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The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
Nobody's mentioned celery soda yet?
Also, Cheerwine. It's a Carolina thing :)
'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
I always have sardines in the pantry, and kippers, and that's usually what I break out when the wife's away. Those, maybe alone or on some crackers, or if I'm feeling frisky, cooked quickly with some onion and tomato.
I love to cook for people, but I rarely do any "real" cooking when I'm alone. I dunno why.
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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.
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
Nobody's mentioned celery soda yet?
Also, Cheerwine. It's a Carolina thing :)
'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
I always have sardines in the pantry, and kippers, and that's usually what I break out when the wife's away. Those, maybe alone or on some crackers, or if I'm feeling frisky, cooked quickly with some onion and tomato.
I love to cook for people, but I rarely do any "real" cooking when I'm alone. I dunno why.
Photo of the Day: Root Beer Float
French Broad Chocolate Lounge in Asheville, NC makes a great beer float using local Pisgah Stout and local vanilla ice cream. It's amazing. They also make floats with house sodas.
The Greek Non-Breakfast
You're going to greece... you have EVERYTHING to look forward to. God, how I want to go back!
Come on in 'The Kitchn'
"Traditionally made hard cheese (such as Swiss cheese) and soft ripened cheeses may create less reaction than the equivalent amount of milk because of the processes involved. Fermentation and higher fat content contribute to lesser amounts of lactose. Traditionally made Swiss or Cheddar might contain 10% of the lactose found in whole milk. In addition, the traditional aging methods of cheese (over 2 years) reduces their lactose content to practically nothing.[2] Commercial cheese brands, however, are generally manufactured by modern processes that do not have the same lactose reducing properties, and as no regulations mandate what qualifies as an "aged" cheese, this description does not provide any indication of whether the process used significantly reduced lactose."
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.
The Serious Eats Ginger Beer Taste Test
Hey, if you have gotten over your ginger beer shell shock and decide to do another review, please include Jamaca's Finest Ginger Beer from the Natrona Bottling Company. I think it's far better than those citrus-y, honey, pineapple-y, fruity, too-sweet, brew-y beverages you have tried.
Cheers!
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.
The Greek Non-Breakfast
When I lived in Thessaloniki, I was always surprised at the number of burly men waiting in line at my bakery with me who'd buy a "pita" pastry (often apple) and wash it down with a giant box of "Milko" chocolate milk. What I'd give for a Milko! I love your photos & commentary, thanks for bringing back fond memories!
The Serious Eats Ginger Beer Taste Test
Here in Japan, we had an autumn beer with ginger in it.... that`s lager beer.
Totally refreshing drunkeness!
Photo of the Day: Root Beer Float
I made a rbf for my student from Ghana--his response-- "This is why I love America!!"
The Serious Eats Ginger Beer Taste Test
I'm a big fan of Barritts, which used to be part of the "official" recipe for a Dark 'n' Stormy according to the company that makes Goslings Black Seal Rum (which has apparently trademarked the name "Dark 'n' Stormy" and their version of the recipe).
Barritts is no longer listed as part of the recipe since Goslings now markets their own Goslings brand ginger beer. Haven't tasted it myself but there's a discussion on LTHForum.com from those who have.
The Serious Eats Ginger Beer Taste Test
Fentimans Ginger Beer is awesome. If you like it you need to try the
Seville Orange Jigger, it could also be described as funky!
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
I am not really big on soda anymore BUT last summer I was in Nags Head, NC and found the famous Cheerwine, a NC thing. It is fizzy cherry-flavored soda, not cherry cola, just cherry soda. It is out of this world delicious.
Last week when we were close to the border of NC and leaving for WV, I hit a supermarket and bought myself a 12 pack to take home to NJ. We can't get it here. It is my favorite soda in a really long time.
Otherwise I really like Cherry 7Up but they don't sell it in cans around here, just 2 liter bottles, which I have no room for in the refrigerator. I also love Crystal Light Wild Strawberry (comes in a powder that you mix with water) and their Citrus stuff too. Excellent mixed with some green tea! I make fusions of all kinds of things.
I have never liked Fresca. When I was a child, all the skinny cool girls drank the Diet Fresca and that was all they drank (that and lots of folks drank Tab) - neither of which I could get a tasting for. My favorite soda at the time was Pepsi - just plain Pepsi. To this day, I prefer plain Pepsi over anything Coke, don't know why. BUT I prefer Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi.
The Serious Eats Ginger Beer Taste Test
I like Barritts Bermuda stone ginger beer, which comes in cans. They carry it at my liquor store in Cambridge and we drank it a lot with the rum in St. John's
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The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
I'm a firefighter, and our rehab vehicle would always have a dry mix powder of something called Squencher, it was sort of a generic Gatorade knock-off. There is nothing that tastes better than that stuff after a structure fire. It was randomly citrusy and just spectacular.
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
First of all, I love this post & reading all the comments - so many unknowns to me!
Fresca, LOVE! Just tried the Black Cherry which was excellent! Never thought to use it as a mixer!
Polar Orange Dry, which we picked up when our usual Lemon Seltzer was out; we didn't realize it was pop but loved it!
Tahitian Treat, good memories with this one! Somehow delicious with its sickening sweetness!
Ale-8-One, I can't believe it hasn't come up yet! It's an excellent ginger ale with a pun-y name. Maybe just a regional thing but you could only find it in KY where it's made forever. Then a few years ago, they started to allow it to be sold "'cross the river" in Cincy and southern OH. I loved this stuff!
Canada Dry Green Tea, a new favorite! Great combo (though a bit sweet) & such sparkling goodness!
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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.