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Simply Simon posted:I've read that often, and I gotta ask: is it really strange to many of you to eat a whole pizza? Pretty much everyone I know does that, and I don't actually know any fat people including myself, if the question comes up. I'm German if it helps, so maybe our pizzas are inherently smaller or more digestible or whatever, but I can't imagine that. I very often come home, am too lazy to prepare my Butterbrot of choice, so I pop in a pizza, play video games while it gets baked and destroy it completely. Nowadays I tend to share one with my girlfriend, but then usually with salad as a side or I add another bread in an hour. Well it's not like it's a difficult feat or anything, it's just shameful. Oh, and taquitos are another lovely frozen food that I love 
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Wanamingo posted:Well it's not like it's a difficult feat or anything, it's just shameful.
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Simply Simon posted:I've read that often, and I gotta ask: is it really strange to many of you to eat a whole pizza? Pretty much everyone I know does that, and I don't actually know any fat people including myself, if the question comes up. I'm German if it helps, so maybe our pizzas are inherently smaller or more digestible or whatever, but I can't imagine that. I very often come home, am too lazy to prepare my Butterbrot of choice, so I pop in a pizza, play video games while it gets baked and destroy it completely. Nowadays I tend to share one with my girlfriend, but then usually with salad as a side or I add another bread in an hour. There are no info about the Hawaian one so I just checked with an original one; http://www.foodfacts.com/ci/nutritionfacts/prepared-frozen-meals/digiorno-original-rising-crust-supreme-pizza-315-oz/195003 it's roughly 850gr and 2000Kcal A frozen Dr Oekter Hawaii Pizza is 350gr and 770Kcal
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:There are no info about the Hawaian one so I just checked with an original one; I guess that puts it in numbers quite nicely and explains a lot.
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Simply Simon posted:Oh Each time I go to a restaurant in the US I can never finish my plates. But then I see everyone with doggy bags so I guess it's normal to receive enough food for two meals. But yeah, American serving sizes are enormous. and that's coming from a Belgian who has no problem stuffing his mouth with tons of fries and beer.
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bringmyfishback posted:KILL YOUR STUPID SELF I just saw this, and I must say, if I knew where to get half this poo poo, I would definitely trip report a bringmyfishback dog. Simply Simon posted:I've read that often, and I gotta ask: is it really strange to many of you to eat a whole pizza? Pretty much everyone I know does that, and I don't actually know any fat people including myself, if the question comes up. I'm German if it helps, so maybe our pizzas are inherently smaller or more digestible or whatever, but I can't imagine that. I very often come home, am too lazy to prepare my Butterbrot of choice, so I pop in a pizza, play video games while it gets baked and destroy it completely. Nowadays I tend to share one with my girlfriend, but then usually with salad as a side or I add another bread in an hour. I usually can, except the pizza is usually small, thin and I'm extremely depressed at the time.
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Not frozen, but my mom used to buy these things for me and my friends from costco all the time and we'd eat them right after we'd get home from highschool. They were surprisingly delicious but loving terrible for you There is no pride in microwaving an entire, already prepared cheeseburger and shoving it into your face
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Trip Report: The ”Cash Crab” Alright, you have inspired me to cook something for this thread. I figured I would dig up one of the weird 17th century Dutch recipes I have in my various historical tomes. After looking through several cookbooks I have decided on the recipe Capon stuffed with Oysters. I have already bought the chicken and the oysters and have invited over a dinner guest for tomorrow, and I will make him taste test this thing too. Trip report to follow.
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I packed away a lot of Stouffer's lasagna and paninis but somehow that isn't the shameful part. To keep making GBS threads straight after all that frozen cheese, I was also buying those individual packs of microwave steamed vegetables which stick out as shameful because it was 50 cents of vegetables and cheap olive oil sold for $3.50 each. Opposite side of the spectrum, Mrs. T's pierogis are close enough to the real thing that I was going to complain about not being able to find them in the south but a quick googling just lead me to find out they are actually in the last place I'd ever look.
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twoday posted:Alright, you have inspired me to cook something for this thread. I figured I would dig up one of the weird 17th century Dutch recipes I have in my various historical tomes. After looking through several cookbooks I have decided on the recipe Capon stuffed with Oysters. I have already bought the chicken and the oysters and have invited over a dinner guest for tomorrow, and I will make him taste test this thing too. Trip report to follow. That sounds great! Just make sure to take terrible photos in the spirit of the thread.
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I'm sure you've all seen this classic recipe card: One of the food review channels I watch decided to try it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehkk9bxGRzo They do a lot of other AFP-worthy cooking experiments; I particularly like ROFLWaffle and Will It Sausage?.
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Carbon Thief posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehkk9bxGRzo Oh god why would you do that to yourself?
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Wanamingo posted:Well it's not like it's a difficult feat or anything, it's just shameful. Where was this picture when I was in college? Seriously, one day I'm gonna give up on caring and make this EDIT: By the way, this is the best frozen pizza on earth 
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Each time I go to a restaurant in the US I can never finish my plates. But then I see everyone with doggy bags so I guess it's normal to receive enough food for two meals. Yeah, it's expected that people without big appetites in many restaurants will walk out with leftovers. You can reliably expect an entree with side(s) in most chain and franchise restaurants like Applebee's or Chili's to clock in at 700 or 800+ calories, with appetizers, drinks, and dessert taking up more.
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Someone needs to tell that raw gluten free vegan nutter that tomato paste is made with cooked tomatoes.
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The only moral cooked tomatoes are my cooked tomatoes.
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When they say "clean", do they mean that kids eating that won't make a mess? Because they've got mango on that list, so I would dispute that.cyberia posted:
Tiberius Thyben posted:Also, time for some gluten-free vegan, courtesy of "A Gluten-Free Vegan Mom Who Knows: A raw, grain-free, corn-free, soy-free, oil-free, celiac mama raising her two healthy celiac girls."  deadly_pudding posted:What's your favorite lovely frozen food? But the frozen foods I most often buy as a treat are party pies, chicken nuggets, or mini kievs. But those are all good, so they don't count. chitoryu12 posted:For lovely frozen food, I'm fond of the Boston Market Salisbury steak and mac & cheese. Simply Simon posted:I've read that often, and I gotta ask: is it really strange to many of you to eat a whole pizza? chitoryu12 posted:You can reliably expect an entree with side(s) in most chain and franchise restaurants like Applebee's or Chili's to clock in at 700 or 800+ calories, with appetizers, drinks, and dessert taking up more. 
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Each time I go to a restaurant in the US I can never finish my plates. But then I see everyone with doggy bags so I guess it's normal to receive enough food for two meals. There's nothing wrong with that. If you can't/don't finish your food, take it with you or don't if you wanna have leftovers. I went to a Dave & Busters two days ago and the burger was a lot bigger- and tastier- than I expected it to be. [And I'm only saying that because my tongue hates flavor and good things so it had no cheese, lettuce, tomato, etc.] Still finished it though. Simply Simon posted:Oh Also no one really feels good about eating all of something that's supposed to serve multiple people. Like if you eat your way through an entire box of cereal in one sitting. deadly_pudding posted:
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Honestly, when I go to a restaurant here in Germany, a lot of the time the portions are gigantic too. Indian places in particular love to stuff you. Kinda sad, really, I can't have the delicious starters that way! One Vietnamese place I went to last week offered all its meals as a starter or a main course, which I thought was really smart (and then I ordered a starter and a main course, which was not). But yeah when I went to the US, I was so determined to not let the silly cliches colour the esperience but the one about huge portions is absolutely true. And when you're staying in a hotel it's not so easy with the taking leftovers bit. I think I ended up eating once a day.
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I've never been to the US but England's portions scared the poo poo out of me. I watched some guy wolf down a full English breakfast, then fish and chips. This was incidentally the same restaurant where I saw a guy die right outside.
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Oh man that reminds me I'm going to Scotland in a month. I'm sure there's a trip report in that, if I survive to post it.
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holy poo poo, they blurred out the Wal-Mart logo.
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Tiggum posted:If those are peas, why are they brown? Black-eyed peas.
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some of you are bored of trip reports, so there's a surprise for you at the end if you make it all the way through this one, ya negative nancies TRIP REPORT: The Wendy's JALAPEÑO FRESCO SPICY CHICKEN SANDWICH Here's how the description on the official corporate website reads: Dave Thomas's Ghost posted:We're kicking up the heat with 5 layers of spice on our new Jalapeño Fresco Spicy Chicken sandwich. It's our classic spicy chicken breast topped with fresh, diced jalapeños, ghost pepper sauce, Colby pepper jack cheese all on a red jalapeno bun. It's too hot to last, so try one today! Okay, I'm a huge fan of spicy stuff. Love it. So, naturally, I was excited to see the sign at the Wendy's up the street change from "ALL DRINK'S 1$" to "JALAPENO FЯESCO CHICKEN SANDWICH GHOST PEPPER FRIES." I was also excited that they'd managed to pluralize "fries" correctly, and to be honest, I found the backwards R kind of endearing. Five layers of spice? Goodness, that sounds like a lot of spice. Jalapeños are delicious, and I've admittedly never tried a ghost pepper, but they're supposed to be legendary for their spiciness. I honestly didn't know what to expect from the Ghost Pepper Fries--I was thinking maybe they had some kind of pepper-infused breading on them?  The "red" in "Red Jalapeño Bun" must refer to a red variety of red jalapeños baked into it. I was kind of sad that it wasn't as brilliantly fire truck red as the Angriest Whopper from the trip report earlier. But then I noticed that hey, they'd been generous with the jalapeños on the fries, so all was well...  ...until I took a bite. I know my task here is to evaluate the sandwich on its merits as a recipe rather than as an individual sandwich, but the chicken was really friggin' dry and stringy and had big chunks of gristle throughout, so my opinion might be colored a bit by my bad chicken experience. Let's start with the Ghost Pepper Sauce. It's a strange, way-too-orange goo that gets all over everything and stains instantly. I tried as carefully as I could to pick the thing up without getting it all over the place and the sandwich just laughed at me, dripping sauce all over the place. It doesn't taste like much of anything, and certainly not anything resembling a hot pepper. Imagine orange, watered-down mayo. I think there was colby jack on it, but I didn't taste any cheese at all. Perhaps it was ghost cheese in the same way that the peppers in the sauce were ghost. The bun was...okay. Tasted like a hamburger bun. Not much more to say about it other than I guess it did a good job holding together the chicken, ghost cheese, gallon of ghost pepper sauce, literally every friggin' red onion they had in the building (it doesn't look like it in the photos but that thing was onion city) and jalapeño bits. Oh, speaking of the jalapeño bits, I'm pretty sure someone screwed up and sent this store green pepper bits by mistake. Those things did not taste like jalapeño. They tasted exactly like green bell pepper, so unless there's a jalapeño variant out there designed to taste like a bell pepper, they weren't jalapeños.  The fries, as you can see, were normal fries with Ghost Pepper Sauce and "jalapeño" bits on them. Not horrible, but after the sandwich, I was ready to bail on them. All in all, this was a bad deal. Wasn't a fan of the sandwich, and the fries left a lot to be desired, too. I guess it might appeal to you if you're super into chicken sandwiches drenched in mild mayo with undetectable cheese, onion, and green pepper on them. I give it one disappointed hot pepper out of five. It wasn't spicy at all, and it was only barely a chicken sandwich.   BONUS FOR THE NEGATIVE NANCIES 
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cash crab posted:I've never been to the US but England's portions scared the poo poo out of me. I watched some guy wolf down a full English breakfast, then fish and chips. This was incidentally the same restaurant where I saw a guy die right outside. Same guy?
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:TRIP REPORT: The Wendy's JALAPEÑO FRESCO SPICY CHICKEN SANDWICH I had those "ghost pepper" fries once. They weren't really spicy at all and the sauce just ruined decent fries by making them soggy and harder to eat. It's sad because normally Wendy's is one of the better fast food options. I'm glad this exists now.
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Thanks, FAI.  I love trip reports, and I like your little pepper rating system.Subjunctive posted:Same guy? Different guy, several weeks later. I just remember walking around with my dad and thud, some dude keels over in front of Posh Fish.
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My guilty pleasure frozen food has to be those Asian food cubes which is just this cardboard box you throw into a microwave, then you open it up to find actually passable rice or noodles and a separate sauce with actual flavor in it. drat things are probably full of cancer though.
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I buy these cheap hot pocket type things from the halal market, with a delightful cartoon genie on the box. Despite proudly proclaiming to be vegetarian and healthy, they're somehow greasier than the actual thing, and are so, so good.
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Hra Mormo posted:My guilty pleasure frozen food has to be those Asian food cubes which is just this cardboard box you throw into a microwave, then you open it up to find actually passable rice or noodles and a separate sauce with actual flavor in it. drat things are probably full of cancer though. If this is the one I'm thinking of, it's the lowest effort food you can possibly make. You don't even remove the plastic wrap on the outside before throwing it in the microwave.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:If this is the one I'm thinking of, it's the lowest effort food you can possibly make. You don't even remove the plastic wrap on the outside before throwing it in the microwave. No, you have to remove the plastic wrap, or at least the instructions tell you to and it's the kind that'll probably melt horribly if you don't so I'm not about to stick it to the man on that one to save half a second. But yes it is absolutely the lowest effort food I've ever had and the fact I found it edible just blew my mind.
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Trader Joe's also has some good frozen food. I'm fond of the chana masala and kati pouches from their Indian line.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:BONUS FOR THE NEGATIVE NANCIES Ramen, brother.
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cash crab posted:I've never been to the US but England's portions scared the poo poo out of me. I watched some guy wolf down a full English breakfast, then fish and chips. This was incidentally the same restaurant where I saw a guy die right outside. It's pretty much accepted that breakfast in a hotel in the UK is an All-You-Can-Eat affair in a way we wouldn't dream of doing outside a hotel. You can pretty much do fruit bowl > cereal > full breakfast > toast > pastries. Nick some ham/cheese and bread rolls and you've got a five course meal. All washed down with a pot of tea, a pot of coffee and half a dozen fruit juices of course. See also: pubs which are busy late in the morning (typically before a big local football match) and have to sell "food" before you're allowed to buy alcohol. This "food" will be a bacon roll costing about £2. Nobody actually eats the food obviously. In some pubs they don't even bother serving the food, you just have to "buy" it so you can circumvent the law!
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Hra Mormo posted:My guilty pleasure frozen food has to be those Asian food cubes which is just this cardboard box you throw into a microwave, then you open it up to find actually passable rice or noodles and a separate sauce with actual flavor in it. drat things are probably full of cancer though.
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I did something similar to this on a dare in high school, except it was Sprite and chocolate milk. Tasted interesting (in a good way) for the first cup or so, then absolutely vile afterward.
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