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SOS: Save Our Starbucks Movement Forming
What's next, Save Our Walmart? Save Our Olive Garden?
Gordon Ramsay Suggests Seasonal Foods be Enforced By Law
"Everyone should just decide what they want to eat and leave everyone else to do the same."
Ummm, that would lead to a massive collapse of the earth's ability to sustain life and the starvation death of billions of people over the next century or so. I vote for the forced normalization of our consumption habits that prices in the true cost of petroleum. Gordon's approach might be ham handed but it's way better than doing nothing.
Everyone is going to have to get used to fact that the human race is going to need to make some RADICAL changes in how we eat, work, live and travel. This means you.
"What about products that just aren't available naturally in the UK, like chocolate or pistachios?"
Its statements like this that expose the fundamental lack of understanding of what we're up against.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind... - John Donne
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Tonight Is National Men Make Dinner Night
I cook 80% of the dinners we eat as a family already. I applaud the sentiment (its pitiful if one spouse NEVER makes dinner) but it's pretty out of touch.
SOS: Save Our Starbucks Movement Forming
What's next, Save Our Walmart? Save Our Olive Garden?
Gordon Ramsay Suggests Seasonal Foods be Enforced By Law
"Everyone should just decide what they want to eat and leave everyone else to do the same."
Ummm, that would lead to a massive collapse of the earth's ability to sustain life and the starvation death of billions of people over the next century or so. I vote for the forced normalization of our consumption habits that prices in the true cost of petroleum. Gordon's approach might be ham handed but it's way better than doing nothing.
Everyone is going to have to get used to fact that the human race is going to need to make some RADICAL changes in how we eat, work, live and travel. This means you.
"What about products that just aren't available naturally in the UK, like chocolate or pistachios?"
Its statements like this that expose the fundamental lack of understanding of what we're up against.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind... - John Donne
Sack Lunch: Mark Bittman's Red Beans and Rice
the beans would be done in a pressure cooker in about 30 min.
Cook the Book: Nigella Express
maintain an herb garden for rosemary, thyme, oregano, and mint. These are all hardy herbs that don't require anything beyond watering. Having fresh herbs on hand creates a lot of options for marinades, salads, and sauces that removes an extra trip to the store. (parsley and cilantro go to seed, you are better off buying)
Tonight Is National Men Make Dinner Night
Heh... that's coincidence; my boyfriend decided early today to make a pizza (recipe courtesy of 'Cook's Illustrated'), and has had it in the works since this morning. True, we're not in the US, but I'm American!
Tonight Is National Men Make Dinner Night
I called my boyfriend [a butcher] at work yesterday afternoon, informing him of the holiday. "Awesome!", he said - "BLATs and jalapeno chips?!"
It was very good, indeed. He's good with meat.
Tonight Is National Men Make Dinner Night
I'm not sure if my wife knows how to cook.... oh wait, there was the one time she poured cream of mushroom soup over chicken breasts and baked them until ... well, bless her heart..... until we had to go out for dinner. Yep, I'd say tonight will be another national man make the dinner night.
Tonight Is National Men Make Dinner Night
My husband has never cooked dinner in his life, other than to grill meat or fish I have already prepared. He likes my cooking so well, he has no interest in learning how. He is happy to wash the dishes as I cook. I am totally and completely fine with this.
SOS: Save Our Starbucks Movement Forming
Because of the franchises in grocery stores, I've seen two or three Starbucks shops in one parking lot. One in Target, one in Safeway, and one freestanding. Too much!!!! Why couldn't the extra free-standing Starbucks close? Instead, the corporation is closing the one at the truck stop 10 minutes away from town by the freeway. Now, I'll admit, when my husband and I are on a road trip, sometimes we need something caffeinated from Starbucks, and we'll stop if it's easy to see off the freeway.
S-bucks put one in right across from a mom and pop coffee shop. The mom and pop remains one of the main town hangouts.
SOS: Save Our Starbucks Movement Forming
@pooky:
To be fair, I can name 1 coffee shop in my town, and the three surrounding towns, that MAY have existed before Starbucks. My knowledge isn't encyclopedic, but if you wanted 'coffee' before Starbucks, people generally went to diners (what can I say? It's an NJ thing). On the other hand, I can name a dozen just in my town that have sprung up since the growth of Starbucks in the area.
SOS: Save Our Starbucks Movement Forming
If the loss of a Starbucks symbolizes the loss of a community then this society is in a sad and sorry state. I try to frequent the small mom& pop places first. I'll go to 7-11 for coffee before I'd walk into a Stabuck's.
SOS: Save Our Starbucks Movement Forming
DIE STARBUCKS DIE!!!!!
SOS: Save Our Starbucks Movement Forming
@steveray: Olive Garden is one thing, but don't be hating on Walmart.
SamsClub & Walmart are vital to my survival. lol :)
SOS: Save Our Starbucks Movement Forming
@steveray: well said! I'm sure there is more important things to save than a billion-dollar corporation's profits at the moment.
"A loss of Starbucks symbolizes a loss of community"? haha
SOS: Save Our Starbucks Movement Forming
Isn't Wal-Mart's plan similar? Expand, kill off the competition, and close the store since consumers can drive to the one 10 or 15 minutes further away. Repeat. I'm sure we'll see "save our Wal-Marts!" soon.
SBUX may be closing stores, but how many of those "community" SBUX stores killed off a pre-existing coffee shop? I mentioned that SBUX in Arlington - that store was the only place to hang out because it did kill off a small bar/coffee shop half a mile down the road. (Why, as teenagers, we were allowed to hang out in either place is now beyond me.)
French Fry Holder For Your Car
You have to admire the brilliance of the people who realized people would buy something like this.
French Fry Holder For Your Car
Am I the only person who has good memories of sitting with my mom in the car and both of us reaching into the bag of fries as we drove home after a long day?
I don't eat McDonald's anymore, haven't for 7 years, but jeez, I do sometimes eat a protien bar or some grapes when I don't have time to have lunch.
But isn't the fun of eating fries in the car the sharing and the mixing up of the stuff in the bag as you ride home? A professional fry holder seems to fly in the face of such pleasure.
French Fry Holder For Your Car
ccweb & bobcatsteph -- bring it to the haters!
seriously, people are assholes (i think that is supposed to be in a david cross voice but i'm not quite sure). i personally love there there are so many people willing to make decisions for me..it makes my life easier. i just wish i could figure out how to make them do my job for me while i sit back and sign the checks.
French Fry Holder For Your Car
I so love it when people throw stones from their glass houses.
What's so bad about eating in a car? Have you never been on a ROAD TRIP? Sorry for your sheltered lives.
I have chronic HYPOtension, that is extreme low blood pressure upon standing (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) and I can't say how many times some salty french fries have saved me from passing out. Also, I'm not fat, very much the opposite, I'm tall and extremely thin and I make excellent food but partake in fast food when I need it. What a horrible person I must be! Step off your high horses please.
Right on ccbweb!
French Fry Holder For Your Car
ccbweb, that.was.HILARIOUS.
French Fry Holder For Your Car
Yeah, umm, I'm out on that one - someone obviously has a "I eat french fries and I shouldn't have to be ashamed of it" complex. It's OK! Norman Bates, I think your mother's calling you..?
French Fry Holder For Your Car
Yes. Indeed. The french fry holder is what is wrong with America. This is the root of the downfall of civilization. Also eating in the car, totally demolishing the pillars of our society.
We also know that all people who eat fries or who eat in their car are fat. They are also beneath us and to be looked down upon.
French Fry Holder For Your Car
What is really sad is that the article says the company is currently sold out of this - people actually bought this - how sad. No wonder we are the fattest (and most reviled) country in the world......
French Fry Holder For Your Car
While I wouldn't want to exchange my life with that of a starving child in some third world country, I can't help but look at this product and think of some fatso in a minivan full of fatso kids eating fries... I like fries, but I can drive from place to place without having to eat. And please, don't mistake my seriousness to enjoy good and plentiful food and drink. Guess I just had a "serious=frowny" moment , jeeeese...
French Fry Holder For Your Car
I once saw a Dilbert comic strip in which an Elbonian tries to sell some incredibly tacky tchotchke to an American woman. When she agrees to buy it, the Elbonian tells her, "Your country has too much money."
I look at this, and I think ... my country has too much money.
French Fry Holder For Your Car
I would no sooner eat in my car then I would poop in my pants.
Seriously!
French Fry Holder For Your Car
Depends on what you mean by serious: serious=frowny or serious=expert. And maybe GingerSnap confused this with the Oxfam website somehow? This is a great gag gift for "serious" fry lovers.
French Fry Holder For Your Car
BPC: It's for serious fry eaters.
French Fry Holder For Your Car
@BrianPrestonCampbell: I believe you missed something commonly known as 'irony' or 'sarcasm.'
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I cook 80% of the dinners we eat as a family already. I applaud the sentiment (its pitiful if one spouse NEVER makes dinner) but it's pretty out of touch.