backwoodssmoker
Fire Starter
Well I live in the backwoods of Northern Michigan (snow belt) and use an old fridge for smokin. I even had a company name their smoker after me, LoL.
My names obvious. Conundrum was the code word the government used on "7 Days" when Frank Parker went back in time 7 Days to save the world.My screen name came about when I started out a Professional eater. I go by wing kong, and I love to eat and do Triathlons. While doing an interview on ESPN for Nathans hot dog eating contest, I was asked "Why would someone put there body through those to extremes. I told them because I was a conundrum...the 54 is simply my HS and College football #
I live in a small town. There are a few of us foodies around, but no place for us to get nice stuff. No restaurant supply stores, no meat markets, no gourmet grocers--we were all getting frustrated watching the food network and not being able to get the ingredients they all take for granted. So I started a blog (that reminds me...I haven't posted in FOREVER, eek!) based on the concept that we could create great dishes/meals with ingredients available at WalMart...and so the SuperCenter Chef was born...
Funny - out here in the West they are Bob's Big Boy - They were actually started in 1936 in Glendale CaBack in the day, when I actually worked on the shop floor, everyone had a nickname. It was kind of a right of passage. Once you were named you were accepted as one of the guys. It seemed to give everyone on the jobsite the knowledge that you were easy to work with and would not cause any undue problems….When my time came up, one of they guys came in with a little small 2” tall Shoney’s Big Boy and said that it looked like me….and well that was the end of that….14 years later and a new position, the guys still call me ShoneyBoy!!!!! Since most of the old timers have retired, we have not been carrying on this tradition as much…..It’s sad to think about sometimes, but I have the memories and knowledge that these guys accepted me as a friend and coworker over the years…..