Last night got off to a slow start. Was bored at the Saucer. Was bored at Bardog. About 11 I got hungry for breakfast food, and decided to go back to the Saucer, to bide my time waiting for Cockadoos to open at midnight. As I walked down Second, I got a text: “Don’t you dare walk past my bar without coming in to say hello Pau Pau.” It was Lana from Kooky Canuck. So I turned around and doubled back to Kooky, where I had a beer with Shawn and Lana and had a really good time. They wanted me to go with them to the Memphis Sounds club on N. Third Street, but I was tiring out and needed to get some food and get home, so I took a rain check.
And I literally mean a rain check – by the time I left Kooky, it was pouring outside. Thank goodness Cockadoos is only about 50 feet down the street. I made the dash down there.
My original plan for Cockadoos was to try an experiment. I have some Chinese mustard and soy sauce packets at home, left over from a visit to Wang’s. I was going to order two of Cockadoos’ country ham biscuit sandwiches to go, and take them home and experiment with Chinese mustard and soy sauce as condiments.
However, I wasn’t interested in walking home in the rain, so I decided to dine in. I ordered the hash browns ($2.99) with added toppings of cheese, bacon, and mushrooms for 50 cents each extra. I wasn’t expecting much. “It’ll probably come with a few sprinkles of cheese and a few bacon bits,” I thought, “but at this point, I just need food in my stomach.”
This is what came out:
The hashbrowns were absolutely smothered in cheese, large pieces of bacon, and plenty of mushrooms. Every bite was delicious. They really loaded me up and this was a real value for $4.49. Talk about exceeding expectations!