Since we're on soups and there's a bit of a nip in the air...
White beans and ham hock with cornbread.
White beans and ham hock with cornbread.
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Hellerad
j'accuse!
Since we're on soups and there's a bit of a nip in the air...
White beans and ham hock with cornbread.
Easily one of my favorite Fall meals.
ItsOKImAPilot
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One of these days I am going to completely breakdown and eat bacon and/or ham because of some of the pics in this thread and the English Breakfast thread
l4toffee
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if sharia law ever comes into play over here they'll never take away my bacon butties .
I didn't write this, but I could have and wish I had. This blog is one of my new favorite places to visit.
To come through the front door of the average strip mall Chinese buffet is to enter a world of wonder and promise, from the golden plastic Buddha to the plastic, red-dragon-spangled decor, the exotic orient beckons the unwary.
Such were the thoughts that occupied my mind as I slid through the entrance of the Hibachi Golden Grand Asian Buffet, a fantasy land of fried food from ingredients of unknown provenance. None of that “farm-to-table” blather at this establishment, just stingy bits of dodgy meat battered in something-or-other, fried in an oleaginous substance possibly derived from nature, and smothered in an orange sucrose sauce compiled in a factory in Guangzhou and shipped to America in a waxed cardboard tube hidden inside a crate of iPhones.
Inside, I was greeted and seated at table distant from the food. I was not the fattest man in the restaurant, that title belonging to a 400 pounder in a pair of too-tight Dockers and blue polo shirt.
“Thank goodness,” I thought, “the pressure is off,” and then, aloud to the waitress, “I’ll have a Diet Coke, please.”
I have vowed to not “drink my calories,” exceptions made for an evening glass of red or anything dispensed from a keg with a wooden spigot.
As the waitress went off to retrieve my drink, I stood up, aimed myself at the buffet, and….
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
http://eccentricculinary.com/a-history-of-the-last-time-i-ate-at-a-chinese-buffet/
To come through the front door of the average strip mall Chinese buffet is to enter a world of wonder and promise, from the golden plastic Buddha to the plastic, red-dragon-spangled decor, the exotic orient beckons the unwary.
Such were the thoughts that occupied my mind as I slid through the entrance of the Hibachi Golden Grand Asian Buffet, a fantasy land of fried food from ingredients of unknown provenance. None of that “farm-to-table” blather at this establishment, just stingy bits of dodgy meat battered in something-or-other, fried in an oleaginous substance possibly derived from nature, and smothered in an orange sucrose sauce compiled in a factory in Guangzhou and shipped to America in a waxed cardboard tube hidden inside a crate of iPhones.
Inside, I was greeted and seated at table distant from the food. I was not the fattest man in the restaurant, that title belonging to a 400 pounder in a pair of too-tight Dockers and blue polo shirt.
“Thank goodness,” I thought, “the pressure is off,” and then, aloud to the waitress, “I’ll have a Diet Coke, please.”
I have vowed to not “drink my calories,” exceptions made for an evening glass of red or anything dispensed from a keg with a wooden spigot.
As the waitress went off to retrieve my drink, I stood up, aimed myself at the buffet, and….
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
http://eccentricculinary.com/a-history-of-the-last-time-i-ate-at-a-chinese-buffet/
Hellerad
j'accuse!
Hits a little too close to home!
Chinese buffets are a shameful thing for me and are mostly avoided now.
Read the whole thing. The shame is part of the ride. From bite one.
Hellerad
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I did! And I agree. He described my experience perfectly.
A local place, called something like Hibachi Supreme Buffet and Grill, has 2 items that I used to crave: lightly battered chicken fried with jalapenos and cream cheese wontons. I would go just for those two things, but I would inevitably load up my plate with bad sushi, lukewarm fried rice, a congealed General Tso's clone, and whatever else distracted me along the way.
I'd always walk away ashamed of what (and how much) I had eaten despite the fact that I didn't enjoy 90% of it.
Luckily I've eliminated a lot of crap from my diet, and that buffet was high on the list.
There was ( maybe still is ) a kosher store up the hill from the 5ways. No1 son had a summer job humping boxes etc. Every so often they would get an inspection by the kosher cops. one of his duties was to stand look out in case the Inspector waltzed up and caught the bossman scoffing Bacon Sarnies at 10.00 smoko...he swore by them...as you would.
all a big con like this halal stuff now...as long as it had written on it 'approved by the head rabbi of jerusalem' it was good to go...even cans of coke had this on them...not the bacon though.
hallamblue
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Had no idea what a 5 Guys was and had to Google it. Worth a try?
l4toffee
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YES it's boss . There is one in Birmingham mate.