Daehawk wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:31 pm
My friend gave me my taxi'n round town today to do everything I need to do. We ate at Five Guys. Not ate there since me and my wife did about 10 years ago. I dont remember the fries tasting this amazing.. My goodness. i brought the extra fries home and am eating them now. So good.
I only buy fast food a few times a year, and when I do, it's 5 Guys. Their small bacon cheeseburger with my favorite toppings (pro tip: A1 sauce instead of ketchup) is as good as any burger that I didn't make myself.
And I too am happy to hear that you have a friend you can lean on every now and then.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:29 am
by em2nought
Kraken wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 12:58 am
(pro tip: A1 sauce instead of ketchup) is as good as any burger that I didn't make myself.
And I too am happy to hear that you have a friend you can lean on every now and then.
Kraken wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 12:58 am
(pro tip: A1 sauce instead of ketchup) is as good as any burger that I didn't make myself.
And I too am happy to hear that you have a friend you can lean on every now and then.
Try some of this Sriracha Ketchup sometime!
I am intrigued by your suggestion and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Oh wait -- Wife has a low threshold for the hots so that a nonstarter. Please cancel my subscription and refund my membership. Bank info sent via PM for security.
Kraken wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 12:58 am
(pro tip: A1 sauce instead of ketchup) is as good as any burger that I didn't make myself.
And I too am happy to hear that you have a friend you can lean on every now and then.
Try some of this Sriracha Ketchup sometime!
I am intrigued by your suggestion and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Oh wait -- Wife has a low threshold for the hots so that a nonstarter.
I would say it's more tangy than hot. My cousin and I ate pizza together the other day and I was able to put black olives on mine, and keep them off of hers while I was pan frying the doctored up Little Caesars so I fail to see how you'd have a problem.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:32 pm
by Blackhawk
Kraken wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 12:58 am
I only buy fast food a few times a year, and when I do, it's 5 Guys.
I do like 5 Guys, but I would hesitate to call anything that costs as much as a week's groceries fast food just because it's fast.
As to the sriracha ketchup, it's good - but no need to buy a bottle, as they conveniently put the recipe on the label.
Daehawk wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:31 pm
My friend gave me my taxi'n round town today to do everything I need to do. We ate at Five Guys. Not ate there since me and my wife did about 10 years ago. I dont remember the fries tasting this amazing.. My goodness. i brought the extra fries home and am eating them now. So good.
I only buy fast food a few times a year, and when I do, it's 5 Guys. Their small bacon cheeseburger with my favorite toppings (pro tip: A1 sauce instead of ketchup) is as good as any burger that I didn't make myself.
And I too am happy to hear that you have a friend you can lean on every now and then.
Ive known him since 1994 when I got my first Pc and he helped me learn all about them. He has moved around a lot though and no longer lives in my town. But he drove in to help me out. He is only 2 years older than me and has some pretty bad health problems off and on. He has had a stroke due to his BP. Said when he hhad the stroke he had no idea he had high BP and at the hospital it was like 200 and something over near 200.
He goes in for surgery for something else Monday. The guy is a tank but is having bad luck. He wouldn't accept anything for the ride either. Praying for him to be well.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:13 pm
by Daehawk
Renner went back to the hospital that saved his life an thanked them each personally.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:28 pm
by em2nought
Daehawk wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:56 pm
He goes in for surgery for something else Monday. The guy is a tank but is having bad luck. He wouldn't accept anything for the ride either. Praying for him to be well.
Best of luck to your friend! You should try to stay in contact with him more, sounds like it would benefit both of you.
My 83 year old cousin had a little episode the other day, and then failed to show up on time for dinner and was out of contact. I was on my way to her house to check on her when she finally called. Got her to give me her other friend's digits as contacts just in case. Urged her to get a DNR, which she said she wants, but no way in hell the medical community will honor it without having it on paper. My sister thinks you should even have a photo of your doctor handing it to you. They really screwed the pooch with my mom reviving her even though she had a DNR, and then leaving her with broken ribs to endure another three agonizing weeks until she finally died. You know they're trying to do their best, but you just want to scream. Would never sue.
Kraken wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 12:58 am
I only buy fast food a few times a year, and when I do, it's 5 Guys.
As to the sriracha ketchup, it's good - but no need to buy a bottle, as they conveniently put the recipe on the label.
I'll get out my magnifying glass and take a look. The sriracha ketchup doesn't have high fructose corn syrup though like most others, and it's not expensive.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:34 pm
by Blackhawk
Daehawk wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:13 pm
Renner went back to the hospital that saved his life an thanked them each personally.
I know that hospital well. It's where my mother died in '81, so I spent many, many days there that year. I've also been treated there for minor things a couple of times myself.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:30 pm
by Daehawk
I got one of those same letters from Mr Cooper warning me of a data breach. Its nice that Bradley can take the time to write me personally. Cant wait on his next movie.
Themed restaurants are always a bit of a gamble. When the point is the decor, you can't help worrying that food comes second. Maybe that's why themed joints from Casa Bonita to the Rainforest Cafe and McDonald's McTrain haven't always been able to stay afloat. Maybe literally in the case of the paddleboat McDonald's of St. Louis, MO, which vanished decades ago. Perhaps it found a new life—or maybe the bad omen at its christening shouldn't have been ignored.
Opened March 11, 1980 according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the McPaddleboat (as I'll unofficially call it) was the world's first floating McDonald's restaurant. McDonald's had hoped to open a franchise in the museum under the nearby Gateway Arch, but the city wasn't having it. Instead, McD's turned its attention to the riverfront, where restaurant tickets averaged a then-pricey $6 a head (almost $24 in 2023). The restaurant got a permit, bought a watercraft, and signed a local franchisee, sending the McPaddleboat on its merry way.
I keep calling it that, but this restaurant wasn't technically a boat. It was an up-fitted cement barge with a structure reminiscent of an 1880s-style paddleboat, measuring 185 feet long, 50 feet high, and more than 700 tons. The interior was styled accordingly with 19th-century paintings and murals, seating 134 indoors and 200 outside on benches.
The crew was enormous at 200-strong, and they all had uniforms unique to the location. (They can be seen in the archived newscast below.) The franchise's owner, dentist Dr. Benjamin H. Davis Sr., even got an admiral's outfit—though no photos of his getup seem to survive. In contrast with the McTrain, there doesn't seem to be any indication that the McPaddleboat had its own special menu.
For decades, the McPaddleboat served tourists and locals alike. They recall the establishment smelling like a mix of diesel, fryer grease, and beached catfish according to Riverfront Times. Those seemed not to matter, as living in a landlocked state, a McD's on a barge was the closest most kids growing up in '80s St. Louis could get to dining on a yacht.
"I remember taking my parents to the floating McDonald's when they came to visit me from upstate New York," recalled Cameron Collins, author of "Lost Treasures of St. Louis," to Riverfront Times. "My dad had never seen the Mississippi up close and personal, and tried to wade in it. I have memories of eating a Big Mac and taking in the Arch and hearing my mom yell at my dad, 'Peter! Get away from the edge!'"
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:31 pm
by em2nought
Walmart put my sriracha ketchup up to $3.48 from $2.48 grrrrrrr
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:11 am
by Daehawk
Is it just hot ketchup?
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:49 am
by Blackhawk
Daehawk wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:11 am
Is it just hot ketchup?
No, it's ketchup plus heat plus the flavor of sriracha chili.
Daehawk wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:11 am
Is it just hot ketchup?
No, it's ketchup plus heat plus the flavor of sriracha chili.
Indeed, if you've never tasted bona fide sriracha / rooster sauce, it's more of a vinegar-based hot sauce, with a tangy, smoky sweet chili flavour.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:18 pm
by Blackhawk
Anonymous Bosch wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:06 am
bona fide sriracha / rooster sauce
*cough*
The correct term is 'cock sauce.'
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:34 pm
by Daehawk
Rooster juice.
Oh no! Ive done something horrible. Ive been trying to eat all those frozen breakfast sandwiches that got delivered to me for 2 months now. I microwave them. I also microwave my new neck warmer.
Now my neck warmer smells like a breakfast sandwich...except its mixed with the warmer smell. Its unGodly BAD...YUCK. Ill never get this smell out. Its sickening. but I NEED my warmer each day.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:37 pm
by Isgrimnur
Clean your microwave and wash the warmer with baking soda.
Anonymous Bosch wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:06 am
bona fide sriracha / rooster sauce
*cough*
The correct term is 'cock sauce.'
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:58 pm
by Daehawk
Isgrimnur wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:37 pm
Clean your microwave and wash the warmer with baking soda.
I can do the microwave again...but I dont think you are supposed to wash these warmers.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:59 pm
by TheMix
Put it outside in the sun for a while? I've heard/read that the sun is a natural sanitizer/smell remover.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:06 pm
by Blackhawk
Daehawk wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:34 pm
Rooster juice.
Oh no! Ive done something horrible. Ive been trying to eat all those frozen breakfast sandwiches that got delivered to me for 2 months now. I microwave them. I also microwave my new neck warmer.
Now my neck warmer smells like a breakfast sandwich...except its mixed with the warmer smell. Its unGodly BAD...YUCK. Ill never get this smell out. Its sickening. but I NEED my warmer each day.
Old tube sock + rice: New microwaveable neck warmer. Price: Pennies. Effectiveness: As good or better than the retail options.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:15 pm
by gilraen
You can use baking soda without washing the warmer, just pour a few tablespoons of baking soda in a plastic bag, toss the warmer in, close and tie up the bag, shake it to distribute the soda all over, leave overnight. Baking soda doesn't need to be wet to absorb smells.
Isgrimnur wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:37 pm
Clean your microwave and wash the warmer with baking soda.
I can do the microwave again...but I dont think you are supposed to wash these warmers.
Sprinkle the warmer with baking soda, and let it sit for 20-30 minutes. Then vacuum it thoroughly. This should eliminate much, if not all, of the odour without adding any moisture.
Daehawk wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:34 pm
Rooster juice.
Oh no! Ive done something horrible. Ive been trying to eat all those frozen breakfast sandwiches that got delivered to me for 2 months now. I microwave them. I also microwave my new neck warmer.
Now my neck warmer smells like a breakfast sandwich...except its mixed with the warmer smell. Its unGodly BAD...YUCK. Ill never get this smell out. Its sickening. but I NEED my warmer each day.
Old tube sock + rice: New microwaveable neck warmer. Price: Pennies. Effectiveness: As good or better than the retail options.
How-to:
How big and what shape it is can be changed simply by which sock you choose. Even if you go by Goodwill to grab an old pair of socks, it's still cheaper than the retail options.
Not that descenting your current one isn't easier.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:21 pm
by Daehawk
Hmmm. All my socks have holes. Ill need to buy new socks first
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:08 pm
by Daehawk
I ordered some of this from Walmart. Always been curious about it. Has Tripe in it. I shall see how my experiment goes.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:47 am
by em2nought
Surely you can tie off the section of at least one sock which has the holes? We might need a jar for you to put a quarter in each time you say you "can't" do something. We could use the quarters I find in the Aldi carts.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:02 am
by hitbyambulance
Daehawk wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:21 pm
Hmmm. All my socks have holes.
needle and thread is your friend
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:39 am
by dbt1949
Well darn.............
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:05 am
by Daehawk
dbt1949 wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:39 am
Well darn.............
Asking someone for a piece of gum is like playing a game of Russian roulette. There’s a chance you luck out and get your favorite flavor, but you also run the risk of disappointment. You can end up with oddball flavors like cinnamon or bubble mint. Or worse: you could be handed a piece of Fruit Stripe (cue the ominous music).
That’s right, I’ll say it: Fruit Stripe is bad. You have a few mediocre chews of artificial fruit flavor before it fades into nothing. Since the '60s, customers have been lured in by the vibrant, patterned pieces of gum in a variety of colors. But after only a minute or two, all we’re left with is flavorless gum and a temporary zebra tattoo as a consolation prize.
It’s a marvel that the gum has remained on the market for so long (Was it the colors? The nostalgia factor? Some secret third thing?). But just as we begin 2024, Fruit Stripe is raising its white flag.
Ferrara Candy, the gum’s manufacturer, announced that they’re pulling Fruit Stripe from the shelves after disappointing consumers for over half a decade.
“The decision to sunset this product was not taken lightly, and we considered many factors before coming to this decision, including consumer preferences, and purchasing patterns,” a Ferrara Candy representative said in a statement to Food & Wine.
If you’re one of the few people who actually enjoys Fruit Stripe, all hope is not lost. The Ferrara Candy representative said that you might be able to find the product at select retailers. You can also try your luck finding them on eBay (like some other nostalgic snacks).
Goodbye, Fruit Stripe—can’t say we’ll miss you.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:37 pm
by Daehawk
tasted great for all of 3 seconds then nothing.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:39 pm
by hepcat
You weren't supposed to EAT the sock with rice in it.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:52 pm
by em2nought
hepcat wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:39 pm
You weren't supposed to EAT the sock with rice in it.
Are we sure Dae is in Tennessee and not Venezuela?
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:49 pm
by Fardaza
He's already hungry again too!
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:02 am
by Daehawk
A sock of rice can feed 5 families. And the sock is good for ..uhh...nm.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:08 pm
by Pyperkub
Flavor enhancer.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:10 pm
by Max Peck
Pyperkub wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:08 pm
Flavor enhancer.
Flavor enhancement is what got him into this mess in the first place.
