Pizza boxes make excellent kindling for the wood stove.
Greasy would be better, but low fat cheese and precooked sausage bits are now the the default in common pizza.

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I still remember the mixed fruit pie, it was cheap canned fruit cocktail thickened into pie filling, inside that fantastic fried crust. Mouth scorching canned green grapes in goo is not something I'd like to repeat. But the sour cherry pie was excellent, so sad it's not in USA anymore.

Colcannon made with the really dark outer leaves of a savoy cabbage, plenty of butter and whole mustard seeds, whole peppercorns, and whole coriander seeds. Served up with fatty slices of corned beef deckle (point cut).

I'm a big fan of what the Japanese call "English Bread". It's more like homemade white bread without the really dark browned milk flavor you get in the "milk bread", but with that high level of gluten. Mitsuwa makes the best version I've had.

No list of ingredients? Gums, "Natural Flavors", corn syrup?

My biggest problem with Haagen Dazs is the poor handling by stores and delivery trucks. It seems like the majority of the time it's been melted and re-frozen. (and I hate the 14oz pints, and 28oz quarts)

Turkeys are simply a large roasting vessel for SIMPLE stuffing. Good bread (no crust), butter, onions, celery, salt, pepper, and a bit of thyme. The meat is just bland texture to be covered with gravy.

I grew up on Progresso pizza sauce. Combined with Polly-o mozzarella, and dough from an Italian market, it made a damn fine pizza.

Those premade shells? Big round pieces of shelf stable bread, YUCK.

Non-cheese is a non-starter.

The "Soft Baked" make me sad, more like stale cookies than soft. The Santa Cruz Oatmeal Raisin used to be a crisp cookie, and was my favorite large cookie. They dropped the crisp version, and replaced it with the oddly stale soft "Soft Baked", yuck.

PF has also been cutting back on expensive ingredients. They replaced the delicious Lemon Nut Crunch with the cheap tasting Lemon cookies they now sell.

I think Prosperity Dumpling does better boiled dumplings than fried. My wife, daughter and and I all burned our mouths and stained our clothes slurping them down on the sidewalk across the street while they were still burning hot and fresh. Delicious.

Ben and Jerry's used to make Ice Cream Sandwiches. The cookie was a really thin slice of brownie with a few walnut bits, the ice cream was their dense vanilla. Fantastic!

Also where is Fat Boy in this test? Or other national brands like Blue Bunny?

@monopod: It's not that the burgers are overcooked by default, it's that they will REFUSE to cook it any less because it's CORPORATE POLICY dictated by their legal department.

There is any easy solution to risk of bacteria in commercial meat. It's now called "electric pasteurization", which is basically irradiation. It's been done for years for the space program, and some meat (Omaha Steaks). You could eat a burger from Omaha Steaks raw with no risk. It's not more widely done for political reasons.

Considering how bad the burger patties taste alone at Red Robin, I wouldn't be surprised if Red Robin has started buying precooked patties like many fast food places now use for their big burgers.