Food, Food, and More Food Thread

bmwracer wrote:
Whoa, Fatburger...?

Haven't been there in ages either, when I hung out in Westwood Village eons ago.. Magic owns a bunch of 'em, if I recall... :)

yeah i haven't been to fatburger in forever but i have been to the one in westwood...hehe.

I read about that article. It's ridiculous. I mean, c'mon, a finger in your freakin' bowl of chili?! Yeah and they have yakuza working in their kitchen.
Where's Dave when you need him?!

Where's Dave when you need him?!

that fool's too busy tryin' use his straight edge and protractor in order to make sure those patties stay square, like his ol' ass.

ahochaude wrote:I read about that article. It's ridiculous. I mean, c'mon, a finger in your freakin' bowl of chili?! Yeah and they have yakuza working in their kitchen.
Where's Dave when you need him?!

I think Dave is goin after that woman himself :hehe:

Never ate anything but the spicy chicken sandwhich when i went to Wendy's, is there chili or nuggets any good?

Tu_triky wrote:that fool's too busy tryin' use his straight edge and protractor in order to make sure those patties stay square, like his ol' ass.

:lol: :lol: *LOL*

And I always thought that old peoples' asses start to become a victim of gravity. :hehe:


Hey, maybe Dave can start another business after Wendy's demise.
I can see it now...... An infomercial claiming that "Your ass does not always have to be sagging after 60. Thanks to Dave (from Wendy's) he has created a new invention to keep your ass square. Hey, square ain't bad, afterall, it's better than being an oval."

K.T.Tran wrote:

I think Dave is goin after that woman himself :hehe:

Never ate anything but the spicy chicken sandwhich when i went to Wendy's, is there chili or nuggets any good?

The nuggets are GREAT! Better than McDonald's ones.

I like the burgers, however. *yum yum*

Newver tried the chili though. And don't want to now. :beaten:

Speaking of burgers and stuff... Chik-Fil-A has got those awesome waffle fries...


Guh, I think I mentioned this before.... :sweat:

ahochaude wrote:

:lol: :lol: *LOL*

And I always thought that old peoples' asses start to become a victim of gravity. :hehe:


Hey, maybe Dave can start another business after Wendy's demise.
I can see it now...... An infomercial claiming that "Your ass does not always have to be sagging after 60. Thanks to Dave (from Wendy's) he has created a new invention to keep your ass square. Hey, square ain't bad, afterall, it's better than being an oval."

lol.

this is outta control...i'm going to retreat now before this thread causes me to cough up a kidney due to excessive laughter....

at this rate...this thread will grow by about 70 pages in the next 30 seconds.

hahahaha.

I think the fastest growing thread we had here was the Ichikawa Yui thread. The first 10 pages grew in about a span of 1 hour.
Thanks to 3 people spamming the thread with pics. Which is not a bad thing. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:Chik-Fil-A has got those awesome waffle fries...

Duke's in Waikiki has some AWESOME waffle fries. It changed my life. :beaten: :hehe:

Oh god...I had a quarter pounder at McDonalds today because I needed to eat something really quick. I felt like I was going to puke an hour later.

ahochaude wrote:

The nuggets are GREAT! Better than McDonald's ones.

I like the burgers, however. *yum yum*

Newver tried the chili though. And don't want to now. :beaten:

Wendy's Nuggets or McD's Chicken Selects???

I dun think imma ever try chili at Wendy's or any other place, im more afraid of it makin me takin a :shit: that'll burn than a finger bein "dropped" in it

ahochaude wrote:
They have veggie burgers now?! :google: You don't say?

Well they had (have?) it in Northern California. And I guess in Southern California also. But Mac is known to have different items in different regions so I don't know if it made it across the pond to Hawaii. For example, they have hand dipped ice cream in Hawaii and SoCal, but not in NorCal.

The creme de la creme
S.F. teacher part of 3-man team that wins international baking contest in Paris
Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, April 22, 2005


Removing the banana from the banana-rhubarb pastry could have been the secret that turned a South San Francisco baker into the champion of the world.

Jeffrey Yankellow, an instructor at the San Francisco Baking Institute, was one of three members of a U.S. team that won top honors this week at the world's foremost baking contest in Paris. The U.S. bakers beat out teams from 11 other countries, including bread-loving France.

"It's incredible,'' said Evelyn Suas, co-founder of the institute. "We're very proud. Jeff is a very passionate person about baking.''

Yankellow and his teammates -- William Leaman of Seattle and Jory Downer of Evanston, Ill. -- won top honors in the final round of the Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie (World Cup of Baking), outscoring the opposition in the three contest categories of bread baking, pastry baking and artistic design. It was the second time a U.S. team has won the contest, which has been held since 1992.

For the past two months, the 31-year-old Yankellow has spent his weekends at the institute bakery in South San Francisco, practicing over and over to get the rhubarb-banana pastry, the raspberry pastry and the date bread just right. He made dozens of versions of each, and Suas says she tasted and critiqued a good many of them until she was full to overflowing of rhubarb, banana, raspberries and dates.

The problem with the rhubarb-banana pastry, the team decided at last, was the banana. It had to go.

"It didn't look appetizing,'' Suas said. "It wasn't right. It didn't belong.''

"Banana is very tricky,'' added Michel Suas, her husband and co-taster during the frantic rounds of practicing. "Very complex. It can give you a funny texture. And it can turn dark and kind of mushy on you. Then you have a problem.''

Yankellow booted the banana, and he also decided to use moister dates in the date bread and less sugar in the raspberry-dulce de leche pastry.

"That one evolved from a very plain pastry that you could find anywhere into a very unusual creation,'' Evelyn Suas said. "The fruit became more of a sculpture on top than something mixed inside.''

"It's the nature of raspberries,'' said Michel Suas. "If you don't cook raspberries right, you end up with something runny. Then they burst on you. Then you have a real mess.''

The U.S. entry -- prepared in a single eight-hour period in a 12-by-12- foot kitchen during the pressure-packed final round Tuesday -- also included bread sculptures depicting Mount Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge was colored with paprika, with small rolls representing the automobiles.

Great bread is worth making an international fuss about, Evelyn Suas said.

"It's alive, it's simple, and yet it's complicated,'' she said. "No matter if it's an ordinary baguette or a fancy bread, it's very special and very important.''

Yankellow and his teammates, who waved trophies over their heads as "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played before their fellow bakers of the world, were still in France and unable to comment on their victory.

Evelyn Suas says the champ will be back teaching at the institute next week. The school will also welcome back team coach Didier Rosada, another teacher at the institute who concurred in the banana decision.

"We're going to have to get some champagne,'' she said. "Lots of champagne.''

pcmodem wrote:"We're going to have to get some champagne,'' she said. "Lots of champagne.''

That's some victory party.

Speaking of Wendy's, I (sort of) saw on tonight's Inside Edition that they connected the finger in the chili bowl to the "owner".
Weird. Wish I listened to the whole thing. :beaten:
Now I'm wondering who the owner of the finger is. All I know is that she was fat (by observing her screen shots in IE)

ahochaude wrote:Speaking of Wendy's, I (sort of) saw on tonight's Inside Edition that they connected the finger in the chili bowl to the "owner".
Weird. Wish I listened to the whole thing. :beaten:
Now I'm wondering who the owner of the finger is. All I know is that she was fat (by observing her screen shots in IE)

yeah i heard that...they're alleging the whole thing was a jack...that is to say the alleged victim planted the finger there in order to scam money off of wendy's...apparently the alleged victim has a history of tryin' to scam restaurants/corporations for money arising from similar circumstances...

that shiet is fugged up if that's true...they should throw the book at her fat ass....yes she was fat....she's what you call a futota onna in nihongo.

Alright you mayo aficionados, I picked up a bottle of the Kewpie mayo that you were raving about from the local Mitsuwa... It's sorta pricey: $2.89 for a 16/17-ounce bottle. :sweat:

I'll probably try it out soon... Funny container. Feels likes one of those stress-relieving squishy thingies... :hehe:

Tu_triky wrote:yeah i heard that...they're alleging the whole thing was a jack...that is to say the alleged victim planted the finger there in order to scam money off of wendy's...apparently the alleged victim has a history of tryin' to scam restaurants/corporations for money arising from similar circumstances...

Oh, now that must've been the part that I didn't catch from IE last night.

Tu_tricky wrote:that shiet is fugged up if that's true...they should throw the book at her fat ass....yes she was fat....she's what you call a futota onna in nihongo.

Yeah man, people will do anything for a buck nowadays. They're too lazy to go out and make that money. Always easier to get it through some sort of compensation.

bmwracer wrote:Alright you mayo aficionados, I picked up a bottle of the Kewpie mayo that you were raving about from the local Mitsuwa... It's sorta pricey: $2.89 for a 16/17-ounce bottle. :sweat:
I'll probably try it out soon... Funny container. Feels likes one of those stress-relieving squishy thingies... :hehe:

I like the container too. When you gonna try it?

ahochaude wrote:I like the container too. When you gonna try it?

What do you recommend?

I was planning to use it to make tuna salad... Good idea? A waste? :headscratch:

bmwracer wrote:
What do you recommend?

I was planning to use it to make tuna salad... Good idea? A waste? :headscratch:

Watch tha Dotch cooking show this evening perhaps you may find some inspiration :nut: