{"id":276,"date":"2008-08-21T02:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T02:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/adventure-in-lost-norristown\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T02:31:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T02:31:26","slug":"adventure-in-lost-norristown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/adventure-in-lost-norristown\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure in Lost Norristown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may sound a little pathetic to the PA posse but this weekend we decided to go on an adventure to Norristown. Anyone that knows Norristown will probably be thinking &#8220;why would you go to a shit-hole like that ?&#8221; whereas UK readers will no doubt be wondering which &#8220;Norris&#8221; it was named after&#8230;the one in Coronation Street ?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we went there because we had heard rumours, and had seen accurate maps on Google, that indicated there was an Indian supermarket there. We miss supermarkets that sell Indian ingredients. A very nice girl that I work with will regularly buy us stuff from the Indian supermarkets she visits, but apart from the hassle we are causing her, we like to <i>shop<\/i>. So we set off on the perilous mission into the unknown, armed only with loads of money, a car, a GPS navigation device, and The Klub [ a krook-lock ]. Bravely, we drove up Ridge Pike until we reached our first stop-off point: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahsgaragesale.com\/\">Ah&#8217;s Garage Sale<\/a>. Other adventurers had recommended this place as a source of some wonderful treasures and indeed it was. I&#8217;ve never seen such a load of quality crap. I bought a practice bass-amp but Michele persuaded me against buying any of the old radios, DVD players or cash registers.<\/p>\n<p>After this pleasant sojourn, we continued on our journey. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Shree Ambe&#8221; supermarket exceeded our expectations and was able to provide us with the vital ingredients of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuzza.com\/recipes\/dhansak\/\">Lamb Dhansak<\/a> we were planning to cook that night. However, on the way along Ridge Pike, we noticed a nearby &#8220;Dosa and Chat house&#8221; and so, as we were desperately into the Indian thing, we went along. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/veghead\/2769641934\/\"><i>spectacularly<\/i> good<\/a>. It was also spectacularly filling &#8211; so much so that we couldn&#8217;t face cooking a huge curry for dinner. Instead we ordered pizza, and watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0200465\/\">The Bank Job<\/a>, which turns out to be, not only highly enjoyable, but a (partially) true story with all sorts of extra goodness. You can&#8217;t get better than that for a weekend&#8217;s fun can you ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may sound a little pathetic to the PA posse but this weekend we decided to go on an adventure to Norristown. Anyone that knows Norristown will probably be thinking &#8220;why would you go to a shit-hole like that ?&#8221; whereas UK readers will no doubt be wondering which &#8220;Norris&#8221; it was named after&#8230;the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}