Text 12743, 57 rader
Skriven 2014-04-29 12:43:27 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 12637 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: meals 558
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to ALL on 27 Apr 14  01:35:00 <=-

 ML> Meals at Williamsport.
 ML> Rivals sports bar (now open for lunch at 11, says the
 ML> electric signboard out front). Mike wanted to show me this
 ML> place, one of his haunts, so he hauled me and his cousin Dan
 ML> over. A largish room, I'm told packed during events such as
 ML> Penn State games, but this lunchtime populated by about 4
 ML> tables, 5 including us.

Perhaps the atmosphere at events is part of the charm...?

 ML> There was a cheesesteak special for some absurdly low price,
 ML> and Dan ordered that. Mike had the burger. Having recently
 ML> been in several eastern seaboard cities and now being in
 ML> central Pennsylvania, I got the shrimp basket.

Not sure I'm following your logic...?  ;)

 ML> Dan's sandwich, a short 6 or 8" sub with a blob of gray
 ML> ground beef blopped on it, was disappointing both for the
 ML> portion and quality of the meat, the absence of cheese, and
 ML> the absence of anything else. He inquired of the waitress,
 ML> who was fairly agreeable, and she informed him that the way
 ML> they do it is with "cheese sauce," and lettuce, tomato,
 ML> onion, and pickle were available for an extra buck. Dan
 ML> sprang for the extra buck but did not question the
 ML> invisibility of the "cheese sauce." He concluded that it
 ML> was by far the worst cheesesteak he had ever encountered,
 ML> which was saying a lot as he had once lived in New Jersey.

I'd suspect that the "cheese sauce" was all mixed in with the blob of
gray ground beef already... goes along with the rest of the level of
(un)authenticity...  ;)

 ML> Oh, well, I wasn't hungry anyway. The shrimp
 ML> were tasteless but salty; the fries were tasteless but
 ML> unsalty: I tried a few with the cocktail sauce that was
 ML> meant for the shrimp, and that improved them somewhat.

Sigh...  

 ML> Both of the boys offered me some of their pub fries, which
 ML> were coated with a salty seasoned batter and fried quite
 ML> golden.

Worth the extra buck, then...  :)

 ML> Pitchers of Yuengling were $8, and that was a good thing.

It's a bar, after all... ;)

ttyl         neb

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