Mission Mission

You know, on these hot summer days, when you want something a little more complicated than a beer, but making a cocktail just seems too hard, and leaving your backyard seems a *lot* too hard… just make a shandy! Sneak Attack + aranciata works pretty good, but half the fun is playing with different combos.

Let’s get to work!

Update (5:16pm): This combo works pretty good too…

Not nearly as good as the other two marg options I’ve mentioned today, but it contains real tequila, it’s a damn sight better than any of the other BuzzBallz, and, to be honest, it’s on par with or better than most dive bar margaritas (not including all the good options we have here in the Mission, obvi).

My friends couldn’t believe they charged me $9 for dusty brown syrup with no alcohol left in it, but it was fun! You could taste in every sip the 60 years of nobody ever ordering Campari, in that dark little room with the best jukebox in the world.

I got the mini Coronas, but even still, Simon had to smash his nose in to get his lips around the edge of Nattles’ little mason jar. But it made the drink even better! Because he had to really work for it!! (Right, Simon?)

Anyway they’re good because if you make them at home (as opposed to having them at Chevys on the water) you can fine-tune them with all the ingredients you like best.

We were about to get on the bridge when we realized we were in a borrowed camper that didn’t have a FasTrak, and we didn’t have quite enough cash for the rush hour toll. So I swerved off I-80 and into the Chevys parking lot and it was awesome.

Magic Curry Kart, probably the first popup we ever wrote about, back before we even knew they were called popups, is endeavoring to expand its operations. Here’s part of the pitch, straight from founder Brian Kimball:

Five years ago I started the Magic Curry Kart.  Inspired by the delicious food I experienced on my travels through South East Asia I decided to serve a Thai style curry off a rickety metal kart in my neighborhood.  I initially experimented with a variety of store bought pastes until I decided to start making my own pastes from fresh ingredients I found at local farmers markets.

It was of course dubbed appropriately as Magic Curry Paste.  We are now on the shelves of Whole Foods Markets, Bi-Rite Markets, Adronicos, and Rainbow Grocery in the Bay Area.  We are also on the virtual shelves of Good Eggs and Amazon Fresh.

Our Plans to Expand: There is a growing demand for fresh and locally produced food products.  We have the opportunity to get on the shelves of more markets throughout California, but that would push beyond our current production capacity.  This means that we need to move our paste to a local co-packer in order to make larger quantities at lower costs. Then we can focus on reaching more stores.

There’re only 4 days left in the campaign so act fast! In return for pledging some cash to the cause, you get rewards such as cool t-shirts and jars of curry paste:

Check out the full Kickstarter campaign here.

Today’s Burrito Justice Radio guest on BFF.fm, your award-winning Internet radio station? The Magic Curry Man himself. Tune in at noon!

We’ll be talking about his Magic Curry Paste Kickstarter, maps, the neighborhood, cooking classes, and more.

UPDATE: Thanks for listening everyone! The archive of this week’s show is now up.

@mgrooves reports:

Anyone know what time this happened?

Our pal Paul (of the “Drink of the Week” segment on BFF.fm’s “Weak Ledes” show starring Nick Pal, formerly of the “Drink of the Week” column on Mission Mission) points out that Trick Dog has some kind of Malort!

(Somebody on Twitter points out that it’s not actual Malort, so to Malort lovers it’ll probably be like when I order a Fernet at some weird bar and they give me the “Fernet” that’s made in Colorado: it’s fine but it’s not Fernet.)

In any case, possibly really good news for Malort lovers probably? And also, does anyplace in this town have actual Malort?

Check this OUT:

Happy birthday, Pal’s! Can’t wait!!

(Thanks for the tip, Simon!)