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Skriven 2007-06-18 11:22:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 ML> at the Baltimore airport, BAA has taken over, and
 ML> one of the first things they did was to upgrade the food services,
 ML> getting rid of the fried chicken place and replacing it with a
 ML> Quizno's and a McDonald's.

The fried chicken place was a Roy Rogers; still, it was the
best food in the airport.

 DS> Damn...that's an upgrade??  I'd hate to think of what they might 
 DS> have done if they'd been downsizing.

BAA, unfortunately, has nothing to do with Baltimore or
Annapolis, but rather is the British Airports Authority,
which has taken over BWI, Logan, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis,
Alice Springs, Darwin, Tennant Creek, Launceston, Tullamarine,
Perth, and Naples, as well as seven of the biggest in the UK.

It is enforcing a global-homogenization-friendly business
model that encourages chains upon chains in a mall environment:
not my favorite sort of thing. The food/bev choices are Aunt
Annie's Pretzels, McDonalds, Quizno's, the Rum Island Bar (my
choice so far, but that involves spending $15 to 20 for a sandwich
and a drink), and the Silver Bullet Lounge. Also promised are
Manchu Wok and Shannon's Pub, but no sighting so far.

By the way, this Rum Island place is described in its website:
 Featuring a tropical island theme, the Rastafarian environment
 contains funky Bahamian-style graphics, expansive ceilings,
 exotic elements and dimensional murals.


 DS> McDonalds is a "last resort" place for me.  If it's going to be hours
 DS> before my next meal AND I need something really fast AND it has to be
 DS> cheap as well, I know I can swing into a McDonalds and for two bucks
 DS> and change not have to eat again for four or five hours (double 
 DS> cheeseburger, $1; small fries, $1.)

I'll bear that in mind: double cheeseburger.

   If you can get there while
 DS> they're serving breakfast, order a sausage biscuit and throw out the
 DS> biscuit. Their sausage patties are quite close to the best breakfast
 DS> sausage I've ever had (though a bit salty.)  Also, the hash browns
 DS> (lovingly deep-fried so they're crunchy outside, soft and starchy
 DS> within) are great as long as the burgerdrones have replaced the
 DS> fryolator medium recently and you eat them first before they can get
 DS> cold. 

You once said something about the breakfast sausage: as my flight
ostensibly leaves at 10:15, some of this particular manna may be
in my future.

 DS> Quiznos makes a decent toasted sub (despite their ads, however,
 DS> they are just as much mostly bread as their competitors'.)

I actually had a Quizno sub once, and it was horrible: doughy bread,
salty, almost nonexistent filling. If someone were to provide some
useful information like "get the kielbasa omelet sub with extra meat
and BBQ sauce on the side," I might act on it; otherwise, no.
 
 ML> Doesn't it make the eggs taste fishy?
 DS> I dunno.  I eat bluefish and tuna and sardines and other oily
 DS> fish, so I don't buy the eggs that advertise themselves as Omega-3
 DS> enhanced.  (They're more expensive anyway.)

Just strikes me as likely, no, a near certainty. It would
appear to be a prerequisite to become one of the people in
charge of such things that one be a person whose taste buds
had been shot off.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Justin Wilson's Boiled Crawfish
 Categories: Fish/sea
      Yield: 10 servings

      4    Boxes salt (no size mentione             Garlic
      6    Pouches crab boil                  24    Small potatoes
      9    Lemons                                   Smoked sausage
      8 oz Cayenne pepper                           Corn
      5 lb Small white onions                 50 lb Live crawfish

  Bring seasonings to boil for 10 minutes.  Add potatoes, corn, and smoked
  sausage.  Boil for another 10 minutes. Add crawfish. Bring back to boil.
  Cut fire off immediately. Let soak for 20 to 30 minutes. Drain. Peel and
  eat.
      While water is coming to a boil, cull and clean crawfish. Rinse well
  with garden hose and remove any dead ones.
      Always wear gloves when you fool with crawfish, but remember, they can
  still pinch you through gloves. Justin Wilson writes, "Not everybody likes
  the fat, but I do, and I love to dig my finger into the head and scoop it
  out.  During crawfish season, my finger stays yellow from one end to the
  other." From Justin Wilson's "Outdoor Cooking With Inside Help."

MMMMM


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