Autumnal Menu Items – 2018

Up and autumn!

The season was once called “Harvest,” until “Autumn” began to replace it in the mid-15th Century. “Autumn” is a bit of a mysteryword; according to the online etymology dictionary, it comes from the Old French autumpneautomne (13c.), from Latin autumnus, which is of unknown origin. Perhaps from Etruscan. The adjective “autumnal” came into use around 1570.

As we Rochesterians know, autumn is a fleeting time for us. It can last months. It can last but a week or two.

We at The Xonuts Blog decided to bring you this special post, containing some new places and some old favorites, but all of which gave us an opportunity to try some autumnal menu items!

Jines Restaurant: Applejack on everything.

Jines Restaurant: pumpkin pancakes with applejack. The apple/raisin syrup provides a layer of sweetness for your first several bites. The hearty pumpkin pancakes, more plain for the last several bites, allow you to eat autumn itself. Autumn is delicious.

 

Next, we re-attended Steve’s Original Diner

The oktoberfest benny. Pretzel roll. Sauerkraut. Pairing this with the pancakes (bottom of picture, with butter and syrup atop), was the quintessential savory/sweet matchup.

 

The pumpkin pancake at Steve’s. It’s huge. It’s sweeter than the pumpkin pancakes at, say, Jines. At Steve’s, you can actually taste the pumpkin pie spice in the mix.

PopROC Fall Menu Release:

 

The “cereal killer”
COME my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your spoons ready,
Have you your milk? have you your sweet-toothed appetite?
Pop Roc! O Pop Roc!
For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful breakfasty races, all the rest on us depend,
Pop Roc! O Pop Roc!
O you youths, Rochesterian youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Rochester youths, see you chomping with the foremost,
Pop Roc! O Pop Roc!

Halloween Crunch: ghosts turn milk green!
Boo Berry donut; Frankenberry donut; Count Chocula donut

 

Highland Park Diner

Pumpkin Walnut Pancakes. (With real maple syrup, obvi). The spice lurking inside these pancakes overwhelms the pumpkin flavor, smacking you upside the face as swiftly and decisively as Ryu did at the docks that one time…

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The sweet potato (shred, obvi) was perfectly mixed with spicy sausage. A dangerous game.

Balsam Bagels.

Pumpkin-on-pumpkin

 

When bae likes it when you bite

Pumpkin muffin, in profile

 

The last moments of a pumpkin muffin

The pumpkin bagels from Balsam, topped with pumpkin cream cheese, said, “Make no mistake about it, Buster: you’re in Hallowe’en-time.” If you were kidnapped and the kidnappers  had to show your would-be ransom payer that you were still alive, but they didn’t want to walk down the street to buy today’s paper, they could just send a picture of you eating the pumpkin bagels with pumpkin cream cheese and your family member would go, “Ah, ok. We see that this picture is definitely taken around Hallowe’en-time. We don’t negotiate with terrorists.”

The cream cheese was a good mixture of sweet and savory, as all pumpkin-flavored things should be. The consistency was light and whipped; it was aeons lighter than any Dunkin’-type cream cheese you may have tried in a past life. Picture the creamiest of creamy peanut butter. Now go three (3) steps creamier. That’s how creamy the pumpkin cream cheese was.

The sleeper hit, tho, was the pumpkin muffin. Dense and not-falling-apart!! I guess you would say it was moist? Moist. Moist. Moist. Look at the picture above. You’ll see that, even when half destroyed, the units making up the remainder of the muffin maintained their position with perfect military discipline. The Greek phalanx of autumnal flavor marches through the Thermopylae of your teeth and into the heroic oblivion of your digestive system. Heroes. Heroes, all.

 


Don’t Miss: Pumpkin, pumpkin, everywhere.

 

 

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