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Back to Cairns from our day of rainforest exploration and skyrailing, Sunday night meant one thing: we needed to find somewhere to glue ourselves to the television for eviction night on Big Brother. (Sad, I know) Big Brother, like many reality shows elsewhere in the world, is insanely popular in Oz. As much as many of us would like to admit it otherwise, Big Brother provides its fair share of water cooler talk and office gossip, and everyone has their own “favorite housemate” for whom they root.
Thankfully, both Dean and Nicole were also hooked on the show too, and they were all too happy to get together for Eviction Sunday at a local watering hole. Hmm, but where to go?
Gilligan’s Hostel, perhaps less of a hostel and more of a backpacker resort, is easily one of the biggest hostel in Cairns and has a great patio bar to watch sports and big tv events on its projection screen. Also, because they have backpackers staying with them on-site, their food and drinks are cheap, cheap, cheap ...
Little did I know, but Gilligan’s is one of Big Brother Australia's big sponsors and gets promotional considerations for their financial support. Meaning, that when Dean and I were halfway through our meal, an announcer came on over the p.a. system , welcoming everyone to Gilligan's ... including "Big Brother's most recent evictee - Galen". (This, of course, is rather meaningless for those of you who haven't been watching the show ... however, until getting voted off the show, he was widely considered to be one of the front runners for winning).
How coincidental that, earlier in the day, Dean and I were locked in an argument over who each of us liked and disliked on the show. Even more coincidentally, Dean was going on about how “Galen” was his favorite recent evictee … and wasn’t Galen at Gilligan’s that night. Totally unplanned, … swear.
Fiiiiine, I guess we’ll take a photo with him.
Good for a laugh, if anything.
Awesome nachos! To immitate, try this:
• 1 package corn chips
• 1 cup cooked ground beef
• 2 cups each cheddar and jalapeno pepperjack cheese, mixed
• 1/3 cup sliced black olives
• 1/2 cup diced tomatoes
• 1/3 cup diced green onion
• 1/4 cup sliced fresh jalapenos
• 1 cup heated vegetarian refried beans
• Fresh guacamole
• Sour cream
Layer cheese and other ingredients (except for last two) throughout corn chips. Bake in a pre-heated 475 F oven until cheese bubbles, remove from oven, quickly top with guacamole and sour cream. Serve now, now, now! For added pizazz, top with fried onions.
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