The Choice is Yours (at Chuck-A-Rama)

Mmmm - Beef Stroganoff

by Sweetie

Here at Sweet & Spicy Salt Lake City, we're all about democracy. Look to your right: You can vote on whether you like sweet or spicy foods.

And below, another vote. You will decide our last supper. I'm going away for a while. All that sweet food has made me mentally unstable. Actually, it was something else that led to my intervention. Something that I cannot broadcast on the World Wide Web but involved paperclips.

I'll give you a hint. It was sort of like this: (Warning: adult language. Second warning: Some of the characters in this sketch are no longer married:)

Intervention Intervention with Fred Armisen from Fred Armisen

In sum, while I am away, I will be eating hospital food. So all of you devoted readers -- and we are so grateful to have any readers, much less the nearly 1,000 visits to our blog -- will suggest a restaurant. Think of your favorite place. Or a place with either uber-sweet or uber- spicy food that you'd be interested in us writing about.

The parameters:

- Must be in the Greater Salt Lake City area

- Must be local

- Must serve alcohol

- Must serve dessert

- Entrees with salads must not cost more than $30

- Must not be Thai, Korean or anything weird in general

Post suggestions in the comments section.

XOXO,

Sweetie

Peep Show V

by Sweetie:

In our post-modern, "spiritual but not religious" society, Easter has traded in the trappings of bodily resurrection for chocolate eggs menacingly beckoning from every candy dish, threatening to ruin our figures and complexions.

And the creepy chocolate cross. And the jelly beans. And Peeps -- perhaps the most disgusting sugar and marshmallow confection ever manufactured, somehow we all know was created in a lab and not in some kindly grandmother's kitchen. I have a relative who was chief executive of a company that briefly owned licensing rights to Peeps and Pass egg dye. He never showed me how either was made. I have another relative who enjoys nuking his Peeps in the microwave before popping them into his mouth. I haven't seen that process, either.

In a laughing-at-while-laughing-with spirit, the Washington Post has centered Peeps in a competition called "Peep Show," for the past five years. Readers submit dioramas of Peeps in action -- waiting at an airport Transportation and Security Administration checkpoint, being attacked by Peep birds in a scene from the Alfred Hitchcock movie, and stalking like zombies.

Check it out here.

What are your favorites? I enjoyed the "Black Peep" diorama that referenced the "Black Swan" movie, "Peepie Sheen Receives his Daily Transfusion of Fresh Tiger Blood," the intricately created theft of Peep art at the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris, and "The Very Hungry Catpeepillar."

Do you agree with what the Washington Post selected for first place? I thought it was too serious of a topic to recreate using Peeps as the media.