rant: fine dining

[lukethedrifter]

I've eaten balut befoe. at the vietnamese place on gravois called phuc loi.

And...how was it?

http://gatewayredbirds.com/forum/viewto ... t#p1081171

delicious

[lukethedrifter]

I didn't know about artisanal toast but I do know that thick piece of chewy toast with butter melted on it is awesome and have for years.

[jim]

A staple in our house growing up that I actually liked was (sh - it) on a shingle. Toast with white gravy and some kind of meat. Loved that stuff. (sh - it) is [expletive] btw - needed to get around the filter.

[33anda3rd]

So I have learned something in this thread - which I think is that people will overcomplicate everything including scrambled eggs.

There is so very little complicated about whisking eggs, putting them in a saucepan over low heat with a lot of butter, and stirring them constantly until they're done. Two ingredients, a pot, a wooden spoon, and a little time. It's perfect in it's simplicity. Overcomplicating it is buying a plug-in thing from Target and wondering why it doesn't do the job that the centuries-old method that's perfect does.

I agree with Fat Bulldog, this discussion should have ended several pages back, with people going, ah, I see, there's a difference between scrambled eggs and omelettes. I'd guess it didn't end there because many are used to big hunks of broken-up omelette served in chafing dishes at hotels to conventioneers and weekend tourists, or something similar served by their own personal and very busy mom who doesn't have 15 minutes to make according-to-Hoyle scrambled eggs. There is a difference between and omelette and scrambled eggs, and so the notion of what 'scrambled eggs' are to most is not actually what real scrambled eggs are, no offense to you favorite chain hotel or own personal mom. And I'm not the crazy one, or the one elongating the thread here for pointing out that there's a difference between scrambled eggs and an omelette in a thread called 'fine dining.'

[lukethedrifter]

Yeah, the heathens keep [expletive] up the fine dining thread.

[33anda3rd]

Or, it's ok to discuss finer points of food in the fine dining thread, and someone coming along to crap on the conversation should probably just hold his fire rather than direct his ire at one person involved in a multi-page discussion involving several people about the differences. Honestly, what in the F is an anonymous internet message board for if not for multi-page discussions about stuff we are interested in? Is that not why the board exists? If we can't have a long discussion from both sides about the difference between scrambled eggs and an omelette in a food thread, or the virtues or lack of virtue in a David Spade joke told on TV in the TV thread then why don't we just lock every thread except the GDTs and all just check in at game time?

[Freed Roger]

A staple in our house growing up that I actually liked was (sh - it) on a shingle. Toast with white gravy and some kind of meat. Loved that stuff. (sh - it) is [expletive] btw - needed to get around the filter.

was it this?

Chipped beef


made with this

[33anda3rd]

That was a staple in our house growing up too but my mom called it 'chipped beef and gravy'.

[Freed Roger]

I never cared for chipped beef, and can't recall if we had for breakfast or not. I probably ate more unhealthy breakfast growing up than anyone - occasionally we had eggs. I went to the donuts, frosted flakes with several extra scoops of sugar, Little Debbies, bacon, pancakes, cinnamon rolls, apple turnovers. It improved some when I delivered newspapers on weekend morns, and would make a big ass bacon/cheese/mushroom omelet afterwards - I feel like taking a nap just typing this out.

Now when I have breakfast with my Mom - she has gone skim milk on some fibrous cereal (I would say Kashi, but she is so depression era with shopping for herself that I'm betting it's an Aldi product). She does make us biscuits and gravy now-after my brothers and I go for a leisurely morning run in the old hometown, but she didn't make that in the old days.

[Jocephus]

Hah wow...my mom made that a lot growing up but I never ate it...completely forgot about it...