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Trip report: Angriest Whopper One of the worst fast-food meals I've ever had was on a road trip; out of desperation, unable to find a decent-looking diner or anything, I stopped at a Burger King and had an Indy Whopper. (Yes, this was when Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull had just come out.) I was frustrated and tired, and the burger was really bland and bad, despite having "Cajun mayo" and pepperjack cheese and the like. So when someone posted an image of the Angriest Whopper, I thought: well, I wonder how different that is? And what in the world will that red bun be like? So I went.  The burger has some impressive verticality when wrapped. I'm used to the actual burgers at a place being sad, squashed versions of the ads, but this one looked like it might actually be a bit like it.  Opened up, it looked far more like the promo image than I expected it to. I was sitting next to a window with a sticker/poster for the Angriest Whopper, and looking back and forth, I could see the same ingredients in the same order. And yes, the bun really is THAT red. Inside and out. As for taste? I know it's the thing to do to be all hyperbolic about things in this thread, but, hey, it was pretty good. When you get a bite that has all of the flavors working together, it's nice; a bit spicy, a bit salty, a bit beefy. I find that the flame-grilled flavor at BK tends to come and go, but it was there today. I tried some of the bun on its own, and it did have a slight spicy taste in and of itself. Somewhat oddly, though, the best-tasting bits of the burger were the ones where it tasted most like a plain ol' Whopper.  I didn't know if I was going to post this possibly-gross picture of a half-eaten burger, but what the hell. You can see how violently red the inside of the bun is, there. So, yeah, there's that. The only real thing wrong with this lunch was that, for the amount I spent, I could've gotten one of the crazy-good patty melts at the local diner with hand-made-to-order potato chips, or a huge plate of pad thai with hot and sour soup, or a basket of Dr. Insano wings and salt-and-pepper fries from the other diner, or hand-breaded clams and chowder at the new seafood joint, or or or... there are just so many good meals to be had around here in this price range that it feels weird to have gone to Burger King and had something that was, yeah, all right, but nothing extra-special.
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chitoryu12 posted:But what color was your poop As of right now, 11 hours later, perfectly normal. Will update tomorrow, if the situation warrants.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:https://twitter.com/yokotaro/status/721343647476686849 Somebody's really excited for Nier: Automata. Edit: And that's what I get for leaving this tab open that long.
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Apr 16, 2016 17:27
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Sweet As Sin posted:Hotdog tacos are a legit mexican thing One of the best things on a local taqueria's menu is a wiener torta -- but they rarely have the wieners to make it with. Too bad, because it's loving delicious.
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May 6, 2016 15:50
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I tried the Ramen Burger at Red Robin. I was worried the bun would be like an uncooked brick of ramen, but it's soft noodles flash-fried to be crispy on the outside, with a little seasoning. It was tasty, but salty, and there was so much going on inside (teriyaki! aioli! chili cabbage! fried jalapenos!) that you couldn't taste the hamburger patty at all. All in all, I'm not unhappy that I tried it, but -- like the bacon fatty melt I tried at a local diner years ago -- I don't think I'll have one again any time soon. No pics because I was actually at lunch with someone else and being sociable and all that.
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May 20, 2016 19:15
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Samizdata posted:See part of the fun (for me) of a breakfast with meat and fried eggs is swirling the meat in the leaked egg yolk on the plate. Works lovely with ham... Toast dragged through peppered egg yolk is peak breakfast.
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May 29, 2016 19:45
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RNG posted:Chili nut won! I know because I saw entire display boxes on deep discount at Wal-Mart and as much of a cheapskate as I am, wouldn't. I think voting goes until June 17...
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Jun 1, 2016 05:25
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You begin to suspect that your bowl is a portal to the Meat Dimension.
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Jun 15, 2016 14:42
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Aug 10, 2016 18:12
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The second season of The Katering Show is up on YouTube. Edit: And now there's a playlist.
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Aug 11, 2016 21:08
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I don't care what you say, split-pea Jabba here is pretty cute.
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Sep 14, 2016 17:47
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I've tried every regional variant of pizza I've had the chance to, and liked them all. I always look forward to some Imo's when I visit St. Louis. Provel cheese is some good stuff. I moved to Cincinnati from Los Angeles 25 years ago, and tried Skyline on the second day here. Loved it then, still do. Understand why some people don't, but not when the complaint is just syntactic, getting hung up on the definition of "chili". It's worth evaluating on its own merits, and not based on a cheap canned version, either.
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Sep 22, 2016 19:25
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Untrue--what about pumpkin pie, chess pie, or navy bean pie? Those are all single crust (also all custard based, now that I think of it...) Strawberry pie often doesn't have a lid, either. Lemon meringue. Boston cream. And drat. Now I want some pie.
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Oct 26, 2016 05:43
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The Chicken and Waffles flavored chips are more like "maple and smoke". It's not bad, but I can't imagine eating more than a small bag of them. Maple Bacon Kettle Chips, on the other hand...
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Nov 8, 2016 18:11
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Grand Fromage posted:Maybe Cincinnati is weird then. In Dayton the only place I ever regularly got a square cut pizza was Marion's. Ok, so, my two cents as a Cincinnati resident. The only place I can think of that square-cuts round pizzas is Donatos, where they will wedge-cut them if you ask them to. I live in a neighborhood with a welter of pizza places, mom-and-pop, local and national chain, and the only other pizzas I can think of that get cut in squares are rectangular or square pizzas, where that's the way it makes sense to cut them. And my vote is "who cares?" Pizza is pizza is pizza.
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Dec 20, 2016 15:20
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Thread, I committed a culinary crime against man and nature, and it's partly your fault. I just couldn't stop thinking about That Picture, and so I bought some ingredients. The thing that worried me most about this was the sweetness of the Spaghetti-O's, so I added some red pepper flakes, seasoned salt and oregano and what not, and assembled it...   ...and baked it.   I had to let it cool/congeal quite a bit before eating. The Spaghetti-O's weren't that saucy, but just slid all over the place while hot. The thing that surprised me, when all was said and done, was how bland it was. No flavor at all from anything. I ate one piece plain, one with sriracha, and one with more red pepper, and it only tasted like the add-ons. The rest went in the trash. (Sorry for the partial post; I accidentally hit post way too early.) atholbrose has a new favorite as of 20:50 on Feb 6, 2017 |
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Feb 6, 2017 20:45
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:That's a crime, but given the other topic of conversation, now I can't stop thinking about a spaghetti-o giant pizza burger thing. God save me. I've had a (regular-sized) burger stuffed with pizza sauce and cheese and topped with pepperoni. That was pretty good, really.
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Feb 6, 2017 21:04
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Thank goodness I'm not the only one that loves Necco Wafers.
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Mar 3, 2017 07:06
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Artsygrrl posted:Not to backtrack too much, but isn't Mr. Blobby a UK thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfpzV5zLII
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Apr 6, 2017 14:43
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p-hop posted:The hamburger flavor pizzaburger from a while ago reminded me, when I was in college there was this hole-in-the-wall pizza place on the way to campus. They had dirt cheap slices of pepperoni or cheese served in sheet format. the dough was freshly made and fantastic. The cheese and sauce were nothing amazing but still a solid 5/10. Nothing else in that price point came close. One time they asked me "hey do you want some hamburger pizza?" and I said sure and got a slice for free. It was ketchup/yellow mustard as "sauce" with hamburger meat, american and sharp cheddar, slivers of onion, and pickle. Everything was at the PERFECT ratio of ingredients, it was amazing. A good-rear end burger + fixins with top notch pizza dough instead of a bun. They closed down a year later or so. A local pizza place in Loveland had a delicious hotdog pizza with cheese, onions and a mustard sauce as the base. It was amazing. They've taken it off the menu because the owner hated it; we all beg to have it back, maybe even just for opening day (it had a baseball-themed name that I've since forgotten), but no dice. Larosa's recently had a cheeseburger pizza but it was way WAY too heavy on the mustard and pickle. No balance at all. A tiny pizza place near where I grew up had a great cheeseburger pizza, and I've always been looking for a decent replacement. Not found it yet.
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Apr 21, 2017 20:42
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Goddammit, I guess I'm having conies for lunch.
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Aug 21, 2017 15:20
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Hirayuki posted:I recently discovered and became a fan of goetta, a related product pretty much only known in and slightly around Cincinnati: ground pork, possibly some pork sausage, onion, maaaybe a little sage, and steel-cut oats, formed into a loaf, sliced up, and fried. I regret only buying one package while I was down there, and am already calculating when I can justify another ten-hour round-trip drive for more. There's a Chinese place in Hyde Park that makes goetta fried rice. It's amazing.
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Aug 29, 2017 06:01
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.Z. posted:Omurice Goddrat it's been a while since I saw Tampopo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJlmhoYNfI RIP Francis. (Sigh.)
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Oct 11, 2017 03:46
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Does she run a 60-person dance crew? Well, 59, now.
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Oct 25, 2017 20:04
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bike tory posted:Honey on pizza is a thing, so I don't see why maple syrup would be terrible. Gorgonzola and honey pizzas are the poo poo Now you know that's not what this is. They're talking a regular-rear end pepperoni pizza and a bowl of syrup.
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Jan 31, 2018 05:49
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The lost, unobtainable and probably-best-left-in-the-past taste from my school cafeteria days is the pan of well-done hamburger patties kept simmering in a pan of ketchup water. Hamburger day was my favorite in grade school.
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Feb 1, 2018 05:41
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:I dunno. That's pretty much AFP right there. I couldn't watch after the incision. Did it hit the ceiling? I was expecting it to be custard, but then the color... argh.
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Feb 3, 2018 01:27
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Twitch posted:Seconding that whoever took that photo hosed up, the chili isn't supposed to be dry at all. Speak for yourself. I always order my three-ways dry and invert.
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Mar 18, 2018 00:44
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We have such weenies to show you.
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Jun 25, 2018 15:04
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Thread, I want you to know it's your fault I now own a shaker of Tony Chachere's BOLD and cannot stop putting it on pretty much everything.
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Jul 25, 2018 20:56
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AlbieQuirky posted:Swiss cheese, rye bread, sautéed onions. Patty melt isn't pizza, it has rules  LadyPictureShow posted:Any time I've had it, it's American cheese and has thousand island dressing on it; though Wikipedia says they're acceptable variations. That, my friend, is a Frisco melt, and it's a delicious thing but different.
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Oct 27, 2018 16:12
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Can we all just agree that ham and pineapple pizza is the worst pizza? No, no we cannot.
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Nov 8, 2018 17:29
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Are we all going to just ignore that that thing has giant hundreds and thousands all over it?
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Nov 19, 2018 07:37
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Why? Why why why? Why would you?
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Nov 20, 2018 22:18
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Iron Crowned posted:I do miss that place's hot salsa, it actually had a good flavor, and was decently hot for white people's food. All the mexican places I've found around here in Cincinnati have hot salsa, and red pepper is the flavor they're going for, so it doesn't taste very good I had never thought to ask for it, so I went to El Picante for lunch today, got left with a beakerful of regular salsa and brought a dish of what looked like chunky gochujang. It was hot, though pretty one-note in flavor. It was only at the end of the meal I realized I was probably supposed to mix it with the other salsa. Um, guess I'll have to try that again.
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bloom posted:...(an upsetting picture)... So, when I was a kid, the nearest mall had a Woolworth's with a lunch counter, who had pretty good grilled cheese sandwiches and malts. I used to go there sometimes until I had the same nightmare two nights running: ordering a sandwich, taking a bite out of it, feeling a crunch, looking down and seeing that I'd been served a grilled-rat-and-cheese. Thanks, bloom, for giving me 35-year-old-nightmare flashbacks.
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Dec 27, 2018 18:54
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Wait... spread shortening on hamburgers?
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Facebook Aunt posted:Woah a cat with a forums account! Smiaowg, the Chiefest and Greatest of all Calamities.
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Jan 21, 2019 00:04
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Data Graham posted:Ah yes, the rarely ordered “Cincinnati chili six ways” A six-way has jalapenos.
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veni veni veni posted:Eating raw ground beef is actually nasty as gently caress. I don't know, man. Kitfo is amazing.
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