This is not a blog about food, despite the fact that it is born out of a restaurant culture. But today is an historic occasion as Chik-fil-A is introducing a new sandwich, its first in I don't know how many years. CFA apparently adheres to a philosophy of "menu permanence", preferring to not add or remove items from its menu. Cleaving to a sort of "this is the classic, old-school way its always been done" sort of a mindset. And I can really understand and get behind that. One of my favorite traditions in hamburger restaurants of distinction (Bartley's [Boston], The Apple Pan [LA] etc...) is this thing where they like to do it really, really old school, the way it was done in the 40's and whatnot. From what's on the menu to how it's served. The Apple Pan in particular is the flagship example. If memory serves, they only had like 4 things on their menu for like 50 years or something, then they added like one or two and then like 20 years later a couple more and that's it. They, to this day, only feature a few things that they just concentrate on doing as well as possible (I think I'm gonna really need to get a copy of their menu/manifesto for a future update on this post, just for my own satisfaction).
The point being, I am a sucker for tradition and hardcore-ness like that. The KINGS is a perfect example. It has all been an exercise in trying to get it as close to how things were "originally" as possible. The only real difference being that we are always striving to add new things and ideas while still preserving, fanatically, the original way things were. And so reading that about CFA really struck a cord, making todays unveiling of the new spicy chicken sandwich all the more exciting. I know Jenn has been counting down the days. So today on our day off, among the other things we did on a lovely Atlanta afternoon, we planned a pilgrimage to get one.
The point of the point (and the way it relates at all to this blog) is that we spent the day, which was sunny and temperate, cruising around the city in our Ray-Bans, enjoying the loveliness and listening --032(I'm A Pearl Diver) which was a nice accompaniment to such a day.
Later, when we actually went for out sandwiches 32 was ending and Jenn picked out --037(I Want Wind To Blow) to follow it, mentioning that that song was one of her favorites of The Microphones, so far. We only got through the first movement of it (one of the only things about mixes, we can all relate to, is that it's hard to not get through the whole thing, even if not in one sitting then at least throughout a day. It is generally KINGS tradition to go all the way with a mix, come hell or high water, but sometimes exceptions have to be made). One way or another though, that first part of the mix was quite nice music to be sitting in a line at the CFA drive thru to. A line which circled the restaurant and then spilled out onto the street. When we got to the window we were informed that it would be 4 to 5 minutes for our spicy chicken (which I, mistakenly at first, thought the kid said 45 minutes) but hey it was a small price to pay. We drove home and the sandwiches were all that and a bag of chips.
it is 1:08 AM
this is the seance.
xo
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