What did you eat today?

Searching for the perfect slice.

When I first moved to Tucson, most places I tried didn't sell pizza by the slice. They sold small individual pizzas, medium, and large. Not by the slice.
A new place came in, started selling slices and now that is the big thing . The strange thing is many places slice their pizza into six instead of eight
Having grown up with eight-slice pies, I like the six-way slice better. Some of the places make 16 or 18 inch pies. It's off-putting when you see a sign that says slice and a draft beer for $10, but it can be worthwhile. I had a 1/6th slice of a 16 inch meatball pizza and when folded, it was more meatball hero than slice of pizza.

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$19.60 at the Chinese buffet tonight, before tip.

I let some lo mein noodles go swimming in a bowl of hot & sour soup; not bad. Otherwise, usual fare, the chicken with broccoli (heavy on the broccoli) is generally good.

On a lot of recent days, I get about one and a half "meals" in. A fairly light breakfast, snack on some melon, then something moderate as a late lunch. I blame the medications.
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whenever I get Chinese it is to go invariably with tax it is around $13. It is a combo and includes an egg roll fixed right then so that sounds about right. It fills me up. No drink but I have plenty to drink at home

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$19.60 at the Chinese buffet tonight, before tip.

I let some lo mein noodles go swimming in a bowl of hot & sour soup; not bad. Otherwise, usual fare, the chicken with broccoli (heavy on the broccoli) is generally good.

On a lot of recent days, I get about one and a half "meals" in. A fairly light breakfast, snack on some melon, then something moderate as a late lunch. I blame the medications.
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whenever I get Chinese it is to go invariably with tax it is around $13. It is a combo and includes an egg roll fixed right then so that sounds about right. It fills me up. No drink but I have plenty to drink at home
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That sounds about right for a to-go box, made-to-order.
Sadly, my preferences run toward a variety of dishes (when available), so I can taste a little of this, a little of that.

True but I'm to cheap to pay $20 for a variety. I know what I am in the mood for. And I always get white rice instead of pork fried.

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True but I'm to cheap to pay $20 for a variety. I know what I am in the mood for. And I always get white rice instead of pork fried.
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The buffet I tried yesterday didn't have plain white rice out on offer. I didn't feel like asking for a bowl, so I just had some noodles.
The hot & sour soup was excellent, however. It seemed like they used a hint of tomato, which added an unique richness.
The downside, they didn't seem to parboil the broccoli before stir frying. This seemed to leave it a little too raw for my taste.

I had a hankering for grilled cheese today, so I rummaged around my freezer in search of bread. I found three slices of sourdough and two of some seeded whole-grain type.
I was in the process of making two sandwiches when I decided to try something different. I mixed the breads so that each sandwich was half sourdough and half whole grain.
A slice of Swiss, one of cheddar, shredded mozzarella, some Parmesan, and a small portion of Frank's Red Hot.
Grilled to near perfection in olive oil and served with a helping of chickpea puffs, it was quite the lunch.

I took the wife to the airport this morning at 4am to go see our new grandson. Since I was up early I decided to cook something that I could eat over the next week. I put a 8lb turkey breast in the smoker and now it is time to eat and watch football. The turkey breast was in for eight hours and came out with the perfect amount of smoke on it for me (probably a little more than most people would prefer).

I had a BOGO for the new Carl Jr.'s CaliXXXL Burger, which is described as an Big Mac on steroids. It has two monstrous patties, special sauce, lettuce, and tomato. pickle on a soft, tasty bun.
I gave one to an unfortunate on the corner and had a hard time finishing the other. It is a big burger.
According to the menu, a Big Mac value meal costs between $10.99 and $14. The CaliXXXL value meal is $7.99 and tops out at $10.13
The Burger itself is $6 and well worth it.

That sounds good. I wonder if Hardee's has the same burger as their are no carl jrs near me. Did you take a photo of it?

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That sounds good. I wonder if Hardee's has the same burger as their are no carl jrs near me. Did you take a photo of it?
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I miss the Hardee's roast beef sandwich. At one point in the 1980's they offered it to compete with Arby's. I thought it was a good sandwich and wish all fast food outlets offered it.

According to AI which is never wrong (ahem) Hardee's still offers it. Scrolling down they mentioned rax roast beef which was really good. Remember them?

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That sounds good. I wonder if Hardee's has the same burger as their are no carl jrs near me. Did you take a photo of it?
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No. Hardee's and Carl's Jr. are closely related, but have distinct menus. It's easy to think that the only difference is Carl's Jr. uses Best Foods mayo, where Hardee's uses Hellman's, but this doesn't seem to be the case. There isn't a mushroom swiss burger at Carl's Jr; I don't remember seeing any burgers on sourdough out west.

I go across the Carl's Jr. - Hardee's line pretty regularly.

(I'm not sure what mayonnaise they actually use; Unilever named for illustrative purposes.)

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That sounds good. I wonder if Hardee's has the same burger as their are no carl jrs near me. Did you take a photo of it?
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I miss the Hardee's roast beef sandwich. At one point in the 1980's they offered it to compete with Arby's. I thought it was a good sandwich and wish all fast food outlets offered it.
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There's nothing like White Castle. There were no movies made about Hardee's or Arby's.

There is a slogan used on the signage at White Castle- "Buy 'em by the sack!" When I go there, I point out a the history of that slogan; it was originally "Grab 'em by the sack," but after a horrifying misunderstanding which left an assistant manager traumatized and a customer arrested, they changed it.

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There's nothing like White Castle. There were no movies made about Hardee's or Arby's.
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Of course people make the pilgrimage to White Castle.
Their burgers are holey.

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According to AI which is never wrong (ahem) Hardee's still offers it. Scrolling down they mentioned rax roast beef which was really good. Remember them?

Thank you, I will have to find a Hardee's. I haven't been to one in over 30 years but I am travelling this week so I will try and look one up.

I do not ever remember eating at RAX. I moved out of Ohio in 1984 just when they were becoming popular.

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There's nothing like White Castle. There were no movies made about Hardee's or Arby's.
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(snip!)

Of course people make the pilgrimage to White Castle.
Their burgers are holey.
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theirs a reason why they call them sliders lol

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There is a slogan used on the signage at White Castle- "Buy 'em by the sack!" When I go there, I point out a the history of that slogan; it was originally "Grab 'em by the sack," but after a horrifying misunderstanding which left an assistant manager traumatized and a customer arrested, they changed it.
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It's a sure sign a great quality delicious food when you can buy it by the sack. Or the bucket, or the box or the bushel basket. I wonder why Michelin star restaurants have been so slow in offering their food by the sack bucket or bushel basket.

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There is a slogan used on the signage at White Castle- "Buy 'em by the sack!" When I go there, I point out a the history of that slogan; it was originally "Grab 'em by the sack," but after a horrifying misunderstanding which left an assistant manager traumatized and a customer arrested, they changed it.
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It's a sure sign a great quality delicious food when you can buy it by the sack. Or the bucket, or the box or the bushel basket. I wonder why Michelin star restaurants have been so slow in offering their food by the sack bucket or bushel basket.
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It all depends. Not every meal needs to be 5-course Russian service. Some of the most delicious things we enjoy now were at one time poverty food. Lobster is a good example. That was once for the poor, considered only a step above eating insects. And it was unlikely to have been a prince of the Ancien Regime who first discovered that a frog can and should be eaten. Meat pies, Welsh rabbit, chop suey, all such things originally intended to fill the stomachs of common laborers.

White Castle originated in 1929, an inauspicious year for sure but it thrived throughout the Depression because it was such a good value.

Haven’t looked into this beyond this news item.

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A new study published in Emerging Contaminants found "alarming" levels of toxic flame retardants and dioxins in free-range eggs
collected from across five continents. Researchers from the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), the Czech nonprofit Arnika, and international scientists have spent more than a decade testing eggs and discovered contamination in multiple developing and transitioning economies. 

Many of the worst-affected samples came from areas near e-waste sites, dumps, and waste incinerators, hotspots where burning plastic releases harmful pollutants. In one example, eggs collected near an e-waste site in Ghana in 2019 contained levels of dioxins 200 times higher than the safety limit for food.

"We know from decades of studies that dioxins are some of the most toxic chemicals that we are aware of," Therese Karlsson, a science and technical advisor at IPEN, told Mongabay. "I would say it's extremely concerning from a human health aspect."

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According to AI which is never wrong (ahem) Hardee's still offers it. Scrolling down they mentioned rax roast beef which was really good. Remember them?

Thank you, I will have to find a Hardee's. I haven't been to one in over 30 years but I am travelling this week so I will try and look one up.

I do not ever remember eating at RAX. I moved out of Ohio in 1984 just when they were becoming popular.
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The last Hardee's I visited (yesterday) said they did not have Roast Beef.
Best of luck.

What states have Hardees?

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What states have Hardees?
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Montana & east, for the places I usually go.

Chicken tenders and nacho sweet potatoes from Good Eatz Kitchen. I recently bought a case of thirty, which brought the price down to $7.30 a dinner.

I've suspected this for a long time and finally looked it up

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Arby's roast beef is ... processed and formed into a roast, not a whole-muscle cut. The company states the beef is combined with water and self-basting solution and then slow-roasted. The beef is essentially a processed meat product made from ground beef mixed with water, salt, and sodium phosphates before being cooked into a roast-like consistency

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Probably has red dye added

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What states have Hardees?
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Montana & east, for the places I usually go.
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A strange Hardee's story.
Hardee's left Long Island around 1977-78, selling out to Roy Rogers, but in the early 1970s, they were well established around there.
They ran a coupon in the local Pennysaver each week for a 241 Husky, their biggest burger. I'd gotten in the habit of walking about a mile and a half to church and then stopping at Hardee's each week, with my coupon.
I get to church and realize I'd left the coupon at home. As Hardee's was about halfway on my trip, I didn't want to walk all the way home and back. As I'm walking, I see a few Pennysavers on people's lawns and stoops. I pass a house that has several weeks' worth of them scattered on the lawn so I grab one and am walking away when a woman in the house starts shrieking. She's an older Italian lady who comes out of her house wearing jeans and a bra, then starts calling me a thief and yelling in Italian. A neighbor comes out and tells me to stay put as his wife is calling the cops. The old woman is getting hysterical, and two people are trying to calm her down when two cop cars arrive with lights and sirens. I'm a few weeks short of being 15, but I am 6'2 and the cops don't believe me. I have no ID, and the one cop wants to bring me to the station and run my prints. I'm telling them I live a few blocks away and my parents are there. The other cop asks me what school I go to and asks if I know a couple of students. He's convinced I'm being honest and tells the other cop he'll drive me home and check with my parents. We get around the corner from my house, and he tells me to hop out and not to steal any more Pennysavers.
The Husky was my favorite big burger, much better than the Whopper or Big Mac. I was surprised they dropped it.

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I've suspected this for a long time and finally looked it up

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Arby's roast beef is ... processed and formed into a roast, not a whole-muscle cut. The company states the beef is combined with water and self-basting solution and then slow-roasted. The beef is essentially a processed meat product made from ground beef mixed with water, salt, and sodium phosphates before being cooked into a roast-like consistency

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Probably has red dye added
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Self-basting solution, yummy.

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I've suspected this for a long time and finally looked it up

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Arby's roast beef is ... processed and formed into a roast, not a whole-muscle cut. The company states the beef is combined with water and self-basting solution and then slow-roasted. The beef is essentially a processed meat product made from ground beef mixed with water, salt, and sodium phosphates before being cooked into a roast-like consistency

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Probably has red dye added
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I do not care how it is made. Arby's roast beef is my favorite fast food.