In reply to wae :
I use bacon as the base for the roux for my shrimp and oyster brown. It's outstanding as well.
The shrimp version isn't terrible looking but the oyster version always comes out kind of gray. Tasty but not necessarily appealing to look at.
Served over a plate of grits, it's probably one of my favorite meals.
In reply to Toyman! :
Well, my minor rant is that I am now salivating uncontrollably. That sounds amaze-balls.
Satellite provider, who I've been giving money to for 25 years, didn't do what I asked, took money they weren't entitled to, told me I was wrong, then because online chat, told me they couldn't forward me to a supervisor. So I've been waiting on the phone over an hour.
I'm on a mission now
In reply to eastsideTim :
Now see that sounds great! I'll give it a watch
In reply to Peabody :
My wife can get that way too. Unfortunately it usually ends poorly for the person on the other end.
I don't know what you think cluttered is, but this ain't it.
This was my drive home last night:
Everyone was let go early, except for us. I knew it was going to be horrible since the drive in to work was horrible and that was in the afternoon.
The time on the dashcam is off by about 3 hours so it was about 6:30pm. I was supposed to stay until 10pm but said Berk it and took PTO. The part where the semi slid off the road was pure glazed ice.
The base was essentially closed today due to extremely dangerous road conditions. We were given the option to come in if we wanted to for some reason. I took another day of PTO rather than go to work for no reason.
Grits. Gah. Biscuits. There isn't enough butter in the world.
I stand by my original statement, but more.
Streetwiseguy said:Grits. Gah. Biscuits. There isn't enough butter in the world.
I stand by my original statement, but more.
1) You're missing out, and
2) What's the point of bitching about bland things that are pretty much meant to accompany something else?
Biscuits have as much flavor as regular bread.
Is French food bland because it's served with baguettes?
Do you say Szechuan food is bland because it's served over white rice?
Is Italian food bland because it's served with pasta?
It's fine, you don't like biscuits for some reason; no one said you have to eat them.
But I really don't understand condemning all American food as bland based on a couple of sides you don't happen to like. That's a real forest / trees view.
White gravy, as mentioned above, is a roux with milk in it. It's also supposed to have enough black pepper and salt to have some flavor.
It's poverty food, and like many poverty foods, there is some nostalgia in it. If you could afford it, you put sausage in it; if you were broke, maybe not this week.
Same with biscuits - baking powder is cheaper than yeast. Maybe they're not for you, but I think they're delicious, and they're easy to make from scratch.
There's plenty of reasons to condemn American food. It's loaded with excess salt and sugar, a vast majority is ultra processed and loaded with refined garbage that is increasingly found to be horrible for you, chemical preservatives sweeteners and dyes that wreak havoc on developing minds are marketed directly at children. But blandness? Maybe in the Midwest where salt and mayo are spicy, but there are enough flavorful adulterants that American food isn't legally classified as food in the majority of the world that a lack of flavor really comes down to lack of cooking skill or personal choice for blandness.
Go where the suburban white people aren't. The hood, the city, the sticks, that's where you find good food.
RevRico said:there are enough flavorful adulterants that American food isn't legally classified as food in the majority of the world
Hyperbole much?
AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:WTF is "white gravy"? Sounds pornographic.
Came here to rant and instead sharing food joys.
Also good with fried chicken.
Streetwiseguy said:Grits. Gah. Biscuits. There isn't enough butter in the world.
I stand by my original statement, but more.
Complains that "American food" is bland, complains that adding butter doesn't spice it up.
I'm no Alton Brown, but I'm not sure the food is the real root cause here...
Duke said:And you're going to say Canadians, who don't get excited about anything at all, make spicier food than Americans?
Hyperbole much?
I don't think the proliferation of corporate American restaurants is helping the perception. Being next door we see a lot of ads for some really bland looking food.
And I have to say, even the smallest towns here have some sort of ethnic presence, I've not noticed that nearly as much traveling through the US.
In reply to Peabody :
He started it!
At the library my wife struck up a conversation with a science teacher. The lady mentioned a knowledge-hobby of mine so I chimed in. She then mentioned a couple other authors like the one I enjoy, then went on to gush about a widely-discredited "science" book and patronize ppl who disagree with its major tenets.
Perhaps happily, I think she was too into the idea that everyone agrees with her to detect me dissing the guy's hack job work, and we later went our way on good terms.
And now the front driveshaft seals on the transmission are leaking on my tractor.
Yay.
In reply to ShawnG :
It's a shame they went on their way to teach bad science to impressionable young minds.
In reply to dan0 :
Diagonally, the state is fewer than 120 miles in distance. How is anything in CT far from anything else in CT?
This tells me the individual isn't serious about their car habit.
Duke said:RevRico said:there are enough flavorful adulterants that American food isn't legally classified as food in the majority of the world
Hyperbole much?
Actually I think that that's true at least somewhat.
Isn't instant mashed potatoes not allowed in Europe or something like that? High Fructose Corn Syrup is frowned on too I believe
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
Or his family really doesn't like him much either.
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
If a little googling is correct, he might live about 3 hours from me. I've gone that far for parts before.
In CT from where I am you can get to most of the populated areas in 1 hour. Way east close to Rhode Island could be 2 hours.
I could ask where he is in PA and possibly offer to meet part way. I've done that plenty of times to make sales before, but just kinda annoyed right now about the whole thing.
Or I could cut the bumper into little pieces, then I could ship it to him easily.
From the buyback amount of the wrecked Touareg I am ahead with what I've sold so far. I could just miss out on some additional money and make my life easier and toss a bunch of parts I still have.
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