OT- Question about restaurants

Having seen the back sides of both, it's because McD's are fried on a griddle, whereas BK's are broiled on a rack. The grease drips away from the Whoppers. There may also be a difference in the beef.

Jay CNS&M North Shore Line - "First and fastest"

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JCunington
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No train show is complete without the train show death dog. With onions. And chili if available.

Jay CNS&M North Shore Line - "First and fastest"

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JCunington

Amen to that. Comparing their product is sorta like flies discussing the merits of piles of dog crap or other ordure.

Admittedly it is often hard to find a real deli or cafe that has survived the landslide of TV food, but it's worth the effort. Real soup, real sandwiches made while you wait, are things worth searching for. I found a good one a couple years ago not far from Sac State U. - true, there was a Wendy's and [spew] a Denny's only a 1/4 mile away, but that little cafe was only a couple miles, cheaper, and much better.

Then there was the winery in the Shenandoah valley (Sierra foothills) that had a bistro on the grounds. I cheered when they ran into problems because they'd totally ignored local permitting processes - regardless of what twisted local protectionism had probably motivated the various roadblacks - but because when we stopped there to get a couple sandwiches, there was a big jar of granulated garlic on a shelf above the cooking area: they deserved whatever they got, just for that.

Besides the tri-tip was way too damn salty, and that's NOT the way I like it.

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Steve Caple

In the next suburb (plus one) to me is a little fish and chip (fries) shop. They don't use bush tomato and lemon myrtle sauce as garnish, they don't wrap them in the London Times, they're probably not even Barramundi or Patagonian Toothfish. But they are freshly battered, the chips are double cooked in good oil and they give them to you smothered in salt (I like salt, you can hold it if you want to). And more importantly, they taste just like I used to remember them.

And. joy of joys, there was a little pie shop opened up near by, the pies are baked in the shop and there is a whole range of "gourmet" pies - beef and burgundy, steak and onion, bacon, etc, etc. Too messy to eat at a train show, but now there is a free trade agreement signed between the USA and Aust, I shall ensure that the delicate subtleties of the Dog's Eye with Dead Horse (rhyming slang: hot pie and red - tomato - sauce) are shared with our cousins across the Big Pond. Unexpected pleasures await the seppo's... :)

With wineries, it depends. I live in the Hunter Valley, redolent with vineyards old and new. Some of the on-ground eateries are quick Chew'n'Spew, others are worth a loooong study. So are the wines...

OK, I'll bite. What's a tri-tip? Not like a picoss or rootworth, is it? :) *

Steve Newcastle NSW Aust

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Steve Magee

The Girl Scouts have managed to become the dominant food vendors at the two train shows in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. Their pulled pork sandwich has developed quite a following. I doubt that many would consider it classic BBQ by anyone's standards, but it's tasty in its own right and priced well. It's become a staple for me at these shows.

-fm Rails on Wheels' Annual Model RR Flea Market and Show - Nov. 28, 2004 at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, Saline, Michigan

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Fritz Milhaupt

A tri-tip is a cut of steak. Not common here in the northeast but is popular in the west from what I hear.

Chew'n'Spew,

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mike

I applaud the shows for letting civic groups in on hte action instead of typical concessionaires and their overpriced rancid crap. But I'd be happier it they called it shredded pork - pulled pork sounds uncomfortably like choked chicken

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Steve Caple

I realize that my original post was off topic, but now we have an off topic post that's off topic. sigh

Jim

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Ctyclsscs

Where I live it is very simple to sort out the good McD's from the health hazards: Stores owned and managed by corporate are filthy dumps, stores owned by franchisees are great.

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Dave Curtis

Another poster said just the opposite for their area; which is it? Either corporate has all outlets toe the mark, or none.

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Brian Paul Ehni

But there is a difference. Shredded pork is made by machine, pulled pork is pulled apart by humans. Make a big difference to some.

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Howard R Garner

Brian, the corporate stores are only as good as the local manager or Regional Supervisor.

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wannandcan

I'd like to buy that, but something tells me that corporate HQ has one guy who checks the regional guys and spot checks. The regional guys check the divisional guys........

Mickey D's is too savvy to have it any other way.

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Brian Paul Ehni

And one strangled bishop, please.

Seriously though, at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee the beer stands are sometimes (?) manned by groups doing volunteer work. For instance, Trinity Irish Dance (beat the Irish at their own game a few years back for the world championship!) parents volunteer there 3-5 nights per year, as do some other local groups, none of which come to mind at the moment. I think the group gets a cut of the receipts, and with beer at $4 a cup, that can add up.

Jay CNS&M North Shore Line - "First and fastest"

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JCunington

Perhaps one franchisee keeps his stores above corporate standard and the other below, or corporate standard isn't standard (of course then, what would it be?).

Jay CNS&M North Shore Line - "First and fastest"

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JCunington

Girl Scouts serving something called "pulled pork" just sounds sort of...kinky. :-{0 On the other subject, Reliant Stadium here in Houston has local non-profit groups working for the main concessionaire running various booths. The Towering Texans was doing it for awhile until the number of volunteers dropped too low to continue doing it. The few people still left burned out.

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Rick Jones

It is also known as "loose meat". Take your pick. Either is disgusting to those with dirty minds.

Regards,

DAve CB&Q Everywhere West!

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DaveW

We have a local started a folk music concert series called "Public Domain", sponsored by the California Folk Arts Association, started over 25 years ago by Jeff Cloud, a local potter (actually, he and his wife run a porcelain workshop in Folsom). From a start in the Folsom community hall, not very good acoustically, they've progressed to the higher ceilinged new Folsom community center (built when Folsom started to experience housig and business growth some years back).

For some years now they've had the local Rotary, one of whose members is a beer distributor (neither affiliation offering much hope of knowledge and dedication to real beer). It has improved, although there was near mutiny in the early days. I remember buying some drink tickets and going up to the bar where I saw choices of Bud, Bud Light, Coors (all like making love in a canoe) in the domestic category, and one "import": Killiand Red. I informed them in no uncertain terms that was false advertising as it was just another Coors fake, and evntually they revealed they had a stash of Watney's (not great, but way ahead of the others) for "people who complained". I bought a couple and allowed as how it payed to complain, and received some fairly hostile remarks, like I was some sort of Commie. Well, not quite, but sure as hell not one of the Tory bastards in the saddle now. Over the last few years they've had the occasional Harp or Newcastle Brown, but never any Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or Singha. I assume the general grumbling from folks who came to an Irish or Scottish concert and found assorted mass market beeroid substances eventually got through to them, or perhaps the complaining got to Jeff and the CFAA and they pressured them. A local Folsom hotel does provide lodging for the players, which is more comfortable and profitable for them and allows CFAA to keep the p[rices reasonable and still stay solvent.

Of course, they're one of those socialistic not for profit outfits, not an honest red-blooded Anerican music promoter, but I'd rather watch Natalie McMaster clog and fiddle than Janet Jackson bump and grind.

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Steve Caple

Well, I'd think rather it was enticing to those. Being alert to nuance and double entendre, even unintended, is not evidence of a dirty mind, but rather of a lifetime spend doing content analysis of the policy statements of the corp ho's that pass for politicians here.

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- Jim Hightower

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Steve Caple

Back in the early 80's I found myself in a bar in Austin, Texas, where I made the mistake of asking if they had any imported beer, thus earning myself the eternal hatred of the waitress* and a tepid bottle of Lowenbrau, which at the time was imported from Fort Worth...

A few years later I went back and what a difference - you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some trendy foreign beer. Much better for me, but I couldn't shake the feeling something had been lost....

Jeff Sc. Out Of Line, Ga.

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not.fishplate

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