They would have butted the crap out of me and my car, I'm sure, but it was pretty sweet messing with them anyway.
So for my Mosé, rather than use agave syrup like I would in a margarita, I simply top a couple of sliced strawberries with a bit of sugar and muddle until it's dissolved into a sweet, pulpy mess.
If you ordered the lamb, swollen prunes, fat apricots, and egg-shaped potatoes hug two giant shanks sunk in a still-bubbling broth; the prunes collapse into a sweet, jammy mess the second they're touched.
The Thai, made with fresh chopped ginger root, garlic and soy sauce, and the Jack Daniel's, a sticky-sweet, wonderful mess, are two of the most popular.
Non-sour flavors such as vanilla would be better than citrus to complement non-savory desserts such as chocolate cake (for which only a little frosting would be best to avoid a too-sweet sloppy mess).
It's a crunchy, satisfying mess, sweet and smoky, exactly the thing to go with a Captain Lawrence Liquid Gold ($6), while children draw on the place mats.
What sounds like a sweet and salty mess turns out to be a finely judged marriage, with the doughnut light and surprisingly unsugary, and the stack of streaky bacon providing a crisp and savoury backbone.
But it is at least a sweet, good-natured mess, with none of the overcalculation and condescending cynicism the same material would almost certainly bring out in a Hollywood production.
