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To Francisco the Man...the tacos BK used to serve were almost identical to the current JITB tacos. Go get your fix, my man...

Kenji,

What is this "jarred" onion dip you speak of which needs improvement by the fancy onion manipulations. Methinks the most widespread (and consumed!) onion dip is the one made by mixing a packet of Lipton's dry onion soup mix into a pint of sour cream (NO mayo...yecch). Seeing as I try to hold my consumption of onion dip and chips to one certain Sunday a year (quickly approaching), I find no reason to try to improve on junk food perfection. Bring on the brownish sodium with dehydrated onions!!!

Your big mistake is thinking that the place to get good fast food fries is going to the typical burger joints. You need to think Mexican...Del Taco to be specific, They have big, thick crinkle-cut fries that are always fresh and hot because it's a Mexican joint and nobody orders fries there. Make sense? Not sure of the geographic distribution of the Del Taco chain, but they've been all over Cali for the last 40 years or so. Try 'em, trust me on this one.

See's Bordeauxs are the single best pieces of chocolate candy on the planet. Period.

OMG...I only have 3 and NONE of them have been mentioned...

1. Frito-Lay brand Original Flavor canned Bean Dip... put it in a smal bowl, microwave for 30 secs, cover top with finely shredded cheddar, microwave another 15 secs, eat with bite-size Tostitos and salsa that I put a dab of on each one with a spoon before I pop the whole thing in my mouth...insanely good.

2. Cottage cheese sprinkled with pepper and a little Old Bay...use as dip with Ritz crackers.

3. Any drugstore/generic brand spice drop candies...believe it or not, the ones they sell by the register at Ace Hardware are probably the best.

To the "bad chicken from Trader Joe's" poster...open your eyes and buy a whole Empire kosher chicken that they stock regularly and sell inexpensively:and you will whistle a different tune I assure you.

Necco wafers aren't chalk for chrissakes...they're just DUSTED with chalk! Once you suck that off, they're mighty tasty...especially the ones that taste vaguely like clove. Who's with me???!!!

Try subbing Old Bay for the cumin and cayenne-I'll vouch for that!

All that's happening at the FN is they're continuing to grow the corporation and demographics. Hence, Neely's and Big Daddy (Afro-American demo),
Guy Fieri (younger demo), Dan and the other gay guy who "won" the first NFNS, (uh, expand gay demo)...anyway, you get the picture. To add my show opinion, best shows are Jamie Oliver's most recent (I think the guy's genius AND great technique), Tyler's Ultimate, make NEW Boy Meets Grill, and lose Flay's other ego projects, anything Batali, D,D,and D's (just because I love good diner food and all the Guy we get is pretty much just him eating), and the three new A chicks, Aida, Alex, and Anne. I guess ICA still entertains me. Lose everyone else and hire a few newer cutting edge chefs from great restaurants and let 'em cook for us.

Just my opinion...I could be wrong.

You people need to get lives...she's just some chick on a reality show not worthy of either the venom nor the attention. Geez....