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In Videos: Every Jelly Baby Scene in 'Doctor Who'
I knew you'd do it ,Adam! I read that original blog post on jelly babies and thought to myself, " Of course I know what a Jelly Baby is... although I've never had one. Tom Baker's Doctor. Hah!". Good job.
Five Bucks, Five Dishes, High Five? Lunch Box Buffet/Fay Da Bakery in Midtown West
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What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Elementary school lunch: I still think that our lunch lady's sloppy joes were better than any I've ever had. The tacos were great. I was introduced to Jamaican Beef Patties for the very first time. We had very good spaghetti and meat sauce, too.
High School: disgusting food that I can't even remember what it was. I ended up bringing sandwiches in every day. I do remember a whole month of cheeseburgers every single day during my senior year.
College: there was this great shepherd's pie served in the Hunter College cafeteria, and they used real lamb. I had never eaten lamb before I turned 18.
My K-Cup
Just remember to reach up above the needle and carefully pull the rubber washer down a bit to create a better seal around your My K-Cup. I learned about this after lots of hot water squirting everywhere, and really watery Dunkin Donuts coffee.
In Videos: Every Jelly Baby Scene in 'Doctor Who'
I knew you'd do it ,Adam! I read that original blog post on jelly babies and thought to myself, " Of course I know what a Jelly Baby is... although I've never had one. Tom Baker's Doctor. Hah!". Good job.
Five Bucks, Five Dishes, High Five? Lunch Box Buffet/Fay Da Bakery in Midtown West
Did you eat upstairs? Did you sign up for the MLM program? Are you going to be hawking diet gojii berry juice products on Serious Eats?
Sugar Rush: Baby Watson Cheesecake from D'Aiuto's Pastry Corporation
I've tried their cookies and few times, and I can't recommend them for those items. The cookies on two repeat visits at around 5 pm tasted stale. I wasn't happy with the quality.
What's up with Dunkin' Donuts' new sandwich?
It's designed to compete against McDonald's McGriddle, but IMO McDonald's wins in the taste category. The McGriddle has more heft, and the quality of the egg and cheese on the McGriddle are superior. The maple infused pancake from Mickey D's has a better texture than DD's waffle. DD wins in the bacon category, which was the best part of the sandwich.
At the DD store that I went to, even though they had the sandwich on the board for 3 days and the manager had pointed it out to me the previous Saturday, the team didn't know that it was on the menu. They didn't know how to prepare it, or where the waffles were. Major fail. Also, the counter person told me outright, "Dunkin Donuts can't beat McDonalds. The McGriddles are the best!" Yikes.
Fast Food Critic Shuts Down Blog
Oh, how sad. I really enjoyed the blog, and I was waiting for his review of Dunkin' Donuts' waffle sandwich as it goes head to head against McDonald's McGriddle (IMO: McDonald's wins).
Tim, please reconsider! Change the scope of the blog and the frequency of posts to fit your schedule and your lifestyle....
That is, of course, only if fast-food can still be a part of your lifestyle. Diets, healthy eating, recession-proofing your wallet...
Bill Introduced to Legalize Beekeeping in New York City
Wait, that locally sourced honey that I've been buying from Berkshire Berries is illegal??? WTF? The honey, from NYC rooftops, is contraband?
'Top Chef' Season 5, Episode 8: Unprotected Sex
As I was watching most of the contestant's reaction to the really fresh animal protein, and their almost automatic "let's de-bone it, tie it, palliard it" approach to the challenge, I was right in line behind Tom. My first thought was that have we been pistol-whipped by the food industry, including supermarkets, that we automatically think about having to over-process our proteins before we cook them? Do any of us go for the bone-in roast at the meat counter for anything but the most special of meals? Stuff to think about, and I wonder if the judges discussed that issue at all. I didn't hear it mentioned last night.
Serious Eats Cited in Trader Joe's Lawsuit Against Gristedes New Trader John's
I just noticed "Trader John's" when I was walking across 14th Street, and my first thought (after a cynical snort) literally was, "Oh, wow. The Recession is turning 14th Street back into the trashy low-rent strip that I remember from the late 80's - early '90's. " Then I started humming some music from "Rent" and went on to grab dinner at Mr. Skewer.
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
You can wash the pots, pans and plates you use with IKEA FAMILY dishwashing liquid, too!
What I Got for Christmas
@ Adam and Little Sis and Girlfriend:
Yes, it was a joke. I'm sorry for suggesting that the gift giver is anything less than sincere! However, if someone got me one of those gift cards, (or one for Chik-fil-a).... I'd be so very, very depressed. ;-)
What I Got for Christmas
She is evil incarnate and must be stopped. As another NYC In-n-Out lover, I sympathize. I have no idea when my next fix will be! I know that you fly out west a lot more often than I do, but check the expiration on that gift card with their office!
Where Did the Swedish Chef Muppet Come From?
I absolutely loved Cröonchy Stars and I was sad when it disappeared! It was the perfect blend of sugar and styrofoam! ( I was going to put this through the Encheferizer... but decided not to. Bork! Bork! Bork! Bork!)
A List of Regional Pizza Styles
Ohio Valley Style. This native NY-er and sister of a Bronx Pizza Guy went to school in Steubenville, OH for a couple of years and tried Iggy's (the photo in the Mine Road Blog) exactly ONCE. I couldn't get my taste buds around it. I ordered from Domino's from then on in. There was a good midwestern style place in the Steubenville Mall that I've forgotten the name of (this was the early 90's.) I'm open to regional pizza variations (unlike my aforementioned Pizza Time Bro), but this did not work for me.
The calzones I had in Steubenville on the other hand, were a revelation. They were very, very good. Sauce inside? Sauce outside? Yum.
Christmas Eve or Day Hanukkah Menus/What you cooking?
For the 2nd Christmas in a row, I'm making a Christmas dinner for a small army direct from Nigella Lawson's "Feast". My menu choices were a huge hit last year, and I'm doing a repeat. But seriously, I really am tired of turkey after Thanksgiving... but no one will humor my Prime Rib and Ham whims.
Maple Roast Turkey (Brined, baby!)
Cornbread & Cranberry Stuffing
Allspice Gravy
Brussels Sprouts with Pancetta and Chestnuts (and a splash of Marsala)
Homemade Liquored-up Cranberry Sauce
Maple Roasted Parsnips
Roast Potatoes (with duck fat substituting for the goose fat)
Traditional English Christmas Pudding (bought at a local Irish Deli) + Fire Extinguisher.
Rum Butter (from scratch)
Lots of alcohol to drink and set the pudding on fire with
Other assorted desserts from whoever is bringing what
One guest is bringing homemade Passover Haroset -- it's a great relish for turkey... and ham!
Add to this all some challah rolls and a simple green salad with toasted walnuts, mandarin oranges and dried cranberries and you've got a nice meal. With the exception of desserts and the rolls, everything is homemade. I'm proud of myself for baking the cornbread for the stuffing all by myself. It turned out decently, considering that I haven't really baked anything since my grandmother tried to teach me how to make Austrian pastry when I was little (scary, scary, scary.)
Snapshots from the UK: Parma Violets
Choward's _do_ taste like soap, but I love 'em anyway. I like the violet gum better than the hard pastilles.
Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?
THAT's what those packets of Ranch were for? Midwest college mystery solved.... sheeesh. I still don't get it, but yah... that pizza was really subpar.
Working on Economic Bailout, Capitol Hill Disagrees on Take-Out
I've been brown-bagging breakfast and lunch for weeks due to this economy, and I consider it a good day if I can cook something fast for dinner before 9 pm every night... I really don't want my taxes to pay for either Thai or Pizza. Yes, I'm disgruntled.
Biased New Yorkers Shouldn't Criticize Chicago Hot Dogs
My first Chicago dog was a revelation.. Superdawg in the early 90's. Whenever I fly through Chicago, I make sure I have a long enough layover to get a grilled Chicago style dog from Gold Coast Dogs, which is actually very good. I frequently order the Shackago Dog from Shake Shack when I'm in the mood... but it doesn't taste nearly as authentic as the real thing. I am a native New Yorker, and eat at Gray's Papaya once a week (I work on the same block).... but Chicago Dogs got me, sport peppers and all.
Blue 9 Burger
I know this might sound sacriligious, but I prefer a fresh Blue 9 Double Medieval style than the two times I've been able to try In-n-Out on visits to Cali. And Blue 9 has much better fries.
Openings: Branch of New Haven's Famous Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Coming to Yonkers, New York
I really can't wait for the Yonkers store, and I'm forwarding this to my brother the former pizzeria manager who really wants to get back in the game.
Ruby Tuesday Punks Us All, Blows Up Wrong Restaurant
I laughed my frickin' head off, but then again... I'm in marketing and advertising. What's funny to me, as a professional... may not be funny to anyone else. We're the twits that laugh at our own jokes, and think we're geniuses. Hardly. ;-)
Frank Bruni's Second Avenue Deli Review Is Required Reading
I finally visited the new location last night with a fellow deli-craver. The food was good and satisfied the craving. We ordered a bowl of gribenes (some reviewers say that this is free --- nope. It's an appetizer), matzoh ball soup (very good), potted brisket (good, but I should've ordered extra gravy) and kasha with bowtie pasta (heavenly). The best part of the meal was the tiny portion of chopped chicken livers on (too soft and squishy to be authentic) rye bread while we were waiting for a table. The chopped liver was a revelation - silky, schmaltzy, chickeny.... this is the best I've ever had. The service was friendly, the host was funny. The tables are crowded and everyone in my section was talking amongst the other tables and chatting about what they ordered, and my gribenes inspired the table in back of me to indulge once I explained what they were and how they're the Kosher equivalent of deep-fried pork rinds. We had a good meal, a good time, and I got a chance to chat with Jeremy on the way out the door. I'm glad the place has re-opened.
Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?
How do you get a white trash girl to suck your d**k?
Dip it in ranch dressing.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
in my high school we had 4 stations and a decent amount of options, yet i would only get 5 things - ever! friday was pizza day and i would always dip my pizza in the mini salad and dressing it came with.
wed was chicken ranchero day - chicken patty topped with bacon, american cheese and the obligatory lettuce and tomato slice and you top it yourself with ranch dressing on a kaiser roll and it usually came with baked mac and cheese - the line on wed was always rediculously long!
the other days i had a bagel with cream cheese, fries and an arizona iced tea. or cheese nachos loaded with toppings (i don't eat beef) or a cheese sandwich on a kaiser as i have always been adverse to lunch meat.
i am very surprised i have normal cholesterol these days - i can't imagine what it was back then...although growing up in a vegetarian household my other meals must have cancelled out the cholesterol loaded fest during the school week.
Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?
I don't put ranch on anything! Gross tasting stuff.
Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?
Amen "omnomnom"! (I'm from Mich, too. Same area)
Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?
I absolutely love ranch on my pizza. Granted, I am a middle-school student (though homeschooled), and got the idea from my (middle school, homeschooled) friends after we started dipping French-Fries in Ranch (that's justified in Mich--here most of the fries are way too greasy or way too dry). We decided to try it on our pizza--and it's great. Only Hidden Valley (tm) works though. Deep dish pizza doesn't need it, fortunately. A group fave for us is cayenne pepper, fresh black pepper, ranch, and tabasco sauce. I agree, if it's good pizza, it doesn't need condiments, but (1) pizza in metro-detroit isn't that good, and (2), it doesn't matter if it needs it--if ya want it, I say put it on unashamedly!
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
in both HS & college (Tokyo), noodle stations (ramen, udon and soba) were pretty good. but in HS I rarely had time to eat lunch at the cafeteria, so I'd buy chicken karaage and yukari onigiri combo if I didn't bring bento.
My favorite dish from the college cafeteria was Bang bang ji tofu.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
In elementary school i loved the cold triple decker PB&J's... Also i loved the taste of the sloppy joes with melted kraft cheese but i didnt like the chunkiness of it so i would scrape it all out and eat what became a sloppy joe flavored cheese sandwich mmmmm.....i've tried to recreate it but to no avail.
In H.S. we had open campus so i always left for lunch. lucky me
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Ooh - someone reminded me of the chili and chicken noodle soup my elementary school used to serve. I don't know what it was, but both were fabulous. As I got older & I was able to participate in my church hosted blood drives, I always looked forward to the half a peanut butter sandwich & the bowl of chicken noodle soup they'd serve to anyone that donated. MUCH better than the Ritz crackers & Lorna Doones I make do with now.
And yes - totally looked forward to the Thanksgiving & Christmas lunches, mostly because in addition to actual pumpkin pie, we got to choose a little container (paper peel-off lid) of ice cream: vanilla, chocolate swirl, or strawberry swirl. I always went with chocolate. Always.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Growing up in Singapore it was Szechuan Chicken, Beef Kway Teow, with fat rice noodles, beef and greens, and Mee Goreng, Malay style curry noodles. All made fresh while we sat there patiently waiting, watching the woks sizzle and Mr. Ho flip in bits of this and that. Mmmm.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
After graduating I really missed cafeteria food. I loved drinking carton milk over ice and eating halved kiwis. The turkey a la king was so good back then and students would actually run to the lunch room for it. I also miss enchiladas on Wednesday, Mexican food day. Oh, and the lunch ladies used to offer Frito Pie on the side. Chili and cheese served from separate crock pots would be ladled into a bag of chips of your choice. I chose Hot Cheetos! It was so gross and delicious and would leave you with heart burn afterwards.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
This one is pretty simple. Number one is the rectangle pizza served on top of fries. I would take the cheese off the pizza, put it on the fries, eat the pizza dough, then mix the cheese and fries together and eat them. Very healthy.
Second was pita bread pizza. I would always get cold and wet in the middle, so it was much preferred to have a fresh one.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
1955-1958. Lawrence High School, Lawrence, L.I., N.Y.
Sausages on top of mashed potatoes with gravy.
I still think about it after all these years.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I wasn't too big on cafeteria food but I always loved when they would have the special "holiday" hot turkey meals right before vacations. An ice cream scoop of mashed potatoes, a slice of turkey with that brown canned gravy and the always random slice of white bread to soak it up. Old fashioned yum.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
In grammar school, they made kickass french toast sticks. Then the problem was that they started out giving each person five, but a few years later it dropped to four, then three. Cheapskates. I also always looked forward to chocolate milk in the tiny carton.
I never bought lunch in high school because the food was revolting, but I occasionally indulged in one of those underbaked cookies.
My college cafeteria isn't much better. They do awesome wraps, and any form of potato is hard to mess up, but the produce is atrocious. They reuse the same batch of vegetables for days, the salad bar is continuously wilted and brown, and the "vegetarian station" always, ALWAYS consists of lukewarm bean burritos. Ugh.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
A few of my favorites: Tator tots, soft buttered roll (almost like White Castle bun) with mashed potatoes, tacos, chicken and noodles, rectangle pizza, and T-Bolt sandwich...Texas toast, mozzeralla cheese, marinara and pepperoni...yum.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Four flat even small chipped almost underbakes chocolate chip cookies for 1$. The bakery that sells the batter to my old school caf sells them in their store... six of them in giant plate-sized portions for about 5$. I get them everytime I fly home.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I'm a vegetarian now, but I used to love Hot Ham and Cheese days. Was that a universal lunch item? Ham and cheese melted on a soft roll.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Apple crisp. Oh, mama!
Greasy-crunchy grilled cheese.
Tuna Melts that had buttey salted buns too long under heat so they were gnawable hard in which melted cheese enveloped tuna salad. God-awful and awful good.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I loved reading all of these--it really took me back.
Elementary school:
"taco pie" It was a mix of ground beef, beans, probably american cheese, lettuce and fritos! All scooped onto your plate with an ice cream scoop.
Macaroni and Cheese with two little smokies. I guess they added the little smokies to meet the protein requirement.
Junior High:
I don't remember a lot, but I ate salad bar and that rectangular pizza
High School:
I would eat lettuce and tomato sandwiches on white bread with yellow mustard (yuck!) but would also eat nacho bar.
College:
Breaded Chicken Sandwiches, Taco Pizza, Pasta Bar, Baked Potato Bar, the breakfast was always the best, "premium night" always the absolute worst.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
They called it vegetable-beef soup, but what it really was was leftovers from everything they'd made the previous few days - hamburger, veggies, and even spaghetti sometimes. I always loved it and the obvious layers of grease on top.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
The Turkey A La King served on top of a scoop of boxed mashed potatoes!
Before taking off for Thanksgiving they would serve this with a roll and a piece of "pumpkin pie", which was nothing but pumpking pie filling with a thin layer of Cool Whip frosting.
The only other thing that was remotely edible was the grilled cheese sandwich. I have yet to find one that comes close to that neon, buttery monstruosity.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
At my rural southern Virginia school, the lady that was in charge of the lunches for all three elementary schools, one middle and one high school had several recipes for homemade bread that were staples on our menu - delicious rolls/buns for hamburgers, hot dogs and most other meals, Italian bread for spaghetti days, and the weekly treat of her yummy homemade cinnamon rolls.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I loved the beef stew and the sugar cookies. This was when there were lunch ladies who cooked the food and served it lovingly to you. I was a picky eater (I would be skinnier if I still was) and I remember eating many things that I would not have eaten at home. In high school I ate a lot of salads and saltine crackers with butter.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I don't know if it's just the province of Canada I live in: but we really didn't have cafeterias. We had food you could buy: but not like on the movies.
That being said: High School French Fries were Nasty...but I craved them :p
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I have the sloppy joe recipe from the high school I attended from 1954 thru 1958, the best. The ladies who cooked were mothers of students and when they got busy serving lunch the janitor would help serving. Great hot beef sandwiches too.
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Elementary school lunch: I still think that our lunch lady's sloppy joes were better than any I've ever had. The tacos were great. I was introduced to Jamaican Beef Patties for the very first time. We had very good spaghetti and meat sauce, too.
High School: disgusting food that I can't even remember what it was. I ended up bringing sandwiches in every day. I do remember a whole month of cheeseburgers every single day during my senior year.
College: there was this great shepherd's pie served in the Hunter College cafeteria, and they used real lamb. I had never eaten lamb before I turned 18.