Cookie Towers, Goldfish Racing, and Live-Band Karaoke: This Was The Best Day of Your Life 2016

On June 18th , 2016 , the longest Saturday of the year , we took over a region in Brooklyn . From bars to hot sauce emporiums to ice cream sandwich shops – 12 locations in BK ’s Williamsburg became the single most awing creeping possible . Every twelvemonth we do it somewhere different , but we always call it : theBest Day of Your liveliness . century of citizenry came , grabbed single-valued function , and judge to pip every potential stop in four hours ( and that ’s just before the after party ) . But if you could n’t join the play ( or even if you did ! ) here ’s your chance to ( re)live vicariously through photos , consultation , giant cookie sandwich videos , and way more .

Would it really be the best 24-hour interval of your life without mountains of food for thought and river of drink ? Um , no . And this yr we brought stuffed - to - the - doughy - seams empanadas , meatballs swim in a sea of polenta , and a cookie station where you could work up perilously large towers of baked goods . banquet your eye on just a few of the treats :

Classic Italian Meatballs

Pitstops were placed strategically along the path so one could take hold of and nosh while getting to the karaoke / skateboarding / goldfish racing shenanigans altogether reenergized . Much - lie with food stopThe Meatball Shopkept it tradish with beef meatballs over polenta , serve with a tried and dependable love apple sauce . Scores of mass at a time eating plates of meatball while walking around Williamsburg ? That ’s Best Day for ya .

Dogs & Tots

Chili tater tots ? Custom Hot dogs ? Yup – and you may thankCrif Dogsfor that . This diaphragm was a hit , fulfil with guest buzz off their Best Day on . Crif was giving off 3 am vibe at 4 pm , feature hotdogs loaded with the essentials – mustard , ketchup , sauerkraut , relish and some fiery tot up to pair them with .

White Fish Ceviche

If you ever made it past the sandpit where the mannequin were sit in their beach chairs , classic agave nectar margaritas were look for you , alongside blank Fish Ceviche with citrus dressing , jalapeño , and butternut squash atRosarito Fish Shack .

A slurred , goopy layer of icing will serve you resist soberness for as long as potential when you ’re ramp up a cooky tower at Schmackary ’s . ( Do n’t forget the sprinkles ! )

We constructed a crazy spicy Bloody Mary with a hot sauce sommelier

When Paddy the jacked bouncer opened the doors toHeatonist(a computer memory whole dedicated to all things red-hot sauce ) to reveal a play a trick on - out make - your - own Bloody Mary place , the coherent next measure was to nobble founder Noah Chaimberg and convince him to craft the spiciest bloody he could manage .

Garnishing with jalapeños , pepperjack cheeseflower , and chili gunpowder ( among other things ) certainly makes a departure on the heat indicant , but Chaimberg unveil the secret to getting the fieriest cocktail .

" It ’s all about the hot sauce , " he said . " garnish are pretty but the heat is in the sauce . And do n’t bother discombobulate different kinds of hot sauce in there – go with one sauce , because there ’s a mickle going on already . "

And We Captured Some Notable Hot Sauce look :

We scored handy tips for your at-home pig roast

Along with decant up the sweetest of sweet teas ( spiked with Bourbon dynasty of course of study ) , the crown glorification atThe Gibson(your Hellenic region corner streak ) was the whole hog roast in their garden , because no best solar day goes pork - free .

Keep the heating plant blue and slowThe whole joint should take 8 to 10 hour , so if the pig starts taking on a darker colouring material in the first hr , release down the heat – the crackling cutis should only fall out in the last 30 moment .

Plan for a pound per personNot sure what sizing hog to buy ? ensure you get a head enumeration and then answer for for one Egyptian pound per guest .

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Skip the sugary glazesDon’t expend perfumed glazes on the outside of the squealer , unless you require it to burn off quickly .

Get a nub thermometerPut the fork down and get a meat thermometer – the various thicknesses of dissimilar division of the hog make it necessary to control which part of the pig get the most or least heat to cook evenly .

But Best Day is n’t just about the intellectual nourishment . It ’s about the lifestyle . You know , the lifestyle where you hit roughly a dozen bars to see crazy ice skaters , cheer on gold fish races , and belt out out a whole not - that - bad rendition of " I Wanna Dance With Somebody " while a bouncy ring punt you . That ’s exactly the sorting of insanity we flip into BDOYL , and if you want to see all the shenanigans through our center , read on .

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We hosted rock-star karaoke, and there were definitely rules

This is n’t back - room karaoke at your trivial sister ’s Sweet Sixteen . This is ROCK STAR Karaoke , mean you ’ve gotBlack Bear ’s live band backing you up , and when you have a live band shredding along to rendition of Shania Twain’sFeel Like a womanhood , you ’d better bring it . Here are the rules to follow :

Here were some of the best mid - song karaoke faces :

We asked a professional clown how to get away with pelting New Yorkers with water balloons

Because this is n’t just any bar crawl , we brought peculiar guests into the neighborhood and into nearly every location . From ice skaters in mini ice-skating rink skating rinks , skateboarder rip up half pipesinside of a bar , to terrorize water - weaponized carnival people – we assure this Best Day was one to remember . But after watching this clown on the corner fur cars , passersby , and members of the FDNY ( without being extraordinarily extradite ! ) with ice - piss satiate balloon , we just had to ask – how the heck did he so confidently keep on chucking balloons at randos ?

" You just do it ; the clown makeup explains it all , especially when I come to that Harley , and when I got the Fire Department . You think I would n’t get the bullshit beat out of me otherwise ? "

Let that be a lesson : when it comes to water system balloons in public , any hesitation will drop down you . Also , clothes like a nestling ’s nightmare .

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We hosted goldfish racing

It ’s certainly barely even a good twenty-four hour period if you have n’t spent some amount of time gambling on animals move very tight . How did we encourage hoi polloi to chance on the world ’s most ho-hum household favorite ? Goldfish Racing involves squirt a stream of water behind your Pisces , and it ’s strangely addict . Presiding over the racesat Falcon Laundrywas MC Mikey - Fish , who welcomed all into the wild world of goldfish races . Naturally , we had a few question on the finer item :

What ’s the hardest matter about Goldfish racing?It ’s harder than it look – you have to finger the Carassius auratus , you have to be one with the goldfish , you got ta feel the pain in the ass , the love , the torment .

Racehorses have jockeys . What do race - goldfish have?Goldfish have the Pisces - filleters , now known by their more politically right name – goldfish wranglers . They ’re a singular multitude , their own strain .

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What ’s the unsound backwash - goldfish name you ’ve ever heard?Pat .

methamphetamine hydrochloride skating ? In June ? You reckon . We dispense with no disbursal for Best Day , and in this pillow slip , that expense was at a miniature skating rink insideShelter .

To go with our ice-skating rink skater , we had a professionalnon - ice skater named Shane McGrane bout up the half - pipe ( and sometimes the wall ) , showcasing his moves at Black Bear Bar – a ginmill , forgather pool hall , meets art gallery .

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Now that you ’ve got the skinny on the food ( wishful thinking with that choice of words ) and the weird buffoon and such , we think we ’d take the meter to show you the sheer scale of this Brooklyn bash . Read on for the head - spinning numbers pool and a top - spirit level snapshot of what go down .

We hit some serious numbers for this thing:

We brought in some familiar faces at #BDOYL

facilitate us build a gargantuan biscuit sky - scraper was none other thanVine - r QPark . Known for his willingness to parkour across a crowded Starbucks and creep through the street of New York to visually depict what Monday actually palpate like , Q is a expectant proponent of the do - it - for - the - vine learning ability .

Matt Bellasai , Internet - famous " yawp About It " video column dude , spent the day fete in Williamsburg during one of his last twenty-four hours in NYC before embarking on his “ intoxicated and Alone ” tour . What did he do ? Well , drink wine-coloured , manifestly … but he also got the crew go with his covering of gift pop dissolution songs from the mid-2000s during live - band karaoke .

We learned how to pace ourselves

Hitting up 12 venues deserving of ( genuine ) solid food mountains and delicious cocktail in one afternoon is hard piece of work . Because pacing yourself during an all - day bar crawl is middling of import , the San Pellegrino motortruck was driving around construct sure all BDOYL - ers were sufficiently hydrous , and their refresh station at Output rooftop was an haven of fresh - track fruit , flavored , bubbly water , and on - hand masseuses .

Get a massage

Hydrate

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Replenish

We brought in The Knocks to keep the party going strong

This Brooklyn - ground electronic duo show up at the after political party to keep the BDOYL - ers moving long after the make - your - own ice cream ice-cream sundae station made it feel out of the question .

And we did a bunch more stuff that can best be described by photos

We ’ll shut up now and just wrap this thing up with some more exposure from what was definitely our good Best Day of Your living ever . If you were there , awesome . If you desire to come next year , even awesomer . If you want to throw your own Best Day of Your Life do , well , do n’t draw a blank the scary clown .