home, I shall be absolute­ly defense­less.

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