Food For Thought

I found the most wonderful thing today in my office's freezer: It looks like a corn dog... but it's a breakfast sausage... rolled up in a pancake... on a stick. I couldn't get out of my head what a wonderful idea - what absolute genius - this really is. Whoever this belongs to in my office - I am your best friend.

This reminds me of the time when I was a bit younger, one hot Chicago summer at the annual "Taste of Chicago" food festival. Nothing too mind boggling here... deep dish pizza, some fried meats, seafood... and then I saw it - my new definition of "Chicago." A simple pie-sized slice of plain old-fashioned cheesecake, frozen, and dipped entirely in chocolate. And it wasn't handed to me by the vendor on a plate and there wasn't a plastic utensil anywhere within reach. This slice of icy chocolatey cheesecake was on the end of a stick, like an 800 calorie popsicle.

Here's a version I found by searching for "cheesecake on a stick," from ViennaBeef.com. (Why a site called "Vienna Beef" is selling cheesecake on a stick is beyond me.)