They've got the Big Mac... we've got the Big MickI went to some Scottish place down the road... Mac Doughal's or something.Bonus points if you get the reference.
can't put into words how important that movie is, or how realistic that aspect of it was. I remember when I had to leave the neighborhood to get something that wasn't Chinese food or neighborhood versions of chain restaurants.
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can't put into words how important that movie is, or how realistic that aspect of it was. I remember when I had to leave the neighborhood to get something that wasn't Chinese food or neighborhood versions of chain restaurants.I went to some Scottish place down the road... Mac Doughal's or something.Bonus points if you get the reference.EV
They've got the Big Mac... we've got the Big MickOh do you live in MN too?
I grew up in and around Chicago, IL. Growing up there was a local, hole-in-the-wall with amazing junk food like every block for miles in any direction. Need a 2000 calorie gyros and butter/garlic fries at 2 am on a Wednesday? There's Sub Tender up one street, Olympia up another and so on.
A while ago I moved to the suburbs of the Twin Cities in MN for a job. EVERY restaurant, with maybe a couple exceptions, is a chain. Where I live one mall up the street alone has Quizno's, Caribou Coffee, Qdoba, and Subway, with Wendy's, Taco Bell and Wendy's across the street. Meanwhile there was ONE local restaurant, Jake's, which the pandemic has now squashed.
I miss Chicago every day.
I live in Vermont. I was misquoting the movie Time After Time. H.G. Wells really has a time machine, which he uses to chase Jack the Ripper through time.
The actual line was "Oh, this is quite good. Far superior to that Scottish place where I had breakfast. Mac...Doughal's, was it?"
can't put into words how important that movie is, or how realistic that aspect of it was. I remember when I had to leave the neighborhood to get something that wasn't Chinese food or neighborhood versions of chain restaurants.I went to some Scottish place down the road... Mac Doughal's or something.Bonus points if you get the reference.EV
They've got the Big Mac... we've got the Big MickOh do you live in MN too?
I grew up in and around Chicago, IL. Growing up there was a local, hole-in-the-wall with amazing junk food like every block for miles in any direction. Need a 2000 calorie gyros and butter/garlic fries at 2 am on a Wednesday? There's Sub Tender up one street, Olympia up another and so on.
A while ago I moved to the suburbs of the Twin Cities in MN for a job. EVERY restaurant, with maybe a couple exceptions, is a chain. Where I live one mall up the street alone has Quizno's, Caribou Coffee, Qdoba, and Subway, with Wendy's, Taco Bell and Wendy's across the street. Meanwhile there was ONE local restaurant, Jake's, which the pandemic has now squashed.
I miss Chicago every day.
no, Brooklyn. Which is better than Queens.
Microwave "steak" & cheese chimichanga
Mostly-ripe fresh peach*
Chilled unsweetened tea
Edit: * "Risky Peach" -- innuendo-laden bluesy-rock ballad about a dangerously sexy derrière?
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innuendo-laden bluesy-rock ballad about actual peach that may trigger another gout episode?
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Does the brand name come with a Chef? That's how you know it's quality, though personally I'm a beefaroni man myself...please catalogue the process if you do.I am pondering whether I hate myself enough to open and eat this little can of lasagna.
I didn't even know lasagna could come in a can.
To sum up: If you know you must eat some form of nourishment...
but your lack of self-esteem -- or abundance of self-hatred -- thinks you don't deserve the joyful pick-me-ups of a Failure Pile in a Sadness Bowl or a semi-dehydrated beef puck on stale buns...
and your tastebuds would be overloaded by the overly-flavorful delights of a canned food from the culinary genius of that Boyardee fellow...
and you've already eaten all the cardboard boxes your Amazon shipments were packed in...
then this Lasagna in a Can is for you.
If you've ever said: "Hey, I wonder what 5 ounces of gelatinous cube would taste like if it had just digested the Italian version of an even more milquetoast Ben Stein?", then _____ brand Lasagna in a Can is for you.
You should work in advertising. I already want to eat this.
Do Scots really eat haggis that much? I always figured that was more of a novelty even though it's regionally specific. If it DID show up on the McDonalds menu, it'd be like the McRib.
I've never had haggis, but as I get older, I'm starting to get really intrigued and definitely want to try it. The only thing off-putting about it now would be the texture of the oats; I do not like the texture unless it's cooked to beyond mush or ground up really well.
Today I'm going to take leftover braised steak, shred it up, throw it on some bread with swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, brown mustard and mayo and call it a steak sandwich. Pairing that up with chips and a soda
That sounds wonderful.
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Lunch was roast turkey, bacon, & sharp cheddar sandwich (with plenty of peppercorn mayonnaise)
They eat meat pies called pasties. That's what they serve at celtic festivals in some malls. A lot better than dollar store chicken pies.
I think it would be so nice
commemorating Maurice Sendak once or twice
by making leftovers into chicken soup with rice!
Remembering once,
remembering twice,
Remember Chicken Soup with Rice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSJ0FDplzjk
I followed the path of Garfield today and ate a lasagna.
*burp*
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I was thinking about some Spam for lunch, turns out Terry the Berry here beat me to it.
Spam, spam, spam, spam, glorious spam, wonderful spam!
As gross as it sounds, cut up spam and velveeta (not really meat and not really cheese!) on a hot dog roll and baked for long enough to be hot and melty is shockingly good. Also gives you your weekly recommended dose of salt, all at once, so that's handy. :)
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Admittedly, I've eaten a heck of a lot of spam starting as a little kid, but I've never thought it was gross. Yeah, it's packed in goo, but it isn't that different than a little aspic or gelatin. And the meat is just ground up pork shoulder, which isn't that different than hot dogs or salami. It hits all the major taste buttons -- savory, umami, fat, and salt -- and crisping it up a bit (like fried bologna) improves the flavor and does wonders for the texture.
My only complaints with eating it now is it isn't that inexpensive anymore and the regular version is too salty to my aging tastebuds. Once you've started the macaroni boiling for stovetop mac & cheese, de-can your spam, slice it up to lightly fry in a skillet (it's fatty enough it doesn't need any oil or butter), and lay out the slices on a sheet of paper towel to soak up any remaining fat afterward. Serve them both together while they're still hot (oven-baked tater tots or hashbrown potato patties go great with them), and you've got an amazingly satisfying meal.
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Pulled.
Pork.
Sandwich.
Pulled.
Pork.
Sandwich.
>_>
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McRibs are returning December 2nd.
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Pulled.
Pork.
Sandwich.
>_>
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McRibs are returning December 2nd.
McDonald's is giving away a free breakfast pastry with purchase of a coffee today. I think Krispy Kreme is giving away glazed donuts. (Not sure if either requires a phone app or not.)
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(Trying to remember to actually start eating three daily meals at regular-ish times:)
Lunch was a couple microwaveable WC sliders and 12oz water.
Lunch was:
Leftover cantina-style corn tortilla chips with shredded sharp cheddar and 7-8oz of heated canned chili poured on top (basically a Fritos pie)
Glass of lightly-sweetened ice tea
Dessert might be a snack pack of Swiss rolls
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Half a kilogram of store-bought pierogi. It's been a while.
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Wow, I went 40+ years only to finally try steak umms and discover they are really disappointing. I don't mind the ground-up fine texture or composed of leftover cow bits (hell, I like American baloney and spam for Cosmo's sake), or weird dystopian sci-fi extruded frozen plank formfactor. It's just... there's no flavor. How do you make something from beef with that much beef fat ground up in it but somehow lose the beef flavor? I've had ground lentil burgers and quorn patties that had more beef flavor. When the standout flavor in your steak umms sandwich is fricking American cheese... you've failed as a food manufacturer.
So, anyway, lunch was a steakumms sandwich with slice of deli American cheese on hamburger bun.
Lunch was a tomato half sandwich (vine-ripe tomato slice, cut in half, seasoned with salt + fresh black pepper + teeny bit of olive oil, and sharp cheddar)
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Not all that hungry, but needed to eat something. Rummaging through the pantry, I found three cans of namebrand chicken & rice condensed soup given to us post-Hurricane Ian. It expired back in April 2024 (Dad won't eat rice), but the can wasn't bulging and it smelled & tasted fine (and bland, as expected) when opened. So I reconstituted it with water, and while it was heating up on the stovetop, I chucked in: a half-teaspoon-ish of roasted garlic base & chicken base, a teaspoon of frozen ginger, some dried thyme & rosemary, and several grinds of black pepper. Once it came up to a simmer, I made a basic grilled cheese (American cheese singles in plastic, white bread, margarine) in a small skillet.
Nothing remarkable, but not bad, especially on a cool winter afternoon.
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BIRTHDAY CAAAAAAAAAKE
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It's my own fault, really. If I'd just had my normal big coffee and skipped breakfast as usual, I'd likely have been fine til 3 or 4 PM. But, nooooo. Instead I had half a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast with my coffee, and now I'm I was ravenous. Or maybe this morning's writing had made my one brain cell extra hungry.
Anyway, lunch was a couple English muffins, toasted, with a little mayo, stuffed with 4oz of canned mackerel to produce two muffin sandwiches. I hadn't even tried canned mackerel or canned sardines until last year, but I've discovered I love them both. These were "Mediterranean style:" boneless, skinless, packed in olive oil with little bits of olives and red bell pepper. It's a definite step up in tastiness from plain canned mackerel. I had my mini-sandwiches with a good handful of cheetos, not quite a dozen spicy pickle chips, and a glass of ice cold water (bleh, want sugar, sugaaaarrrrr). I'm now stuffed.
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Breakfast this morning was a 14 oz mocha coffee and a banana, so definitely hungry by lunchtime. The plain ol' banana was perfectly ripe (bright all yellow peel just starting to get the tiny brown spots) but it was so sweet it blew out my taste buds. I'll have to go back to eating them when they are still a bit green and less sweet.
Lunch was a couple thin slices of "rotisserie-seasoned" deli chicken in a toasted sourdough English muffin, a handful of cheetos, and a 4 oz cup of Noosa blueberry yogurt. Not sure I'll make to dinner without something else, but I guess we'll see.
Today's lunch was a can of (uncondensed) chicken carbonara soup and plain saltines. The chicken carbonara soup was neither chicken-y nor carbonara-ry; the chicken was sparse at best, and there was no taste of pancetta/bacon or egg or Parmesan. It was creamy industrial food service goop and sporadic bits of pasta, with an overpowering flavor of liquid smoke. That's it. No, wait. There were a ton of green peas. Green peas, in carbonara?! I imagine they had to be there to get the nutritional numbers up, but ugh, no, just no.
I ate three-quarters of the can because I was starving, because I didn't want to waste the money, and because the saltines were doing the heavy lifting for flavor. Terrible goop soup, would not buy again, and makes me seriously side-eye this company's other soup offerings.
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Today's lunch was a can of (uncondensed) chicken carbonara soup and plain saltines. The chicken carbonara soup was neither chicken-y nor carbonara-ry; the chicken was sparse at best, and there was no taste of pancetta/bacon or egg or Parmesan. It was creamy industrial food service goop and sporadic bits of pasta, with an overpowering flavor of liquid smoke. That's it. No, wait. There were a ton of green peas. Green peas, in carbonara?! I imagine they had to be there to get the nutritional numbers up, but ugh, no, just no.
I ate three-quarters of the can because I was starving, because I didn't want to waste the money, and because the saltines were doing the heavy lifting for flavor. Terrible
goopsoup, would not buy again, and makes me seriously side-eye this company's other soup offerings.
Peas?? That sounds ghastly. ㅠㅠ I hope your lunch tomorrow is better!
Today, I'm going to fry up some pretty simple pork and vegetable mandu!