Recent Comments

From Serious Eats

Bizarre Foods: Andrew Zimmern Meets His Match in Thailand

I enjoy Bizarre Foods a lot, and for some reason I never get queezy at all watching it. I guess as long as I'm not the one eating it, I'm fine. Zimmern has an amazing ability to eat "food" that I wouldn't even be willing to touch with my fingers while appearing to thoroughly enjoy it, so it's surprising when he encounters food that even he can't stomache.

From Slice

This Week's Pizza Poll: Do You Order Sides with Your Pizza?

No sides for me, though they are tempting. I think the plan kind of backfires on them a little, because sometimes I'll order the sides instead of the pizza! But really, ordering a side of breadsticks with your pizza is kind of like ordering pizza with extra crust.

From Serious Eats

Burger King Adds Sausage-Egg Sandwich, Breakfast Bowl to Menu

Maybe he's a No Doubt fan. "Got me feelin hella good, so I'm gonna keep on dancing..."

Anyways, I was in a hurry this morning and considered going through the BK drivethru to get some breakfast but I just couldn't do it. I really have no interest in a hockey puck and pseudo-egg on an english muffin, but the breakfast bowl doesn't sound too bad. Has anyone tried it?

From Talk

Am I crazy or just a foodie?

This sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I agree, crushed ice can be real problematic. If you're not drinking with a straw, you always end up getting a few crunchy bits in every sip, and it will melt faster due to more surface area of the ice being exposed. I'd only say you were crazy if you started showing up to your iced tea place with a little cooler full of your own ice cubes.

I used to have a weird cinnamon gum obsession. I had to always have a pack of cinnamon flavored gum on me, or the world just wasn't right. I've since gotten over that, though, so I'm sure you'll get over your iced tea loss too. :)

See more comments by Thomasj »

Recent Posts

From Talk

Have you heard: weaponized chili?

See more posts by Thomasj »

Recent Favorites

Thomasj hasn't favorited a post yet.

Recent Polls

From Serious Eats

Thomasj answered "Yes" to Do you toast your Pop-Tarts?

From Slice

Thomasj answered "No. I stick with the main event" to Do you order sides with your pizza (and if so, what?)

From Serious Eats

Thomasj answered "Wegmans" to What's Your Favorite Grocery Chain?

From Serious Eats

Thomasj answered "Pizza" to What's Your Favorite Football-Watching Snack Food?

Recent Quizzes

From Sweets

Thomasj got 40% correct on What's Your Ice Cream IQ?

See more polls and quizzes by Thomasj »

Recent Comments

From Serious Eats

Bizarre Foods: Andrew Zimmern Meets His Match in Thailand

I enjoy Bizarre Foods a lot, and for some reason I never get queezy at all watching it. I guess as long as I'm not the one eating it, I'm fine. Zimmern has an amazing ability to eat "food" that I wouldn't even be willing to touch with my fingers while appearing to thoroughly enjoy it, so it's surprising when he encounters food that even he can't stomache.

From Slice

This Week's Pizza Poll: Do You Order Sides with Your Pizza?

No sides for me, though they are tempting. I think the plan kind of backfires on them a little, because sometimes I'll order the sides instead of the pizza! But really, ordering a side of breadsticks with your pizza is kind of like ordering pizza with extra crust.

From Serious Eats

Burger King Adds Sausage-Egg Sandwich, Breakfast Bowl to Menu

Maybe he's a No Doubt fan. "Got me feelin hella good, so I'm gonna keep on dancing..."

Anyways, I was in a hurry this morning and considered going through the BK drivethru to get some breakfast but I just couldn't do it. I really have no interest in a hockey puck and pseudo-egg on an english muffin, but the breakfast bowl doesn't sound too bad. Has anyone tried it?

From Talk

Am I crazy or just a foodie?

This sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I agree, crushed ice can be real problematic. If you're not drinking with a straw, you always end up getting a few crunchy bits in every sip, and it will melt faster due to more surface area of the ice being exposed. I'd only say you were crazy if you started showing up to your iced tea place with a little cooler full of your own ice cubes.

I used to have a weird cinnamon gum obsession. I had to always have a pack of cinnamon flavored gum on me, or the world just wasn't right. I've since gotten over that, though, so I'm sure you'll get over your iced tea loss too. :)

From Serious Eats: New York

Photo(s) of the Day: Ravenous Squirrel at Shake Shack Wants to Eat Everything

@Leland - yeah, but humans eat a lot of stuff we're not supposed to eat either, and we survive. There's not exactly an abundance of nuts and berries for those city squirrels to live on.

From Serious Eats: New York

The Great Pastrami Taste-Off: Katz's in New York vs. Langer's in Los Angeles

I can't wrap my head around how a loaf of bread stole the spotlight away from two of the country's best delis' pastrami. I can burn a loaf of rye bread in my oven to make it crispier, too. Big deal. You can eat the bread and give me the meat. :)

From Talk

Your Starch, Veg, Fruit, Meat, Liqour, Guilty Pleasure of Choice

Rice, green beans, orange, a juicy burger, Guinness, macaroni and cheese

From Recipes

Cakespy: Cherry Almond Osgood Pie

This pie looks very familiar to me. I'm pretty sure I had it once in the 80s or 90s at some family barbeque or something.

I would have guessed that the name Osgood comes from a person since Osgood is a pretty common last name.

From Serious Eats

Eggo Mini Muffin Tops Should Not Exist

If this article was linked to on Fark.com, it would get the "obvious" tag.

Here's a question: do the muffin tops need the bottoms to be the awesomeness that they are? If you tried to just bake muffin tops, would it fail? Do muffn tops draw much of their greatness from the body of the muffin?

From A Hamburger Today

Culver City, Calif.: Surpassing Expectations at Rush Street

I have a burning urge to draw eyes on the photo of the burger with the tongue-like strip of bacon sticking out of it. I also have a burning urge to bite into it. Great mouth-watering photos.

From Talk

Banning fast food near schools? Your take.

Nah. Silly idea. If they are going to ban fast food near schools, then they also need to ban pizza joints, ice cream parlors, candy stores, movie theaters, convenience stores, super markets... all places where kids can go to devour junk food. What schools need to do is provide a good cafeteria with good food so kids have no reason to go elsewhere.

From Serious Eats: New York

Are Frozen French Fries My White Whale?

Aw, give them a break. The tiny shake shack kitchen probably can't handle the logistics of fresh french fries.

From Serious Eats

Does Your Grocery Store Have You Crying Tears of Joy?

Wegmans is great. It's truly what a "Super" market should be, not just a big place with shelves and shelves of junk.

Try their seasoned hamburgers. Cooked right, they rival the best restaurant burgers you can find.

From Serious Eats

Photo of the Day: Warty Pumpkins

They are apparantly bred to wart up nice and ugly on purpose. Here's an interesting link:
http://www.superfreakpumpkin.com/about.html

From Serious Eats

Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults

When I was a kid, my mom would never buy Fruity Pebbles no matter how much I begged. So on the rare occasions I could get a bowl of those flourescent colored flakes of sugar-death, it was an awesome experience. Now I retch at the thought of eating them.

And here's another vote in favor of fig newtons. I think I actually like them more as an adult than I did as a kid.

From Serious Eats

Photo(s) of the Day: Happy Birthday, Robyn!

Ha! She was rick-rolled by a singing telegram? That's awesome.

From Serious Eats

Group of College Presidents Wants to Lower Drinking Age to 18

Let your kids have an occasional sip of warm Budweiser when they're young, and the allure of booze will be dashed before they even reach high school.

From A Hamburger Today

In Videos: 12-Mile Walk for Free Cheeseburger

This weekend I'll be going to NYC for a visit, and whenever I do I tend to do a lot of walking all over the city... close to 12 miles worth I'm sure. In the end, I'll be rewarded with a Shake Shack burger.

From Serious Eats

Ruby Tuesday Punks Us All, Blows Up Wrong Restaurant

Sounds like a "had to be there" type of thing, which doesn't work very well for a national marketing campaign. I imagine if you're standing there watching the Ruby Tuesday's waiting for it to blow and the restaurant across the street goes up in smoke you'd be effectively suprised. But in print, it's boring.

From Serious Eats

Water Works: How To Make Seltzer at Home

I live by bottled water. I can't drink tap water, at least not here in New Jersey. *shudder* I've looked closely at a glass of NJ tap water in the light, and there's definitely *something* in there, and on a bad day the taste and smell can be really offensive. I can't believe it's healthy to drink. Anyway, I don't really like anything carbonated, so this club soda thing is not for me. I DO recycle all of the plastic water bottles, at least.

See more comments by Thomasj »

Recent Posts

From Talk

Have you heard: weaponized chili?

See more posts by Thomasj »

Recent Favorites

Thomasj hasn't favorited a post yet.

Polls

From Serious Eats

Thomasj answered "Yes" to Do you toast your Pop-Tarts?

From Slice

Thomasj answered "No. I stick with the main event" to Do you order sides with your pizza (and if so, what?)

From Serious Eats

Thomasj answered "Wegmans" to What's Your Favorite Grocery Chain?

From Serious Eats

Thomasj answered "Pizza" to What's Your Favorite Football-Watching Snack Food?

See more polls by Thomasj »

Quizzes

From Sweets

Thomasj got 40% correct on What's Your Ice Cream IQ?

See more quizzes by Thomasj »

About Thomasj

Website:

Location: New Joisey

About: I'm an omnivore from New Joisey. I can't cook worth a lick, but I love when people cook good stuff for me. I love going to New Yawk for the good foods people cook for me there.

Favorite foods: The staples of a pudgy American's diet:
Pizza
Burgers
Ice Cream

Last bite on earth: Hopefully a really good piece of meat - a good burger or steak.