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Your Worst Meal Ever

Most of the worst meals I've had that spring to mind are all the result of terrible service more so that terrible food, and from restaurants who's reputations would lead you to believe the service would be quite good. Although my memory of the food at Ouest and DB Bistro is that it was competent, if unremarkable, the ill treatment by unpleasant staff was memorable enough that I'd never go back, not even on someone else's dime...

AnalogBass at 4:42PM on 10/26/06

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Vineyard: Amazing Ca. Peaches, Great local soda

There's a company from South Carolina that has been bottling ginger ale and ginger beer since 1903 called Blenheim, their sodas are crisp and dry with good ginger flavor - their 'hot' ginger ale is outstanding and very very peppery - sip it slowly or you'll end up in a coughing fit.

http://blenheimshrine.com/

AnalogBass at 4:55PM on 09/05/06

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Fried Chicken Redux

A month or so ago on our way into Central Park for a Saturday afternoon we picked up some take out containers of fried chicken from Lobel's, the venerable NY butcher, and it was outstanding...

AnalogBass at 10:07AM on 08/22/06

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From Serious Eats

Your Worst Meal Ever

Most of the worst meals I've had that spring to mind are all the result of terrible service more so that terrible food, and from restaurants who's reputations would lead you to believe the service would be quite good. Although my memory of the food at Ouest and DB Bistro is that it was competent, if unremarkable, the ill treatment by unpleasant staff was memorable enough that I'd never go back, not even on someone else's dime...

AnalogBass at 4:42PM on 10/26/06

From Serious Eats

Vineyard: Amazing Ca. Peaches, Great local soda

There's a company from South Carolina that has been bottling ginger ale and ginger beer since 1903 called Blenheim, their sodas are crisp and dry with good ginger flavor - their 'hot' ginger ale is outstanding and very very peppery - sip it slowly or you'll end up in a coughing fit.

http://blenheimshrine.com/

AnalogBass at 4:55PM on 09/05/06

From Serious Eats: New York

Fried Chicken Redux

A month or so ago on our way into Central Park for a Saturday afternoon we picked up some take out containers of fried chicken from Lobel's, the venerable NY butcher, and it was outstanding...

AnalogBass at 10:07AM on 08/22/06

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Your Worst Meal Ever

This really happened when I was in Georgia for my father's second funeral.

A sandwich supper that consisted of cold Velveeta and Treet sandwiches on Wonder bread dressed with MIracle Whip mixed with ketchup and pickle relish. Served with Mountain Dew, choice of regular or diet.

Do you hear the banjos?

Tina

tinastrong at 4:07PM on 06/05/08

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Your Worst Meal Ever

I will happily share my worst meal ever because even though it happened in the mid 1990s it still haunts me to this day. A friend and me were visiting England (I know, ominous start) and we were going up to Oxford from London to visit a student friend later in the day. We were so new to Oxford and England that we didn't quite get how small and close everything was. So we got off the train at the Oxford station and proceeded to walk through the town into the next village thinking we were still in Oxford. My friend and I were both New Yorkers at the time so we were used to walking great distances while carrying stuff. We probably only walked five to eight miles or so, but when we started seeing grazing sheep we figured something was amiss. So we stopped into a pub and learned that we walked right through the town without seeing the University (in all fairness to us Oxford at the time wasn't exactly open to the public).

We were famished and this was a country pub so we thought well let's at least have lunch. The waitress was wonderfully friendly the menu looked good. I ordered the chicken parmesan and my friend got the pub favorite shepard's pie. And some hard ciders. What I got was something fried to the point of resembling dark shoe leather doused in cheese whiz. I am not exaggerating. My friend's shepard's pie was worse. We weren't going to even try this food. The cheeze whiz was glowing and just poking the chicken I learned it was brittle. We gulped down the ciders, paid the bill on the table (with generous tip of course -- our waitress not only didn't make fun of us for being tourist dweebs but drew us a map and explained how Oxford was set up). Then we RAN back to the pizza hut near the Oxford train station for lunch before we met our friend. (Mind you we were carrying our luggage backpacks.)

Anyway, love your blog and thoughts!

claude r

Claude at 9:04AM on 10/27/06

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Fried Chicken Redux

Please check out Jacques-Imo's on the UWS, dark meat. It's not quite as good as the New Orleans original, but it's absolutely worth adding to list.

username12 at 2:00PM on 08/22/06

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Fried Chicken Redux

I'm from S.C. and pride myself on knowing good fried chicken. I think Maroons on 16th Street hs the the best fried chicken I've ever had. The spice is just right on it and it's always juicy.

carolinabo at 12:22PM on 08/22/06

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