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Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
I remember one of the McDonalds near campus, in the town where I grew up, had the McPizza for a time. I don't think anyone ever bought it because it was literally across the street from the pizza place that sold slices. In Central Illinois, one doesn't usually find slices. And then just down the street about five storefronts, you had the insanely popular dirt cheap Italian place.
I still have no idea why that McDonalds thought it would be a good idea to try to sell pizza.
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good Thing?
See, those of you who are not terrified are generally looking at *adding something else to this* that would break up the bacon and shredded cheese. Because as is, kinda ew. With mashed potatoes, OMGYUM!
'Top Chef' Season 5, Episode 6: It's a Wonderful Kitchen
@kaszeta: Obviously, because they just "happened" to find some extra meat sitting around that was OK to use.
My roommate called the "no one is going home" the moment the fridge thing happened.
It's all because of the clusterf*** in season 2 - they learned that if they can totally ratchet up the drama, and send two people home the following week, they can get people to watch the second week. This works better, however, when there's an actual clusterf*** and not just the producers doing stuff. (at least it's better than poisoning someone like the producers did on the Legally Blonde reality show.)
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How to Survive a South Pole Expedition
Was Paula Deen the caterer?
Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
I remember one of the McDonalds near campus, in the town where I grew up, had the McPizza for a time. I don't think anyone ever bought it because it was literally across the street from the pizza place that sold slices. In Central Illinois, one doesn't usually find slices. And then just down the street about five storefronts, you had the insanely popular dirt cheap Italian place.
I still have no idea why that McDonalds thought it would be a good idea to try to sell pizza.
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good Thing?
See, those of you who are not terrified are generally looking at *adding something else to this* that would break up the bacon and shredded cheese. Because as is, kinda ew. With mashed potatoes, OMGYUM!
'Top Chef' Season 5, Episode 6: It's a Wonderful Kitchen
@kaszeta: Obviously, because they just "happened" to find some extra meat sitting around that was OK to use.
My roommate called the "no one is going home" the moment the fridge thing happened.
It's all because of the clusterf*** in season 2 - they learned that if they can totally ratchet up the drama, and send two people home the following week, they can get people to watch the second week. This works better, however, when there's an actual clusterf*** and not just the producers doing stuff. (at least it's better than poisoning someone like the producers did on the Legally Blonde reality show.)
Snapshots from the UK: Elderflower: Pressé, Collins, and Jell-O
Whoa, the elderflower jelly at EAT is new! (ok, newer than 2006 - I've been away too long)
Burger King's New Meat-Scented Spray, 'Flame'
I think I need to gouge my eyes out after viewing that picture.
Anyone have any brain bleach?
Serious Eats Gift Guide: Food You Can Wear
Do the Macaroni and Cheese earrings remind anyone else of The Babysitters Club? (I'm showing my age, I know, but you know Claudia would have owned a pair.)
No Acorns in US This Year?
It looks to be just in the DC area.
Death of the Girl Scout Cookie?
Ours always happen in the spring. And after all, Girl Scout cookies, unlike similar cookies you can buy year round at the grocery store, have no calories and are acceptable for binge-eating. It's pathetic to buy a box of cookies at the grocery store and down them all in one sitting, but Girl Scout cookies are meant to be snarfed.
Aren't they? You mean, it isn't like birthday cake has no calories?
Damn!
Microwaveable S'mores Maker
My roommate and I used to make Smores by impaling marshmallows on chopsticks left over from Chinese takeout and toasting them over those big three-wick pillar candles. It's faster than using the smaller candles because you get better heat distribution. Most of the fun of Smores is playing with fire anyway.
Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us: The Thanksgiving Special
The deep fried cake is a joke, right? Someone tell me that's a joke. Please. I'm holding out hope that it's a joke like the deep fried butter.
(can they have fried cranberry sauce on a stick at the state fair, though? That sounds frighteningly awesome.)
Review of Williams-Sonoma's La Brea Boxed Stuffings
How hard is it to buy a loaf of really cheap bread a couple days early and set it out to go stale? I've never understood boxed stuffing, and I'm from a household where nearly all other baked goods (including pie crust, excluding cookies) come from a box. Stuffing comes from cheap stale bread and Swanson chicken broth.
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
Amy's Cream of Mushroom soup makes lovely tuna casserole. In my house growing up, that's the only use cream of mushroom soup ever had. Never ate green bean casserole until my roommate and I did thanksgiving dinner ourselves one year and she wanted it. And you know, it was pretty good. of course, we used fresh green beans, which probably made it pretty good, as opposed to the canned green beans my mother still insists are perfectly good (they aren't - they never were - I have to smother them in sweet potato to cover the taste). Also, marshmallows + sweet potatoes = ewww.
Now that I've admitted to eating organic canned soup, I feel I must stick up for cranberry sauce in a can. Sure, it's cranberry jelly, but it's yummy and not just for thanksgiving! I grew up eating it all year round, often as an accompaniment to barbeque. These days, it's a luxury, because I'm a poor non-profit worker with massive student loans and it doesn't provide much in the way of nutritional value, but I still get the Whole Foods version sometimes.
Sweet Potato Fries -- Who Likes These Things?
Zen Palate still does have good SPF - unless they've done something to the location at 9th and 50th (?) since June.
'Washington Post' Staffers Ate 31 Pounds of Cupcakes
@rwhip923:
Dry cake with pasty oversweetened frosting? and you *like* Cakelove? Do you realise you just described every overpriced cupcake I ever had from them? (and yes, I did keep trying - chocolate cake is better than vanilla only because dry chocolate is still chocolate, while dry vanilla is sand.)
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
I love all of those things. I don't have them anymore at my thanksgiving table, but if I'm served (any and all of it!) somewhere, I go for it and bask in nostalgia for days gone by with Nana and the whole fam!
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
@ mr guy- I agree, the brining doesn't do much for me either. I've done it the past two years, and if you ask me it's a big pain in the ass for little results. Expensive too.
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
Cans of thick slop and sludge never get anywhere near my cooking. As a matter of fact, Campbell's cream "soup" line is single handedly responsible for making crock pots the biggest laugh in the kitchen. (The crock pot was later de-throned by Sandra Lee as the biggest laugh in the kitchen - ironically a chronic user of cream soups.)
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
Don't be hating on me, but Campbell's creamy onion soup is far superior to use in casseroles versus the cream of mushroom. When I took over Thanksgiving duty from my MIL, that marshmallow sweet potato monstrosity was banned from my menu. As well as the canned cranberry "sauce", I make my own SF version from the real cranberries from the produce section.
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
Everything was fair game until you got to the marshmallows.
Marshmallows aren't Thanksgiving food. They're candy.
Death of the Girl Scout Cookie?
I have as long as i can remember been a fan of girl scout cookies. i had different ways of eating the specific type; samoas in the fridge or even freezer, thin mints, with milk, bite opposite ends of the cookie off just a bit, and suck the milk through the middle...the cookie got soft and milk soaked, and the coating kept it whole, and when you popped it in your mouth and chewed it...WOW, same way for tagalongs...A signifigant part of me is saddened by the thought...but i offer an alternative for interested parties.
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Death of the Girl Scout Cookie?
I'm a dad of my 10 week old daughter. I'm thinking of the future and looking for something like the girl scouts of america for her to join in the future. I looked at their website and there are more than one tab with the word Cookies. I got the feeling that the whole thing was about cookies. I was very disappointed. I hope they do get rid of cookies. I couldn't find anything about their merit badges, there was very little about hiking/backpacking. At least you don't have to use the word god in the scout law. I assume they allow gays. Good thing she is a girl and not a boy, I'd never want my child to be a member to the boy scouts (anti guy, anti atheist).
Sweet Potato Fries -- Who Likes These Things?
Have you ever had them with honey and melted butter? You might feel differently.
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good Thing?
BACON BOY AWAY!!!! (to get some of this!)
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good Thing?
I like Bacon I like cheese its a genious idea!!!!
(BACON BOY APPROVED)
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good Thing?
This thing looks awesome!
Check out this sausage recipe...might be a nice balance to all that bacon!
http://whatarebucknuts.blogspot.com/2009/01/ooey-gooey-midwestern-sausage-fiesta.html
Sweet Potato Fries -- Who Likes These Things?
One comment I did not see is that, for a diabetic like me, regular potato fries are a no-no (what with the high glycemic index of potatos). However, sweet potato fries are actually tolerable from a blood-sugar perspective. Something to keep in mind...
How to Survive a South Pole Expedition
No wonder they were in such a hurry!
Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
In singapore they still deep fry the apple pies.
I had to eat my fill.
I hate the "healthy" baked US version.
Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
@gentlyferal - I'm so glad I'm not the only one who remebers the Cheddar Melt. I haven't seen it in years though :( I seem to remember the Cheddar Cheese sauce tasting more like sharp cheddar than mild, I think that's one of the reasons I loved it so. Good call on the Welsh rarebit thing, that's exactly what it is reminiscent of.
Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
@ Martini Me: Yes, I certainly do remember that cheddar-melt-on-rye! It might have been national, because I live in California. I'm not the kind of person who willingly goes into a McDonald's, so I ran into it by sheer luck.
Absolutely loved it. It was more of a Welsh-rarebit thing - It seemed more like a thick cheese sauce - but combined with the grilled onions and rye bread - sheer brilliance. The only McDonald's menu item I've ever actually relished.
Say, we have a big block of cheddar and a bag of onions...
Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
@emilydev - I live in Milwaukee too and remember the McBrat. I remember thinking what a stupid thing to have on the menu in WI. We are brat connessiuers here. We can get them all year round and we know the only way to cook them is in beer with onions. McD's could never better that. I also remember pizza on the menu in Illinois. Does anyone remember the Cheddar Melt? I was never sure if that was a regional thing or not. It had a cheddar cheese sauce, fried onions on a rye bun. They were actually pretty darn good.
Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
In New Mexico I have seen a green chile cheeseburger on the value menu.
Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
To all the commenters who expressed doubt about deep-fried patties at McDonald's (with regards to branches in Argentina being the only ones to char-grill them), I apologize. I misunderstood some information in the Wikipedia entry I cited. The patties in the rest of the world are fried on griddles, and not, as I stated, deep-fried.
Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
Also why isn't the McRib a regular menu item? They sell it in some parts of the US for like a month then it goes away for another year. Is this a great marketing scheme?
Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World
When I moved to England they have the Fried Apple pies but during Christmas McDonalds has Fried Mince Pies filled with Vanilla Custard. When I lived on Guam as a kid I would get rice from McDonalds for breakfast and pour milk on it. I thought it was really good.
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good Thing?
I think this look delicious!! I love bacon and cheese! Obviously you wont eat the whole roll by yourself. I think two 'sushi sized' rolls wil be great for a breakfast extra :)
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good Thing?
Humph! none a y'all ever seen a redneck Oreo before? When we add pulled pork and hot sauce, we call 'em s'mores...'cause that's what we want!
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good Thing?
@beersnob
Loved the idea of a slice on my hamburger! What's so different than having a bacon cheeseburger??
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good Thing?
Those who criticize this bacon roll have not tried it. It is delicious! I made one ... and I intend to make a larger one.
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