Millions of years ago Dinosaurs ruled the earth- fast forward 50 million years and a few crazy monkeys got loose in our creek.
At the Creek Monkey Tap House we celebrate both of these improbable events.
In celebration we decided to create a place where you and your monkeys can come and become a part of our craziness. We serve food grown, raised and caught by people we know. We don’t really see the sense in having our food suffer long lonely journeys in cold impersonal containers. We’d rather see our food in the fields and farms that surround where we live.
Knowing where your food comes from seems like common sense to us but it’s become a concept as foreign as most of America’s food. Now granted, at first light it might seem neat to have a fruit or vegetable when it’s out of season in the Northern Hemisphere but why not eat with the seasons. We also think that our industrial food practices are making us sick and we’re sick of that.
Our government pays farmers to grow corn (and some people they pay not to grow anything- not sure why that makes sense but I’m sure it’s just above our pay grade.) Since we pay people to grow corn it’s really cheap to use corn in everything and I mean EVERYTHING that they put on the shelves in the supermarket. Some is ground up and added to things. Some is chemically reduced with some pretty nasty stuff to sweeten things. A lot ends up in the meats we eat because we feed it to everything. The problem is most living things weren’t designed to eat only one thing and certainly not only corn.
When cows eat only corn it makes them fat really fast. It also opens them up to infections like e-coli so they have to be pumped full of anti-biotics that end up in you when you eat them. If you switch a cow back to grass, which is what they were designed to eat (that’s why they have four stomachs), the cholesterol level in the meat goes down so it’s not going to clog up your pipes as fast. They also eject all of the e-coli and cease needing medicine to fight off the bugs. Granted it takes many years to achieve the same thing that feed lots do in months but I would rather have leaner healthier meat and give a cow at least a modicum of respect in their lives.
See we’re into the “slow food” movement. No, we’re not a bunch of lazy people who don’t want to serve you in a timely manner. We just believe that maybe it’s time we slowed down and went back a step or two to when food actually nourished us and didn’t kill us. We’re not hippies we just want to make some sense out of the chaos that has become the modern world. We’ll start with food and see where that gets us.
We also believe that people make better things than machines. We’ll be brewing beer and making sodas and trying some things on you that you may just love. Let us know us know we’re doing the right thing by coming in and hanging out with us often.
This place belongs to you.
Jim and Katie Blair
Creek Monkey Tap House