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@resolutejc 'Drinko de Mayo'... so perfect, so fitting lol!!! I'm stealing that one. ;)

Cabbage steamed with butter, sprinkled with salt... so simple, but so insanely delicious. I can seriously pack away half a head by MYSELF this stuff is so good...

Fairly ordinary: lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, shaved onions OR sauteed onions and mushrooms, thick cut
Slightly odd: the mixture of cold and warm ingredients, addition of banana peppers
Fairly sure is odd: worchestire sauce MUST be in any/every homemade dressing I make for my salad.
I also have 'exclusions' which might be considered odd: beans and/or pasta NEVER ever go in a salad for me, nor any other carb. I don't consider it a real salad anymore if it's not all about the veg. It's ... a side dish.

I wouldn't purchase this myself (too little food for the price) but if someone bought it for me--sure! I'd dissect it and eat the individual components rather than the intended 'sandwich' method though.

Oh come on, all of you poo-poo'ing and griping... it's funny! And cute.

I'm surprised--ecspecially considering some of the smuggier proclivities of the Serious Eats board--that one of the prime selling points of Whataburger wasn't mentioned--the fact that the reason they don't expand beyond a certain region is because the family raises (and exclusively uses) their own beef cattle, and it's never frozen, so trucking it beyond a certain area is infeasible.

Regardless of their beefitudes, I love Whataburger because it's GOOD, ecspecially their milkshakes. Granted, it costs a little more (but when you think about it, the cost per ounce ends up being LESS than other places) but you can get this huge-ass-go-swimming-in-it sized milkshake. These things are nirvana in the hot Texas summers. My husband misses Whataburger so badly that he begs me to bring some up from my sporadic visits with family back there. Unfortunately-but-maybe-fortunately... the economy ate his job, so it looks like we're moving back to the land of Whataburger with family if nothing pops up.

And hey... I like their 'rabbit food'... I love a lot of veg on my burger. They add a nice contrast of cold and crunch and a bit of acid.

If someone tells me they're MSG sensitive, we're copacetic. If someone tells me they're allergic, I will have nothing to do with them. I've got too little free time to bother with mindless, gullible, whiny lemmings. Now I've met mindless, gullible, whiny lemmings who don't claim to have an allergy to MSG, but never the other way around. ;) It's a good 'spot the idiot' detector.

@Lorenzo--INCLUDING moderation! ;D

@Amandarama--you, with the sense-making, stop it! that's not welcome here. ;P J/k...

@dmcavanaugh--AGREED

I am 'YAY' on the food trend bandwagon--because while some things get ridiculous, and even downright disgusting, usually at *least* 2-3 *good*, new, interesting dishes emerge out of a food trend that didn't exist before.... and at the very least, a person's awareness about the diversity and versatility of a particular food is vastly improved. That's never a bad thing.

I will admit, there is one food trend I'd like to see die down, and that's rage about 'cheap' cuts of meat (flank steak, ect ect) because I'm selfish--they're no longer cheap, and I can't afford them. :( It seems like the only affordable meat anymore is pre-pared (sausages, hotdogs, sammich meat), chicken, or ground beef.

@zilli--how could you write all of that, and make me salivate and rub my hands together in eager anticipation... only to slap me in the face with a startling LACK of recipe at the end of your tale? :P

I'm a day nanny--now I *have* to make these for the families I work for!

@climbhighak I love you.

I was gonna say something to the tune of 'let him fend for himself'... it's not your job to run yourself ragged finding something to appease his whim of the moment. Let the boy live off of ramen for a few months till he feels like a pile of manure and gets off his own ass and persues what aligns with his preferences. Climbhighak said it better, though.

I offend pretty much *everyone* with my desired done-ness, but eh, it's my body, my preference, what can ya do? I'm a blasphemer--I like my steak medium. I get nauseated by the *texture*--not the taste or 'bloodiness'--of pink or red (or even purple, depending on the meat) steak. It's a texture that makes my body instantly go 'hurk!!!'--strangely enough I can stomach raw fish, though... O_o I don't have anything against raw meats in general..

Anyway, I like mine medium, with lots of steak sauce. NOT because the steak is bad, or lacking in any capacity, I just *really, really, REALLY* love steak sauce that much. :9 It also ends up getting into my veggies, baked potato/fries, ect.

caramel, jedd63, joyyy, and squeezebottle... ya'll literally made me LOL. Startled the baby.