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E-Rae’s at Club David – YUMMY!

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David’s favorite sandwich? Cordon Bleu.

After reading Bryann Becker’s column in the Sunday Gargoyle Leader about E-Rae’s I was curious, because her food review reminded me of a Doug Chapman column (Chapman used to write the reviews years ago, but I think was fired because of his sarcasm in the reviews). So I got a group of friends together and we thought we would try the food last night. Trust me, we didn’t have high expectations, Club David is a bar, we were expecting bar food, which it was not, the service on the other hand . . . well let’s just say the bartenders at the Top Hat are more attentive. But we will get into that later.

We sat on the patio (apparently the only part of the club that is open during the week) which is fine. I used to frequent the patio a few summers ago when they first built it and had two-fers. It was a beautiful night, and I’m not even being sarcastic, so it was a perfect dining place.

We asked if food was available and the server said yes and handed us menus. We decided to start with an appetizer and ordered the nachos. We got the quesadilla instead. Being a server myself, I was concerned that maybe the food was supposed to go to another table, and when I asked our server insisted that it was ours, and we told him we ordered the nachos. He was going to fix it, but we thought, fuck it, we will eat it anyway, because it looked good. It was fantastic. The tortilla was more like a flatbread and really crispy and toasted. It was served with garden fresh jalapenos, sour cream, romaine and salsa (that I’m guessing was homemade).

For our dinner we all ordered something different, I ordered the Cordon Bleu sandwich (because like a dumb schmuck I order this sandwich everywhere I go thinking somebody will get it right – and nobody ever does). E-Rae got it right. It was on panni bread and the secret condiment seemed to me was cream cheese, but I could be wrong. I don’t usually finish pub fare, but this sandwich rocked. I ate it all.

One of my other companions tried the spinach wrap, and she liked it. But the funny part of was when my third friend tried to order, three of his first choices “were not available” which we all laughed about. He got the bacon cheeseburger and said it was great.

Trust me, E-Rae needs to work out some kinks, like availability and order accuracy. But for pub fare, it is pretty damn good.

Event Center Food Food Stamps

The working poor and the $2 million dollar impact of the Events Center

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While our city ‘Leaders’ and supposed ‘Progressives‘ talk about increasing regressive taxes in Sioux Falls to build a $169 million dollar playground, WORKING people can’t even afford to feed their families;

South Dakota’s working poor slipping into food insecurity is a phenomenon emergency food agency heads already have recognized.

“We are seeing more people coming in where one or both parents have a job,” says Tamera Jerke-Liesinger, executive director of The Banquet. The Banquet fed notably more people in 2009 than previously.

The Feeding America report suggests 36 percent of households requiring emergency food aid have at least one employed adult. But 74 percent of those families have incomes below the federal poverty level. About one-third of those families reported having to choose between buying food or paying for utilities or housing, and 25 percent had to choose between buying food or medicine or food or transportation.

“Until the early 1980s, food stamps provided most of people’s food needs. But during the 1980s, so much of that public safety net kind of unraveled,” says Hugh Grogan, Minnehaha County human services director.

“It used to be there was almost no way you would not qualify for food stamps if you were poor,” Grogan says. “Now there are lots of ways.”

Also, food stamps don’t go as far as they used to, according to Davidson. “With bigger families, food stamps just aren’t enough,” she says.

Gassen said the numbers in the Feeding America report on the working poor “told a unique story about South Dakota. People are reaching out for hope. They’re not doing nothing, trying to get free food.”

I started thinking about this the other day. Like I mentioned previously, taking $50 million out of the economy by giving it to the city in the form of new taxes actually takes money away from local businesses, which is very BAD for the economy. The irony of all this is that the Events Center Task Force has said that the EC would have a $52 million dollar impact on the city each year. So if you subtract those numbers, it seems building the EC would have only a $2 million dollar impact each year. Whoo-Hoo! What are we waiting for, we are losing money!!!!!! Let’s get it built!

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