Text 19942, 74 rader
Skriven 2009-01-21 23:48:00 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: boobs was chain food 92
===============================
->  -> Bertucci's - okay, but you can do better at a mom & pop Italian
->  -> restaurant for cheaper
->  RH> Amen to that.  They used to do a decent chicken spinach salad
though. 
-> 
-> Tip: buy yourself a chicken boob and some spinach. It takes

That's a little hard in a restaurant.  The last time I was there was about
two years ago with my sister and BIL.  They took me out for some reason. I
wasn't up for pasta that night and went for the greens instead.   

-> of which, I had a steak salad a couple days ago: maybe 5 oz of
-> rumpsteak, garlic marinated, warm, medium-well, over fresh greens.
-> The only imperfection (besides the medium-well part) was that the

....and that's a major imprefection of you like your cow still mooing. 

-> meat had been plopped down hot on the greens, so that some of the
-> greens were cooked. Black beans, roasted corn, red peppers, white
-> asparagus. The server was good as could be, and I was offered
-> ad lib refills of wine. This was on United Airlines. I think that
-> all the airlines realize - after the bad publicity caused by US
-> Air and various others - that they really have to be nice to folks.

Well, some of them.  Sometimes.  The salad sounds good though.
 
->  -> Ruby Tuesday - the worst of the worst. Absolutely. Down there
->  -> below Friday's.
->  RH> The only
->  RH> reason I'd go back is the salad bar; I love the marinated green
beans. 
-> 
-> Tip: put some green beans into a jar of pickle juice. Which reminds

Been there, done similar.  But these have other things in them too.  I'd
have to eat them again to find out what, and that would entail spending
money in Ruby Tuesdays.

-> me: today's new taste was Smith & Wollensky's pickled asparagus. This
-> tasted just like dill pickles only 10x as expensive. The only way
-> in which the asparagus could be distinguished from a cucumber, besides
-> shape, was that the asparagus had strings.

And is possibly mushier.
 
->  RH> Their crab cake at least contains lumps of something resembling
crab.
->  RH> It didn't taste like surimi anyway.
-> 
-> Truly? Lumps? I'm impressed. I'd not have expected that, when real
-> restaurants these days are using shredded gop for crabmeat.

They were small, but it was actual crab meat.  Dunno what they're using
now; this was a year ago.
 
->  This year, IHOP is giving away
->  RH> stacks of pancakes on my birthday.  I think I'm eating
pancakes.....
-> 
-> I'd probably prefer to go hungry, but have a good birthday anyhow.

I will - the actual party will be on a later date, but I'll always give
free food a chance before condemning it as inedible.  
 
->  RH> Cats shred plastic bags.  Actually, mine shred the liners too;
we've
->  RH> given up using them.  The liners are just tougher plastic.
-> 
-> Ah. OK. Thanks.

Just in case you ever get a cat?
 
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Doc's Place BBS Fido Since 1991 docsplace.tzo.com (1:123/140)