What did you cook or eat today (February 2025)

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Mr SSOAP made us toasted pittas with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, red onion, tzatziki, vegan spicy kebabs and houmous.

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Very nice. Bit spicy for me and by the time I finished loading it up I could barely close it but messy lunch is sometimes good.
The others ate three each!!
 
I really should know better:

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The best part of White Castle is the clientele - I’ve seen more than one fight in one (sometimes patrons, sometimes employees, sometimes both), accidental nudity (not me, settle down), and a car accident (“I-71 traffic southbound is backed up to the Kenwood cut…I-75 is running smoothly in both directions…and the drive-through at the Queensgate White Castle is stopped due to a rollover accident…”).

Today, the first annoyance was the incredibly complex 10-slider combo pack the woman in front of me ordered - “six with grilled onion, five with American cheese, five with cheddar, but the ones with onion, make sure two have American and four have cheddar…” - she had it down, so I’m sure it was her standard order.

But my favorite was the old hard-of-hearing geezer:

“Did you want your sliders with pickles?”
“Vegetable pickers? What vegetable pickers?”
“DID YOU WANT YOUR SLIDERS WITH PICKLES?!?! PICKLES?!?!”
“Listen, Missy, I ain’t buyin’ nuthin’ fer no goddam vegetable pickers!”

…and out the door he went!
 
TastyReuben said:
I really should know better:

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The best part of White Castle is the clientele - I’ve seen more than one fight in one (sometimes patrons, sometimes employees, sometimes both), accidental nudity (not me, settle down), and a car accident (“I-71 traffic southbound is backed up to the Kenwood cut…I-75 is running smoothly in both directions…and the drive-through at the Queensgate White Castle is stopped due to a rollover accident…”).

Today, the first annoyance was the incredibly complex 10-slider combo pack the woman in front of me ordered - “six with grilled onion, five with American cheese, five with cheddar, but the ones with onion, make sure two have American and four have cheddar…” - she had it down, so I’m sure it was her standard order.

But my favorite was the old hard-of-hearing geezer:

“Did you want your sliders with pickles?”
“Vegetable pickers? What vegetable pickers?”
“DID YOU WANT YOUR SLIDERS WITH PICKLES?!?! PICKLES?!?!”
“Listen, Missy, I ain’t buyin’ nuthin’ fer no goddam vegetable pickers!”

…and out the door he went!
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I *love* White Castle!!! It's a NOLA thing for sure. Don't have them here so you have to buy the frozen box and eat it all at once...

Fried a food bank plantain and then dusted with lime juice powder, chili, salt, and splashed around some hot chili sauce.
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karadekoolaid

They've lots of these where you're at how else to fix please sir?
 
TastyReuben said:
I really should know better:

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But my favorite was the old hard-of-hearing geezer:

“Did you want your sliders with pickles?”
“Vegetable pickers? What vegetable pickers?”
“DID YOU WANT YOUR SLIDERS WITH PICKLES?!?! PICKLES?!?!”
“Listen, Missy, I ain’t buyin’ nuthin’ fer no goddam vegetable pickers!”

…and out the door he went!
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She was too young to realize that his generation ate them with pickles and if he didn't want pickles he damn sure would have let her know!!!

I haven't eaten there in over 20 years. I had it once when I first moved up here and I had the worst fanny butt burps ever (just found out from a UK forum member what "fanny" means in the UK and it has nothing to do with one's rear-end), so decided not to do that again. In the South Krystal is the (close) equivalent of White Castle--the little square hamburgers/cheeseburgers with onions, pickles, and mustard. I do think they taste good going down (when they are fresh, or maybe I am just remembering incorrectly because it was during my college years and I may or may not have been high when I ate it).

This was a statement from USA Today that I thought was so (unappealingly) funny:
"What makes White Castle special is the fact that its burgers are steamed and have a uniquely soggy texture, while Krystal is a miniature version of a traditional burger."
USA TODAY
 
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Barriehie said:
I *love* White Castle!!! It's a NOLA thing for sure. Don't have them here so you have to buy the frozen box and eat it all at once...

Fried a food bank plantain and then dusted with lime juice powder, chili, salt, and splashed around some hot chili sauce.
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karadekoolaid

They've lots of these where you're at how else to fix please sir?
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I had no idea. Other parts of the south it's Krystal.

A lot of the White Castle locations in the Akron, OH location have closed.
 
TastyReuben said:
Today, the first annoyance was the incredibly complex 10-slider combo pack the woman in front of me ordered - “six with grilled onion, five with American cheese, five with cheddar, but the ones with onion, make sure two have American and four have cheddar…” - she had it down, so I’m sure it was her standard order.
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London Burger joint:
"do you want it with chips, or not?"
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It's what's for dinner this evening

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New Zealand Green Lip Mussels for DH

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Clams for Moi
I adore a simple Garlic and Olive Oil for a sauce and oodles of fresh flat leaf Parsley

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I reverted to my old ways of eating Spaghetti, like a "local" aka someone from Hawaii - you cut the pasta and shovel everything into your mouth with a spoon, CHEHOOO!
DH was appalled! "My Grand Father would have given you a smack, saying that's not how you eat pasta!"
My reply: Did your Grandpa ever come to Hawaii?
:D
 
I sort of made panisse, only I didn't cut them in to chips (UK) and deep fry them, but cut into 4 slabs and shallow fried them. The main difference between last night's and tonight's versions is that I cooked the chickpea flour first tonight.

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Hubby requested it yet again!
 
JAS_OH1 said:
Thank you!

Edited to add that I am sure he would have had plenty to say about my presentation, LOL, which although it looks decent, is nowhere near fine dinng restaurant standard. Oh dear lord if he saw my knife skills (or lack thereof) he'd be rolling over in his grave! Also, I did add lemon juice but an extra squeeze would have added a little more acid to balance out the cream, but my DH had 0 complaints.
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I have never subscribed to the concept that presentation has any effect on flavor. It looks like a very tasty soup to me.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I had it once when I first moved up here and I had the worst fanny burps ever,
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I can’t even go into the image that conjured up for a Brit that knows the word fanny as something else 😂
But it did make my jaw drop until I remembered it’s the American meaning of fanny 😆
 
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