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I’m wrapping up a week of travel to the West Coast. After work I was dropping off the rental car and I saw a sign on the side of the freeway that made me take the next exit- An In and Out Burger sign. The burger chain is pretty famous out here and I’ve heard so much about it and I just had to give it a try. And yep, its pretty good.

I got their classic Double Double and the bread was nice a fresh and well toasted. There were two great all beef patties and a load of onions, plus fresh tomato and lettuce. And outstanding thin cut fries. Glad I got to go there. Next time I’m in LA I’m getting me some more!

I am currently on travel to Shreveport, LA. I stopped into the Blind Tiger pub to have my first cajun meal. Now I realize that bar food is not often the best judge of a category of food, but sometimes it is. In my case, the Blind Tiger was awesome! I loved the blackened catfish, at 9 o’clock on my plate below.

This food was awesome!  Starting from the 9:00 position on the plate, I ate the following:

• blackened spicy catfish
• deep fried corn on the cob
• spicy meat pies
• shrimp et touffe
• Jumbalaya
• Crawfish tails
• Cajun dipping sauce

For me, the best part was the fried catfish.  I have to stay in Shreveport for two more days and I promised myself that I will eat at least three more helpings of this catfish.  YUMM!

So you like to go to the game?  Hang out with friends, have a few beers and some dogs on the barbecue?  Heck, tailgating is half of the fun on game day.  So what would be the perfect item for tailgating?

 The ultimate self-contained Tailgating Trailer.

This trailer has it all:

• LCD TV
• Satellite
• DVD Player
• Generator
• Propane Grill
• Running Water
• Hand Washing sink
• Cold Beer on Tap
• Yes, Even a Toilet

Just hook it up and take it to the game.  Be the envy of everyone on lawnchairs with their pathetic folding tables.  Go to Gameday Customs here.

A Duke University Engineering Grad built this awesome mini-fridge that will catapult a beer into your hand at the command of a remote control button.

From AP here:

When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.
It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.

With a click of the remote, fashioned from a car’s keyless entry device, a small elevator inside the refrigerator lifts a beer can through a hole and loads it into the fridge’s catapult arm. A second click fires the device, tossing the beer up to 20 feet — “far enough to get to the couch,” he said.

Is there a foam explosion when the can is opened? Not if the recipient uses “soft hands” to cradle the can when caught, Cornwell said.

You want food, right? Good, American food, made the way it should be? I mean real juicy burgers, stacked high, and fries deep fried in lard? And dammit, those burgers and fries should come with a great big beer. And a pack of smokes! And none of that wimpy Marlboro Lights, I’m talking the real deal, the Marlboro Reds baby!

And to top it all off, if you are working on your next heart attack, you may as well be wheeled to the dining table in a wheelchair by a scantily clad nurse in high heels, right? Damn right!

So if you are in Tempe, Arizona, stop in and get a Double Bypass, or check out the rest of the menu here. The restaurant was so controversial it was featured on 20-20 here.