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Post by jennbrown on May 7, 2007 20:17:57 GMT -5
steamed artichoke delish. Just steamed two. One for dinner tonight the other for lunch tomorrow with some shrimp!
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Post by jwmcc on May 7, 2007 21:03:51 GMT -5
"Carl's Jr. (Hardees for east-coasters - although I don't know that Hardees boasts the same menu as Carl's) "Six Dollar Western Bacon Cheeseburger"
Over the last few years getting the NHL and MLB packages on cable and watching west coast games, I've seen a few Carl's Jr commercials. And I must say, if there's anything that epitomizes the obesity problem in this country, it's Cracker Barrel and Carl's Jr. Jw
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Post by elliejay21 on May 7, 2007 21:56:38 GMT -5
John, I think Waffle House might be pretty high on that list... fat = flavour!!! My new favorite lunch: Triscuits, with a roasted turkey. a WHOLE roasted turkey???
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Post by sancho231 on May 7, 2007 22:06:33 GMT -5
I am digging some Chicken and brocllili rabe tonight. yeah i spelled that wrong.
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Post by kingdzbws on May 7, 2007 22:49:47 GMT -5
>>And I must say, if there's anything that epitomizes the obesity problem in this country, it's Cracker Barrel and Carl's Jr.
I lived on the West Coast and experienced Carl Jr. The best is that their commercials boast about the slobbishness (that's no word) of their food.
Their tagline is; "If it's not all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face." and pictures a giant drippy gross looking burger oozing ketchup mustard mayo and god knows what.
For me, Jack n the box was the worst of the west, but then Carl Jr. Nasty nasty stuff.
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Post by BigAl115 on May 8, 2007 13:27:47 GMT -5
I always see all of these commercials for Fast food restaurants but i have never seen the places ...Im not a big fast food eater but i havent even passed a Carls Jr or Hardys or Sonic ...i think there are a few more...
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Post by Chrissy on May 8, 2007 14:18:27 GMT -5
I always see all of these commercials for Fast food restaurants but i have never seen the places ...Im not a big fast food eater but i havent even passed a Carls Jr or Hardys or Sonic ...i think there are a few more... Dairy Queen is another one. Where is there a Dairy Queen? I am dying for one of their new waffle cones....
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Post by Chrissy on May 8, 2007 14:19:26 GMT -5
My new favorite lunch: Triscuits, with a roasted turkey. a WHOLE roasted turkey??? Ooops, no, a "couple of slices of"....
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Post by elliejay21 on May 8, 2007 16:17:31 GMT -5
Just had a western omlette on a sesame seed bun, with a little habanero sauce.
Jimmy Dean now sells boxes of frozen omlettes... just poke a hole in the plastic & pop it in the microwave for 2 minutes & I give 'em a thumbs up!
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Post by kingdzbws on May 8, 2007 18:48:01 GMT -5
...And is if on cue.... "Cracker Barrel Yanks Hamburgers from Menus After Woman Cut By Metal Fragment" www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270718,00.html EDIT: WHY wont the whole url link??Cracker Barrel pulled hamburgers from hundreds of restaurants after a patron in South Carolina reported cutting her mouth on a piece of metal embedded in a patty, authorities and the restaurant chain said Tuesday.
"We are putting out a wide net," said Julie Davis, spokeswoman for the Lebanon, Tenn.-based restaurants. "We are taking this very seriously."
Some 313 restaurants were told to remove burgers produced on and around the same date as those served in the Myrtle Beach restaurant where the woman was cut Saturday night, Davis said. Cracker Barrel has 557 restaurants in 41 states -- including 19 in South Carolina.....
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Post by Chrissy on May 8, 2007 20:00:43 GMT -5
I just made (and ate) chipotle chicken skewers, jasmine rice, creamed spinach and roasted corn.
Don't let BiGal try and tell you I don't cook for him!
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Post by elliejay21 on May 8, 2007 20:41:47 GMT -5
I am just finishing a mesclun green salad which I dressed with a few spoonfuls of black beans & jalapenos, salsa, a big dollup of sour cream, & 5 taquitos.
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Post by CBC Guy on May 9, 2007 5:56:57 GMT -5
I see all sorts of commercials for fast food chains I've never seen (usually during sporting events) but I just assumed it was because I live in the great white north.
I can shed some info though on a few mentioned in these postings.
Dairy Queen is everywhere here. I live a few blocks away from one and I could drive to 2 others in about 10 minutes. They are a few in just about every Ontario city. They started off with just ice cream, hard and soft then they went into sundaes (peanut buster parfait is my fav) and then Blizzards ( soft ice cream , chocolate(or strawberry, or banana or whatever sauce) and various extras- ie crushed oreo's, crushed peanut butter cups, smarties, fruit, skor bars, etc etc) Pretty good stuff. They've branched into hot foods like burgers and hotdogs and even breakfast as well. One of the most famous Dairy Queen commercial is for thier Flame Thrower Burger. A guy sits down in his office to eat one the burgers, he takes a bite and he gets some sauce on his chin so he wipes it with a napkin. The napkin catches on fire. He reacts and says, "whoa" and flames shoot out of his mouth and his desk catches on fire. He screams and the sprinkler system in the building goes on.
Sonic burger - I've only seen one of those and it was in Vegas - right across from the Palms. We ate there while we waited for our turn to get inked at Hart and Huntington during our honeymoon in september. Good food as far as fast food goes.
I've seen lots of commercials for White Castle and I didn't get to try it until 2004 when I was down in NYC on my 3rd or 4th trip to catch a series at Yankee Stadium. I liked it - seemed like good "after drinking food"
I have seen and heard many commercials for a place called "Mighty Taco" and never seen one of those.
Hey I keep hearing about Tim Hortons expanding further and further into the U.S. - have any popped up in NYC yet?
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Post by Jason Giambi on May 9, 2007 6:27:21 GMT -5
sonic is pretty big in the south. Carl's Junior is big out west and I think they're part of hardees or something like that.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 9, 2007 7:32:40 GMT -5
No Tim Hortons' to be found. i would be game for that. Maybe by "expanding further and further into the US" they mean Buffalo, New York.
Damn, I miss the best "after drinking food" ever.....PALACE FRIED CHICKEN! Hey, Grover, next time you are strolling home stop in there and grab a box of chicken for me!
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Post by Chris on May 9, 2007 11:06:46 GMT -5
Carl's Jr is a west coast thing. Started by Carl Karcher in the 40s - very good burger joint as far as chains go.
Hardees was started in the 60s...unrelated to Carl's.
In the 90s Carl Karcher Enterprises acquired Hardee's, and the Hardee's chain adopted a lot of the existing Carl's Jr menu and the familiar smiling star logo.
Like I said, Carl's is good. If I'm going to grab a burger through the drive through, I'll hit up Carl's over McDonald's, BK, Wendy's, any day of the week. The thing I've always said about Carl's though - while their burgers taste good, they are the WORST at making their burger actually look like the pictures on the advertisements.
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Post by 4dogg on May 9, 2007 11:31:47 GMT -5
attended a wedding last fall in rochester,ny and stopped in at tim hortons for coffee and baked goods for the ride home the next morning
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Post by Chris on May 9, 2007 15:42:42 GMT -5
Speaking of Carl's Jr - just walked up the CJ's near me (Newport Beach, near John Wayne Airport) for a Jalapeno Cheeseburger, and I swear I think I saw Tom Flores in a black benz in the drive-thru.
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Post by BigAl115 on May 9, 2007 16:25:15 GMT -5
I just ate a turkey burger at Fatburger they just opened one up in Massapequa ..supposedly is a pretty big chain out in Cali. its pretty funny ..what ever you order they have to yell out like in that John Belushi skit. So if you order a Fatburger and skinny fries ..first the guy that barely speaks english,at the register, screams out "Fatburger...Skinny Fries" then all of the workers have t o yell it out Imagine having to do that all day..jeaz ...the best part is that the guy spells my name All...so they yell out "All" when my order is ready.
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Post by Jason Giambi on May 9, 2007 16:43:20 GMT -5
that's a rip-off of billy goats then.....
what about in-n-out burger cho?
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Post by elliejay21 on May 9, 2007 19:02:25 GMT -5
I can't think of a Sonic I have seen outside of the one on Rt 22 in Union or where ever that is in central jersey... I have never been there, but have drive past it...
Dairy Queen is around in jersey, but you need to get at least 40 miles out from the city...
White Castle is easy to find... just look for the Canadian neighborhood... although I think the one on Deer Park Avenue and the one on 25A in Mt. Sinai might defy that general rule...
Tim Hortons has started coming down... there are a bunch in eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine...
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Post by kingdzbws on May 9, 2007 23:24:36 GMT -5
In N Out, I was going to throw that one in. I liked their fries...them and All American Burger. Not many of those left in SoCal.
And although I seem to recall this very conversation some time ago on another board; One of the chains that really grossed me out was Weinershnitzel (sp?) They're a Hot Dog chain and they advertise that their dogs "SNAP" when you bit into them. I swear that sound alone turned me off to that nasty place.
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Post by Chris on May 10, 2007 11:37:45 GMT -5
Weinerschnitzel is HORRENDOUS!!!
In N Out - well, the thing about In N Out is that, although they are fast food, drive-thru, they don't really get lumped in with McD's, Carl's Jr, Wendy's, etc... They're sorta special. A trip to In N Out is more of an outing, than say, lemme grab something real quick. So that's what I meant when I said that I prefer Carl's to the other fast food burger chains. Clearly In N Out is much better than those others mentioned.
And yes, Fatburger is a small chain out here - not all that popular - there aren't a lot of them and the food is OK.
"ohhhh, you worked at All American Burger"...."that was nine months ago Spicoli"
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Post by Chrissy on May 14, 2007 12:26:31 GMT -5
I saw my first Tim Hortons this weekend up in Canada!
I also saw numbers 2-1000 over the course of two days.
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Post by IronHorse4 on May 14, 2007 12:50:20 GMT -5
In a related story, I was in Aurora, Illinois this weekend. There is no Stan Mikita's Donuts, as portrayed in Wayne's World.
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Post by elliejay21 on May 14, 2007 14:24:26 GMT -5
Nothing I forgot my wallet this morning, so I have no cash/credit/ID & I can't turn the check I got into money.
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Post by Chrissy on May 14, 2007 14:59:45 GMT -5
Ouch, that sucks!
If it makes you feel any better, my lunch was not so great: Tuna on multi-grain bread with sprouts. I normally like this sandwich, but today it was very dry.
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Post by jwmcc on May 14, 2007 15:24:19 GMT -5
How the hell do you forget your wallet? Jw
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Post by elliejay21 on May 14, 2007 15:33:39 GMT -5
Well, I'd guess it is the same sort of process as forgetting your walkman...
You leave the house, arrive at your destination & realize that you are missing something that you should have with you...
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 14, 2007 15:34:04 GMT -5
If I was ever to forget my wallet or have no means of grabbing money, I would simply have someone spot me $5 or so till the next day, which I would use to grab something little. I would not live it up on someone elses dime by borrowing and spending more, nor would I go hungry by sitting there without eating anything.
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