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Skriven 2007-10-01 16:13:05 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Buffet Stuff
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Hi Dave,

 DD> RH>owner change his mind on how hot he keeps the bufet line; the food
 DD> RH>will loose quality if not kept hot enough and the place will be
 DD> RH>history.

 DD> I dunno what "hot enough" is to you - but, my local health Nazis
 DD> insist on minimum temperatures for all foods held 'ready to serve'.

Whatever the state/federal standard is for hot; I think it's about 140 F
or so.

 DD> Which
 DD> pretty much puts paid to anything but cooked-to-death meats, etc. on a
 DD> buffet.

Unfortunately so.


RH> ML> reaching for anything (I didn't reach for taco shells, but
RH> ML> rather for the chili meat next to it).
RH> RH> A likely story. (G)

RH> ML> I don't eat much starch at buffets in general, even crispy
RH> ML> crunchy starch. I will eat chili, even mediocre chili, just so
RH> ML> it has no or minimal beans.

 DD> Second that ... except I'll skip the mediocre chilli - if I know from
 DD> previous experience that is is mediocre.

I generally skip the chili. Steve tries it most of the time and most of
the time says "it's not nearly as good as yours".  We did try Zippy's
hot chili once in Hi; it was so thin and bland I don't see how they got
away with calling it chili.

 DD> Tried a new venue last night on the way home from work. I had been
 DD> there once for an Xmas party with my motorcycle gang (Vintage Iron
 DD> Riders) and once on a Sunday for breakfast.

 DD> The place is themed to be sort of an adult Chuck E Cheeze ... and does
 DD> a good business on the weekends (judging from the pretty full parking
 DD> lot) but not so well on week nights.

So do they have the dancing animals and arcade games too? (G)

 DD> There is a "movie room" which shows medium-old movies on the big
 DD> cursed at game machines. A sports room - which was showing a Cubs vs
 DD> Whoever game on its screens - with a sports news ticker crawling along
 DD> the bottom of the tubes. And the Motorsports room where I plopped my

 DD> The Motorsports room has racing memorabilia on the walls - including
 DD> parts of race car bodies from well known local racers, Speed Channel
 DD> on the TeeVee sets and windows offering a view of the indoor go-kart
 DD> track.

That might be the room I'd be most interestd in.

 DD> Foods I tried included Fried Chicken (under spiced but decent - not
 DD> dried out), corn (waaaaay too sweet), Buffalo Wings (not nearly spicy
 DD> enough), Tex-mex taco fixin's with which I built a Tostada (flat
 DD> tortilla layered with meat, diced tomato, shredded lettuce, black
 DD> olive slices, shredded yellow cheese and sour cream. Salsa optional.

Sounds like you got a belly full of food.  We went to a new (to us)
Mexican place over in Richmond Hill Friday night for a hail & farewell.
Tequila Sunset has good meals at a good price--lots of military and
families there. I had carne asada with rice, beans and house salad (with
lots [!] of quesa fresca on it, no dressing.  Had enough to bring home
for another meal.  Nothing really super outstanding but a good job of
good food and generous portions.  No hortchata available so I had a diet
Coke.  With tax and tip we paid just under $30.


 DD> In a
 DD> perfect world there would have been frijoles refritos ... but, this
 DD> was supposed to be a "Taco Bar" as evidenced by the presence of only
 DD> folded corn tortillas. Broken in half the DO lay pretty flat.  Bv)=

Oh well, you can't have everything. (G)


 DD> And my personal hit of the evening (after applications of salt and
 DD> pepper) was Shepherds Pie - with lots of meat, carrots, parsnips, some
 DD> celery, covered with mash taties - and some (mozzarella?) cheese which
 DD> could have been left off and not missed.


Sounds good--double or single crust?

 DD> Advertised price was U$6.99 including drink (Pepsi products - also
 DD> orange, grape and grapefruit juices and and coffee with three kinds of
 DD> tea). Over 55 senior price is a mere U$4.99 - a very pleasant
 DD> surprise.

Nice!  We don't qualify for the over 55 discount yet but some places do
give a military discount.


 DD> I'll go back there from time to time. And I hope others find it as a
 DD> during the week thing - I'd like to see them stick around.

Spread the word around the locals.


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Ruth
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