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Meatwater: Hungarian Goulash and More!

I'm still laughing! And I'll laugh even more when some water company actually markets this! Look for the Sabrett's umbrella guys to recycle their H2O, a la LunaPierCook's suggestion. Carbonate it, call it 'Street Spritz.'

swinburne at 1:01PM on 04/04/08

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YOWZA! I experienced this heaven once... took a VIP to a castle, a real castle, in CT. While he met with other VIPs I was ushered into the castle TV room, where a stunning, 40-ish blonde Swedish woman sat me down in a big comfy leather chair and fed me colossal shrimps and a rib-eye steak sandwich. Big coke with ice (no booze for the driver!) and the Jets were playing on the floor-to-ceiling TV!! And a big crystal ashtray for my Camels!
BTW, I absolutely LUV every comment before me -- you guys know what's good -- I don't know about Hillary's broccoli cheddar soup :-) but she more than redeemed herself with homemade potato chips!

swinburne at 12:48PM on 04/04/08

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Desert Island Food

Wow! What a great site! Just about everybody got the gist of my little contest and really ran with it, but Sbelle clearly caught the 'long haul' nature of the question; I'm having (her?) suggestion for lunch this Saturday -- and in her state, (VA) too! I'm travelling down to Richmond's Monument Ave 10K run (2 daughters running).
But sushi? Never could get into the raw fish thingie. When God created tuna, He created mayonnaise a millesecond later.
My second choice? a '21 Club' cheeseburger and Caesar salad, Wild Turkey and branch water. For Show money, a perfect sub sandwich -- good, crunchy on-the-fat-side baguette, ham, soppressata, capicola, proscuittini, provolone, shredded lettuce, tomatoes, vinegar/oil combo, salt, pepper, oregano and a $2 bottle of Froggie table wine.

swinburne at 9:11AM on 04/03/08

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Meatwater: Hungarian Goulash and More!

I'm still laughing! And I'll laugh even more when some water company actually markets this! Look for the Sabrett's umbrella guys to recycle their H2O, a la LunaPierCook's suggestion. Carbonate it, call it 'Street Spritz.'

swinburne at 1:01PM on 04/04/08

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Food Heaven

YOWZA! I experienced this heaven once... took a VIP to a castle, a real castle, in CT. While he met with other VIPs I was ushered into the castle TV room, where a stunning, 40-ish blonde Swedish woman sat me down in a big comfy leather chair and fed me colossal shrimps and a rib-eye steak sandwich. Big coke with ice (no booze for the driver!) and the Jets were playing on the floor-to-ceiling TV!! And a big crystal ashtray for my Camels!
BTW, I absolutely LUV every comment before me -- you guys know what's good -- I don't know about Hillary's broccoli cheddar soup :-) but she more than redeemed herself with homemade potato chips!

swinburne at 12:48PM on 04/04/08

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Desert Island Food

Wow! What a great site! Just about everybody got the gist of my little contest and really ran with it, but Sbelle clearly caught the 'long haul' nature of the question; I'm having (her?) suggestion for lunch this Saturday -- and in her state, (VA) too! I'm travelling down to Richmond's Monument Ave 10K run (2 daughters running).
But sushi? Never could get into the raw fish thingie. When God created tuna, He created mayonnaise a millesecond later.
My second choice? a '21 Club' cheeseburger and Caesar salad, Wild Turkey and branch water. For Show money, a perfect sub sandwich -- good, crunchy on-the-fat-side baguette, ham, soppressata, capicola, proscuittini, provolone, shredded lettuce, tomatoes, vinegar/oil combo, salt, pepper, oregano and a $2 bottle of Froggie table wine.

swinburne at 9:11AM on 04/03/08

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Yeah. I'll need the cheese and olives and good wine too. Plus, all of the above. I look forward to meeting you all in Food Heaven! Come find me. I'll be next to the bottomless pit of mint chocolate chip ice cream. (Just past the Please-Eat-More pizza parlor.)

elizabethw at 7:55AM on 04/05/08

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Food Heaven

Calichef, I'm in! But my food heaven must also include a wide variety of cheeses and olives, unlimited amounts of good pistachio ice cream (needless to say, it has to be full of whole pistachio nuts) and creme brulee...otherwise, you've pretty much covered it! Oh, and one more thing (or two, to be precise:-)) - I'll have to add good wine and Irish Cream (all right, Bailey's specifically).

brooke29 at 1:26AM on 04/05/08

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LOL@ onepercent99! I guess as long as you are chewing tasty stuff, it doesn't matter. But if you smoke enough of that Thai you forget to eat.

Huh, I never realized I wanted my own personal heaven to be an opium den attached to a brasserie with its own garden. Anyway, y'all come!

Calichef at 12:54AM on 04/05/08

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I would eat roasted garlic cheesy mashed potatoes with loads of butter and cream every single day of my beautiful life in food heaven. I would also throw in chili cheese fries, bacon cheeseburgers and carnitas and crema in fresh flour tortilas for good measure.

PumpkinBear at 8:31PM on 04/04/08

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All of the above. I'll be dropping in on everyone's food heaven!

wookie at 8:18PM on 04/04/08

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i think the thai-sticks made me a believer......after one of those does it really matter what you eat?....lmao

onepercent99 at 6:35PM on 04/04/08

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Calichef, I am there! Lobster and crab with drawn lemon butter, all I want, with wild rice and a side of four-cheese linguini alfredo. My heaven would serve green chile cheeseburgers with homemade fries. Chicken-fried steak with fried potatoes and cream gravy every Wednesday, fried chicken and biscuits on Sundays and Eggs Benedict Saturday mornings with fresh fruit and home fries. It's a start!

hatlady at 6:27PM on 04/04/08

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I wanna come to your party calichef! Hoorah for rum runners!

This thread is starting to sound like that polka song
"In Heaven There is No Beer!"
(lyrics below)
http://www.brave.com/bo/lyrics/inheaven.htm

bisbee at 5:48PM on 04/04/08

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OMG! Foie gras, tiny wild strawberries with warm chocolate ganache and whipped cream, beluga or osetra caviar, lobster poached in butter, true prime rib roast, whole-roasted suckling pig with crispy, salty skin, crinkle cut, duck fat fries, duck cracklin's, perfectly ripe fruits and vegetables of all kinds, chocolate, lemon, raspberry desserts of all kinds, a continuous supply of warm chocolate chip cookies and whole milk, real Pepsi-- not diet! Oh, and Rum Runners. Lots of Rum Runners.

Since you included smoking, I'll take an unlimited supply of Nat Sherman's Fantasias, Cuban Romeo Y Julietta, AK-47 from Mendocino, White Widow from Oregon and good old-fashioned opium-dipped Thai.

Who wants to come to my party?

Please, dear G-d, don't keep heaven kosher. We all know that pork and lobster are treif only because they are so tasty you want it all for yourself. You can't fool us!

Calichef at 5:14PM on 04/04/08

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@huney.......had to look up bogart. Great word!!!

Since it's legal in heaven and the supply is unlimited, I'm passing around to all who care to join me. I'll even share with my daughters and give them a huge laugh at their novice mother. Bring food!

PerkyMac at 5:02PM on 04/04/08

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Meatwater: Hungarian Goulash and More!

It's funny how so many people thought it was real and posted as if it were... probably because the Meatwater website was so thoroughly convincing!

karenita at 4:54PM on 04/04/08

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Food Heaven

One word: VEAL. Veal cutlets served with spaghetti were my favorite food as a child, but nary a bite has passed my lips since I was in my late teens or so, for obvious reasons. I still miss it terribly. But heaven, of course, would have cruelty-free veal!

tacroy80 at 4:44PM on 04/04/08

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oh my gosh .. for someone who is thin but exercises regularly and has to watch every bite to make sure I stay this way (I'm not one of those ppl you hate who can eat everything and stays skinny), the idea of food heaven is making my head spin .. I don't even know where to start because there is just so much I would want to eat! Chinese egg custard tarts, big bowls of pho, new york strip steaks (medium rare), extra crispy french fries, New England clam chowder, pizza from di Fara (without having to wait in line forever), chocolate chip walnut cookies from Levain, jumbo lump crab cakes ..

mrsbao at 4:15PM on 04/04/08

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Where to begin? Perhaps breakfast: cheesy omlette cooked with butter and sauteed veggies, white bagel- extra butter, pancakes and French toast, waffles covered in butter and syrup.
Lunch - buttery grilled cheese and French fries, egg salad on toast, BLTs w/mayo.
Dinner- chinese spare ribs and shrimp toast, a fried fish platter, shrimp, scallops, clam strips, flounder, w/ cole slaw and tarter sauce. Prime Rib, Baked maicotti, deep dish pizza, eggplant parm.
I feel my cholesterol rising.

KtMc24 at 3:41PM on 04/04/08

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Meatwater: Hungarian Goulash and More!

This is an awesomely funny hoax. Very well done.

chisai at 3:37PM on 04/04/08

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Food Heaven

Tacos...I have a huge thing for taco's. Huge medium rare steaks and french fries fried in duck fat. Ridiculous amounts of wine and cheese, fried chicken and mashed potatoes with cream and butter--not skim milk. Blech!

jcrisco at 3:12PM on 04/04/08

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Food Heaven

hey Perky dont bogart ;) Pass the ribeyes and the greasy fries! OMG I need a cholesterol fix just thinking about it :'(

huney_bumper at 2:31PM on 04/04/08

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Meatwater: Hungarian Goulash and More!

I would drink this, I seriously would. Better than fiddy cent flavored water any day.

dogcharlie at 2:13PM on 04/04/08

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Food Heaven

LOL Chisai!
.... smoke em if you got em Perky- just don't forget to puff-puff-pass to your friends over here!

bisbee at 1:17PM on 04/04/08

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@chisai..........uhhhhhhh...........it would be my first joint, so you think before makes more sense? Yup, I'm the original goody-two-shoes. While everybody else in my generation was dropping out, I was married, working two jobs and taking classes. In heaven, I'm gonna eat, drink, smoke and be merry! ;-D

PerkyMac at 1:16PM on 04/04/08

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Hey @PerkyMac, shouldn't the joint come before dinner? Just sayin...

Huge slabs of delicious meat, thick gorgeous beautifully marbled steaks cooked just this side short of med-rare. And banana cream pie. And creme brulee. And piles of English muffins slathered with peanut butter. And chili cheeseburger deluxes. And 4 cheese lasagnas. Fried chicken. My gram's biscuits and gravy. Carbonara! I would still enjoy a nice green salad, and much of what I actually like IS healthy, but I'd surely love the option.

chisai at 1:08PM on 04/04/08

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...oops I meant for food nerds- like me. (not food food-nerds..LOL)

bisbee at 1:03PM on 04/04/08

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In some of my dreams, heaven is a greasy spoon diner (called HOLY MOSES!)the menu would offer fried chicken, biscuits,slathered in butter and honey, grilled bacon cheese sandwiches, cheeseteaks, lasagna, chili cheese fries, mac and cheese, haystack onion rings, enchiladas, and the best BBQ this side of hell, there are also waitresses on rollerskates that call you "hon" .
...oh deep sweet calorie laden heaven!

In my fancy pants dreams heaven has a giant farmer's market/cheese store/choclatier/winery....you just wander around all day sampling all the best these food artisans have to offer. Something like the Garden of Eden food food-nerds.


bisbee at 1:00PM on 04/04/08

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Desert Island Food

Oh, and definitely a good chianti to go with it. Swinburne, I'm with you on the tuna.

I think this question was on an episode of Arthur on PBS (the stuff kids make you watch) the teacher, Mr. Ratburn, asked all the kids what their desert island food would be, and they all got it wrong because of course, a healthy body needs all the food groups to survive for long periods of time, so you couldn't survive on just one food. Thus ensued a food pyramid discussion.

embolini9 at 12:47PM on 04/04/08

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Desert Island Food

Without a doubt, rigatoni with homemade sauce and romano cheese, OR cheese-stuffed tortellini with my mom's homemade pesto. I think my life would be over if I got sick of that. And hey! 3 food groups, right?

embolini9 at 12:40PM on 04/04/08

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Location: Madison, NJ

About: Definite street food guy. I can fake the four-star stuff, but the prices have gone WAY south -- when a stiff Wild Turkey/rocks goes for TWELVE DOLLARS I'm gone and under an umbrella on the avenue.

Favorite foods: Sub, cheeseburger, rib-eye (from cheap Windmill in Long Branch to the $30 sit-down kind) bacon and eggs, steel-cut oatmeal, souvlaki, derma (YES!) and God only knows what I'm forgetting.

Last bite on earth: on the neck of the lady who caused my demise.