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Hot Chicken - What the Heck is It? {Slashfood}
May 31st 2009 11:52PM Sorry, but I am from the south, and still live here, and have never heard of 'hot chicken'. While I like your article, I still am not sure that I know what it is.
What exactly is 'hot chicken'?
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Veggie-Egg Cups Make Quick Work of Breakfast {Slashfood}
Mar 9th 2009 11:10PM Those look tastey.
Since they are baked, aren't they quiches?
My wife runs Healthy Connections (www.healthy-connections.com) and she has a recipe for this with egg whites, tomatoes, olives, green onions, chilis, s&p. They portion control it out, bake it in the muffin pans, then box it for take away or delivery. She says that the egg whites make it. They do four of these quiches total on their meal plans.
Watch Your Pizza Being Made Online {Slashfood}
Mar 8th 2009 4:34PM Awesome. Just awesome. Love it. Love everything about it.
Gross-out alert: worst food you've ever eaten? {Slashfood}
Feb 26th 2008 9:52AM Dog.
I worked at a Thai restaurant when I was in high school ; the son of the owner was a good friend of mine. After the restaurant closed every night they cooked up a big meal and sat and ate in in a communal fashion. One night we had something tough and a bit stringy. After much laughter from some of the other, Thai-speaking waitstaff, they finally told me that it was dog.
It isn't anything that they would have cooked to serve the actual patrons of the restaurant but they enjoyed it now and then.
It wasn't *that* bad really. Just stringy.
Seven Sins of dining out with kids {Slashfood}
Jul 25th 2007 3:33PM ***Rant Warning***
Yeah, #8 should read:
8. Don't let your children hurt the dining experience of other diners.
Other diners deserve to not have their dinners interrupted, overly, by loud and/or obnoxious children. Not all children are loud and obnoxious but when they are their parents need to take responsibility for their children's actions and deal with them appropriately. Sometimes this means a stern look, an authoritative word, sometimes a slight spanking in the bathroom (but this would probably leave the child in such a state as to make further attempts at dining impossible), or the removal of the child (and probably the parents and other children) from the restaurant. I know the last option sounds terrible but that is the responsibility that one accepts when one has children.
When I worked as a bartender at a country club I held one woman above all others. She and her husband had four children. Two girls, one younger son (in a wheelchair), and a toddler. The older children had long since learned their manners, however the toddler had a little ways to go.
During the school year she would come in for lunch with her small son and I would give him shirley temples with xtra xtra cherries. By and large he was a good little guy. Every once in a while he would get out of hand. First she would try to calm him. If that did not work she would give the waiter, or maitre'd, her billing info and walk out. Sometimes at the beginning of lunch and sometimes halfway through. I am sure that this was hugely inconvenient for her but that is why I respected her so much.
There is a certain way to act in public in general and in a restaurant in particular and as a human in our society you must learn these things. She was never an abusive mother, on the contrary, she wanted them to have the best "home teaching" that she could provide.
It seems that in our society we have moved away from parental responsibility and it is of great concern.
Like my mom used to say, "I'm not your buddy, I'm not your pal, I'm your mother. I may not like what you do always but I will always love you."
Words to live by.
Richard
Anne Frank's Chestnut Tree to be Cut Down {Gadling}
Mar 12th 2007 12:04PM That sucks! Seriously. I actually have some chestnuts that I collected from that tree in 2003 (my wife and I got married in Switzerland but flew into and out of AMS). I know, I know, it wasn't a good idea to smuggle 15 or so chestnuts in from the Netherlands (see: Dutch Elm diesease) but I just couldn't help myself. When we were there there were children all over the place collecting the chestnuts and eating the meat out of them. It was so unlike the US.
Does anyone have any suggestions on growing my own chestnut tree from these chestnuts? I have kept them in a cool, dark place in an airtight jar with a host of other seeds and such that I collect so they ought to still be in good condition. Also, we have 0 chestnuts in my area so I don't think disease transmission would be a real issue.
Anybody have any info toward preserving a living piece of history?
Thanks,
Richard
New Twizzlers Rainbow Twists {Slashfood}
Dec 6th 2006 12:14PM First off, I love Twizzlers...LOVE THEM.
Second, these things are not "twizzlers". Twizzlers taste great, these things taste horrible. The red ones aren't *that* bad, although they still taste like crap. However the others, especially the blue and green, what the hell, the orange and yellow too, taste like sewage.
I don't mean to sugar coat, but this whole line is a mistake, unless the goal was to gross people out. Where I work they give us a different fruit everyday and some kind of sweet snack on Friday. Everybody in my office grabbed a couple of packs of these when they were initially put out, "office hording", but by lunch everyone had put them back because they were SOOOO bad. It turned into a joke is how bad these are.
Kudos on your other posts, but these, ewwww, not these ;)
Richard
Keep butter fresh at room temperature {Slashfood}
Jun 13th 2006 12:31PM Yes, a butter bell. These are great. I got two at an outlet mall (from Williams-Sonoma maybe?) and love it (I put the other one up for when my wife or I break the first one)! My wife's grandmother always had one and she said that her mother told her it was a butter bell. The name coming from the fact that when it is being stored the butter is hanging upside down in what looks like a bell.
The Superbowl: KFC's new chicken/potato/cheese/gravy concoction {Slashfood}
May 22nd 2006 8:05PM Actually, I have seen the "Thanksgiving Bowl", but it was called "Thanksgiving in a Cup" and was used by a catering company as part of our Christmas party one year. It was actually very good and not half as disgusting as it sounds!
