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« Reply #40 on: August 14, 2006, 06:49:30 PM » |
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Hardee's milkshakes aren't too thick or too thin- they're perfect. It tastes like real ice cream too- I don't know what "handscooped" means really or why they're bragging about it, but whatever it really means, it makes for a fantastic but incredibly expensive milkshake.
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« Reply #41 on: August 14, 2006, 07:06:02 PM » |
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sounds yum. I drive past a Carl's Jr. (West Coast equivalent to Hardees) to and from work and always see the milkshake sign (Oreo right now, I believe), but there's never a Carl's Jr. near the places I shop. I'll have to try one sometime.
I think handscooped means that they make it from ice cream, not by dumping mix into a machine that automatically makes it. I wouldn't have thought that makes such a huge difference in taste, but maybe it does.
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« Reply #42 on: August 15, 2006, 08:27:41 AM » |
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OK .. this is inspiring a rip-off of a bit I heard on a morning show today.
Time to make our ideal Fast Food restaurant. My ideal restaurant will serve:
Chick-fil-a's Chicken Sandwich
Wendy's Frosty and Chili
Arby's curly fries
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« Reply #43 on: August 15, 2006, 08:58:32 AM » |
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My ideal fast food restaurant would serve: -Deli sandwiches from McAllister's -Waffle fries from Five Guys -Pizza from...eh...don't know of any great Chicago-style pizza chains, but imagine one  In other food-related stuff, I made a peach cobbler over the weekend. It was a bit of an experiment (and I failed to properly follow the instructions by buying oats instead of oat meal XD ), but it was still quite good. |
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« Reply #44 on: August 16, 2006, 09:18:01 AM » |
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I tried the McDonald's snack wrap last night. It was decent- too much lettuce, not enough of the dressing, and as usual, not half as enticing as we've been led to believe.
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« Reply #45 on: August 25, 2006, 05:59:13 PM » |
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I tried the pesto tortellini bowl from Trader Joe's yesterday and it was yum. Rubio's carnitas tacos are good, too. usually I just stick with their famous fish taco, but the carnitas tacos have lettuce instead of cabbage. and guacamole. also tried the cherry vanilla Pepsi jazz. it smells good but I can't really taste anything notably different. also got a bottle of the strawberries and cream flavor to try but haven't opened it yet. Vlad!, where did you buy oats-not-oatmeal?  I thought only feed stores would have such like. |
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« Reply #46 on: August 25, 2006, 07:50:47 PM » |
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They're at Kroger, which I presume you're familiar with from your time in Tennessee. They came in a cylindrical container that says "Whole Grain Oats" on the front.
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« Reply #47 on: August 25, 2006, 10:08:53 PM » |
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the new Wendy's melt is scrumptious. nothing fancy..just a patty, swiss cheese, onions, and thousand island dressing.
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« Reply #48 on: August 25, 2006, 11:19:32 PM » |
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OK .. this is inspiring a rip-off of a bit I heard on a morning show today.
Time to make our ideal Fast Food restaurant. My ideal restaurant will serve:
Chick-fil-a's Chicken Sandwich
Wendy's Frosty and Chili
Arby's curly fries
Taco Bell's Bean Burritos
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Mine would serve: Wendy's Spicy Chicken sandwhich Checker's french fries Steak n Shake's milkshakes Taco Bell's Chicken Quesa Dillas Someone upthread mentioned Hardees' shakes were really good, and since there is a Hardees on my college campus I should probably check those out. |
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« Reply #49 on: August 26, 2006, 12:03:25 AM » |
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They're at Kroger, which I presume you're familiar with from your time in Tennessee. They came in a cylindrical container that says "Whole Grain Oats" on the front.
as it happens, I'm familiar with Kroger because there was one in Illinois, where I grew up. I don't recall seeing any in Tennessee, but there was some grocery store that I don't remember the name of that carried Kroger brand stuff. do the oats still have the hulls on them? or are they hulled but not rolled (flattened)? (sorry I'm so fascinated with your oats.) |
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« Reply #50 on: August 26, 2006, 10:04:58 AM » |
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Hm, they're all over eastern Tennessee and western Virginia, but I guess maybe you were in a Krogerless area. There are two in Blacksburg, and when a tiny town like this gets two Krogers (we don't even have a Wal*Mart), you know they're pretty much ubiquitous.
I admit to a large degree of unfamiliarity with oats, so I looked them up on Wikipedia. I believe that the oats I got do in fact count as oatmeal, since they are rolled. I was confused because I assumed that oatmeal was like the instant oatmeal found on the next shelf over, and that what I had were bona-fide oats, given that the container said oats and not oatmeal. So you are correct that, as far as I know, Kroger does not sell actual oats. And it's also a good thing that I didn't get instant oatmeal, since that would no doubt have caused my cobbler to turn out even odder. Thus, my confusion about oats vs oatmeal and my confusion about what the recipe called for canceled one-another out.
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« Reply #51 on: August 26, 2006, 09:17:46 PM » |
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« Reply #52 on: August 26, 2006, 09:41:44 PM » |
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Kroger is based in Cincinnati, as I recall. But when I was in Cleveland, I didn't see a one.
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« Reply #53 on: August 27, 2006, 07:13:42 AM » |
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Maybe it's more in central and southern Ohio. My grandparents used to live in the small town of Coshocton (about 1 1/2 hours south of Akron and 1 1/2 hours east of Columbus) and there was a Kroger there. We'd go every time we visited just to get their maple-filled donuts. Yum!
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« Reply #54 on: September 02, 2006, 06:51:28 PM » |
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The orange cream swirl shake from Arby's is fantastic!! I haven't been this enthusiastic about a shake since...well, Hardee's shakes, like a week ago.
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« Reply #55 on: September 02, 2006, 08:45:45 PM » |
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I got a bag containing some ingredients for, according to the recipe sheet, "Amish Friendship Bread". Which is kind of amusing, when you consider that the recipe expects you to be making the bread using Ziploc bags and calls for ingredients such as instant vanilla pudding, which seem fairly un-Amish (looking at the recipe, it looks more like cake than bread, and calls for a crap-ton of ingredients). It also tries to be all mysterious, saying "only the Amish know how to make the starter, so if you give all of yours away, you will have to wait until someone gives you some again". Yeah, right, as though it's not just flour, activated yeast, and water or milk  |
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« Reply #56 on: September 02, 2006, 09:27:36 PM » |
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friendship bread is pretty good, but verrrrry sweet. and yeah, it's the cakelike quickbread type of bread.
the Amish can use plastic bags and containers, sheesh. they also buy/sell various mixes, such as pudding mix and jello mix, in bulk.
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« Reply #57 on: September 02, 2006, 11:08:14 PM » |
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Hm, I sort of assumed that in their rejection of technology, they would reject things like polyethelene containers, the product of technology. I also assumed that they took the whole "simple life" thing to the extreme where they rejected stuff like mass-produced or "instant" products. I guess I don't know so much about the Amish, but the moral of the story is that I have to go out and buy like five things just to make this "friendship bread".
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« Reply #58 on: September 03, 2006, 04:32:51 PM » |
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« Reply #59 on: September 04, 2006, 10:54:36 PM » |
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why does one have to show id when purchasing dealcoholized wine?
today I tried some more non-raw-fish sushi stuff, Alaskan halibut roll. it was pretty good, especially with the spicy sauce.
the thing about the Amish rejecting certain technology has less to do with technology itself than what they perceive it could lead to. plastic household items and mass produced/instant products wouldn't pose a threat to their lifestyle, but unrestricted access to modern modes of transportation and communication devices would.
anyway, hope your friendship bread is worth the trouble. I'm hungry for zucchini bread right now. I had rejoiced to see zucchini/carrot bread at Trader Joe's last week, but it's not as good as homemade.
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« Reply #60 on: September 05, 2006, 02:21:45 AM » |
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haha, yeah, I dunno that California rolls are especially Californian, but I was never really one to even try sushi, but "everybody else" here eats it. I still won't try the ones with raw fish. I don't care what people say.
I was craving Wendy's baked potato the other day but all I had was a leftover plain baked potato. very sad. still haven't gotten onion rings like I wanted over the weekend.
It's crazy. California rolls are SOOO popular in BC, and they're only 2.50 - 3.00 Canadian (about 2.25 - 2.75 American), AND they are much larger than the ones in California. I definitely did not enjoy the Japanese in California very much because the portions were amazingly small (and the tempura amazingly expensive). Japanese food is very cheap in British Columbia. I guess I'm just spoiled. |
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« Reply #61 on: September 05, 2006, 10:05:42 PM » |
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I. Love. Sonic. I wish we had one at home. Sonic is amazing. Thankfully . . . there's two within easy driving distance of school. I'm not a big fan of Sonic's food, but man those coconut cream milkshakes... Last year my roommate and I had a deal that whenever she rode home with me she'd buy me a Sonic shake when we got close to the end of the drive. |
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« Reply #62 on: September 05, 2006, 11:14:43 PM » |
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We have commercials for Sonic on tv all the time up here in the Buffalo and Rochester area. Only one problem with that.
THERE ARE NO FREAKING SONICS WITHIN A 300 MILE RADIUS!!!
How can there be 8 Sonics in MEXICO but none in New York? 861 in Texas but none in The Empire State? Ridiculous. Either build one or take the damn commercials off the tv!
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« Reply #63 on: September 06, 2006, 08:56:18 AM » |
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Wow, you're really bitter about this. There is a solution to your problem: stop watching TV Back when I ate fast food more than I do now, I liked this place called Steak 'n' Shake. They had good milkshakes and burgers. |
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Wow, you're really bitter about this. There is a solution to your problem: stop watching TV Back when I ate fast food more than I do now, I liked this place called Steak 'n' Shake. They had good milkshakes and burgers. I don't watch alot of TV but when i do I watch sports and comedy central and the Sonic commercials are always on there. |
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« Reply #65 on: September 06, 2006, 09:15:03 AM » |
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I had a Spicy Chicken Crunchwrap Supreme at Taco Bell yesterday. I liked it quite a bit.
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« Reply #66 on: September 06, 2006, 09:31:43 AM » |
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I've never had one, but, and this is ironic considering my comments above, their radio commercials are really annoying. I don't listen to that station anymore (for more reasons than the Taco Bell commercials), but I was highly irritated by them.
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« Reply #67 on: September 06, 2006, 09:40:35 AM » |
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I had a Spicy Chicken Crunchwrap Supreme at Taco Bell yesterday. I liked it quite a bit.
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« Reply #68 on: September 06, 2006, 12:55:15 PM » |
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Back when I ate fast food more than I do now, I liked this place called Steak 'n' Shake. They had good milkshakes and burgers.
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I LOVE Steak 'n' Shake! We have them all over Georgia, but none in Athens, which is weird, since a college town seems like a perfect place to have one. I know many UGA students whose life goal is to open one up around here.
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« Reply #69 on: September 06, 2006, 01:16:08 PM » |
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> I know many UGA students whose life goal is to open one up around here. I see that the University of Georgia inspires students to truly reach for the stars |
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« Reply #70 on: September 06, 2006, 02:49:58 PM » |
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I LOVE Steak 'n' Shake! We have them all over Georgia, but none in Athens, which is weird, since a college town seems like a perfect place to have one. I know many UGA students whose life goal is to open one up around here.
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« Reply #71 on: September 06, 2006, 03:18:13 PM » |
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Those milkshakes can't be beat (especiially at 2 am!).
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« Reply #72 on: September 06, 2006, 05:00:54 PM » |
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Who needs Steak N' Shake when you have the Grill? Those milkshakes can't be beat (especiially at 2 am!).
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« Reply #73 on: September 06, 2006, 10:55:14 PM » |
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« Reply #74 on: September 07, 2006, 04:52:49 PM » |
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Why is it that I'm ALWAYS hungry for like two weeks and then have a tiny appetite for the next six weeks?!
I guess the smaller appetite is good when I'm at school, though . . . makes it a lot less tempting to snack on crap food. Though the cafeteria food here would make a lot of people swear off food. Just kidding, it's just extraordinarily mediocre . . . excepting the Grill, which is quite satisfying.
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« Reply #75 on: September 07, 2006, 09:32:57 PM » |
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« Reply #76 on: September 09, 2006, 11:45:25 PM » |
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Today was the day that I made my Amish Friendship Bread. I messed around with the recipe a little (I'm really bad about following instructions, since I usually think I know better than whomever wrote them), and it turned out really good! It's a viralself-propagating recipe, so I can make more in 10 more days without having to ask an Amish person to make me another starter, since they're the (spooky noises) only ones who know how to make it.
If you follow the instructions, one starter creates four starters. I didn't follow the instructions and thus only wound up with two starters, but if anyone wants one then PM me with your address and I'll send it out. First-come, first-served, and if more than one person wants one, you'll have to wait 10 days until the next batch is ready.
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« Reply #77 on: September 24, 2006, 10:04:17 PM » |
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I've been having fun with the friendship bread recipe. Each time I make it, I try to do something different. The last time I made a loaf in a metal pan (The instructions say not to), and the coloration was a lot darker than usual. A friend says it's because of the raisins I put in it, but there might have been some oxidation or something going on as well. Maybe more experimentation is in order.
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« Reply #79 on: September 25, 2006, 10:04:28 AM » |
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Yeah, I thought about putting bananas and nuts into it, but then I figured it would just be cheaper to find a recipe for banana nut bread rather than throwing in the extra large amounts of ingredients required to make the AFB.
> I wouldn't leave the batter for days in a metal pan, although I presume it's okay to do the actual baking in one.
The instructions say not to even stir it with a metal stirring implement :O. I of course ignore this and use a metal whisk, but I've always been one for walking on the wild side. Theories I've heard include:
* It won't damage the bread, but it might hurt the metal pan/stirring implement.
* Some metals might kill the yeast.
* Aluminum pans cause health problems, and the batter can dissolve part of the pan to get aluminum mixed in with the batter.
* It's to make it seem more authentically old-fashioned Amish (as I mentioned before, I think the Ziploc bag and the instant pudding kind of dispel this illusion already).
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