{"id":23266,"date":"2020-10-28T18:02:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=23266"},"modified":"2020-10-28T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:24:25","slug":"addicted-to-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=23266","title":{"rendered":"Addicted to Bingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m officially addicted to Bingo. More specifically, Brunch &#038; Bingo at Chicken N Pickle. At first it was just me at a table by myself (usually with Ric and Brenda Thompson at the next table). Then I roped Karen into joining me. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50502237622\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50502237622_389e6a7f66.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><BIG>Look at this concentration!<\/BIG><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50502077546\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50502077546_114d753fd4_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, my pseudo-daughter Huyen joined us for the first time. She&#8217;s now very much addicted to Bingo too. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50528797738\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50528797738_f88808d0a2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past Sunday, Brian and grandma joined us. Grandma is a veteran Bingo player and brought us tape. I&#8217;d never thought to do that but it was brilliant. I&#8217;m bringing tape every week from now on.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50529522536\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50529522536_eaa8546d15.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the games are going, everyone is super serious. You have to concentrate or you run the risk of missing numbers. Specially since Jeff calls them super fast.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50528798593\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50528798593_ab7d1395ce.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone was in full concentration, even Brian.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50529683067\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50529683067_5080fefc32_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grandma didn&#8217;t Bingo but she got a free shirt courtesy of Michael and Jeff. She absolutely loved her shirt and eagerly showed off to everyone when she got home.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50529682952\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50529682952_aa7d686de2_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grandma also enjoyed her mimosa.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50528798808\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50528798808_eceaf657fb_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides FREE Bingo and $5 mimosas and bloody Marys, Chicken N Pickle also offers delicious food for brunch. This past Sunday, we ordered one of each thing so grandma could try it all.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50529524096\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50529524096_47712da387_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures of our food&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50529523781\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50529523781_acc8a27d95.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The avocado toast was so good even Brian liked it, and he&#8217;s not a frou frou kind of guy.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50529525621\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50529525621_56bb0d408c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t go wrong with biscuits and gravy &#8211; unless you forget to tell them to fry the egg hard which is what happened on Sunday. LOL. Brian would have enjoyed it more had the egg not been runny. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50528800598\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50528800598_6fee3b3061.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The junkyard dog breakfast burrito is our absolute favorite brunch item. I have eaten an entire one by myself but it&#8217;s better to share with another person because it really is a lot of food.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/50528801213\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50528801213_3608342c12_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad Karen and Huyen joined us because we were able to share our food with them. Anyway, Brunch &#038; Bingo is my absolute favorite thing to do on Sundays. I look forward to it every weekend. The best part is, Jenni and her crew are going to join us for the next one. I can&#8217;t wait! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m officially addicted to Bingo. More specifically, Brunch &#038; Bingo at Chicken N Pickle. At first it was just me at a table by myself (usually with Ric and Brenda Thompson at the next table). Then I roped Karen into joining me. Look at this concentration! A couple of weeks ago, my pseudo-daughter Huyen joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[713,7,262],"tags":[3268,187,499,3163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23266"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23278,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266\/revisions\/23278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}