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[nw6675]

Well, it's been real and it's been fun....but I am obligated to watch ... the last zillion hours of Way of the Water with the fam...

Have fun!

 

[FreeTime]

That’s an awesome FE gift. I did an FE exchange a few time when they used to get coordinated on the DIS boards, but when they moved over to FB that’s when I stopped.

This sounds like my kind of GF hot dog bun!

I was just talking with a friend tonight about what gf stuff we should try in our air fryers next. We were discussing pickles and zucchini. Maybe I’ll tell him to nix that as it is a lot easier to just slice a pickle, slap a dog on it and call it a day.

On the subject of GF and my response to someone about Biscuits and gravy, I need to master gf biscuits. Any suggestions?

 

[DLgal]

I've only been there once as I don't live on the west coast. I hear it hyped up SO much by Californians in particular but it really isn't anything special. Not bad but just okay.

People just don't get it. It's not that it's anything *special.* The entire reason why it's so popular is that for the PRICE, it's phenomenal. I mean, literally nowhere else can you get food that cheap at such high quality.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I do need to find a good biscuit and gravy breakfast place.

While we don't make the biscuits from scratch I do for the gravy in this biscuits and gravy casserole we make at home. It's made with Pillsbury flaky biscuits, breakfast sausage, flour and milk. Because of the time it takes to make we actually only have it for dinner

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

People just don't get it. It's not that it's anything *special.* The entire reason why it's so popular is that for the PRICE, it's phenomenal. I mean, literally nowhere else can you get food that cheap at such high quality.

I wouldn't really call it high quality though lol.

 

[EllieJedi]

I miss Chicago deeply .... wife will never move back though.

I'm not liking that she won't move back, just sharing love for my hometown.
(I get it though, the winter is not to be messed with.)

I likely wouldn’t move back either, more for the traffic these days.

Some people are crazy enough to move away from Chicago winters to somewhere even worse…like Minnesota. Lol

 

[FreeTime]

I have a road trip coming up. I suspect McDonalds, Burger King, Carls Jr will be among my lunches then. Usually off the Value Menu......what USED to be the dollar menu. We've found double cheese burgers to be a good choice, but not a dollar anymore

Skip them all and have a really fun eating on the road, road trip. I have traversed the path you mentioned several times and I find the best lunches come from a cooler. We find a nice roadside place to stop, no waiting in lines, no desperately trying to find the bathroom later, and have a picnic. One day we will have charcuterie with grape juice, one day sandwiches and chips. Fruit and cookies for dessert. Super cold ice for the drinks. Better than the dollar menu any day!
I hope you have a great trip!

 

[john7994]

I likely wouldn’t move back either, more for the traffic these days.

Some people are crazy enough to move away from Chicago winters to somewhere even worse…like Minnesota. Lol

some people just embrace the winter and the cold - I was not one of them tbh - which made Atlanta on a work relocation a very different choice for us ... lately we have been talking about moving too ... wait for it ... central Florida *gasp*

 

[CinderEmma94]

I was born and raised in Southern California, live in FL now. I miss In-N-Out. You can’t beat the price and the food is good. Is it the best burger and fries on the planet? No. But it’s better than McDonalds (imo) and so much cheaper than 5 Guys.

 

[QueenofPrideRock]

I likely wouldn’t move back either, more for the traffic these days.

Some people are crazy enough to move away from Chicago winters to somewhere even worse…like Minnesota. Lol

I considered going to college in Minnesota! I do like it up there but YIKES those winters.

 

[EllieJedi]

I considered going to college in Minnesota! I do like it up there but YIKES those winters.

some people just embrace the winter and the cold - I was not one of them tbh - which made Atlanta on a work relocation a very different choice for us ... lately we have been talking about moving too ... wait for it ... central Florida *gasp*

I love it here in the summer, but yes the winters are long. There’s a joke that we have 2 seasons, winter and the 4th of July.

I’ve been debating about if I would do the snowbird thing once I retire since my kids will likely both stay here. Maybe a condo near Orlando and a smaller place here.

 

[john7994]

I love it here in the summer, but yes the winters are long. There’s a joke that we have 2 seasons, winter and the 4th of July.

I’ve been debating about if I would do the snowbird thing once I retire since my kids will likely both stay here. Maybe a condo near Orlando and a smaller place here.

We are getting to that point of thinking about where we would like to land so to speak ... we don't have any strong family ties to any particular location ... but every time we start talking about it ... nothing tops the list with any excitement.

 

[bcwife76]

Alright as the possibly-only-Canadian posting in this thread (correct me if I'm wrong) I'm going to weigh in on the burger debate Now, we don't have all the same restaurants you do (obvs we have Wendys, McD's etc) but we do have some of the chains such as Fat Burger (decent), Carls Jr (decent) and Five Guys (WAY overpriced, no thanks). I have, however, in my travels eaten at In 'N Out (LOVE) and White Castle (ewwww,tasted like cat food). Sonic has my heart, the closest one to me (I'm about 15-20 minutes drive from one of 3 US/CAN border crossings) is about 20 minutes south of the border and yes, I will stop every dang time.
Gotta say (though it was pricey) one very fantastic burger I've had recently in the US was from Umami Burger in the Los Angeles area.....OH MY GOODNESS ME....that is worth being fat for. It just is.

And they are coming to Canada (in a limited capacity) and I'm HERE FOR IT

Can we debate chicken sandwiches now (like Popeyes, etc) because I definitely have some strong feelings about those, too lol

 

[HopperFan]

So I guess when we run out of topics we can guess each others ages for another 20 pages.

I do need to find a good biscuit and gravy breakfast place. I sure do miss hearing my grandma banging our at 5:30am in the kitchen when we would visit. Crisco, buttermilk and self rising flour with some bacon grease gravy. I might have to make some this weekend.

Speaking of TRAVEL (on topic) for a few years we went to a few different places for New Years Eve. One year we chose Nashville. I did my homework and while nothing really thrilled me I did find a restaurant I wanted to go to for the funky-ness. It was a distance out of town but the biscuits were worth every single minute of the drive. It's an old hotel, great backstory. The motel rooms were converted into different shops, mostly artists. I couldn't believe how many biscuits we ate, so good, not heavy.

https://www.lovelesscafe.com/

Crazy trip, we went to the bowl game there even though we weren't fans of either team. We wandered to some old spots. We did NYE downtown. Then crazy us drove from there to Orlando where DH DS#2 and DD went to the bowl game there (they were cheering for Nebraska) while DS#1 and I went to Magic Kingdom.

 

[john7994]

Alright as the possibly-only-Canadian posting in this thread (correct me if I'm wrong) I'm going to weigh in on the burger debate Now, we don't have all the same restaurants you do (obvs we have Wendys, McD's etc) but we do have some of the chains such as Fat Burger (decent), Carls Jr (decent) and Five Guys (WAY overpriced, no thanks). I have, however, in my travels eaten at In 'N Out (LOVE) and White Castle (ewwww,tasted like cat food). Sonic has my heart, the closest one to me (I'm about 15-20 minutes drive from one of 3 US/CAN border crossings) is about 20 minutes south of the border and yes, I will stop every dang time.
Gotta say (though it was pricey) one very fantastic burger I've had recently in the US was from Umami Burger in the Los Angeles area.....OH MY GOODNESS ME....that is worth being fat for. It just is.

And they are coming to Canada (in a limited capacity) and I'm HERE FOR IT

Can we debate chicken sandwiches now (like Popeyes, etc) because I definitely have some strong feelings about those, too lol

I'm speechless on your White Castle review which just really casts everything else into question tbh ... lol

 

[bcwife76]

I'm speechless on your White Castle review which just really casts everything else into question tbh ... lol

Are you and I going to have a problem, John?
Let me give more context to my one and only White Castle experience then. It was in Las Vegas and probably around 10:30pm after we had just landed and dropped our luggage at the hotel and wanted a quick bite. Perhaps they sat there too long? The buns were soggy...... for a true White Castle experience it should be on the east coast then? And not, I'm assuming, the frozen ones I can buy from Fred Meyers in Bellingham WA?

 

[john7994]

Are you and I going to have a problem, John?
Let me give more context to my one and only White Castle experience then. It was in Las Vegas and probably around 10:30pm after we had just landed and dropped our luggage at the hotel and wanted a quick bite. Perhaps they sat there too long? The buns were soggy...... for a true White Castle experience it should be on the east coast then? And not, I'm assuming, the frozen ones I can buy from Fred Meyers in Bellingham WA?

Don't make me get the moderator on ya!
Certainly, I will acknowledge that White Castle is not to everyone's taste lol -
Like trying to reproduce a lot of things from frozen - it kinda misses that fresh made taste (not cat food).

 

[DisRecruit]

As much fun as it's been to watch this madness unfold, I had a busier day today, and couldn't check in until now. It made my heart soar to see another dozen pages and hundreds of posts!

 

[bcwife76]

Don't make me get the moderator on ya!
Certainly, I will acknowledge that White Castle is not to everyone's taste lol -
Like trying to reproduce a lot of things from frozen - it kinda misses that fresh made taste (not cat food).

Well I'm willing to give White Castle another shot if the situation presents itself. I stand by my Five Guys statement though....whomp whomp

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

And for the update no one asked for but you're going to get anyways after about 1hr 15mins of assembly and another 30 mins of trying to figure out the correction length for each of us we have successfully tried out the inversion table



Gotta say the massage feature is really nice so is the heat. I could just strap in upright and use that

Downside is the adjuster bar is tough to move between settings. In addition I need the headrest to be at the shortest setting my husband at the taller default so both of these things mean a lot of adjusting between us sharing it.

BUT after only using it for a few minutes I could feel a difference. My husband said his back cracked when he was on it and he felt good using it. So I think it's a solid purchase even with the added annoyance in adjusting.

I look forward to trying it out more and more