
It works remarkably well in 8 out of 10 cases and the remaining two can be easily tweaked. It’s a category I like to call “Full Meal Between Bread.” It’s pretty simple: take everything that would be on the plate and place it in a sandwich. Strangely, this is a demented extension of the MF DOOM Fillet-O-Rapper sandwich. As I was going to have to crank up a pot of oil to deep fry potatoes, I turned to the idea of fried cheese. So when I decide to deep fry at home, I go all in. As I spent years professionally cooking in kitchens with big fricking deep fryers, I hate home frying. If I’m deep-frying, I’m going old school with a pot and a bunch of hot oil. I am not lucky enough to have a countertop fryer or air fryer. I have a home kitchen philosophy: Make It A FryDay & Fry All The Things. I wanted a sandwich Something like a jacked-up Chip Butty with cheese. I had considered working and tweaking that concept to make something I dug, but my culinary heart wasn’t in it. It was a solid plan that honestly did not come out as solid as I wanted. I originally thought of doing a sort of poutine or disco fries where British curry sauce subbed for gravy and I tossed in some mozzarella for the cheese. This started as a radically different dish. It’s a lot pompous, definitely a bit dated, and hella fun! Get over yourself if you’re too cool to embrace this song. It’s an earwig and a brilliantly great one at that. Even young music fan me knew this was cheesy as hell, but also recognized the genius of the hook. Massive choral intro, “rock guitar for the masses”, soaring organ tracks, and that sort of Fantas圜on style lyric that is standard in most art-rock.

Even when it was current, I recognized the absurdity of this track. I know I went to at least two Kansas concerts in high school (yeah – I know I’m old). I’m sure, like much of my ’70s music education, this came via Top 40 radio. For the sake of this recipe, however, I am only concerned with Kansas’ most epic and in my opinion best single “Carry On Wayward Son.” Yet, those three singles are epic examples of ’70s art rock as predecessors to emo and should not be ignored for their historic significance. Two albums and three singles are pretty much the extent of their career. I’m honestly not sure how many current music fans are aware of Kansas. …and if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don’t know.

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