Fact: The song, “Folsom Prison Blues“, by Johnny Cash is an excellent piece of American live music history and is, at bare minimum, partly responsible for the creation of I Shoot Reno.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1xSt7iganA
With widely known and often repeated (and sampled; yes Beastie Boys, we’re looking your direction) lyrics like these … well, let’s just say we’re taking the shooting in a whole new direction!
“When I was just a baby, my mama told me son / always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns / but I shot a man in Reno… just to watch him die / when I hear that whistle blowin’ I hang my head and cry.”
Don’t forget where you’ve come from … especially if you’d like to know where you’re going!
The Blind Onion Pizza & Pub, King's Row, Reno, NV on a brisk spring evening...
This evening, and similar to many other evenings alike, saw this young man asking himself the impending question … what’s for dinner?
The question was met with a brief memory of wanting to get takeout at least once this week, just for the fun of it. What is the perfect to-go fast-but-not-deadly food item on a Wednesday night? Funny thing, we were thinking it too … pizza!
Not just any pizza would make the grade either. Being still somewhat new to the town, a search for “pizza” on Google Maps was the path of least resistance to finding something online avatar-approved and close to home.
Within moments we were reminded of the first pizza joint we visited upon settling down on this side of the Sierras … The Blind Onion Pizza & Pub.
Pizza box art, courtesy of The Blind Onion Pizza & Pub, King's Row, Reno, NV...
By the time we made our way back to the homestead, hot pie and D7000 in-hand, the hunger from within was on the rise, along with the smell of herbs & spices falling pray to stringy mozzarella and piping hot marinara.
We had to sneak a piece after no more than five or six snapshots, as the aroma alone had knocked us senseless, and rendered our shutter finger lame.
A delicious, fluffy crusted Margherita pizza w/grilled chicken breast, to go, courtesy of The Blind Onion...
Paired with a bit of Rosenblum and this evening’s dinner sent the ol’ taste buds into orbit! The best part of the experience as a whole however was discovering the included dipping sauces for the braided crust … an airy, buttery crust which stood a good 3/4″ – 1″ higher than the rest of the entire pie.
There was the traditional ranch-style dressing, which literally took us back to days of having Toppers sticks delivered to our 2nd story flat in Madison, WI somewhere between 3:30 and 4AM during pretty much any weekend between August 2001 and July 2002.
It is that explosive, puckering buttermilk-like sensation that makes the taste buds scream with satisfaction. This, our friends is the renaissance of ranch.
In retrospect it wasn’t the ranch that sealed the deal however … the real mummifier turned out to be that which was buried with the Pharaohs and could still be deemed edible when discovered by modern man. That’s right, you guessed it … honey! We should’ve asked if it was local. Well, perhaps next time…
What do they recommend dipping your fluffy crust in? Honey!
To make a long story short, we ate way more than we should have and felt so guilty about it that we had to share it here with our readers … in hopes that they too would embark on a journey, at least once in their lifetime, down to The Blind Onion for a slice of pie that is sure to invigorate taste buds and could quite possibly blow minds, all in the same sitting.
Camera(s) Used:
Nikon D7000
Lens(es) Used:
Nikon 50mm f/1.8D
Go On, Treat Yourself to Something Nice!
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