Text 37851, 88 rader
Skriven 2010-05-16 23:27:03 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 37676 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: faster foods 138
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Hi Michael,

 RH> Always interesting to see if a place has changed, and if so, for the
 RH> better or not.  When we visited Swansboro in 07, one of our old
 RH> favorite places to eat was gone.  Another had expanded physically but
 RH> still kept the same quality of food/low prices.

 ML> Interesting but not necessarily gratifying!

It was one of the few places we could afford to eat out at on an
occaisional basis then.  It's one we'd probably be visiting more
frequently if we lived in the area now. (G)

 RH> Generally you can do pretty decent at a buffet.  Sometimes it helps to
 RH> "cruise" it before deciding, or, after deciding but while waiting for
 RH> your turn in line.

 ML> I eat mostly protein, which is an easy way to deal with a
 ML> buffet. Also cost-effective. Also relatively healthy.

I generally start with a plate of salads, then a plate with veggies and
some meat, finishing with a dessert plate.  The amount of food on each
one decreases with each course.


 ML> Brazil-style rice - white with specks of meat and veggies, most
 ML> notably corn - salty but quite palatable
 RH> Not quite fried rice, Brazilian style?

 ML> Sort of - the same kind of appeal, anyway.

That's how it came across in your description.


 ML> Farofa dish - undercooked pink beans, undercooked shreds of kale,
 ML> little cubes of ham (used to be big pieces of sausage when I came

 RH> Sounds like this dish may have gone down hill over the years.  Was it
 RH> commercial cubes of ham or cubes cut from a ham in the kitchen?

 ML> Commercial cubes.

Too much else going on in the kitchen to roast a ham & cut it up
themselves?  Get a better flavor that way.



 ML> chicken salad - shredded chicken breast, succotash, mayo, and
 ML> fried potato sticks - better than it sounds.
 RH> Succotash with or without limas?  Sounds like it had some
 RH> possibilities there.

 ML> Peas, carrots, corn mostly. I didn't get any limas. Perhaps
 ML> the Brazilians don't have limas.

I'd eat more of it than I would if it had limas. (G)


 ML> I piled this stuff on my plate and took it to be weighed, and
 ML> the guy said, want some meat? "What do you have?" Chicken,
 ML> pork, top sirloin, garlic roast beef. I asked for the fatty
 RH> Nice assortment, hopefully fixed in different ways so you're not
 RH> eating basically the same thing, just different meats.

 ML> The garlic roast beef was marinated; the others were salted only
 ML> (this from previous experience - I had only picanha this time).

Garlic roast beef does sound good.


 RH> I suspect they don't serve tentacles as a matter of course

 ML> I wonder what they do with them, then. Risotto?

Probably serve them to the kitchen/wait staff.  Have to ask next time we
go in.


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Ruth
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