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Skriven 2011-12-01 12:45:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av SEAN DENNIS
Ärende: fast food 288
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 -=> Sean Dennis said to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> The cole slaw is better for your diabetes than the hush puppies. I
 DD> like to take the standard serve of hush puppies (two, I think) in a
 DD> Fish & More and cut them in half, using them to soak up some of the
 DD> cole slaw dressing. Oy, but that's good.
 SD> If I was really being careful, I'd just skip going to LJS altogether.
 SD> :)  I don't like coleslaw for some weird reason.  I am, at the age of
 SD> 39, just getting around to enjoy eating salad . . . that's plain,
 SD> without dressing.  I don't like dressing.  Then again, I'm not a fan of
 SD> mayo, ketchup, mustard, pickles, et cetera.  My mom says I'm just a
 SD> plain kinda guy. 

Maybe you'll grow up. When I was first on the cooking echoes,
almost twenty years ago I guess, I didn't like mayo unless I
made it myself or ketchup or mustard at all. Now I can see the
appeal of Hellmann's (in very small moderation) and ketchup
(with potatoes) and mustard (if I make it myself). But then
that might just be me getting lazy.

 SD> Once I have a little more cash, I'd like to try something from their
 SD> "Fresh Grille" menu.  On the other hand, taking that cash, getting some
 SD> fresh salmon steaks and tossing them on the George Foreman grill is
 SD> pretty darn tasty also. The grocery store is closer than LJS to my home
 SD> so I guess I know where I should go from now on. :)
 
If you have any spare time at all, the George will do better
by you than eating out. Don't go out unless you and Maura are
totally bone tired.

 SD> Oddly, we don't have a "dual" store here in Johnson City, just
 SD> Elizabethton which is about eight miles east as the crow flies from my
 SD> home.  Johnson City is at least twice, if not three times, the size of
 SD> Elizabethton yet we don't have one.  I think the county Elizabethton is
 SD> in has a better tax bracket for businesses than the county I live in.

There's a shopping mall in one of the suburbs here whose name
refers to a town where the mall is not located - apparently the
parking lot ends on the border of that town, but the development
was done totally within the adjacent town, which had laxer
requirements and better tax breaks. Sadly, this disintegrating
memory bank has lost the name and the general vicinity of said
mall; I'm sure the story is not unique in this country of numerous
and conflicting (and sometimes overlapping) jurisdictions.

 SD> Good root beer is always bad for a diabetic. :)  I've always liked IBC
 SD> root beer in the brown bottles and homemade root beer even better on
 SD> the very rare times I've had it.

Yeah. But homemade could be made to ferment to a dry state - which
might make it illegal in a dry state, speaking of jurisdictions.

 SD> Since we're speaking of fast food, I sorely miss Steak 'N' Shake. 
 SD> There are none in Tennessee, I think.  The next time Maura and I go
 SD> down to Atlanta we'll stop at one in Kennesaw.  I miss having a
 SD> steakburger with an orange shake (definitely -not- diabetic-friendly
 SD> but a very rare treat).

This lactose-intolerant early diabetic is going to find that
meal someday.

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 SD>> Someday we will have a place big enough to where we can invite
 SD>> friends over to help us eat all the food we've made. :)
 DD> That can be a mixed blessing.   Bv)=
 SD> I understand that. :)  But I have had the terrible displeasure of
 SD> being completely alone on the holidays, when my closest family was 2000
 SD> miles away, and no one locally around to be with (and no car to boot). 

And one wonders who all the fast food places are catering to
on the holidays, and their stories. I once was on the road
for Christmas Eve, and the only place my then-girlfriend and
I could find open was a KFC or something. We ate there at
dinnertime, with the snow drifting around us, and we were not
the only ones there. At the time I wondered what we all were
doing there,

 SD> That memory is still very poignant in my mind even though that was now
 SD> over ten years ago.  So to try to save a friend or two that discomfort
 SD> and lonliness, I'd like to have them over for a few hours so they can
 SD> enjoy themselves amongst friends if they can't be with family on
 SD> Thanksgiving. 
 
It's kind of sad, though I admit that sometimes when I've been
alone at holiday time I use it as an excuse to either cook and
eat all I want that other folks will frown upon (for either
quality or quantity) or just veg out, figuratively, and make
nothing at all.

Chocolate Shake
cat: McDonalds, tastealike, historical
Serves: 2

2 c vanilla ice cream
1 c whole milk
1/4 c half and half
2 Tb chocolate flavor Nestle Quik Powder

Mix all ingredients on high speed until smooth. Stop
blender, stir and blend again, if necessary, to
combine ingredients. Pour into two 12-oz cups.

McMenu: Do-It-Yourself McDonalds Restaurant Recipes

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