Drag Queen Bingo

Last night we went out with a friend of ours for a wild Saturday night of peanut butter sandwiches and bingo.  Normally this sounds like something your grandma would do for fun but this was different and not at all grandma-like.  For dinner we went to Peanut Butter & Co. which serves mostly peanut butter sandwiches of various kinds that are all freaking amazing.  My husband had The Elvis, which is a peanut butter, bacon and banana sandwich and I had the lunchbox special, which is your choice of peanut butters and jellies.  I chose original crunchy and grape jelly, but they have ten different kinds of peanut butter including spicy, cinnamon, chocolate, honey, and maple varieties just to name a few.  They are all super tasty!  And they have a bunch of peanut butter related art on the walls.

They also sell all sorts of sodas that aren't available at most places.  They have key lime soda, cherries and cream, and other oddly awesome flavors.  This is the one that I had yesterday:

After we went to dinner we walked a couple of blocks to Le Poisson Rouge for Drag Queen Bingo. 

They have the effervescent Linda Simpson (probably the sweetest drag queen in the whole world) calling numbers and giving out fabulous dollar store prizes.  Well, technically New York doesn't have "dollar stores" in the sense that pretty much everything inside costs no more than a dollar.  We have stores that sell cheap stuff that call themselves 99 cent stores but the name isn't accurate in any way.  My favorite one is called 99 Cents or Less Or More.  Heh.  Talk about truth in advertising! 

They gave away a bunch of stuff, including the prize that I won!  I won some safari animal wall appliques and other people won a change bank shaped like two mice driving a car, a collection of miniature dolls, and a dinosaur with working jaw action.

At the end of the night they play one last game for a cash prize.  Last night the cash prize was $116 dollars!  We didn't win it though.  Actually the winner was a doctor, which kind of rubbed everyone else the wrong way.  Consensus seemed to be that if you earn 6 figures or more per year you shouldn't claim cash prizes, especially given the current economy.

We had such a great time!  I think we are going to make Drag Queen Bingo a regular part of our lives from now on.