Rhonda Bracey: At Random

On another street adjacent to The Peabody is Kooky Canucks, famous for their burgers. Some of us went there on Sunday night. I had the burger with bacon and blue cheese — this was a BIG burger, cooked as I wanted it (medium rare); however, I was good and removed the top of the bun and almost all the fries and gave them to others at the table, which meant I just had the protein and salad veges. It was GOOD. One of the other Aussie ladies had the fried green tomatoes — like me, she’d only heard of them via the movie of the same name. I tasted them, but they didn’t hit any notes for me.

None of these animals was harmed in making the burgers!

My burger with blue cheese and bacon

Fried green tomatoes

It was dim, so Sue used her phone's flashlight to illuminate her menu

Kooky Canucks is famous for its 'challenging' meals - none of our group took on any of these challenges

And then there were the S’Mores…

We had four Aussies at our table and none of us had tried (or had hardly heard of) S’Mores, so we got a lesson in them! There are called S’Mores, ‘cos you can’t stop at one and want ‘some more’.

So here’s how you make them — they are basically marshmallow toasted over a flame, then placed on a Graham cracker with a piece of chocolate on it (Hershey bar in our case), then squashed down with another Graham cracker. They are VERY sweet, and I found even one quite sickly sweet — there’s no way I could’ve eaten another one. But at least I can say I tried it.

Toast the marshmallow

...until it's nice and golden brown and soft inside

Place the hot squishy marshmallow on the chocolate on the bottom Graham cracker

Place the other cracker over the top and carefully pull out the wooden stick

The hot marshmallow should melt the chocolate and form a squishy inner layer

Goopy!

Very goopy!

And now it's ready to eat -- wait for the BIG sugar hit!