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Reality Check: New Bacon Shake from Jack in the Box
@Me_So_Hungry - I do agree that (no matter how much I love it) bacon has been too overplayed. But one good thing about the country's continual fascination with bacon is that its much easier to get the really good stuff and not deal with just the thin cut/tastes only like salt and liquid smoke supermarket variety bacon. But to damn all bacon as thin and overcooked is like saying all cheeseburgers are dry, cotton, gritty burgers just like they serve at McDonalds.
@Will - it may be too top shelf for you but bacon fat does work wonders with bourbon!
Reality Check: New Bacon Shake from Jack in the Box
@Me_So_Hungry - i didn't realize all bacon, by definition, was thin cut and burnt. I wonder what that delicious thick cut, black pepper coated, smoked pork belly that was cooked till crisp on the outside but still pleasantly chewy in the middle was called.
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ESNY1077 answered "Yes. Always" to Do you get the reheat on your slice?
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ESNY1077 answered "The Redhead" to What's Your Favorite Fried Chicken In New York?
Poll posted by The Serious Eats Team, December 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM
ESNY1077 answered "Ess-A-Bagel" to What's Your Favorite Bagel In New York?
Poll posted by The Serious Eats Team, December 7, 2010 at 1:55 PM
ESNY1077 answered "Pellets" to What type of sausage do you prefer on your pizza?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, November 1, 2010 at 9:55 AM
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Quiz posted by Joshua Bousel, September 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM
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Recent Comments
Reality Check: New Bacon Shake from Jack in the Box
@Me_So_Hungry - My earliest memories of breakfast sausage are from airplane meals heading down to Disney World as a kid (back in the day when everyone got a hot meal on the plane - and a deck of cards and an airplane pin) and presumably as a result, I have never really gotten into the breakfast sausage thing.
As long as its cured and smoked, its bacon to me, no matter how fancy, but dlkon't get me started on the restaurants that call any dish with regular ole pork belly "bacon"....
Reality Check: New Bacon Shake from Jack in the Box
@Me_So_Hungry - I do agree that (no matter how much I love it) bacon has been too overplayed. But one good thing about the country's continual fascination with bacon is that its much easier to get the really good stuff and not deal with just the thin cut/tastes only like salt and liquid smoke supermarket variety bacon. But to damn all bacon as thin and overcooked is like saying all cheeseburgers are dry, cotton, gritty burgers just like they serve at McDonalds.
@Will - it may be too top shelf for you but bacon fat does work wonders with bourbon!
Reality Check: New Bacon Shake from Jack in the Box
@Me_So_Hungry - i didn't realize all bacon, by definition, was thin cut and burnt. I wonder what that delicious thick cut, black pepper coated, smoked pork belly that was cooked till crisp on the outside but still pleasantly chewy in the middle was called.
Get to Know Us: Will Gordon, Bottom Shelf Columnist
The real life Will Gordon does not jive at all with the ESNY mental Will Gordon image. I lack the whimsy and lyrical prose to describe my mental image of Will Gordon, suffice to say he does not look like Woody from Toy Story.
What Happened to My Pie Monday???
My guess is that you were hogging it too much, so they decided to give other peeps a chance to catch up.
Either that, or Slice is stafffed by lots of hungover happy Giants fans or hungover miserable Pats fans (both good things in my book)
Sugar=The Devil?
Easy solution - Sub your fruit intake for steak
Super Bowl Help - need some creative suggestions....
beer and saltines?
Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Emmets Irish Cream
@bartonkt - so have I, but they've always been characters in those Baileys commercials. Except for the haggard old man who occupies the end stool at my local irish drinking establishment (artfully called a Shebeen). Since his Baileys is served next to his Jamesons which is served next to his Guinness, i cut him some slack
leftover carnitas "stock"
use it for grits, esp for something like shrimp and grits
A Single Burnt Cookie...
To give you an excuse to eat one of the cookies right out of the oven
Pie of the Week: Chocolate Oatmeal Pie
I agree with @Becka K-S. raisins suck massively and have no place in dessert.
Super Bowl Giveaway: 10-Pound Box of Pat LaFrieda Sliders
Watching the Giants beat the Pats, again.
How to balance tasks while cooking
Besides all the great advice about prepping everything before starting to cook (not to mention having a drink while cooking), definitely don't assume you have all the ingredients. Can't tell you how many times I assumed I had X only to realize a few minutes before getting ready to prep and cook, I was wrong and found out i had nothing. Wound up with an awful lot of faux pizza biancas when the I realized that I had no cheese mere minutes before I was going to cook a pizza and was too lazy to go outside.
No More Whipped Cream and Sundaes at Shake Shack
Down with business based decisions when it upsets a lone fat guy. To the petition!!!!
IHOP's Bacon and Cheddar Hash Brown Stack
The best thing at IHOP are the meat lovers omelette. Enough salted cured meat to give Paula Deen's Type 2 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes. Add a side of pancakes, a carafe each of coffee and OJ, and you have a fine, well rounded hangover cure.
New York Penn Station
Inside Penn Station, I'd probably settle for a black and white cookie at Zaros or maybe Grandma pizza at Rosas.
As far as very near Penn Station (i.e., less than a 5 minute walk), you have Keens on 36th and 6th or K-town a block and half away A few minutes further of a walk, Co.(company) is on 24th and 9th, as is Grand Sichuan. Stout on 33rd btwn 6th and 7th is ok for a pub type place
Children's Book Giveaway: 'Chopsticks'
Toothpick. If a food is speared by a toothpick, then you know its good eatin.
Play on words: hot sauce wedding favor labels
Hotter than our first night together
Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Canadian Mist Blended Whisky
A presumably Boston accented bloke conversing with a Canadian accented fellow has hilarity written all over it.
Cleveland: If Michael Symon Weren't Already a Celebrity, B Spot Would Make Him a Star
@frankfurter - And I don't get why people who like their burgers well done complain when they see a picture of a rare burger. So I guess we are even.
Fast Food: McDonald's Chicken McBites
@Robyn Lee - I'd go to the McNugget meet up. They are still my favorite fast food items of all times, even though at this point i only eat them (and thus all fast food) about once every two-three years. I remember the good ole days when I would polish off a 20 pack and think nothing of it.
Long Live McNuggets and Hot Mustard Sauce.
The Pizza Lab: How to Make Pizza Bianca at Home
All this arguing reminds me of the classic Polly-O string cheese commercial.
Kid Ordering Pizza: Hey Fred, give me a pizza with extra cheese.
Fred: Ok, extra cheese.
Kid Ordering Pizza: And hold the tomato sauce
Fred: Hold the tomato sauce???
Kid Ordering Pizza: And hold the crust.
Fred: Hold the crust? Hey Shimmy, give a cheese with nothin
Shimmy: Nothin?!?!?!?!
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ESNY1077 answered "Yes. Always" to Do you get the reheat on your slice?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, January 10, 2011 at 10:25 AM
ESNY1077 answered "The Redhead" to What's Your Favorite Fried Chicken In New York?
Poll posted by The Serious Eats Team, December 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM
ESNY1077 answered "Ess-A-Bagel" to What's Your Favorite Bagel In New York?
Poll posted by The Serious Eats Team, December 7, 2010 at 1:55 PM
ESNY1077 answered "Pellets" to What type of sausage do you prefer on your pizza?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, November 1, 2010 at 9:55 AM
ESNY1077 answered "There's a third way (I'll explain in the comments)" to Egg pizza: Way or No Way?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, October 18, 2010 at 9:55 AM
ESNY1077 answered "A corner slice" to When it comes to square-cut pizza, I prefer ...
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, October 11, 2010 at 9:55 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Hot coffee" to This Morning: Hot Coffee or Iced Coffee?
Poll posted by Carey Jones, September 15, 2010 at 7:30 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Neither. I'm not what you'd call a fungi or fungal" to Do you prefer canned or fresh mushrooms on your pizza?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, August 30, 2010 at 8:50 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Yes" to Do you salt your slices?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, August 23, 2010 at 10:25 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Individual slices wrapped in foil" to How do you store your leftover pizza?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, August 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM
ESNY1077 answered "No. Grease, for lack of a better word, is good" to Do you blot the grease from your pizza?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, July 12, 2010 at 9:55 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Yes" to Patty Melt: Is it a Burger?
Poll posted by Robyn Lee, July 1, 2010 at 9:45 AM
ESNY1077 answered "No. Pizza über alles!" to Do you stop eating pizza when it's hot outside?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, June 28, 2010 at 1:55 PM
ESNY1077 answered "I'll eat outside whenever I can!" to What's Your Stance on Outdoor Seating?
Poll posted by Carey Jones, June 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM
ESNY1077 answered "In the regular oven (on a pizza stone)" to How Do You Reheat Your Pizza?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, June 7, 2010 at 10:00 AM
ESNY1077 answered "No, because I will force them to love burgers." to Your Sweetheart Doesn't Like Burgers—Dealbreaker?
Poll posted by Robyn Lee, June 3, 2010 at 9:30 AM
ESNY1077 answered "I've grilled it and eaten it!" to What's your experience with grilled pizza?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, May 31, 2010 at 8:30 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Sprinkles" to Do You Call Them Jimmies or Sprinkles?
Poll posted by Lingbo Li, May 26, 2010 at 9:00 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Hell no, never." to Do You Like Pickles On Your Burger?
Poll posted by Robyn Lee, May 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM
ESNY1077 answered "No f****n' way!" to Pineapple Pizza: Way or No Way?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, May 10, 2010 at 6:30 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Hot" to Which Salsa Spicyness Level Do You Prefer?
Poll posted by Erin Zimmer, May 5, 2010 at 8:00 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Other cut" to What's Your Favorite Pickle Cut on a Burger?
Poll posted by Robyn Lee, May 3, 2010 at 3:00 PM
ESNY1077 answered "No way!" to Chicken on a pizza: Way or No Way?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, April 26, 2010 at 8:30 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Crushed red pepper flakes" to What seasonings do you shake on your slices?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, April 12, 2010 at 8:15 AM
ESNY1077 answered "Over easy" to How do you like your eggs?
Poll posted by Adam Kuban, March 16, 2010 at 7:30 AM
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ESNY1077 got 60% correct on Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Sushi?
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ESNY1077 got 50% correct on Slice Quiz No. 1
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@Me_So_Hungry - My earliest memories of breakfast sausage are from airplane meals heading down to Disney World as a kid (back in the day when everyone got a hot meal on the plane - and a deck of cards and an airplane pin) and presumably as a result, I have never really gotten into the breakfast sausage thing.
As long as its cured and smoked, its bacon to me, no matter how fancy, but dlkon't get me started on the restaurants that call any dish with regular ole pork belly "bacon"....