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21 comments:
The Food Network Special on the Big Apple was very entertaining and presented the circus industry in a very favorable light, in my opinion. Two points for us.
Grandma requested YANKEE POT ROAST which is typically made from a less expensive cut of meat and therefore very affordable for a large family.
On the Big Apple/Food Network special they used a FILET OF BEEF for YANKEE POT ROAST. For those unawares, FILET OF BEEF is "Filet Mignon".
Most producers take POT ROAST and try to pawn it off as FILET, but Big Apple take FILET and tries to pawn it off as POT ROAST.
Bon Appetite and pass the Old Milwaukee!
Twenty-some years ago while still wed to spouse numero uno we decided to spend a year back in her native Australia. Anyway, winter came and casting about for work I interviewed for a job cooking for sixty guys working on a rural construction project and living in caravans. How hard cook it be to cook, I thought? Just follow the recipes. Evidently the boss thought the same thing, because he hired me. The first couple weeks were just awful. I thought that somebody would kill me, and I richly deserved it. It turned out there were no recipes and cookbooks for feeding sixty. On top of that, the budget was around three dollars per day per man and I had to turn out fifteen meals a week. After the first month I got better at it and what I really wanted was for the guys to think I was good at it. After three months I wanted them to think I was great at it. When we left after six months they were actually sad to see us go. There was something satisfying about immediate feedback that comes with food. When you get it wrong you hear about it right away. When you get it right you see it right away.
It was always a great pleasure to hear Pee Wee address complaints of the "first of Mays" in the cookhouse with "you M-F'in scumbag". In the age of being politically correct, Pee Wee you are truly one of my heroes! With great respect,
Erik Jaeger
My favorite was your chili dog. Miss the early morning visits with you and Buckles!
I have been trying to find a cook since last season for Kelly Miller Circus. It is not an easy task. It is a hard job. Sometimes a thankless job. But it is such a vital part of a traveling tent show.
Eric Jaegar,
I never got any pleasure when Pee Wee addressed me like that!!!!
Kidding aside, Mr. Pinson is a valued friend, and we have spent many an hour discussing elephant's we have had the pleasure of knowing.
Wade Burck
Tavana,
Call Casey Canine. I understand he is a wonder with refried beans and tortilla's. You might be able come in under budget by working out a 2 for 1 deal. My best to you and Danny.
Wade Burck
One thing that you certainly figure out after a couple months of cooking is that once back on the receiving end of cookhouse you'd better not complain too much. Generally the cook is giving it his or her best shot. Sometimes you're eating variations on eggs twice in a day (or vanilla pudding for a #10 can) simply because the budget for the week went to Sunday's steaks... which we pretty good. Cook house is a exercise in the fine art of compromise.
Erik, sincere thanks for that M-F'in comment. I damn near busted a gut reading it; it is Pee Wee and no matter how many countless times I've heard him say it, it was just great as is Pee Wee Pinson.
PEE WEE THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR ALL THOSE GREAT MEALS IN THE BAC COOKHOUSE AND FOR YOUR ALWAYS WONDERFUL HOSPITALITY.
Great seeing you on the road these last couple of years and Diane and I always look forward to seeing you next time.
Paul Gutheil
Pee Wee,
Why don't you give Paul and Eric a treat, and make their day, by giving them each a "you M-f'in scumbag." Better idea, keep what you have left, and I'll give them some of the one's you've given me.
Hey Paul and Eric, "you M-F'in scumbag first of May's". There you go fellow's, enjoy yourselves. And God Bless you, Pee Wee.
Wade Burck
Why do I love this wonderful thing called the Circus? You don't have enough time.
Wade I'm enjoying things more than you know...damn everything but the Circus.
PAUL GUTHEIL
ps just had a great hour plus
phone visit with Bert.
Paul,
The world will alway's be a better place. If jelousy will just stay home, and not try to stick on other's. Dear, Dear, Bert, I love him with all my heart. As close to a father, as anyone can be, short of siring you.
Wade Burck
Paul,
If you think your world is rocking right now, consider this. I just high bid won on Ebay, a publicity picture of The Lord of the Ring, Gunther Gebel William's and his liberty horse's. I'm shaking so bad, I caan haaarddly tyyyppe.
Wade Burck
Me and Ben Trumble Had the Nickle tour of the BAC While they were in putting the new show together two years ago, and at that time, Pee Wees Home(the one in this photo) was the only thing there with that old paint job still on it.
Maybe Paul should have a Bronze statue made ,and put at the door step.
Eric is Right ,there was nothing better than Breakfest with Pee Wee and Buckles on the BAC.....
Randy Peterson
In the very early forties while on Mills Bros. and then Kelly-Miller, in each case the cook blew and my mother, who never cared to be a performer, but an excellent ethnic German cook was persuaded to take over the cookhouse and it was great. Even baked pies. All hands were very happy. Very primitave you can be sure. No running water, water heater or air cond. But she did it.
On Kelly-Miller a couple of years ago cook blew and my daughter Laura, an excellent cook, took over the cookhouse when the cook blew for a number of weeks until they found a replacement and made everyone happy with her excellent cuisine. I visited and ate there. Note avery pleasant task and still quite primitave, but its what you call being "with it and for it". I wonder how much the owners or bosses care, but I must say that David Rawells was very appreciative of her efforts.
Dear Col. H., "excellent ethnic GERMAN cook" ooohhh how I wish I had known your mother!!! By coincidence it was another excellent ethnic GERMAN cook, my Grandmother, who took me to my very first circus in 1948 and many subsequent ones...rouladen (sp?) bitte.
I never had the pleasure, but I always enjoy hearing fans a few years older than I talk about being invited into the Mills cookhouse.
All best to all you good people.
Paul Gutheil
Hey Randy! Thought you said you weren't crazy about getting on the internet?! Guess the best blog around is an exception?!
Best to you and the family and hey,
keep in touch with the NE coast will you!
Paul Gutheil
Years back when I was flying to the west coast, Noyelles Burkhardt told me to visit his friend German Red who was prop boss on the Cole rail show when Noyelles was manager. He was an old black show hand (probably the first black department boss on a circus though he was light-skinned) who went back to the early years of the century. For him and a lot of other workingmen, he said the decision of which show to go with each season was determined by who headed the cookhouse.
I remember seeing on the Beatty show in the '70s workingmen struggling with little barbeque units by their sleeping boxes built on the back of the tractor cabs. When I saw that every day, I knew the cookhouse must have been bad!
Dick Flint
Baltimore
I was kinda hoping someone out there would say " Hey,I would love to come cook on Kelly Miller"! No such luck I can see! Hi, Wade! You sure make the blog entertaining!
Send me an email mudshow@pacbell.net I might know somebody who cooks. I'm going to see him later this week.
We enjoyed the Food Network piece on the BAC, and we were reminiscing about the cookhouse under PeeWee's direction. Whenever I would ask him how he was doing, or how things were going, PeeWee would have one big answer, "FANTASTIC!". He, and his loveable evening six-packs, will always remain a special memory.
All the best,
Brian Liddicoat
Thanks, Ben, I will be in touch!
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