1st Inaugural Los Robustos M/C Ride - Meet and Eat!

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Dan and John: This is just a guess, but I suspect that Bust has switched over to Avian Sex. I believe that he did this pigeon!

 
I am shipping the shirts today. Send me your address so I can ship your shirts. There will be a note in with your shirt with your total.

I am also PMing everyone.

 
I have everyone's address. The shirts will go out Wednesday. I got very busy today. There will be a note in your packages just follow the instructions on the note and nobody will get hurt. :gun:

Enjoy your shirts!

 
All the shirts were sent out today. I put a note in the package with the total. The total includes the prices of the shirt/s, envelope and shipping.

Enjoy your shirts.

John

 
I know our Los Robustos M/C has been somewhat quiet lately, but that's only because El Presidente johnny80s and Papa Chuy are planning big future events.

Juan and I are planning an Italian culinary masterpiece of Epicurean Excellence for you in October of 2013, to celebrate the 65th Birthday of "El Burrito Ballerina"!

We are going to organize a week long motorcycle tour of Italy, sampling the exquisite delicacies that dear young johnny80s enjoyed as a mere impressionable lad.

We are going to start our tour of fine Italian dining by landing in Rome and securing our Ducati, Aprilia and Moto-Guzzi rental bikes. From Roma we ride off to Tuscany to enjoy a wonderful repast of "Gatto in Umido", known to you gringos as cat stew. My Friends, you have not lived your life to the fullest until you have tasted Italian cat stew as it is prepared in the Arno Valley!

From Tuscany we ride on to Sardinia to enjoy a repast of Tordi: A beautiful songbird the size of a hummingbird, delicious and don't forget to eat the feet and beak; you must swallow them whole!

Then we ride to as far South as you can go on the Italian Peninsula, to the southernmost town of Cantanzaro on the "Italian Boot" for "La Dormice". That's right mi fellow Los Robustos M/C; Surprise! Sit back and enjoy your Dago Red Vino and watch as our waiters bring out plate after plate of this rare treat: The lowly dormouse swallowed whole; Fantastico!

But mis Amigos, we hearty eater Band of Brothers whom make up the ranks of Los Robustos M/C are not finished yet; hang on to your helmets boys, because we are now off to Sicily for the "piece de resistance": Eeyore! We load our bikes and ourselves onto the ferry at Reggio di Calabra and cross the Faro Strait to the ancient Roman city of Messina. From there it is a 200 kilometer ride to the famous and historical city of Palermo for our greatest meal of the trip.

We assemble in an ancient dining hall on the side of Mount Pellegrino, overlooking the Mare Tirreno for this banquet. And out come our servers, pushing a cart with an entire barbecued and roasted on a spit Donkey for our dining pleasure. A Los Robustos M/C Ride to Eat and Eat to Ride simply cannot get any better than what your El Presidente johnny80s and Papa Chuy are planning for our Members en Italia!

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Italian TV Chef Suspended for Love of Cat Stew

LONDON (Feb. 19) — The Italian region

of Tuscany is famed for gastronomic delights

like bistecca alla Fiorenta (a 3-inchthick

steak marinated in olive and garlic)

and ribollita, a hearty broth of borlotti

beans and cabbage. But earlier this week,

the hugely popular host of an Italian cookery

show was suspended from state television

for lauding one of Tuscany’s lesserknown

treats: gatto in umido. For non-Italian

speakers, that’s cat stew.

Giuseppe “Beppe” Bigazzi shocked the

nation when he unexpectedly began praising

the pleasures of feline flesh on his latemorning

program “La Prova del Cuoco”

(The Proof of the Cook). The 77-year-old

TV chef revealed his kitty cravings after

noting how some Tuscans had boiled up

stray cats in the poverty-stricken years following

World War II.

AP

Giuseppe “Beppe” Bigazzi proclaimed

that in a thick sauce, cooked cat is “better

than chicken, rabbit or pigeon.”

He could have stopped there. Instead,

Bigazzi went on to say that the casserole

wasn’t simply a last-ditch attempt to fend

off starvation in desperate times but was

“one of the great dishes of the Valdarno,” or

Tuscany’s Arno Valley. The secret to cooking

up a fine tabby stew, he revealed, was

leaving the cat’s corpse in a fast-running

stream for three days. “What comes out is a

delicacy,” he gushed. “Many times I’ve eaten

its white meat.”

Realizing that his comments were in paw

taste, co-host Elisa Isoardi, 27 — who has a

cat named Othello — desperately attempted

to change the subject. But Bigazzi

couldn’t be stopped. He confessed that cat

in a thick sauce was “better than chicken,

rabbit or pigeon.” Isoardi and the show’s

producers attempted to persuade the chef

— author of bestselling cookbooks like “The

Simple Cuisine of the Flavors of Italy” — to

apologize during an ad break. Bigazzi refused,

and declared on the air that he expected

“racist” environmentalists would be

outraged by his comments.

The station’s phone lines were soon

buzzing with complaints, leading TV bosses

to suspend Bigazzi “indefinitely.” That

wasn’t punishment enough for some pet

lovers. Carla Rocchi, president of the National

Animal Protection Board, announced

that she had asked her lawyers to

take action against Bigazzi for inciting cruelty

to animals. “There’s no limit to the idiocies

people are willing to go to for attention,”

she said.

The government also joined in the mauling.

Undersecretary of Health Francesca

Martini criticized the “extreme gravity” of

the chef’s comments, and said that “cats are

affectionate animals protected by law.”

Bigazzi later claimed that he had “been

misunderstood” and said he had never suggested

that people should dine on cat, calling

the idea a “complete folly.”

But stewed kitty isn’t the only Italian delicacy

that may outrage animal fans. Other

cute and cuddly critters on the country’s

must-eat list include:

Tordi: These tiny songbirds feed on

myrtle berries, making their meat a sweet

treat. In Sardinia, the wee fliers are netted,

poached and served cold with myrtle

leaves. You eat the whole thing in one bite

— beak and feet included.

Dormice: The edible dormouse (with a

name like that, it was never going to stay off

the menu for long) was a mainstay of Roman

feasts. Today, the mini-beast is a protected

species, although animal protection

agencies have estimated that some 20,000

are gobbled up each year in the southern

town of Catanzaro.

Donkey: “Please sir, can I have some

Eeyore?” That’s a regular request in Italy,

where the hardworking donkey appears in

everything from red wine stews (stracotto

d’asino) to a Piedmontese cured sausage.

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You know we could get ready for this ride by touring little italy (North Beach) in San Francisco.

We could start in Little Italy in San Diego, then head to LA then to San Fran. Lots of good eats along the way....

 
You know we could get ready for this ride by touring little italy (North Beach) in San Francisco.
We could start in Little Italy in San Diego, then head to LA then to San Fran. Lots of good eats along the way....
johnny80s, I've got to share a joke with you that Old Michael just told me. He said: "After reading your Culinary Tour of Italy, 'eating pussy', will never be the same!"

 
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