45 - 3/23/11 - Marshside Storytime IX

Initial Impressions

Christopher Setterlund

45 – 3/23/11

Marshside Storytime IX – My Name Is Earl

            I realized as I am sharing these stories that they are all from the old school 'Animal House' Marsh days.  While they were definitely miles more fun than the current Marsh there still have been a couple classic stories.  One of which I will share with you now.

            Back in September when Cape Cod was threatened by Hurricane Earl we had all prepared to have an early day going home to avoid the storm.  Wrong.  Money talks.  However, before we got the word that we were staying open a few people took off for home, you know what they say about assuming, right?   One such guy was our (former) head chef who took off to Patriot Place. 

            The remaining three of us, myself, along with the one and only Rob Blake, and my father, Jack, had to come up with our specials.  With a hurricane in the area we figured it would be slow and thus gave ourselves a little leeway with what we listed.  One special that will never be duplicated, or probably run again, was the Hurricane Burger.

            What is a ‘Hurricane Burger,’ you ask?  Oh it’s not one thing specifically, what it was ended up being a test of how much our customers trusted us.  The Hurricane Burger ended up being whatever the hell we felt like making them.  No two were the same and we made it a sort of challenge to keep it that way.    

            Our choices for burgers began at the height of creativity.  We did a fried egg burger which is pretty self-explanatory.  There was a burger that used two grilled cheese sandwiches as a bun.  Funny thing was that it ended up being for a skinny girl who could not even finish half of it.  We then suggested that the girls tell us who was ordering so that we could construct an appropriate burger for them.

            Rob constructed some sliders for one person.  There was a pizza burger with marinara and mozzarella cheese.  There was a Philly Cheese Steak Burger with peppers onions and a boatload of American.  I believe that after about ten orders we ran out of ideas and thoroughly disappointed every customer that came after with ‘regular’ burgers.  I suggested an invisible burger with just a bun but that was considered ripping off the customer.  Oh well.

            We ended up not being busy on that day, but three quarters of the orders were for the now famous Hurricane Burger.  Oh yeah and the damn Hurricane ended up not even hitting the Cape.  Still it was a classic story from the new Marsh so all of you newbies can now feel included in my hugely popular Marshside Storytime.  Cheers!