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Disnesquick posted:Interesting. I guess there's a stratum of the industry I don't know in that equation because I haven't heard of margins like that. As you mention, alcohol is probably the key. If you're the kind of place that's selling hundred buck bottles of wine, then the markup on those is 3-4 times over purchase so that's likely the difference right there. Hihohe posted:I will always say there absolutely no reason to get some corporation tacos where you can taste the soap they use to clean the machine theyre manufactured in when you can go to the various taco stands around town and get served excellent barbacoa from a guy missing a thumb. saintonan posted:Coney dogs, probably. Those are much worse than Freebirds burritos for keeping you on the shitter all day. EDIT: Also, it's bizarre being in a state with so many restaurants named things like Ham Center Cafe and Ram's Horn Family Dining and Maisie's Cow Dairyland or whatever. Plenty of Michigan is like a parody of white people food written by people who have never seen Michigan and would think it's not possible that white people food could be That White. The sales guy I traveled with, himself from Michigan, got a burger in South Haven that had green olives on it, with mayo. You couldn't make this poo poo up. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 07:06 on May 26, 2020 |
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Forseti posted:Nah, sorry, I meant Baylor Medical. So like right in the middle of Houston. It took a while for me to realize that Baylor Medical is not the same thing as Baylor. Since I didn’t see an actual reply to this, try Tacos Tierra Caliente outside Alabama icehouse, also up in the museum district there’s like a white moving truck that drives around to all the construction sites that just says ‘TACOS’ in slightly uneven, 6” block lettering on the passenger side that is super delicious. There’s also a truck that used to park on Richmond and like Greely? That was pretty good. Basically just look for the grungiest meat van you can find and get the barbacoa if they have it. Also, not tacos, but you’re pretty close to DePana which serves Venezuelan sandwiches which are really good. Edit: as a transplant from DFW, Houston sucks for the first year, but then one day a switch flips and you go from ‘what do I want to do tonight I don’t know where anything is’ stress to ‘what do I want to do tonight there’s like 2 breweries, 4 bars, and 3 events I want to go to all at the same time’ stress pretty much overnight. Yngwie Mangosteen fucked around with this message at 14:15 on May 26, 2020 |
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Like half the last page was telling him where to go and you're not even the first to recommend Tierra. That's fine though because they are really good and I'll just third it anyways because it is really good. Really, this list looks pretty good for a generic catch all of places to eat.
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Everyone I know who's from San Antonio always talks up Taco Cabana but in multiple tries I found them to be merely "meh". I can only attribute this to one of this situations where it used to be better and everyone has happy childhood/high school memories of that time, or just We All Like Different Things.
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the food itself is real hit-or-miss but the magic of the cabana is going at 3am
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I love how thier togo margaritas are just virgin margaritas and a mini bottle of tequila.
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The biggest losses of moving from DFW to San Antonio were good burgers and Braum’s. Grabbing a custard from Braum’s on the way home from a flight was my Love Field tradition.
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i say swears online posted:the food itself is real hit-or-miss but the magic of the cabana is going at 3am Houston has Ruchis which is the better 3AM drunk food than TacoC.
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Democratic Pirate posted:The biggest losses of moving from DFW to San Antonio were good burgers and Braum’s. Grabbing a custard from Braum’s on the way home from a flight was my Love Field tradition. I'm sure it's monumentally awful for you but having lived in Missouri for a while, I'll endorse Culver's as some top tier junk food. Looks like there are a handful in Houston and one in San Antonio. You'll definitely hate yourself after scarfing down a butterburger, huge onion rings, and a frozen custard though.
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Forseti posted:I'm sure it's monumentally awful for you but having lived in Missouri for a while, I'll endorse Culver's as some top tier junk food. Looks like there are a handful in Houston and one in San Antonio. Oh yeah Culver’s is the bomb, we’d go there when visiting family in the Midwest states. Thanks for the reminder that they’re in my city, I’ll need to get some cheese curds soon.
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Culvers is amazing. It was probably a 30 to 40 minute drive to Culvers from my old house and I'd make that drive no problem just to eat there. I could eat cheese curds until I puked and then get 2 more orders to go.
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Since this thread is on food chat: Are there any good non-gyro/Meditteranean, non-Desi halal places in Houston? Yelp and Google are of very little help when searching for specifically halal places, and it always gravitates towards specifically those types of foods. It feels really limiting! Edit: Culver's cheese curds are great, it's a shame it's basically opposite of my work =/
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devildragon777 posted:Culver's cheese curds are great, it's a shame it's basically opposite of my work =/ do you do angioplasty
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i say swears online posted:do you do angioplasty Uh...what?
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He meant opposite in direction, I think, not opposite as in healthy/unhealthy.
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Never thought the Texas thread would be this excited about a Wisconsin fast food chain. Culver's is actually one of the closest fast food places to where I live, but I usually pass it over because there's fast food that I know better just a little further. I got the butter burger once and wasn't really impressed, maybe I'll go sometime again and get something else.
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saintonan posted:He meant opposite in direction, I think, not opposite as in healthy/unhealthy. Yes, this. Sorry for not clarifying =<
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SlothfulCobra posted:Never thought the Texas thread would be this excited about a Wisconsin fast food chain. We can only bitch at eachother about Whataburger so many times. Also culver's is like, 30mi away up in Atascocita. No wonder I've never seen one.
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With whataburger having a Chicago based firm as majority owner, one could call them a Midwest fast food chain as well.
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Democratic Pirate posted:With whataburger having a Chicago based firm as majority owner, one could call them a Midwest fast food chain as well. Thems almost fighting words...
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I have yet to try Whataburger. Hubcap grill will be the death of me though.
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My first Whataburger experience was underwhelming because you pretty much have to design your own burger and I didn't know what to put on it. But then they sent me some coupons for the Monterey Melt burger in the mail and it was awesome. More freedom isn't always good Texas!
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devildragon777 posted:Since this thread is on food chat: There are lots of halal places all around Little India/Gandhi District/Whatever they are calling it these days. Most places don't have a big presence in the white people world. Al Aseel at Dunvale and Richmond is good. There is a Lebanese bakery/deli off Westheimer around Hillcroft/South Voss that I am spacing on the name of.
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Forseti posted:My first Whataburger experience was underwhelming because you pretty much have to design your own burger and I didn't know what to put on it. But then they sent me some coupons for the Monterey Melt burger in the mail and it was awesome. More freedom isn't always good Texas! I find this post baffling because Whataburgers come with pretty standard default burger settings unless you specifically tell them otherwise. The only customization I ever ask for is grilled onions. Or just ask or an avocado bacon burger and enjoy a small slice of heaven. On the other hand Wich Wich requires you to fill out a form if you want a drat sandwich and it probably would be more efficient if they let me go back to the kitchen and build it myself. GamingHyena fucked around with this message at 04:24 on May 27, 2020 |
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Yeah I highly recommend the standard cheeseburger with no tomatoes. Double meat if you want to be a big beefy boi. Triple meat just isnt v.good imo. You're entering dangerously beefy territory with that one and won't taste much else, but it'll gently caress up your hangover so that's cool I guess. Grilled onion is also a good add but I like the crisp bite of the regular ones. You can also do this same burger but with jalapenos. I don't know what menu number that one is but it has it's own picture. This advice goes for any burg. Marxalot fucked around with this message at 04:30 on May 27, 2020 |
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Patty melt > standard burger at whataburger Any first real whataburger experience was a drunk honey butter chicken biscuit at 2am, so everything has really been downhill from there.
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I can't be trusted with that kind of power. You should see me try to make a plate at a Mongolian barbecue. Turns out you can't just pick every single thing that you like individually, add them all together, and get something good.
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The correct Whataburger is the #4 all the way. In Texas, pickled jalapenos are default pickles and yellow cheese is a food group. Even in pizza places in Texas, one of the best toppings you can order is jalapenos. The magic of Whataburger is that they get that what most people want here is a tangy, salty peasant food - and it's loving good lol. More Texas foodchat: the margarita was invented in the mafia casinos of Galveston. Also, please enjoy this photo I took yesterday passing a bar in Santa Fe, of all places - yes, the "8A" is "8AM but we ran out of letters, because it's Santa Fe.": 
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May 27, 2020 04:57
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one trend i've noticed in the state is that in the last couple decades, restaurants are putting out spicier jalapenos. even dominos has spicy slices now
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ReindeerF posted:More Texas foodchat: the margarita was invented in the mafia casinos of Galveston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita#Origin  galveston can't have everything
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I am down with this. And yeah, the jalapenos here do seem a lot spicier, I've gotten some pretty potent ones with banh-mis and pho. I dunno if they're just fresher or everyone else removes the seeds or what but I approve! I might have to go get a #4 tomorrow for lunch.
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i say swears online posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita#Origin Everyone from the Houston area knows the truth.
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i hear they put Tony's in margs in houston
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Forseti posted:I am down with this. And yeah, the jalapenos here do seem a lot spicier, I've gotten some pretty potent ones with banh-mis and pho. I dunno if they're just fresher or everyone else removes the seeds or what but I approve! I might have to go get a #4 tomorrow for lunch. In Houston the sign you're at a really good pho place is the windows are blacked out, the bathroom is dirty, the service is questionable and there's a "Cafe" next door with even more blacked out windows that you're not allowed in unless you're Vietnamese that will be busted in the future because it's topless Vietnamese women serving coffee and tea to old Vietnamese men. In the rural areas it's often just more legit because why else would it be there, heh. Anyway, I have a 15 minute pickled jalapeno recipe that needs about 2 hours of cooling and if you don't seed/core them they're baseline hot for Thailand, while most people here who aren't Nortenos will act like a Midwesterner eating their first ketchup packet. The legit chilis down here are seriously good and hot. i say swears online posted:i hear they put Tony's in margs in houston ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 05:31 on May 27, 2020 |
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Don't just change the topic like that. This is classic whataburgism. I still miss the A1 burger. I like vinegar in my food. Also it was a great shape for eating on the go, because it went for being wider instead of taller, so you could stick it in your mouth easier. Also gives more room for more onion to fit easily in the sandwich. I guess it doesn't really matter though, since I no longer live in Denton so I'm not constantly surrounded by whataburgers at all time and the only one I know is really out of the way. Thinking about other fast food around here, I'd feel uncomfortable about getting Panda Express because it's just sitting out there kinda in the open. I remember thinking towards the beginning of the pandemic that Pie Five would probably be one of the safest fast food options, because everything goes through an oven without needing anybody to touch it after the fact, so that would probably sanitize it? Although then there's delivery pizza instead.
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Anything that remotely describes any part of its menu as "Asian Cuisine" or features more than one Asian Cuisine is a hard no. The A1 burger is basically English food. I'm pretty sure they boil it. The recipe is dictated by Whitehall. My friend works for The Government, so this is probably true.
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the A1 was so unique because every other bbq sauce on a burger in this country is sweet baby raysReindeerF posted:The A1 burger is basically English food. I'm pretty sure they boil it. The recipe is dictated by Whitehall. My friend works for The Government, so this is probably true. lol
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You say yellow cheese is the truth but the smoked cheddar on the jalapeno burger is pretty tempting. Is it crap? Also I forgot about the spicy ketchup at whataburger, that stuff is awesome. Even their regular ketchup is a lot better than a normal chain, I didn't know y'all took ketchup so seriously.
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