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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 27, 2015 9:14:30 GMT -5
OK, I'll grant you that they're going overboard with that (though the BBQ ranch might be good). Velveeta ranch and Grey Poupon ranch are just silly. The food industry just loves fads though, like where everything has had to have bacon in it for the last few years (including the ranch bacon dressing they make). Just plain Hidden Valley ranch is fine with me. Yeah, I've never really gotten the bacon obsession either. It's a good food. I usually prefer it on something if I do, like a burger, or real bits in a salad or on a back potato, but never really cared for it to just eat on it's own, even breakfast. I'd prefer sausage with my fried eggs. I did have some bacon for breakfast when we went to my father in law's house for Easter. But the bacon was greatly overshadowed by the farm fresh eggs his wife cooked. And not like grocery store farm fresh, like fresh from the farm sold by the farmer. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Apr 27, 2015 9:52:33 GMT -5
OK, I'll grant you that they're going overboard with that (though the BBQ ranch might be good). Velveeta ranch and Grey Poupon ranch are just silly. The food industry just loves fads though, like where everything has had to have bacon in it for the last few years (including the ranch bacon dressing they make). Just plain Hidden Valley ranch is fine with me. Yeah, I've never really gotten the bacon obsession either. It's a good food. I usually prefer it on something if I do, like a burger, or real bits in a salad or on a back potato, but never really cared for it to just eat on it's own, even breakfast. I'd prefer sausage with my fried eggs. I did have some bacon for breakfast when we went to my father in law's house for Easter. But the bacon was greatly overshadowed by the farm fresh eggs his wife cooked. And not like grocery store farm fresh, like fresh from the farm sold by the farmer. <Full Disclosure>
I saw Maple & Bacon flavored potato chips at the grocery store yesterday and had to buy them. I haven't tried them yet, but I'm sure they will either be revolting or indescribably delicious.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 27, 2015 10:27:07 GMT -5
Oh no DE!! Don't eat them!!!
As I think we've discussed before, I am no fan of sweet and salty together so, for me that's not a good combo.
But as far as strange combos, potato chips do seem to have that market pretty well. I saw some washabi-ginger flavored chips! Ick. I like chips, I like washabi on my sushi, and ginger for cooking. But all together. :nono:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 10:56:32 GMT -5
I like bacon on its own. But I don't typically like it mixed with things.
However, I WILL dip bacon in maple syrup if I am eating it with pancakes.
And I don't understand the chip fad.
I had guacamole flavored chips once. I HAD TO HAVE THEM.
And I believe I suffered, like, a chemical burn of sorts on my tongue due to them. heh.
Wanna discuss the nastiness Taco Bell has been releasing lately?
What is with the combo foods lately?
It all looks so gross. I have to wonder why. Or if people are really just that disgusting.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 27, 2015 11:10:03 GMT -5
I like bacon on its own. But I don't typically like it mixed with things. However, I WILL dip bacon in maple syrup if I am eating it with pancakes. And I don't understand the chip fad. I had guacamole flavored chips once. I HAD TO HAVE THEM. And I believe I suffered, like, a chemical burn of sorts on my tongue due to them. heh. Wanna discuss the nastiness Taco Bell has been releasing lately? What is with the combo foods lately? It all looks so gross. I have to wonder why. Or if people are really just that disgusting. Is that possible? ;-) I kind of eat most of the same things I always have from Taco Bell, so there's probably a good chance it has happened. I don't even need the menu, I order what I like from memory. And I also haven't tried their breakfast since they started doing that. But then I don't eat in the mornings, but I do like "breakfast food". Can't remember if they serve it all day or not. |
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Post by spoon on Apr 27, 2015 19:07:08 GMT -5
I have a vacation booked for May. It's a big deal, because quite pathetically, I've never traveled outside the U.S. I'm going to Denmark. At some point, during the trip, I plan to head across the Oresund Bridge into Sweden. It less than hour from my hotel in Denmark via rail or car to get into Sweden! I'm so jealous ! My heritage is German and Dane, and I'd love to go to both countries. My Mom went and met relatives in both countries. Hopefully I will someday. Looking forward to your posts ! I don't have personal connection to Denmark, so my reasons for picking it for my trip are: 1) The theoretical Denmark (and Scandinavia) that I imagine in my mind seem cool. 2) Because I'm traveling alone and out of the country for the first time, I wanted to go somewhere that shouldn't be logistically difficult for me. My impression is that Denmark has really good mass transit and most people know English pretty well. 3) I don't have close friends or family that have been there, so the trip will be something of my own. |
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 27, 2015 19:33:00 GMT -5
Copenhagen sounds wonderful; the Paris of northern Europe.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 19:36:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I've never really gotten the bacon obsession either. It's a good food. I usually prefer it on something if I do, like a burger, or real bits in a salad or on a back potato, but never really cared for it to just eat on it's own, even breakfast. I'd prefer sausage with my fried eggs. I did have some bacon for breakfast when we went to my father in law's house for Easter. But the bacon was greatly overshadowed by the farm fresh eggs his wife cooked. And not like grocery store farm fresh, like fresh from the farm sold by the farmer. <Full Disclosure>
I saw Maple & Bacon flavored potato chips at the grocery store yesterday and had to buy them. I haven't tried them yet, but I'm sure they will either be revolting or indescribably delicious.
I had them, they're alright. Kettle cooked, right? Can't go wrong there. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 21:15:04 GMT -5
I decided it was time to load the photos from my phone onto my computer. It's been two years, and I have 1060 photos I feel are nice enough I don't want to delete.
For some reason I can't just plug the phone up, open the folder, and copy/paste the photos to my computer. I have to use the photo importer from the popup when it's plugged in. It's been 24 hours now and I have 311/1060 photos uploaded. This is ridiculous.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 5:54:34 GMT -5
In cooking the rest of my catfish tonight while it's still fresh, and eating as I cooked, right out the pile, I have wonder why anyone would ruin fish with tartar sauce. Ick! Good food doesn't need a condiment/sauce. Also, speaking of bringing out the top of the line without needing to hide it ... I wonder what kind of wine Jesus turned water into. Everyone at the wedding feast commented on it's quality. So it's not like Jesus half assed it and miraculously created Mad Dog. I'll admit to liking tartar sauce with my fish, but I can't understand paying top dollar for a good steak and then drowning it in A1 sauce. Usually in restaurants when the server brings my steak they ask about steak sauce. I usually tell them I'll try the steak first, but probably won't need the sauce. At least a couple of times I saw an expression from the server that said they appreciated that, so I'm guessing it bugs them too.
As to the wine, yeah, I betting it was the really good stuff. No Two Buck Chuck.
I'm sorry, adam. Your culinary crimes in general are too pronounced for you to even be allowed to say anything about catfish. Doesn't matter whether you're right, wrong or somewhere in between; you just don't get a say. I'm sorry. That's just the way it is. Though to clear up any lingering nonsense, tartar sauce is perfectly fine with catfish. Heck, so's catsup. And steak? Please. Steak sauce is far better than steak. The end. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 6:01:01 GMT -5
Ugh. Seven pages or so of posts here to check out after being gone more than a week, I think ...
Should note that I've been away struggling with *choke* real life. I just hate it when that happens.
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Post by the4thpip on Apr 28, 2015 6:29:27 GMT -5
Ugh. Seven pages or so of posts here to check out after being gone more than a week, I think ... Should note that I've been away struggling with *choke* real life. I just hate it when that happens. Well, you're back in Neverland now and you didn't grow up a bit! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 6:56:37 GMT -5
I sure as heck didn't, & haven't ... &, alas, probably won't. *sigh*
I'm in the midst of composing a magnum opus right now about what I've found myself (quasi-)involved in. Warning: the dread noun & concept "Relationship," or rather the possibility of one, features prominently.
Again ... *sigh*
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 7:11:15 GMT -5
I sure as heck didn't, & haven't ... &, alas, probably won't. *sigh* I'm in the midst of composing a magnum opus right now about what I've found myself (quasi-)involved in. Warning: the dread noun & concept "Relationship," or rather the possibility of one, features prominently. Again ... *sigh* And here I thought it was just that the Gang of (fill in the appropriate number now) had been holding you ransom for food and catnip.... Good to see you back though. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 7:45:29 GMT -5
*sigh*
Here goes ...
Basically, at the advanced age of 55, just around the corner from starting to stare senescence in the face, I find myself back in, potentially at least, the Relationship Zone. Damned Facebook ...
Let's just say that thanks to my involvement in a local group devoted to restaurants & eating out & such (because, as I'm sure I've whinged here before, there is nothing else to do in this sad excuse for a state capital), I've actually developed something resembling an social life, as opposed to my long immersion in largely solitary (other than internet-based interaction, of course) antisocial life. The group is absurdly large for a city of some 200,000 -- something like 7,300 members & growing steadily; when I joined maybe 13 months ago, it was more like 2,000 -- but again, that merely reinforces my assertion about the complete lack of anything else to do here.
In any event, over time I've become probably the most promiscuous poster on the page, though most of my posts (& a heck of a lot of posts in general) aren't really even tangentially related to food or the like ... sort of like how so many of the posts here, whether by me or others, have nothing to do with comics. In fact, I also think I've noted more than once that I'm far more likely to discuss comics there than here, just as I'm more likely to discuss baseball here than I am on Baseball Think Factory (where comics, sf, movies, music, etc. are also frequent topics).
Anyway. Over the last few months, as I'm sure is inevitable in the course of human events, among the numerous friends (FB & IRL) I've developed through the group, I've found myself part of a very small coterie -- 6 people -- that's coalesced among particularly likeminded individuals, especially as regards a pretty sick sense of humor. (There aren't any other obvious shared characteristics, I guess -- the other male in the group is politically quite conservative, & one of the women is a vaguely observant Catholic, for instance.)
In any event, to cut a long story a bit short, suffice it to say that I'm tiptoeing around the idea of ... I don't want to say pursuing ... I don't know what verb would suffice, given my cravenness ... exploring the idea of a relationship, I guess I can say, with a female of the species. Complicating matters is the fact that she's absurdly young -- 33 -- for me; I mean, my god, I'm a year (well, 364 days ...) older than her mother, who's also a very good friend of mine. I'm too damned cowardly to do anything directly, but we went out to supper a couple of Saturdays ago & had a blast; spent about 3 hours after finishing our food just talking. She seems to appreciate my insane sense of humor & has one of her own; she loves reading; likes horror movies; has solid politics, etc. Is a librarian at Auburn & working on a master's in library science from Alabama via online study.
But, again, is young enough to easily be my daughter. Damn. Was married for 3 1/2 years from ages 25-28 to a guy she'd dated for 3 years before that. Lives with her aforementioned mother right now, though the latter is getting married this summer.
Seems to me we've both been sort of hovering around the idea. From a group PM a couple of weeks ago involving our little clique after being teased over the aforementioned dinner "date" --
Why can Dan and I not go out without accusing us of being an item? You shouldn't insult Dan by thinking he'd even be interested. I know I'm all that, but I know not everyone is interested.
(The last statement, of course, was a joke. She is not even remotely stuck-up. More like the opposite.)
Needless to say, I most certainly am interested, & I suspect -- hope! -- that this is one way she's indicating that the idea isn't automatically appalling ... But damn, how to let her know? Christ, I'm horrible at this sort of thing. I've been married twice, but otherwise I haven't been in a relationship since my last gf & I became genuinely just good friends back in 2006 -- the longest such gap of my life by a good 50 percent (previous high was 6 years between my last 2 relationships in Arkansas.
Complicating matters is the awful knowledge from previous experience that if I do make some sort of overture & get shot down, I'll plunge faster & harder than a satellite crashing back to earth from orbit. *sigh* My (thankfully mild) case of bipolar disorder is part of that equation, but of course it's also undoubtedly also a part of my being deluded enough to think I actually have a chance with this individual.
Dammit. It doesn't happen -- not to go into specific detail, but suffice it to say that with one exceptiion that authorities believe involved alcohol, the shortest relationsihp I've ever been involved in lasted about 18 months -- often, but wen I fall, I fall hard, fast & far. *sigh* And the repercussions can be pretty destructive, as I found out with my last gf in Arkansas in particular, to the point that I'm approaching things far more gingerly than someone with a healthy -- hell, a sane -- outlook probably would.
Otherwise, things have been pretty static for most of the last month. Still a lot of online teasing, bantering, play-flirting ... I guess it's sort of like being back in junior high, which is rather pathetic given the ages involved, particularly mine.
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