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Post by tod2 on Jul 15, 2011 13:57:19 GMT
But WHY for crying out loud! It can't be because they want the customers to get food poisoning.....or IS it? Then the outlet Manager gets the blame and they see his surprised face when the inspectors show up? Or are they just so twisted that this amounts to their fun?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 16:47:28 GMT
But WHY for crying out loud! It can't be because they want the customers to get food poisoning.....or IS it? Then the outlet Manager gets the blame and they see his surprised face when the inspectors show up? Or are they just so twisted that this amounts to their fun? Urine, snot, spit and soap do not give people food poisoning.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 17, 2011 16:30:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2011 5:55:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2011 20:40:35 GMT
I could eat some of those things.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 7, 2011 6:45:15 GMT
The Mac and Cheese Big Daddy Patty Melt (from kerouac's link above) Jay Leno talked about this one on his show tonite - it boasts 1700 calories. I can't imagine how much fat and sodium.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 27, 2011 7:51:58 GMT
And here's a nice dessert for that enhanced grilled cheese sandwich above: A Cherry Pie, an Apple Pie and a Pumpkin Pie, Each Cooked Inside a Separate Cake, and Then All Cooked Together inside Another Cake. (source: neatorama) Why? You can only ask WHY?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2011 20:53:14 GMT
I am quite intrigued by that item.
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Post by mockchoc on Nov 28, 2011 5:50:41 GMT
It must be for when you just cannot decide which pie to have today.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 28, 2011 8:08:07 GMT
Or between pie and cake. Or between chocolate and vanilla. You'd need to keep Neopolitan ice cream on hand to serve atop that cake.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 8, 2011 8:27:08 GMT
You'd need to keep Neopolitan ice cream on hand to serve atop that cake. <Kimby emits a bixa-like snork!>
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Post by bjd on Dec 8, 2011 10:27:25 GMT
I don't usually look on this thread, but just did and am intrigued by the "sandwich" Kimby posted in #605. What are those white curly things inside the sandwich?
By "intrigued" here I don't mean I would want to eat it, just wondering what the hell it is.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 8, 2011 16:09:12 GMT
I think that's the elbow macaroni in the mac & cheese portion of the sandwich.
"Intrigued" in this thread must usually mean "horrified fascination". ;D
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Post by onlymark on Dec 20, 2011 12:48:54 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 20, 2011 14:17:28 GMT
Possibly it should but as the site is inaccessible to those of us in the UK I shall never know..........
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Post by onlymark on Dec 20, 2011 14:40:27 GMT
It's the BBC Mick. Can't you get that? Or can't you just get a foreign edition or something?
"Jean- Louis Hecht, a French baker, decided that hungry citizens no longer needed to suffer in the off hours. His solution? A baguette vending machine, which he has described as ‘the bakery of the future."
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 20, 2011 14:57:06 GMT
It's the BBC Mick. Can't you get that? Or can't you just get a foreign edition or something? "Jean- Louis Hecht, a French baker, decided that hungry citizens no longer needed to suffer in the off hours. His solution? A baguette vending machine, which he has described as ‘the bakery of the future."Can't get the foreign edition.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 20, 2011 15:16:57 GMT
Here's the essence. I wanted to see a picture of the machine.
Jean- Louis Hecht, a French baker, decided that hungry citizens no longer needed to suffer in the off hours. His solution? A baguette vending machine, which he has described as ‘the bakery of the future’. Pop in a euro and a partially cooked, refrigerated baguette is loaded into a 200°C oven, baked for 15 seconds and then dropped into the machine’s dispensing tray. Convenient? No doubt about it. Yet can a vending machine really produce this staple of French life? Curious, I decided to try it out at the Place du Colonel Fabien. Sure enough, the bread came out warm and crusty, just like a regular baguette. But the real test for any aspiring French bread is the overnight exam, when you wrap your half-eaten baguette in a towel, stick it in the cupboard and then remove it the next morning for breakfast. Good bread will keep its freshness sans problème. And it’s here, I have to say, that Hecht’s baguette didn’t perform too well. My verdict: the bread was too hard.
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Post by onlymark on Dec 20, 2011 16:59:47 GMT
I didn't know that mick. I thought any BBC page could be viewed. You learn something new every day.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2011 17:10:37 GMT
The baguette machines, just like the french fry machines, have never succeeded yet. Give them another 5 or 10 years.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2012 19:38:57 GMT
I was looking for a list of the favourite German foods, but the only poll I found listed just two items: 1. Doner kebab 2. Curry wurst So I kept looking and looking and ended up at this site with a very refined URL, where the subject is comfort food. The posts are quite edifying. www.fuckfrance.com/topic/3663481/1/FF-Pub
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 8, 2012 13:31:29 GMT
very refined site, I agree... and they(he's)'ve got no effing idea about comfort food outside the US.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 8, 2012 16:44:45 GMT
On the radio this morning they said that bacon flavoured milkshakes were being introduced in a US burger chain.
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 8, 2012 18:14:16 GMT
can I be sick now?
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Post by lagatta on Feb 12, 2012 1:21:25 GMT
I'm leafing through the Boston Globe abominations, some of which are just horrible, others bland or stupid, then there are the idiotic combinations. I could well stomach a pulled-pork sandwich or an egg sandwich but the two together is really repulsive.
There are some I, physically, could not eat. Do fastfood eaters have huge mouths?
I couldn't bite into this thing - not that I'd want to waste 1500 calories on it; looks like crap :
"Friendly's Ultimate Grilled Cheese BurgerMelt Have you become bored with the standard hamburger bun? Apparently Friendly's has.
The restaurant chain recently unveiled a version of its hamburger that features a grilled cheese sandwich in place of each side of the bun. That makes the Ultimate Grilled Cheese Burger Melt effectively three sandwiches in one. This triple threat has 1,500 calories, 97 grams of fat, and more than 2,000 milligrams of sodium".
I don't see anything odd about a Lobster Roll, though I'd rather have it at an independent shack, not McDo. At least that resembles food.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Feb 12, 2012 12:49:18 GMT
Nothing abominable about a well made lobster roll, preferably of the kind that consists of nothing more than chunks of lobster bathed in butter and filling a toasted "Frankfort" bun. Lobster Roll, French Fries and Onion Rings at the Glenwood Drive In, Hamden, CT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 13, 2012 5:56:45 GMT
Pork donuts, marketed in China by Dunkin Donuts. Pork floss?!
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 13, 2012 7:16:28 GMT
Yes. Normal donut covered in pork floss, sweet and savoury. I hate pork floss. Here they use it to fill sweet buns...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2012 10:32:30 GMT
... when they're not putting beans in them!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2012 4:00:19 GMT
But what is pork floss? All I can envision is bacon flavored cotton candy.
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