Can we talk a little bit about the City workers strike, can we as lay people, not part of the chosen ones, talk about this redonkulous strike.  We are basically allowing people to strike for sick days, why not treat these sick days like most adults do the penny jars in variety stores. 

Need a sick day-take a sick day-have a sick day-give a sick day-don’t take all the sick days from the f*#%ing jar. 

As luck would have it our inspections to qualify for our liquor license fall under this very category and in the midst of this bullshit strike City Hall has lost a critical document.  Let’s just call it the quest for the Holy Grail; I have been trying to locate the manager of the ass wipe who lost the document in the first place with no luck.  I have however spoken to the snot nosed kids of Managers who obviously have been dragged into work by their parents. These young ones make my day even though they should never be answering phones, know nothing about anything to do with my liquor license and are probably banging the bong steady as their parents have been deployed to garbage duty.  The assistants of the managers of city workers have also been fun, they all speak to me as though it is Armageddon and prefix everything with “they have my boss cleaning up garbage”!

Sacre Bleu! Gasp! Who do these people think they are sitting on there high horses?  Most of us are involved in some form of physical labor, it’s what makes the world go round, I love the idea that some “manager” has to do physical labor for once in there life.  My general response has been “What you just said is the reason people hate city workers, this is why we hate you.”   

So we are back to waiting, sober as Mormons we wait.  As garbage piles up and our fair city smells like an outhouse after Oz Fest, I thought I would attach a potato salad recipe for all those city workers sunning themselves in the Muskokas. 

Cry Me a River Potato Salad

*Despite my silly title this is an amazing recipe, light without all the thick mayo and the perfect pairing for barbeque seafood or steak* 

You will require the following ingredients:

1.5 pounds of scrubbed, cut in half and cooked mini red and white potatoes
½ cup of chopped Spanish olives
Juice of two lemons and the zest of one
½ a cup of chopped parsley
½ red pepper minced
¼ cup of capers minced
2 vine ripened tomatoes diced
2 sprigs of torn fresh basil
2 sprigs of torn fresh oregano
½ a Spanish onion minced, sautéed and cooled
¼ cup of high quality Italian or Spanish olive oil
¼ cup of red wine vinegar
Salt and pepper to taste 

Method:  Toss all ingredients in a bowl, adjust with salt and pepper.