brennan
Argumentative Brit
You foreigners are just crazy.
Would you eat...
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warpus
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I'm just confused that a man with a strange looking and obviously foreign beard is calling me a foreigner.
brennan
Argumentative Brit
I already said properly made tea is strong, so I can't see why you'd ask that. It's bitter as well. If you don't think so then you're probably not having the same stuff.
Beard?
Beard?
warpus
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I thought that's why there's so many different types of teas available, so that if you don't like bitter tea you can buy one that isn't, instead of adding weird cow liquids to it.
brennan
Argumentative Brit
Again you are showing your benighted foreign perspective. There is only one true tea.
I have had this in Japan. Disgustingly bitter tea with milk. I consider it sort of punisment to have to drink that. On the other hand if the flawors are properly balanced milk can be pretty good adition in many foods...
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The sub sandwich elitism in this thread is great.
I used to live in a motel during the winter months in a tourist town while disabled in Ontario. Transit was basically a crap-shoot so the choice was either bread and room-temperature foods (who wants some more... nutella? Laughing Cow cheese spread? The cheapest factory bread money can buy and lasts for two weeks?) in a motel room or going across the street to Subway. For $9.50 a day, for three months, I had enough calories and nutrients to survive adequately and also enjoy what I was eating, and honestly think Subway is better than Quiznos and just about every mom & pop sub sandwich shop I've been to since.
Not much can beat a herb and cheese toasted sub with tuna, bacon, half cheddar, half mozza, tomatoes, and lettuce. Split that bad boy in half, get a couple cookies, and you have yourself 1200~ calories and enough food for the day so you're never hungry or going nuts with cravings. It's not something I'd recommend (Subway every day is expensive and can bother you if you need variety), but I would have probably fared much worse had it been another restaurant in manageable distance.
Also, the only good tea is an iced tea.
I used to live in a motel during the winter months in a tourist town while disabled in Ontario. Transit was basically a crap-shoot so the choice was either bread and room-temperature foods (who wants some more... nutella? Laughing Cow cheese spread? The cheapest factory bread money can buy and lasts for two weeks?) in a motel room or going across the street to Subway. For $9.50 a day, for three months, I had enough calories and nutrients to survive adequately and also enjoy what I was eating, and honestly think Subway is better than Quiznos and just about every mom & pop sub sandwich shop I've been to since.
Not much can beat a herb and cheese toasted sub with tuna, bacon, half cheddar, half mozza, tomatoes, and lettuce. Split that bad boy in half, get a couple cookies, and you have yourself 1200~ calories and enough food for the day so you're never hungry or going nuts with cravings. It's not something I'd recommend (Subway every day is expensive and can bother you if you need variety), but I would have probably fared much worse had it been another restaurant in manageable distance.
Also, the only good tea is an iced tea.
warpus
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I used to have a thing against subway, but they've honestly been improving the user sandwich experience. Every single time I order something there, they assemble triangular pieces of cheese into a rhombus.
This might sound like not such a big deal, but they did not know that you can do that. I suspect basic geometry training is now mandatory for subway sandwich artists. That or there is a company wide email going around once a week reminding them how to properly put triangles of cheese on a sandwich. And every time I watch them put that cheese on, I can't help it but think: "YES! YES that's right. You're not an idiot. This is going to be a good sandwich."
This might sound like not such a big deal, but they did not know that you can do that. I suspect basic geometry training is now mandatory for subway sandwich artists. That or there is a company wide email going around once a week reminding them how to properly put triangles of cheese on a sandwich. And every time I watch them put that cheese on, I can't help it but think: "YES! YES that's right. You're not an idiot. This is going to be a good sandwich."
Narz
keeping it real
As far as junk/fast-food goes Subway is one of the better choices. It smells the best by far. As opposed to McDonalds which makes me sick to my stomach just smelling their fries.
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Yuck, McDonalds. I used to think I liked chicken mcnuggets, then they stopped offering the hot mustard dipping sauce and I realized that what I actually liked was the hot mustard, the nuggets themselves are bland and pretty gross.
sophie
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If a tea turns bitter it means you are oversteeping it.
You shouldn't be steeping black tea for more than 3:30-4:00 mins.
Well... McD's special sauce is literally just all the condiments mixed up... seriously... Try it, its just a mixture of ketchup, mustard, mayo and relish. That's it. Thats why its light orange.
Wolfbeckett
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Yeah, it's basically a lazy version of 1000 island salad dressing.
Yeah, doesn't sound too different to Subway here, though if your sandwich ends up being pathetic and paltry I suspect we have more generous servers. I agree about the smell, and the bread could be a bit better, but I don't think that poisons the whole sandwich, so much as it's one mark against it. I guess being overpriced is a matter of alternatives, and there probably aren't as many here, certainly not cheaper for a similar size. There has been an American-style burger and sandwich fad in restaurants over the last couple of years, but not in cheap lunch options.
I also suspect that I just have a fundamentally different approach to dough based foods than those in the country which apparently celebrates what appears to be grilled cheese pizza, i.e. NY pizza.
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So...next in the line of strange observations that is my life...
I'm at the grocery store, hanging around at the meat counter while they grind a chuck roast into hamburger for me. (As an aside, why would anyone buy hamburger? The chuck roast was a dollar a pound less than the comparable hamburger, and twenty cents a pound cheaper than the "hey if we grind up this lard maybe we can sell it" burger.) I'm looking at stuff that's on sale and contemplating what can be made of it.
Boneless skinless chicken breasts were on sale for $1.99 a pound, which had my attention. Then I notice that on one side of them is "thin sliced boneless skinless chicken breast" and on the other is "chicken breast chunks" suitable for making fajitas. Both of these items are $4.69 a pound. I'm completely dazzled by this.
I had just thought "man, they should move that stuff to the other end of the cooler, because with it right next to the buck ninety-nine chicken who the heck is going to buy it?" When this woman walked up and got BOTH. A pound of slices and two pounds of fajita chunks. She paid eight dollars and ten cents for knife work I could have done in six minutes, tops.
Do you think she is wealthy and lazy, or just oblivious?
I'm at the grocery store, hanging around at the meat counter while they grind a chuck roast into hamburger for me. (As an aside, why would anyone buy hamburger? The chuck roast was a dollar a pound less than the comparable hamburger, and twenty cents a pound cheaper than the "hey if we grind up this lard maybe we can sell it" burger.) I'm looking at stuff that's on sale and contemplating what can be made of it.
Boneless skinless chicken breasts were on sale for $1.99 a pound, which had my attention. Then I notice that on one side of them is "thin sliced boneless skinless chicken breast" and on the other is "chicken breast chunks" suitable for making fajitas. Both of these items are $4.69 a pound. I'm completely dazzled by this.
I had just thought "man, they should move that stuff to the other end of the cooler, because with it right next to the buck ninety-nine chicken who the heck is going to buy it?" When this woman walked up and got BOTH. A pound of slices and two pounds of fajita chunks. She paid eight dollars and ten cents for knife work I could have done in six minutes, tops.
Do you think she is wealthy and lazy, or just oblivious?
All of the above.
I read yesterday that obesity in Colorado is 23% and that is the lowest for any state in the US... up from no higher than 15% in any state back in the 80s.
When I was a kid... If you wanted to change the channel on the TV you had to get off the couch and walk over to the TV (no remotes or streaming)... If you wanted to see your neighbor you had to walk over to their house, (no facetime or skype)... If you wanted to talk to your grandma on the phone you had to manually dial 10 numbers on the rotary phone (instead of pressing one button on your smartphone)... if you wanted chopped up chicken you had to get a knife and cut it up yourself... Heck, if you wanted to play videogames with friends you had to get on your bike and ride to their house... All those small calorie expenditures start to add up
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