The food thread

A High School friend of my son's was a manager of an Outback for over 7 years. He recently switched to Bonefish Grill. I ate at the Outback several times and the food was at or above average for our area. Fried onion rings seem to be a southern thing. Their Blooming Onion is quite popular here.

I usually do a pork roast for New years Day, along with black eye peas, cabbage and rolls.

This year I think I will just pull some smoked pork butt out of the freezer and make it easy.
 
I just noticed all the good ice creams only come in single serve containers! Currently eating an Edy's 1.41 L container.

I'm disappointed Ed.

Edy's - skim milk, cream, sugar, whey, tapioca starch, pectin, natural flavors (with vanilla extract), guar gum.

"natural flavors" is an industry equivocation for any number of highly processed flavorings.

The "you know who" brand - cream, skim milk, cane sugar, egg yolks, vanilla extract.
 
Scott,

Getting over being ill and wanted to soothe my throat. So it was a choice of the price vs size. I would actually prefer artificial strawberry flavor as that is based on zinc.

So yes I really don't worry about ingredients like those. BTY you do know where they learned their trade! Some of that stuff is available not too far away. Reduces the need for the copy!

Do you know what they feed pigs? Probably one of the reasons I just started curing 20 pounds of lamb flank. Ingredients; lamb, sugar and mined salt. In two months it will get smoked another source of evil.

In safety briefings, now common on well managed construction sites, the rule of thumb is ten close calls to one accident. I am up to eight! So my worries are on other often more controllable issues.
 
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Scott,

Getting over being ill and wanted to soothe my throat. So it was a choice of the price vs size. I would actually prefer artificial strawberry flavor as that is based on zinc.

No insult intended, it's just that you make the effort to point out all the stuff the food industry pawns off on us, you should take a little in return. Be well and enjoy the new year, I was not aware the price was a factor. I just invited my entire family to a dinner at Alinea in Chicago even though my niece informed me that a the full tasting menu with wine pairings can top $600 a person.
 
Funny don't remember complaining about the food industry. I do grow a bit of my own for fresh food. I avoid dairy that contains bovine hormones. I was recently told that it is a $15.00 product to the farmers! Didn't get much more as the fellow I was chatting with also told me he would never eat liver or kidney as they are poisonous.

So I must be communicating from the great beyond.

As to price, I always look at what things cost. Value is always an important concept.

(Or maybe some folks idea of bad for you is others idea of good for you!)
 
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I just noticed all the good ice creams only come in single serve containers! Currently eating an Edy's 1.41 L container.

You can take the boy out of Pittsburgh, but you can't take Pittsburgh out of the boy.

Ice cream shouldn't have egg whites. Best ice cream I ever had was cream, chocolate and sugar. Home made.
Apparantly I can blame the French for the eggs, along with not being able to make custard properly.

My sister and I used to sit in the waiting room of a hospital in CLE when my uncle did his evening rounds (there were so many kids in our family that mom hived off a couple of us every weekend - Irish twins!). The nuns who ran the place supplied me and my sister with a wonderful ice cream which incorporated egg whites. This is circa 1955 or so, mbe eggs aren't as safe today as they were 65 years ago!
 
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Now the people I would visit have moved to Cali and I'm vegetarian. Which would make eating out in states where vegetables are what food eats tricky.
Come to a Burning Amp Festival in San Francisco! It's held at Fort Mason, in a building which is 80 meters from a highly respected / revered vegetarian-only restaurant: Greens. Their cookbooks are best sellers and their table reservations are scarce. Plan ahead!

Greens Restaurant

https://www.amazon.com/Greens-Cookbook-Extraordinary-Vegetarian-Celebrated/dp/0553051954

https://www.amazon.com/Fields-Greens-Vegetarian-Celebrated-Restaurant/dp/0553091395/
 
Would love to do BAF. Trying to persuade said Tx to Ca friend to put himself forward for a talk.



Ed: My feeble vegitarian body cannot be bothered to even rise to that 😛 As I am listening to Swarowsky conducting the vienna opera orchestra in Mono I can probably safely say I don't give a damn as long as the music is good.
 
Mmmmmm ....
 

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