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Stuffing. From a box. Please don't judge me.

I strong second the chili/soup/stew idea. Something that people can just serve themselves. Maybe serve parker house rolls or corn bread on the side.

That or a giant dinner salad with chopped chicken, crisp bacon, eggs, etc. in it. Though some people don't like "just" salad for dinner.

No crust on/crust off? Cut diagonally or with wise? I've never had a fluffernutter either.

Maybe Christina can follow up with how it was.

Many moons ago when I was a trick or treater myself, a woman gave out what she assured us was "homemade fudge", after saying thank you and walking down her steps we saw her lawn was littered with said "homemade fudge".

Moods can also affect my taste I find. Did your dining companions also notice a difference in the flavors of your meal? Or was it just you?

In another threat I said deconstructed everything was my pet peeve.

I'm not sure if bloomin' onion is really a trend though

I grew up eating this dish (Dad is from Burma, mom is from Thailand and learned how to cook this dish) and we put the crunchy noodles they sell at the grocery store. They're orange and look like they'd be cheese flavoured but aren't. The label says "Chow Mein noodles" but clearly aren't are chow mein.

I noticed the East is more McDonalds dense than the West. Is it because the West Coast has In-n-Out?

I find sometimes people give me recipes and I follow them to the T the first time and it doesn't turn out. I think this is because the person who gives me the recipe uses their own personal judgment when making the recipe because they make it so often they know exactly how it should look/feel/taste at each stage.

I've heard this is the same cases with recipes by cooks like Nigella Lawson or Rachael Ray.

When I saw this thread I thought you meant sweet wines as in dessert wines like port or ice wine.

Yeah, not a fan of blackberry merlot. Tastes like grape tylenol.

Alton Brown is cool because he doesn't TRY to be sexy, in fact I think he tries for the opposite :P Which is why I love him.

Kevin Brauch is cool, does anyone remember when he was on TVO Kids? heh heh.

For the Canadian food network viewers, Chuck Hughes and David Rocco.

Fried chicken!!!