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Dear Starbucks, I have given up. I'm sorry.
One Saturday, in February, at 6:00 a.m., in Southern California, The Mister and I sat down close to the cash register and added up sales. Over $1400 in 30 minutes. People taking the kids to T-Ball and softball games. This was...
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no chowhound friends???
's a different ball game now – the audience has grown and the prices for the most part have leveled off at a place much closer to Amazon’s asking price. (There are exceptions of course – these are just the...
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overhyped "institutions" that fall short
, is LA’s thing about where you can get the best hamburger in town. Being game, and into food, I went up to a place in Pasadena (with pies), to Apple Pan and to the In and Out (double double animal style) in search of this...
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london dining - the truth
was the superior to that in france, so meats were excellent and simply roasted. Game in the UK is the equal or indeed better than anywhere else in the world. I can pop out now to any one of three buthcers and get teale, snipe,...
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Hot Dogs
). there’s a really big difference. it’s funny you should mention dogs, i had this conversation just last night with some friends as we watched the yankee game, and i said something that bordered on sacrilege...i find...
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What Etiquette Do You Expect of Your HOST?
posts that I actually have a very good relationship with my MIL. I’ve shared the posts with my husband (the boychik) and, today, as he was heading out the door to his regular poker game, he said, "gee, I thought that women...
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kitchen design report #1
always had the choice of the bar height or the regular height and in jfood’s experience the bar heighters are always taken first and it’s funny to watch the game of musical chairs when someone moves to a different...
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Local Palate finally features chowhounds
Codorniz (or corrupt spelling Godorniz) is quail but in Chicago, it’s always turned out to be Cornish Game Hen (who knows why? a history of distributor-generated confusion dating from way back?). Asking the waiter "is it...
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MARCH COOKBOOK OF MONTH: Fuchsia Dunlop
restaurants in Houston in the 70’s/80’s and taking the family to his favorites...so I grew up counting Hunan and Sichuan as some of my favorites, period) The s/o gamely puts up with my Chinese dinners, but when I...
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Disturbing example of CH insider-ism and why it might discourage new members
there are many responses on that long-unanswered thread. http://www.chowhound.com/topics/506778 i don’t think hounds are mean to newbies. they may be mean to idiots, though. fair game (JUST kidding).
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Chicago Hot Dogs from a N.J./N.Y. Perspective
in my opinion. They won an all day nationwide taste test with their all beef dogs, and, as a result were commisioned by the Olympic Comitee to produce an all beef Certified Angus Frank which will be sold at the Olympic Games....
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Two Bellies full of Fried Bellies
our palates, and made us hop back into our cars and drive like the hounds from hell on the scent of game, for the next “tease”...An amazing sense of cooperation among 18 people, with no one bogging down to eat whole...
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Childhood Favorites
mom’s mah jong games. Pizza from around the block from our apartment on Batchelder Street in Brooklyn. Fresh bialys/bagels from just about anywhere in Brooklyn. Lox – the real thing, salty belly lox NOT Nova! Crispy sea...
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Dim Sum Disappointment at Sea Harbour in Rosemead...
places for not showing the effort to at least innovate a little, or bring up their game in certain areas. But at day’s end, I feel so lucky to have enough great choices to where I probably could eat great food at every meal...
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Stiff the Waiter?
I find the whole thing a bit repellant – but then, I guess some people – restaurants and patronsalike – may enjoy playing this game. However, reminds me a bit of my friend’s tenant, who asked that his...
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