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The one time I ate at Ad Hoc it happened to be fried chicken night, and at first I was a little annoyed that I would be paying well over $100 for my wife and I to eat fried chicken with some fancy sides. However, it was definitely the best fried chicken I'd ever had in my life. I ate several pieces, and it didn't give me that heavy, full feeling that normally comes with any large amount of deep fried food. On the way out, I spotted Thomas Keller himself sitting at the bar eating some chicken.

The mix is expensive, but if it tastes anything like it does at the restaurant, then it might be worth it. I suppose the same money could be used to buy the cookbook, but buying the mix at SW would be kind of a fun treat.

I've always thought Sambal had a good kick, but not with enough extra flavor. I really like the Chili Garlic Sauce made by Huy Fong. It has the nice texture and heat of the Sambla Oelek, but with a more zingy flavor.

I'm a teacher, and once or twice a month I don't have any options for lunch other than making a very quick drive to one of the nearby fast food restaurants. For that reason, I like that there are a couple of fast food options nearby.

I have a jar of homemade jalepeno jam in my refrigerator, and I have made burgers with peanut butter before. I think I am going to have to put these two wonderful ideas together sometime very soon.

peachfish- Several years ago a friend of mine tried to buy a "baby duck egg" at a small, family-run Asian grocery store. They kept telling him that he would not like it and they wouldn't sell it to him. He kept probing for a reason why, and they told him that it was basically a preserved, dead, partially formed embryo still in the shell. I love going to ethnic grocery stores and trying new things, but that's something that I have always been fairly content to just leave on the shelf.

I've had the idea for a while that if I were ever to have a terrible office job and I decided to quit, on my last day I would put a bag of popcorn into the microwave for 8 or 9 minutes on my way out. I'd be gone the next day, but the smell would probably be there for at least a week.

Every Friday morning on my way to work I stop at a nearby taqueria (Roberto's) for a huge breakfast burrito that costs well under $5. I usually go with the simple "breakfast burrito" (bacon, eggs, potatoes, cheese), but sometimes I mix it up and get a chorizo or machaca burrito. Yes, from a health perspective it is not a good way to start the day, but eating a 1+ pound heavy breakfast usually makes lunch superfluous. I usually have a banana for lunch and then I'm good until dinnertime. Plus, it is nice way to celebrate the fact that it's Friday.

It wouldn't be nearly as convenient for me to stop by the closest Chipotle for breakfast on a workday, but if they started serving breakfast burritos I would definitely make a point of trying it on a Saturday morning.

I am a 4th grade teach in Las Vegas, and most of the time when the school serves pizza for lunch, it also happens to come with a lettuce salad and a small cup of ranch dressing. Nearly every kid spreads the ranch on top of the pizza without a second thought. I think a lot of kids now think of ranch as a condiment and not a salad dressing.

I used to live in Nebraska, and a pretty large percentage of the 30-and-under crowd there can't eat pizza, even good pizza, without salad dressing on it. I have never understood.

I've been looking forward to the warm weather coming back so I can make mojitos. The syrupy mojitos that bars serve are way too sweet for me, but a mildly sweet homemade mojito is quite refreshing on a warm summer evening.