Saurkraut Saul

Since the baseball season started today, it is only fitting everyone's favorite Pierogi, Sauerkraut Saul, get a shout out today. Saul has his own Facebook page and the Pierogi Race has its own Wikipedia page, although I'm not sure how.

If you cheer for another pierogi at Pirate games this year, you are a pussy. If you root for Jalapeno Hanna, you are an enormous pussy. If you are going to the Pirate game next Friday against the Rockies, like me, you are just pathetic. Laura is watching me write this and she said that none of this is or anything on this website is funny and doing this in general is stupid. She cheers for Jalapeno Hanna.

Just the tip...

Fayyad, I don’t know if I am ready for this. I have never done this before. Sure, I have thought about it. Who hasn’t? But I didn’t think it would actually happen. Definitely not this soon. I am only 28. Ricky will be 47 this year and I don’t think he’s done it yet. I am not sure if Steve ever will. But what’s the harm in trying new things? I might as well see how it feels, right? Okay, well, here goes nothing…

I am blogging. This blogging is about pierogies.

I thought you were just saying whatever you thought I wanted to hear, but you were right, it didn’t hurt at all. Still, I would appreciate it if you didn’t tell anyone about this. You kind of have a reputation around school.

Discretely yours,

D.F. Sacks

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Denny's Baconalia Menu Missing Bacon Pierogies

Menu item missing from area restaurant

Somebody check on Blahovec so he does not hurt himself... They have bacon meatloaf, bacon flapjacks, and the "Maple Bacon Sundae," an ice-cream sundae with maple syrup and bacon bits. Now I'm happy they did not forget about ice cream, since it is the most important food group, however, overlooking pierogies cannot be forgiven.

Denny's is dead to me.

Identity Crisis

The blog is only hours old, and it hit a snag. A debate has ensued over the proper spelling of the damn polish thing. Apparently, Schmidt and Blahovec "roll" with "Pierogi", I really don't care about how they "roll," but they referenced the Merriam Webster dictionary and Mrs. T's frozen section items. I don't argue with Mrs. T's, or Aunt Jemima for that matter, her syrup is delicious.

Anyway, since this project is going to be a marvelous act of reinvention, recovery, and transformation we shall from here on "roll" with Pierography.

The History Of Perography

The Setting: Silky's on Murray Avenue, Thursday night, after class. Another pesky mini semester is coming to a close too soon for us to have comprehended much of the content, yet so late that boredom had started setting in.

The Conversation: So we're coming up on graduation soon, most are preparing for job interviews, it occurred to us that will will soon scatter around the country, or even in a global diaspora. Davin really wanted to go to Austria, he's even willing to work milking cows in the Alps for room and board only. I digress.

So I suggested that we're going to need a means for staying connected post graduation, the brilliant fantasy football league notwithstanding. Davin quickly suggests that we should collaborate on a blog, he thinks a blog is a board game, I added that perhaps we should make a blog about Perogies, aiming to find a Pittsburgh-centric theme, Blahovec quickly contributes: "We should call it Perography!"

Championshiiiip!

Since we are a decisive bunch, no further deliberation was needed. Brilliant! Meeting adjourned, and back to discussing whether the free pretzels sitting on the tables in pint glasses where safe to eat.

So here we are, a few months later, and significantly closer to graduation day. The exodus has begun, I was the first to depart the fair river town, [Headed west to another river town] and the departure of a few others is imminent, perhaps this summer, while a few other will hold the fort down for now.

So if you're contributing here, tell a story, important or not, no big deal, if you manage to insert perogies in it one way or another, that would be great, perhaps you could mention a great perogi you had, tell us about another cuisine's version of perogies you encountered... they're many: Dumplings, Shish Berek, Tortellini, Dim Sum, Impenada, the list goes on, or you can profile your favorite perogie mascot at the Pirates game, or the person behind it. Whatever you feel like..

But most importantly, keep the group updated about your news, or funny encounters. Because let's face it, you'll never have as much fun again as you did with our group. So until the next reunion, blog on.

ScarJo