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how goofy, yet amusing.

lighten up, guys.

HA! I nearly spit my soup out reading that last line.

And that is exactly why Serious Eats should rethink it's policy of not blogging anything someone else has already blogged about it. Maybe it could cut down on posts such as this -- here's a thing! It was over here! What do you think? And here I am writing what I think. Ugh. Aneurysm.

What is the point of that?!?

Some people have too much extra time on their hands.

In SO FL, where the Latino population is quite large, almost any sandwich you order from an authentic place has commercial potato sticks on it as a matter of course. This is NOT true for the traditional Cuban sandwich, but for pretty much any other kind you get potato sticks. Kobey's (sp?) is one popular store brand here, but the quality varies dramatically from can to can. Sometimes they are fresh and a tiny bit under-cooked, pale and tasty. Many times they are over-cooked and and darker and lose that fresh flavor for one that is slightly, well, flat with a distinct aftertaste. So, the burger-with-chips is not at all unheard of idea.

I had my first taste of an Uno's pizza during the summer of 1966. I was visiting a cousin who was a Missouri native and on Saturday night, we waited in the line to get in. Well worth the wait. And that was in the original with all the names carved on the wooden walls and a pizza such as I had never had before. But that's not so hard to do as I am a native of the deep southern part of Illinois and to the best of my memory, the closest we came to pizza was a package product my mother sometimes would make. Later, 10 years later, I moved to Chicago and one of the first places I HAD to go was to Uno's. Winter time, so always happy when we got in the door to wait -- it's not called the "windy city" without justification! So, we give our order to the waitress and we wait, and we wait, finally, name called. Think we had beers and perhaps a salad, but the much awaited pizza arrives, pipping hot at the waitress warns us as she does the bit with the handy tool and looseens the pizza from the pan and put a slice on each of our plates. Oh, did that bring back memories of that first one. We always had to order the same ingredients -- sausage, onion, mushroom and green pepper! OH! the thought of that, my mouth is watering already! We (that is my ex-husband and I) would often meet there for pizza. Then friends introduced us to their favorite place which was further north and west of the Water Tower area. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name -- just that it was a thin crust. And later, someone suggested we try Lou Malnati's -- we only lived a short distance away, so that one became our real favorite. The house salad was great and did not fill us so much that we had no room for that pizza that was always the small -- perfect for 2 people! Then we moved closer to the loop and we tried a few more -- there was one place, name escapes me now, but it was to the east off of Michigan avenue, and it too, was always a wait. Then we got even smarter and started getting forzen cheese & sauage ones which we started keeping in the freezer for those times when we just had to have a slice. And I added the green pepper, onions & mushrooms to those.
One evening while sitting in the bar section at Uno's, we were crowded next to a travelling salesman and since the space is so small, we got to chatting about food. He always made time to go to Uno's when in Chicago, but then some how my home town was mentioned and he said not matter how close he was to the neighboring town, he made a point of going to a Barbeque place -- Ray's in Harrisburg. Well, there is a man after my own heart -- althought my family favored another place, I had often eaten in Rays (and still get his sauce and find his grandson and get sandwiches).
Then there were other places for pizza that suddenly started popping up in various areas close to the loop. One place had a spinach pizza, another was close to where the ex worked and we had some pizza there.
I moved to San Antonio in '86, so no more pizza -- might have checked to see if someone could get a frozen one and overnight it, but that never occured to me and the price would have been silly. Then a move to St. Louis, a trip to Chicago for several reasons, so more pizza from one or the other of my favs. But while in St. Louis, they suddenly opened a "store" not far from us there. Well, was I disappointed!!! I told husband we could split one --- oh, was I wrong, too small and not the same crust.
But because of that we looked at the menu again and ordered a different style which was much better.
Then some years later, we move to the Philly area and discover the first night we are there -- our anniversary, no less, that there was a new Uno's almost in walking distance. So for years we went there for pizza. Fortunately, at some point a second one was opened and we not longer
had to put up with the rude, tired parents and screaming babies who had stopped at the first place they came to after they left Seseame Place. Summers at Uno's at that location were awful. But we did try several other pizza places over the years and I must say, that I have two favorites and they are Uno's and Lou Malnati's.
I did find it interesting one summer when we met my niece and her family at the Field Museum to see King Tut, her husband, who grew up in a Chicago suburb and also went to conventions at the convention center! Had NEVER HAD an Uno's pizza!!! My niece was in 7th heaven because, despite her 20 year + delay of seeing the King Tut exhibit, she also got to have some Unos! And I have a friend in Chicago who used to send me gift certificates from Lou Malnati's and I would order a pizza and a dessert. We also lived in Pittsburgh and I went nuts when we saw a new Uno's --- the franchise stores are not exactly the same -- and one thing missing seems to be the corn meal in the pans!!!

But I say Uno, Due or Lou Malnati's. I never cared for what they ordered at my last job in Pittsburgh when we had overtime -- they were thin crust and just not a Chicago style pizza. Close, but really NOT CIGAR!!!
Mary

Our small family does eat meat-free meals frequently, but I'd have to say ol' Pauly there should dismantle his private plane to cut down on HIS carbon emissions. We broke, meat eating plebs hardly make a dent environmentally when compared to a rich, jet-setting, life-long vegetarian with several homes worldwide. Pardon me while I walk around the corner for my weekly burger.

@Grumpy Old Man

"Stupid Assertion number 2: Forcing everyone to become a vegan will somehow also reduce greenhouse emissions.

Whatever we replace animal products with will also need harvesting, storage, packaging and shipping and the resultant wastes will need to be dealt with. Remember, when plants die, they produce methane, CO2 and water vapor. "

The key fact that you are not considering is that it takes much more energy to produce 100 calories of meat as it does 100 calories of a vegetable - orders of magnitude more. So even will all else being equal - we can ignor the "emissions" from living or dead cows, we can ignore the difficulty of safely disposing of animal waste, we can ignore the ease of contamination in an industrially produced meat supply, we can ignore the cruelty of factory farms - cows still take much more energy to produce, and require many more greenhouse gas emissions to grow than plants do.

"No one has proved that we are indeed undergoing human induced global warming. The so-called "greenhouse" effect is basically nonsense, the atmosphere does not work in anyway similar to a greenhouse.

This entire thing is and was nothing more than a political scam perpetrated by Margaret Thatcher. Now it has become politically correct and the darling cause celebre of the political left. It is a tool that the politicians of every political stripe hope to use as a means of controlling your life. Don't be a sucker"

You'd better have some hard core facts to back up that bold statement, because the vast majority of both the scientific and political community are now in agreement: the greenhouse effect is real, and it is caused by humans. Either every single one of them is wrong, or I've underestimated cast scope of Margaret Thatcher's nefarious scheme.

Assuming that you are correct - the greenhouse doesn't exist and it's nothing more than a political scam - please explain to me what the motive behind the scam is? What benefit could the government possibly get from people spending less money?

French meal generally begins with a soup, main course, salad, cheese, and lastly desert. The French usually have a separate beverage for all types of foodstuff and event be, it a traditional family gatherings, parties or a simple home dining table. The French meal is truly great in restaurant and culinary art schools and cooking schools that have French cooking as their specialty. The main French cuisine include dishes like Mushroom and Truffle Cappuccino, Bittersweet Chocolate Tart, Blue cheese Mashed Potatoes, Festive Smoked Turkey, Veggie Quiche, Bechemel sauce, Ratatouille, Lobster Risotto Milanese and Le Tourin. The French cooking programs includes hand-on classes and vocational tours for all the above mentioned recipes and cuisine. http://www.culinaryschoolsprograms.com/cuisines/French--Culinary-Schools/index.html

Are you supposed to drain the liquid from the peas first? Because I didn't, and got a bowl full of pasta and peas and fish and yogurt soup. The soup was tasty, but not a sauce that stuck to the pasta in any way. Tasted good at least!