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a friend's birthday we went to a biergarten which sold German style food. I wanted a nice dipping pretzel (their advertised claim to faim). They were out of the good sized ones. I ordered two slightly smaller ones and they were hard and bad. From now on if I'm ever yearning for a nice dipping pretzel I will just get those ones you heat in the microwave for 30 sec and make myself some rarebit sauce. gently caress all preps.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:
Pharaoh deep fried some crazy poo poo, man.
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Aug 11, 2017 04:17
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We've got quite a good German place in my city. I guess I can't compare as I've never been to Germany but by all accounts it's quite authentic and they have a really good patio. http://www.amadeuscafe.ca/authentic-german-and-austrian-cuisine/ Plus they do a thing they call "Food by the meter" which is great for crowds, just a huge pile of potatoes, and saurkraut and ripchen, sausages, schnitzel etc.
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Aug 11, 2017 04:31
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We have a German beer cafe in Brisbane that does a fuckin sick pork knuckle. Just sayin
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Aug 11, 2017 04:37
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 Swear there's not a speck of spice on that.
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Aug 11, 2017 04:54
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Slate Slabrock posted:
She wants to be a AMERICAN WIFE (  ), NOT SOME DIRTY SPICE-RIDDEN, EXOTICALLY FLAVORED FURRINER WHORE ( )!Samizdata has a new favorite as of 05:10 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Aug 11, 2017 05:04
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That chicken looks like a pale mussel
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Aug 11, 2017 05:12
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Boiled water is a seasoning to people. I don't understand it and I don't want to.
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Aug 11, 2017 05:37
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Picnic Princess posted:Did they think slow cooker meant oven? Even ignoring that, literally 0 of those things would do well in a real slow cooker
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Aug 11, 2017 05:43
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Slate Slabrock posted:
 ": "Why is it so dry?  "
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Aug 11, 2017 05:55
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Slate Slabrock posted:
This is giving me some serious flashbacks to my parents' cooking. I'm pretty sure my love of spicy food comes from rebelling against years of eating plain potatoes/rice with unspiced dry meat.
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Aug 11, 2017 06:18
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Slate Slabrock posted:
nice looking fish
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Aug 11, 2017 06:42
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Slate Slabrock posted:
my_mums_cooking.jpg Except there's no watery tasteless 'gravy' on that
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Aug 11, 2017 06:54
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It doesn't get blander than that.
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Aug 11, 2017 06:55
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My coworkers are always going on "meal prep" benders and bringing in these vile tupperware lunches made of: 1 green thing (broccoli, kale, green beans) 1 chopped bell pepper 1 "healthy grain" (brown rice, quinoa) 1 chicken breast, unseasoned, drier than all the vaginas at a Ted Cruz rally combined No onions. No herbs. No spices. Maybe some black pepper, maybe not. They eat this poo poo on purpose, day after day, and I cannot for the loving life of me understand why. Some of them are Filipinas! They should know better! On the other end of the spectrum is my coworker Abeba, who brings in this beef marrow wat with injera-- a rich, gum-blistering berbere curry with lentils, fatty beef marrow, and chopped okra, served with a sourdough crepe for scooping. It's the grossest-looking food I've ever seen in person and I would eat it out of a bedpan if that was the only way to get it in my mouth. Ethiopian food is AFP prime but so delicious it can look like this and still make me hungry: 
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Aug 11, 2017 07:18
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:From Bauhaus in Vancouver (which is actually owned by Uwe Bol, go figure).
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Aug 11, 2017 07:26
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elise the great posted:My coworkers are always going on "meal prep" benders and bringing in these vile tupperware lunches made of: Don't care WHAT it looks like. Have had Ethopian. You would prolly need a jumbo Haldol to get me off that plate.
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Aug 11, 2017 09:15
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Ethiopian food is incredible and sometimes I'm glad I've never lived in a city that had an Ethiopian restaurant because I'd be 500 pounds by the end of the year.
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Can we stop yelling "American" as a pejorative? Thanks.Grand Fromage posted:Ethiopian food is incredible and sometimes I'm glad I've never lived in a city that had an Ethiopian restaurant because I'd be 500 pounds by the end of the year. I want to take you to this one I used to haunt in Oakland. They had an all-you-can-eat lunch buffet and I want to see what happens in that situation. e: I should admit to the thread that I fully made a Swineapple last night and it was loving great. No pics, unfortunately. Fleta Mcgurn has a new favorite as of 10:35 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Aug 11, 2017 10:26
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Can we stop yelling "American" as a pejorative? Thanks. Blue Nile, right?
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Aug 11, 2017 11:38
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McSpergin posted:We have a German beer cafe in Brisbane that does a fuckin sick pork knuckle. Just sayin The German Club is fucken sick too and worth the $5 membership.
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Aug 11, 2017 11:41
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Data Graham posted:Blue Nile, right? I don't remember off the top of my head, but that sounds familiar!
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Aug 11, 2017 11:54
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Authentic photo of Richard Nixon's last lunch at the White House, August 8, 1974. Cottage cheese, pineapple rings, and a glass of milk 
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Aug 11, 2017 12:09
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Not even a sprig of mint or a sprinkle of chiffonade basil. Shameful.
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Aug 11, 2017 12:19
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Megabound posted:The German Club is fucken sick too and worth the $5 membership. Noice mate I'll have to have a look at that
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Aug 11, 2017 12:47
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bloom posted:This is giving me some serious flashbacks to my parents' cooking. I'm pretty sure my love of spicy food comes from rebelling against years of eating plain potatoes/rice with unspiced dry meat. Quotes like this make me grateful my mom was a chef. She was lazy as poo poo at home, but even with all the shortcuts, at least the food tasted good and used actual spices.
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Aug 11, 2017 12:48
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Not even a sprig of mint or a sprinkle of chiffonade basil. Shameful. Fresh basil wasn't invented until 1995.
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NinjaDebugger posted:Quotes like this make me grateful my mom was a chef. She was lazy as poo poo at home, but even with all the shortcuts, at least the food tasted good and used actual spices. Wait, hold on. Spices? Plural? Is... is there like a second type of ranch nobody told me about?
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Aug 11, 2017 13:01
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Bubblyblubber posted:Wait, hold on. He may be referring to the... forbidden spices  *A shaker of black pepper is revealed, old white people's faces melt ala Raiders of the Lost Ark*
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Aug 11, 2017 13:20
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.Z. posted:
What do the other 40% live on?
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Aug 11, 2017 13:41
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Prepackaged foods and take-out.
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Aug 11, 2017 13:46
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axolotl farmer posted:Authentic photo of Richard Nixon's last lunch at the White House, August 8, 1974. I'd rather eat that than well done steak with ketchup TBH.
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Aug 11, 2017 14:28
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Julias posted:Prepackaged foods and take-out.
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Aug 11, 2017 15:01
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axolotl farmer posted:Authentic photo of Richard Nixon's last lunch at the White House, August 8, 1974. Food Timeline has a page on the foods every president preferred. It's a really good way to humanize them and get a sense of their personalities. Like when James Garfield was having difficulties after being shot: quote:“Most days, Garfield was able to keep down a little bit of oatmeal. Unfortunately, that happened to be the one food he despised. Although Garfield found it difficult to eat anything, for a while at least he seemed to relish drinking a glass of milk. He dutifully swallowed the koumiss, a drink made from fermented horse milk, that [Dr.] Bliss gave him nearly every day, but he strongly preferred cow’s milk. Eager to help in any way, Americans latched onto this small piece of information. So that the president might have the freshest possible milk, a company in Baltimore sent him an Alderny cow, which could be seen tied up on the White House lawn. The White House cook, who was the only Catholic among the staff, poured a large glass of milk for Garfield every day. Just before she carried his tray up the winding servant stairs to his sickroom, she quietly sprinkled holy water into his glass.” Or the reason Taft was so fat: quote:"Steak spelled with a big 'S' was the favorite food of William Howard Taft. When the Chief Justice started to eat stea, it did not matter much to him what the meal was. As a matter of fact, according to the late Ike Hoover, of the White House staff, when Taft was President there was always steak for his breakfast. Naturally, Mrs. Taft saw to it that steak appeared every morning for her husband. Toward the end of his life he had to modify his diet and steak became more of a luxury. Generally Mrs. Taft would order some form of potaotes to go with the steak. The former President was fond of hashed brown potatoes, if his diet did not interfere. The steak was always broiled in this method: Or statements that end up becoming very darkly humorous a few years later: quote:"[Nixon] likes ketchup on his cottage cheese but his favorite food is meat loaf...His breakfast is served by Fina Sanchez, wife of Manolo, both Castillians who came to New York via Cuba and live in the servants' quarters of the Nixon apartment. Nixon's breakfast fare is always the same: Fresh orange juice, half a grapefruit, cold cereal and skim milk and coffee. Sometimes Mrs. Nixon...joins him for coffee...The President-elect's working suite at the Pierre consists of a large drawing room, a bedroom, dressing room, bath, office study and entrance foyer. The first thing Nixon does after depositing his coat in the closet is ring for a cup of coffee--his second of the morning. He is not a chronic coffee drinker, a staff aide explained, but he does offer coffee to his visitors throughout the day and he, of course, drinks a cup with them. As he drinks his first cup at the office, he goes over the things on his desk...He is never without a tape recorder within reach on which to record his thoughts and ideas on whatever subject pops into his mind or comes up in a conversation...'The ideas he dictates into the machines and the memos are fantastic,' says Rose Mary Woods, his long-time, loyal secretary...Nixon...is a weight-watcher but he does it unconsciously, says Miss Woods. His watching is most evident at lunch when he eats at when he eats at his desk. He has cottage cheese and fruit--it varies from day to day--peaches, pears or oranges--from the hotel's kitchen. Occasionally he deviates and has a hamburger and a cup of coffee. Once a week, he goes out for luncheon, usually with a long time personal friend and perhaps one or both of his daughters. A favorite place for these occasions is the chic La Cote Basque Restaurant...Occaionally he works at his office right through dinner. When he does, Manolo fixes him a late dinner at home from that Fina has left in the refrigerator or on the stove. More often, he leaves the Pierre at 6:30 p.m. and enjoys the less-than-five-minute walk in the evening air to his apartment. Once there, he turns on the stereo and keeps music of all types--particularly show tunes he especialy likes--playing until he retires hours later. Sometimes he goes to the den and mixes himself a drink, his first of the day. 'He drinks very infrequently,' a staff aide said...Nixon is ready for dinner by 7 p.m. and the famly dines by candlelight in the large formal dining room with soft music in the background. The menu is totaly unimportant to the President-elect. 'Dick eats everything but he likes meat loaf,' Mrs. Nixon said. Her meat loaf recipe calls for half beef and half pork. 'I have never seen him turn anything down. If he is particuarly pleased with what he has, he'll call Fina and Manolo in to tell them how good it is.'"
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chitoryu12 posted:Food Timeline has a page on the foods every president preferred. It's a really good way to humanize them and get a sense of their personalities. Nixon: "Jesus Christ"
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Aug 11, 2017 16:07
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Welcome back to 1987.
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Aug 11, 2017 16:21
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Pastry of the Year posted:Welcome back to 1987. Firstly, shocked at every meal having some form of fruit and veggie. Second, I want whatever a Taco Pocket is.
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Aug 11, 2017 16:28
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uPen posted:Firstly, shocked at every meal having some form of fruit and veggie. It's when you put tacos in your pocket
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Aug 11, 2017 16:32
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it's probably some kind of pastry with ground beef and "taco" seasoning inside. like a hot pocket. but who knows, back then they might have actually made it by hand!
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"Taco Pocket" makes me think of Walking Taco, or Taco in a Bag, where you take a small bag of doritos or something, and dump the meat and cheese and vegatables in and shake it up.
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