This Is Gross

Alex Smith went to Las Vegas and ate food, which is uninteresting, but that's not the reason I wanted to draw attention this blurb.

Also this weekend, the National Football League seemed to be having a reunion at FIX Restaurant & Bar at Bellagio. Jerome Bettis chowed down on some kobe beef sliders, fried mac & cheese and cobbler, while at another table, Alex Smith of the Tampa Bay Bucs, enjoyed a surf and turf combo of lobster and Ribeye steak.

You can fry mac and cheese now? I live in the south, and we deep fry a lot of shit. If you can roll it in breading, chances are good someone has dunked it in a vat of rolling liquid animal fat and consumed it for sustenance or just because it's the only way they know how to cook things that don't come out of the Vend-A-Bait machine. But mac and cheese? I'm not even sure how that works. It's got to clump together while it's cooking, right? So, what are you left with? Deep fried macaroni and cheese nuggets? I think I just died a little.

And leave it to Jerome Bettis to find some place that serves it. He was already nicknamed The Bus because he was fucking huge. How long before he just takes Cris Collinsworth and rolls him in powdered sugar and then fries him up like a churro? You know he's thought about it at least once when Collinsworth went on one of his preachy rants during a pregame. And in Vegas of all places. Isn't the Bellagio supposed to be classy? Maybe some strippers came out and served the nuggets to Bettis with their cleavage. At least then you can have some fun with it. But it leaves you wondering how they would have served him the beef sliders.