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Dinner is Ready to Cook

at Cypress Bayou

Cypress Bayou Specialty Meats LLC introduces specialization in the
meat market sector with hand-chosen premium cuts and authentic Cajun recipes.
Entrepreneur and owner, Dustin Rushing, runs his business just like everyone is
family. Rushing welcomes the community to stop by and explore his variety of
menu items.
“These recipe blends come directly from southern Louisiana bayou country.
We would not change the recipes the old-timers spent generations perfecting,” is a
theme echoed by the family who brings this culturally rich experience in food to the
Greater Hot Springs and Central Arkansas market.
Rushing is proud of sharing this new concept to families on-the-go. He
will have the customer’s entrée ready for pickup making it convenient to sit down
and eat on busy week nights. His knowledge about premium and choice meat
selections are part of his heritage, as he grew up on the farmlands and cattle ranches
of Southwest Arkansas.
The menu items are prepared fresh daily and always begin with the best
premium meat and are combined with spices and Cajun tradition extraordinaire.
Rushing points out that spicy does not always mean “hot and spicy.”
“Some people expected all our house specialty entrees to be hot because Cajun
food has that reputation. Our customers are happy to enjoy the authentic flavors
without all the extra-hot items. And customers order their own way. We cook it the
way they want it,” he says.
Cypress Bayou paves the way as the first in Central Arkansas to provide
this new concept to “take home dinner already prepared to cook” while delivering
top shelf meat with a genuine and authentic cultural flavor of the south, which is
highly sought after in this area.
“Savour the Cajun Flavor” in either of two locations. The first just opened
at 3958 Hwy 7 North in June. The second is scheduled to open soon on Alcoa Road
in Benton. Pick up deboned chicken stuffed with your choice of favorites or boudin
made fresh daily. Open 9-6 pm Monday - Saturday.
For more details, find them on FaceBook: Cypress Bayou Specialty Meats
LLC, or call to order 501-204-5015.
The Big Sleep

By David Rose
I’ve been having trouble sleeping of late so my doctor hooked me up with
a sample pack of one of those new-generation sleep aids.
I’m sure you know the ones I’m talking about. They have peaceful, serene
ads on television often featuring a woman sleeping
soundly while floating above her bed. Outside the
window a benevolent moon shines down while
languid hoot owls watch quietly from the trees.
The people in those ads always wake
refreshed, stretch with anticipation and bound out of
bed. I wanted to do that in the worst way, to bound
and anticipate. The blister pack contained enough
pills for five days and I was eager to get started.
I took one that very night and it seemed to
work. There was no stretching and bounding in the
morning but I did feel like I had slept better. The second
Guest Writer, David Rose night was much the same as the first, but I noticed that I
was feeling a bit melancholy during the day.
On the day after my third sleeping pill I found myself sitting in front of the
television set and crying uncontrollably. This was particularly disturbing because
I was watching the Food Channel. It was a travelogue piece on Barney’s Beanery
in Los Angeles. The Beanery is an exquisite dive on old Route 66 and they were
showing a foot-long chili dog topped with cheese and chopped onions.
Now I am a product of the 60’s and Barney’s is where Janis Joplin ate her
last meal. There is also much to mourn in the fact that I am now lactose intolerant
and can’t eat cheese, chili gives me heartburn, hot dogs are high in cholesterol, and
as for chopped onions, well, you can just forget about them.
And yet, I felt the depth of my sorrow to be a bit excessive. I was really
blubbering. I hadn’t done that while watching a show since Ole Yeller bought the
farm. I read the insert that came with the blister pack. Among other possible side
effects, it listed depression and suicide.
Now, where I come from, suicide is not considered a side effect, it’s more
or less a main event. I ditched the rest of the pills, shut off the TV, and went out for
a chili dog with all the trimmings.
In a blast from the past, David Rose, author of plenty of satire, and
former guest writer to The Springs Magazine, offers his take on the world.