So following a new Saturday tradition, after the mad rush at the store I went to Joe's Superette on Smith St to get 3 dozen prosciutto balls and 2 dozen rice balls. Prosciutto balls are a ball of ricotta cheese mixed with some flour and slivers of prosciutto deep fried into little golf ball sized pieces of heaven. I brought them back to the store and the staff and customers enjoyed them while the shopping continued unabated.
That's Italian.
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Trooper's balls big attraction at Lee Lee's Valise?
The girls love em. How could you not. They are hot and delicious.
Somehow they don't appeal.
It's the taste. Those salty balls are oh so popular. Pop one in your mouth and you got a little piece of heaven on your tongue. So to speak.
The Wisconsin version is cheese nerds: breaded, deep-fried fresh cheese curds. They squeak when you eat them.
Heaven.
Ruth Anne: Cheese curds are legendary.
(At least to me, since I've heard so much about them and never eaten them.)
You guys are grossing me out.
I'm with you Freeman. Squeaking while eaten reminds me of cats eating mice in the dairy barn back when I spent quite a bit of time milking Holsteins.
I had a Holstein named Elke, but no Madonna. I do know a polo pony named Madonna, though. Shes from Argentina.
I imagine if you eat enough of those cheese balls you're blocked up for a week.
Southern food that grosses others out: hush puppies.
Our standing joke is people would eat breaded, deep-fried lard balls.
I don't like hot dogs because I feel like they squeak on my teeth when I eat them. Things to avoid at the dinner table: wieners and balls.
Ha ha, knox.
But these balls here look delicious!
Those look amazing.
And not because they are shaped like testicles.
They look amazing because they are fried and have really good shit in them.
Deep fried Wisconsin cheese curds are my all time favorite.
Don't you miss Wisconsin Supper Clubs Ruth Ann? I absolutely love Supper Clubs. Very old school and very Wisconsin.
You can not get deep fried cheese curds in NYC. You can also not get the Friday Night Fish Special.
Yes, you can get deep fried mozarella and "fish n chips" but not deep fried curds of Friday Fish Special. There is something especially dreamy about the Friday Night Fish Special. It is not only the fish but it is the salad bar, the large choice of potatoes-ever had "american fries", the slaw, homemade rolls, and the brandy old fashioned sweet-pure heaven. And the really creamy thick french dressing or french with blue cheese chunks dressing. Good luck finding French dressing in NYC. It is all italian this and low fat this and rasperry vinigrette this.
I hate that about NYC.
And no Supper Clubs!
One thing though, you can not get the same amazing Italian food in Wisconsin that you get in NYC.
Supper clubs? I worked in one! I had to get a work permit to do it because I was only 15.
Aaah, yes. Did you have a Tom 'n Jerry made with brandy when you were home for the holidays?
My mom drinks brandy Manhattans. Any flight attendant knows that makes you from Wisconsin. But Mom's just a transplanted Philly girl who says radiator with the short 'a' and 'wooter' for that H2O you drink.
Back home again in Indiana, I not only was raised on Hush Puppies, I WORE Hush Puppies. Hey!... fashion memo to Titus from a straight eye to a queer Ti.
I always wondered why we couldn't have Hush Kittens. I guess it's hard to keep cats quiet when you're dropping them in a vat of boiling lard.
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