[gmku]

Hardees burgers are so much better. I love the mushroom and swiss (yes, I know some of us think shrooms are gross but I love them). And with the mushroom and swiss, you don't get the other junk like ketchup, onions, lettuce. Just the cheese and cooked fungi.

[atari 2600]

Hardee's "gourmet" burgers cost more because they use higher-quality ingredients, but they are still a major rip-off, and the ingredients are still cheap ones.

I get fast food like twice a year.

Local non-chain places can be great. They also can be shit, it just depends on the place.
We had this one place downtown that was the bomb called the Blue Moon diner. It folded recently. They were probably spending too muc hon food costs, paid their employees too much or had too many employees stealing. The new restaurant there is higher-priced for food that is not nearly as good or skillfully prepared.

That's one thing I can say for fast food. The quality and menu differ from country to country, but within the U.S., the chains turn out a very consistent product. Everything is on sophisticated equipment to facilitate the assembly line and even someone that is a horrible cook can make the product.

I even shy away from fast food places that have waiters.
I've worked in plenty of those places and I know about the rampant cross-contamination that goes on and that most of the ingredients used are of not all that great of quality. Most of it comes in frozen and far too many side dishes are prepared in a microwave which is just ridiculous. Seriously, to return to a point, you are much more likely to get food poisoning from a place like Applebee's, Ryan's, or Outback than you are from a McDonald's. Waffle House is simply the worst offender imaginable because they deal with raw bacon and don't have to wear gloves most of the time. If you eat there, you have to watch the cook carefully.

For awhile, when I worked at a Chili's in Athens, we got in these steaks from Buckhead Beef in Atlanta. They were amazing. They came in a refrigerated truck and were vaccum-sealed and went straight to the walk-in cooler and not the freezer. Then, we switched owners and, because they were cheaper, started using frozen steaks that sucked.

While working at a Bennigan's as head cook I got a five-hundred dollar bonus once because our restaurant had the lowest food cost of any Bennigan's in the region. This means that the restaurant wasted the least amount of food. Much of this was because I know how to cook to order and I kept the other employees in line...it certainly wasn't the management; they were too busy doing cocaine and trying to get laid* by the waitresses to care about what went on in the kitchen. I move like a cat behind on the line in a kitchen.

To clarify something, they "get laid"* If you refer to it as "getting laid" when talking about yourself, there's an outstanding chance that you don't have sex very often. I have sex with women. It doesn't fall in my lap without effort like it used to, but I have sex almost as much as I'd like to have it.
Hmm...sex talk...maybe someone will read this now.

[Bunbury]

Originally Posted by HaydenAsche

Fuck drinking anything other than coffee and water.

eye hEAR you.
skin and urine should always smell of caffeine.

[Bunbury]

also i love how you rock the fuck you no avatEr minimaLIST kool.

[HaydenAsche]

Yeah. I try.

[PAULYBEE2656]

shellfish cuz i cant.. highly allergic to em even tho i lived on em up to about 7 years ago!
and turnips/swedes cuz they are godawful things
lychees cuz as above and coldplay, cant swallow chris martins bile!

[gmku]

Vanilla ice cream. ugh.

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by gmku

Vanilla ice cream. ugh.

you shall be judged on the grounds of crimes against humanity

[Rob Instigator]

the only food I will not touch is green olives.
everything else is deeelicious.

[ploesj]

Originally Posted by porkmarras

And how can someone dislike mushrooms?

oh i absolutely hate mushrooms. they give me the feeling i'm chewing rubber, how well they might be prepared.

and i never ever eat meat.. animals in general (i do eat eggs and milk products-but i don't drink milk)

[Rob Instigator]

gmku, when I am out west I get Carl's Jr. BURGER and they are like hardees and they are so good and they have the same star logo and I love their brugers with mushrooms. mushrooms are the greatest food since cheese.

[Everyneurotic]

i miss carl's jr, there used to be ONE carl's jr joint here, those burgers were awesome!

[Massenvernichtungswaffen]

I love wild mushrooms, but yea canned ones are a bit oddly textured or something along those lines. Wild morels, chanterelles and certain boletes are great.... and a bit of the ol psilocybe in the fall. (halloween)

can't eat much poultry, save pheasant and grouse.

don't eat much factory meat. rather eat moose, elk, caribou or what not. I find wild meat tastes better.

I occasionally switch to vegetarion with the exception of fish being still eaten. I do this to give my body time to get out all the heavier meats. It keeps the weight down too.

I really don't like alcohol at all. I love grass though.

i don't know. i like most foods. I don't like pickles, mostly due to my dislike of vinegar. I find it tastes like what I'd expect bad poison to taste like.

mangoes taste like gasoline and avocadoes taste like shitty clay.

[Rob Instigator]

avocadoes are nature's butter!

[Everyneurotic]

avocadoes are some of the best food in the planet, the thing is that you have to eat them fresh, so they are not mature enough they taste like clay or too mature they taste like plastic vegetable goo.

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

avocadoes are some of the best food in the planet, the thing is that you have to eat them fresh, so they are not mature enough they taste like clay or too mature they taste like plastic vegetable goo.

they get really nasty if you wait to long as well...could make one puke...but holy moley! how I love me some guacamole

[vegan3punk]

i will NOT consume anything that had a face. it's not only GROSS but totally a selfish act. I also won't try anything that i cannot pronounce and/or recognize on the ingredients list.

[vegan3punk]

DO YOU KNOW THAT THEY PUT RED AND BLUE PLASTIC IN THE DIFFERENT MCD'S "HAMBURGERS" ?

[noumenal]

Yeah. It's astounding how you people fetishize your food decisions.

[afterthefact]

Sour Cream
Mayo
Miracle Whip
Ranch