Posted on 08/19/2004 7:01:22 AM PDT by Pokey78
Incidentally, I was born in Hico (1952).
Y'know, it's stuff like this:
Is this just how it is in the hinterland, far removed from the more sophisticated dinner tables of Washington DC? Not necessarily, when Washington is run by George Bush of Texas, Dick Cheney of Wyoming, Donald Rumsfeld of Illinois, not to mention Condoleezza Rice, from Alabama herself, and Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld's deputy, who is sometimes suspected of coming from outer space. You may not feel comfortable with the fact that the future of the planet should be decided by the representatives of voters who know so little about it. A good many senior European politicians share that concern.
That makes me want to kick a Euro-peon right in the middle of the ass.
European Southern food! LOL You know those Southerners they love lard and lots of fattening foods. I see that on the Food Network also and I just drool over the food. They do not seem so obsessed with carbs and calories, like I am. Are the French on a Carb kick or is it just in this country?
Well sirloin is not a very good cut to begin with. Have you ever cooked a steak well done in a frying pan or grill? Its alot worse than one grilled medium, or one marinated for a couple of days, then grilled. Certain kinds of beef cows are fed out differently also, so Lubys probably uses a beef that takes less to fatten or else it would cost too much and they would go broke.
If this person thinks American steaks have no flavor he has never been to Ruths Chris or Sullivans. Hell even Texas Land and Cattle or Saltgrass have great steaks.
Holy cow, Hico is tiny now. In 1952 it must have been little more than a wide spot in the road.
I stop at The Koffee Kup every time I drive back from Austin or San Antonio. Their lemon chess pie is the best I've ever had, and the pecan pie they serve is worth the drive from Fort Worth. Viva Hico.
I'm not going to argue about sirloin, you're right on that. I prefer a rib-eye.
Luby's uses the same beef that those other places use, and the only way they'll cook it well done is if you're dumb enough to ask for it that way.
I have to try this beer.
That article on Olive Garden isn't about the resturant at all. It is mixed, but on the whole I would say it is positive. And a well written and entertaining article as well.
Zuppa Toscana is great at lunch with salad. The greens keep it from being just potato soup.
Vanilla is a sublime aromatic. Perhaps if you would try real Budweiser and walk away from the light beer, you might come to a new appreciation. What is better? Samuel (it's brewed stale!) Adams? Fat Tire? Kansas Red? Anchor?
Bud is the best lager brewed. Period. Anywhere, by any company. If you don't like lager generally, drink something else.
I don't want to rip Lubys in particular. Chili's or any other resturant like that usually has poor steaks. However these resturants do not use the same beef that Ruths Chris or Sullivans uses. True its beef and its not some strange form of beef, it just isn't the top of the line cuts that these other resturants use.
The Japanese Kobe beef feed their beef cows beer and even massage them. Many of the cows used at Ruths Chris are fed out for longer periods of time and use carmels and such in their feed.
Send Your best Chef this way- I'll send that chef back with a tucked tail.
And don't forget the Revolutionary War.
royal stilton rocks -- the ploughman's lunch is great, even if invented by an advertising bloke in the 1950's to sell more cheese.
love branston pickle, crazy about fish, chips & malt vinegar. so in general i'd say i like brit food, is usually pretty wholesome, but it is easy to make fun of (particularly that green stuff a few posts back), like so many things brit... find the beers and ciders to be GREAT, just way different than german/czech style...
for me, my most bizarre UK food moment was in Cardiff, Cymru. went into a shop that had a square pastry of some sort. i thought it was a cake with white icing -- surprise! it was some kind of bread topped with cold mashed potatoes. pretty dreadful...
Your fearless leader, little Dumbya, changed course from promising to use up for his tax cuts only a small part of the Clinton budget surplus, to raiding the SS trust fund for giveaways resulting in no new jobs over 3.5 years time. And yet Dumbya's dupes persist in alleging that Sen. Kerry is the flip-flopper.
If favoring a balanced federal budget has become "liberal" then MurryMom pleads "guilty as charged". I'm old fashioned enough to remember when words like "liberal" and "conservative" had actual meanings closer to their roots.
You never did tell me how tall you are.
oh and that is a top notch argument right there.
I am entitled to my opinions on europe. i have seen the photos from germany where they made giant paper mache statues of our president that were insulting. i have seen all the anti american stuff.
and i am entitled to think that europeans are in general annoying when it comes to politics.
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