Wisconsin Breakfast II!

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Beer + Brats = Wisconsin Breakfast

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Senor Joe's Breakfast Beeritos

FREE SHIRT WITH PURCHASE OF RECIPE
Got your attention? Good.

You know Oppermacher as a creator of fine apparel, but did you know we can cook, too? For Senor Joe's Breakfast Beeritos, we are opening up our recipe books (and dusting off our thesauruses) and shifting the paradigm.

Here's the deal: buy the recipe, get the shirt.

Here's what you must be wondering: the shirt looks cool, but why in the world would we want this recipe? Fair question. Here's an anecdote.

Before Christmas our designer had going-away party for a co-worker. Senor Joe insisted on making a batch of the Beeritos for her to take in. The ingredients alone cost $78.46! The guy responsible for paying the grocery bill cried ...

... tears of joy! The Beeritos were the single best thing he'd ever consumed at a work party! That includes shrimp, cocktail weenies, cheesy potatoes, Rice Krispie treats, goulash, and the cake with the good frosting. The Beeritos were sooooooooo good! And how could they not be, after all? As Joe says, "Fortified with Beer, so you know they're good."

Thankfully, there were leftovers, and we brought the Beeritos home. Double thankfully, they include onions (the only ingredient we'll reveal here), so our boys didn't eat them -- more for us! We had it for five straight meals.

So yeah, the shirt's cool, but you really need to make the $14.99 investment in this recipe. Everyone you know and cook for will love you for it.

Senor Joe's Breakfast Beeritos

GPG!

We've all been at a game in Green Bay when that simple, instantly recognizable song comes over the loudspeakers.

"Duh duh duh, duh duh duh duh ..."

Then we all yell:

G!
P!
G!

Or something like that. Something that rhymes with "Slow! Jack! Slow!"

This one's shorter. And better. Still something of an inside joke, so it's cool.

GPG!

The House That Beer Built

The house that beer built. This vintage design is perfectly paired with a 50/50 poly/cotton slightly faded shirt, giving the the look you want, with the comfort you need. This shirt looks and feels like it's been part of your roster for the last 15 years.

The House That Beer Built

Koach > Coach

Koach > Coach. Duke fans will get it.

Celebrate Belly Laugh Day With Oppermacher

Celebrate Belly Laugh Day With Oppermacher

Christmas is over, but that's no reason to stop celebrating. Belly Laugh Day is coming up, January 24. That's right, it's a thing.

So what are you going to wear for the occasion? You probably got some clothes for Christmas, but they probably weren't very funny. Like dress shirts, ties, socks, sweatpants ... underwear.
You owe it to yourself, or your loved ones, to try out some clothes that will at least make people giggle. Like these shirts from Oppermacher.com, which you may or may not have seen before.

OK, so we're not promising these will deliver belly laughs. But at least grins and knowing smiles. Take a look and let us know what you think!

The Legend of Breakfast Beeritos, Part 2

… in 2005, a young Midwesterner named Joseph Opperman made a visit to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, while on Spring Break from college.  In many respects it was a typical spring break trip: dinner at La Cueva del Chango, drinks at Media Luna, days spent around the pool working on a sunburn, recovering from the revelry.

After one particularly decadent night spent at CoCo Bongo and Blue Parrot, Joe woke up at around 11 a.m., a scuba diving pamphlet stuck to his face, cotton in his mouth. Gatorade and pretzels would not cut it on this particular morning -- he needed something more substantial. Joe pulled on a Billabong tank top and ambled next door to Las Mananitas, which his friends had told him had quesadillas to die for. Where were they now? Probably playing cards over at Los Carboncitos. Probably losing money -- morons, he thought to himself.

Alone, Joe asked the waitress for a coffee, a menu, and an aspirin if she had one. (She did! When you work Spring Break for tips, you tend to pick up some tricks.)  What looked good? Tacos? Not substantial enough. Chimichangas? That might push his stomach over th edge. Burritos? Refried beans were definitely NOT what the doctor ordered.

WAIT -- What's this? Joe said to himself. "Breakfast Beeritos, Carmelita?" he asked the waitress when she returned with the aspirin.

"Buena elección - se trata de la major comida!" Carmelita replied. Joe searched the six pockets in his shorts and realized he had left his Spanish-English dictionary back in his hotel room.

"Eso suena delicious - que es lo que va a teenier," Joe told the waitress, or "Sounds delicious, that's what I will have." (Who needs a dictionary -- I'm fluent baby! he thought to himself.)

Five minutes later the Beeritos arrived at his table, and not a minute too soon -- aspirin on an empty stomach can mess you up. He took his first bite … culinary ecstasy! This was like nothing else Joe had ever eaten. Hearty, spicy, a little bit naughty ("Was it the beer?" he thought. "Also, don't they call beer cerveza in Mexico? Why aren't these called Desayuno Cervezitos? Shut up and eat, idiot …")

"Esta comida es maravillosa. ¿Me puede dar la receta?" Joe asked Carmelita when she stopped back, sweetly asking for the recipe. The beautiful young lady thought for a few seconds, furrowing her brow and playing with her oversized hoop earrings. It wasn't the first time she had heard this question, and she usually dismissed such requests out of hand. But Joe was clearly a different customer. She liked him. She knew that if she told him the ingredients and cooking process, he would treat it with respect.

So she leaned in and whispered. "En primer lugar, se toma doce huevos …"

To learn more about how you can make Senor Joe's Breakfast Beeritos (in English), click here.

The Legend of Breakfast Beeritos, Part 1

Legend has it ...

... in 1912, a band of rebels fighting in the Mexican Revolution under the leadership of Pascual Orozco advanced pushed forward and prepared for a key battle on the outskirts of Mexicali. The troops were in good spirits, but exhausted, and running out of rations. The Treaty of Ciudad Juarez was fresh in everyone's minds, and they knew that the next day's conflict will be decisive.

Spent from a day of travel and evening of battle planning, the platoon was sloppy packing their supplies, and failed to store them in a secure location in the camp. A humble 17-year-old, Jose Roberto Oppermanza, made the fatal mistake of storing tortilla shells, eggs, potatoes, onions, shredded cheese, and four half-consumed bottles of cerveza in what could have been the worst possible spot in camp -- directly behind Patriciarita, a beautiful but dull burro.

The next morning, mayhem! Patriciarita had knocked over the rations!

"Mal burro! Mal burro! No me gusta!" shouted Victoriano Huerta, the burro's master. The raw ingredients lay in a mess on the ground, ants and raccoons frolicking in the unexpected feast. The men were frantic. Where would they get the strength for the push on Mexicali?

"Pero espara!" cried Jose Roberto, who noticed that some of the food had spilled into a skillet and was simmering over a dying fire. Famished, the young solider reached in, pushed the good together in the tortilla with his dirty, gunpowder-stained fingers, and wrapped it up.

Placing it in his mouth ... magic! Taste overwhelmed young Jose. He had left his home in Orizaba 95 days ago, and dearly missed his mother's cooking. But this happy accident was a gift from heaven. He shared his happy accident with his platoonmates, with Huerta, and finally Orozco. (Not with Patriciarita, though; the true catalyst for this culinary breakthrough was left with her usual breakfast of oats and warm water.)

Oppermanza's platoon won the battle of Mexicali, which proved to be a turning point in the Revolution. The morning's meal, later dubbed the Beerito, was given full credit. Oppermanza was awarded the Mexican equivalent of the Medal of Honor for his discovery.

As he lived out his days as a celebrity solider, Oppermanza toured the country, making Breakfast Beeritos for his fellow citizens. Yet he never revealed the full recipe. …

Coming tomorrow: Part 2

Pizza!

We love pizza.

Well, duh, right? Who doesn't love pizza?

How much do we love pizza? Our production guy got our marketing guy and designer chick a dedicated pizza oven for Christmas. Was it to save electricity when cooking frozen pizzas? Was it so we wouldn't have to go upstairs to make pizza? Or was it to make pizzas quicker?

Our money's on the third.

So Friday night, while we were eating pizza, one of our boys said "Why don't you just make a shirt that just says 'Pizza'?"

So here we are.

Pizza