Tony's Review: If you haven't been to Silver Ballroom you should go you dingus, it's a great cheap bar with an even better punk heavy jukebox. Yes you can smoke there which is a bummer for little old clean lungs here but could be a bonus for you lazy smoking slobs. So you're probably asking how the hell a smokey punk pinball bar has a slinger?!?!?! It's not a slinger in the traditional sense but instead is an Australian Meat Pie...which in American translates to a pot pie (apologies if that's not true but it's close enough for this trashy blog).I'll be honest here, I had been dreading eating this thing for a while, every time I've been there enjoying giant beers the meat pies just sit in a heated case thing looking sad as hell. So when I took my first bite and it didn't taste like stale ass shit I was surprised, but when I took my second bite and it tasted good as hell I was floored. This place somehow crammed the ingredients of a slinger into a small pot pie, which for you guys at home its about the size of a Banquet Frozen Pot Pie, and if you don't know the size of that you're a rich dick who never had to eat garbage food when you didn't have money. Anyway, you got your scrambled eggs which were fluffy and had a great taste, your chili which was pretty standard but in this package it gets bonus points because you could clearly taste it and it didn't just blend into everything. Then we got some creamy cheese, couldn't tell what kind and didn't care it just tasted good and finally they managed to throw in some hash browns as a top layer.
I do know a dude who works there and specifically makes these things, which means they're made fresh frequently enough, he had all the details about the ingredients which were way more impressive than my 4th grade explanation up above but I don't remember that shit. The next time you're at the Ballroom getting wacky pay the $5 and treat yourself to an Australian slinger meat pie.
Tim's Review: Who would've thought that we would get
such a tasty surprise from those sad looking little meat pies?
Especially this late in the game. I'm a big fan of the Silver ballroom,
but I got to be honest, I always thought those meat pies looked
pretty pathetic. I didn't even really think of this as a real
slinger at first, but they got all the right shit in there and
damn was it good.
Tony already spelled it all out, the
eggs, chili, cheese.... it was all there and it was all amazing, but
there's one other thing that I really liked about this little meat
pie: It was clean. It was actually the cleanest slinger ever. I
know part of the charm of the slinger is that it looks like a big
sloppy pile of shit, but I'm kind of a clean dude. I'm not a crazy
germ freak or anything, but I like to keep things nice and tidy. I
don't know that this really makes sense, but the point is I just
really appreciate the simple, clean approach of the meat pie. This
slinger isn't all about just looking good and doesn't need a massive
steamy pile of chili to make my mouth water. It's all wrapped up in this nice little
package and it just taste great.
After some long, hard soul searching
and taking my taste buds down memory lane, I've decided to make a
replacement in my top 10. I didn't want to lose Joe's Chili Bowl, so instead of putting the ballroom in there and
forcing everything else to slide down the list, Clayton Diner is out
and the slinger meat pie is in at number 8.
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