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OT: August teaches you how to eat again

Just saw this on Colbert.

From Taco Smell:

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Taco Bell® Exposes the Naked Chicken Chalupa
 
August_West said:
15 years ago I used to work out of Guilford and go to the madison zhangs a lot. It was quite good. Now I live closer to the one in Saybrook and went there a couple times and it was more than terrible. Ended up at the madison one again and while it didnt reach the depths of saybrooks hell, it was nowhere near the level it was years ago. Sad. QUOTE]

Agree. There really aren't great choices in this area for Chinese. I'll have to try Ayuthai.
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Deepster said:
Maybe the most overrated sandwich there is.
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Yep. Which is exactly why I posted it.

Designed in the 1940s for truckers to be able to eat one-handed while driving. The bread is insipid, the standard commercial fries get soggy inside the sandwich, and the vinegary cole slaw taste permeates everything else.

Although I can attest to validity that adding a fried egg on top improves this hot mess.
 
storrsroars said:
Yep. Which is exactly why I posted it.

Designed in the 1940s for truckers to be able to eat one-handed while driving. The bread is insipid, the standard commercial fries get soggy inside the sandwich, and the vinegary cole slaw taste permeates everything else.

Although I can attest to validity that adding a fried egg on top improves this hot mess.
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Let me revise my statement. Maybe the most overrated sandwich behind the Genos cheesesteak.

Primantis entire hook is summed up by this one statement, "but it has French fries...ON the sandwich!" Big deal. It's a starchy nuisance.
 
Deepster said:
Let me revise my statement. Maybe the most overrated sandwich behind the Genos cheesesteak.

Primantis entire hook is summed up by this one statement, "but it has French fries...ON the sandwich!" Big deal. It's a starchy nuisance.
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Genos is horrible
 
Why would anyone step foot in Geno's when there are so many other great options?
 
Dove said:
Just saw this on Colbert.

From Taco Smell:

tb2017-naked-chicken-chalupa.jpg


Taco Bell® Exposes the Naked Chicken Chalupa
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So you're saying that after 4 small undistinguished wings from Off the Hook ($7, nice folks, working out newly opened kinks) and 6 smaller less distinguished wings from Harold's (near SCSU, $5.50 tax included, nice folks) I might not be done with this dangerous experiment but I've got 2 weeks to get ready? I don't know if I've even been to Taco Bell, certainly not in this millennium, definitely not more than once or twice if so.
 
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So obviously Ayuthai is Thai, not Chinese. Taste of China is probably the best Chinese option.

But Ayuthai is good for Thai. Better than Som Siam imo. They also have live jazz on Sunday nights. It gets crowded for eat in so arrive early, but my favorite is to get takeout for the family and not order it until I am there. If I time it right I can grab a pop or two at the bar and enjoy the music while waiting for the food.
 
superjohn said:
Why would anyone step foot in Geno's when there are so many other great options?
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I spent a lot of time in Philly over a few years and tried as many spots as I could. Jim's was my favorite. Of course, that doesn't count the roast pork sandwich.
 
storrsroars said:
Yep. Which is exactly why I posted it.

Designed in the 1940s for truckers to be able to eat one-handed while driving. The bread is insipid, the standard commercial fries get soggy inside the sandwich, and the vinegary cole slaw taste permeates everything else.

Although I can attest to validity that adding a fried egg on top improves this hot mess.
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Hot sauce is the key
 
Deepster said:
I spent a lot of time in Philly over a few years and tried as many spots as I could. Jim's was my favorite. Of course, that doesn't count the roast pork sandwich.
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Jims never disappoints D'allesandros is a good one
 
August_West said:
I love Tikkaway thats a really good call. Halal guys is decent not as good as the original city Truck but pretty good.
If falafel is one of your options why not Mamouns? Its not the greatest Falafel but it is the greatest hot sauce. You cant go wrong with the shawarma there either
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Ugh, I went to Tikkaway once and explicitly told the guy I couldn't eat anything with almonds or nuts, and had an allergic reaction anyway.
 
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storrsroars said:
If you have to cover something with hot sauce to make it palatable, you know it's bad food.

Besides, the classic Primantis is hot capicola. You just don't put hot sauce on cappy. You just don't.
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Tell that to the lady who runs primantis
 
8893 said:
Love Mamoun's and have for decades but Mediterranea falafel is better imo (and their fool muddammas is my go-to; great, great dish) and much closer to me.



I will try Aladdin falafel again. It's been years and it was always late at night and messy, but good. Have you had the falafel from Mediterranea? Pitaziki is okay but not great imo.
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Unlike much else on The Boneyard, no personal criticisms are intended here.

Last night, after an art opening at Institute Library, Lady Hans & I walked over to Beer Collective for a very favorable recon, though we only engaged in conversation with other New Haven Bike Month people and tried a good couple of fries. My idea was to pick up a falafel wrap from Mediterannea because she was parked across the street and I'd followed this thread.

Though we were in good humor about it, the wait was notably long because there was only one guy working the entire place. I could see him meticulously laying out the ingredients on plates for the orders that preceded ours, and he acted with care. We took in the hookah smells, considered the circumstance a quirky part of out date night, and it was relaxingly divey in a good way.

The falafel wrap was prepared (to go) with no sauce whatsoever (none was asked or offered) and was dry and undistinguished in every way imaginable, including a paucity of falafel and tomato. It was more lettuce than anything else. It was really surprising how little there was to it, like something I'd get at an all white suburban place where someone might reasonably question me, "Well, what did you expect? You don't get a falafel there."

I've had many good falafels from carts in NYC, throughout Queens, Persian places in Great Neck, and have enjoyed Mamoun's and the Middle Eastern place in West Haven near UNH.

Based on this experience, without the recommendations from usually good sources, I would never return here. It was that plain. Not bad, just "no there there." Did I just get a dud last night? Should I give it another try?
 
Hmmm. White Tower........also known as "White Dungeon" and "Tomain Tower" in NYC. Had these counters which faced the street with large picture windows so one could look out at the street (why would anyone want eat and do that in NYC?). Favorite memory of this establishment nearby to a college was when a hammered student jumped up on the counter at about 2 in the morning, dropped trou facing the street and "pressed ham" with a little too much force and shattered the picture window to the shock and (to some) apparent delight of the onlookers. Brings back the memory every time I hear or see the name. Thanks for the post!
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
Unlike much else on The Boneyard, no personal criticisms are intended here.

Last night, after an art opening at Institute Library, Lady Hans & I walked over to Beer Collective for a very favorable recon, though we only engaged in conversation with other New Haven Bike Month people and tried a good couple of fries. My idea was to pick up a falafel wrap from Mediterannea because she was parked across the street and I'd followed this thread.

Though we were in good humor about it, the wait was notably long because there was only one guy working the entire place. I could see him meticulously laying out the ingredients on plates for the orders that preceded ours, and he acted with care. We took in the hookah smells, considered the circumstance a quirky part of out date night, and it was relaxingly divey in a good way.

The falafel wrap was prepared (to go) with no sauce whatsoever (none was asked or offered) and was dry and undistinguished in every way imaginable, including a paucity of falafel and tomato. It was more lettuce than anything else. It was really surprising how little there was to it, like something I'd get at an all white suburban place where someone might reasonably question me, "Well, what did you expect? You don't get a falafel there."

I've had many good falafels from carts in NYC, throughout Queens, Persian places in Great Neck, and have enjoyed Mamoun's and the Middle Eastern place in West Haven near UNH.

Based on this experience, without the recommendations from usually good sources, I would never return here. It was that plain. Not bad, just "no there there." Did I just get a dud last night? Should I give it another try?
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No idea what to tell you except sorry you had a bad experience in a place you visited based on my recommendation. I've eaten there probably between 50 and 100 times, but 95% of the time I get the fool muddammas, not the falafel, because I love the fool muddammas. I like falafel but I don't eat it nearly as frequently. I've had it at Mediterranea maybe ten times tops and never had a bad one, but they have varied depending on the maker. But several others I know who get falafel frequently really like theirs. On that note, all my visits there except one (the one about which you read) have been for lunch. I've never been in there when the night hookah business is the primary feature.

I'm not going to encourage another try for you (although I will be there next week for sure), but if you do, I would say to go during the day and not at night.

I'd say I was shocked, but I've had people tell me they had bad experiences at Modern Apizza after I've recommended it, so nothing really surprises me on that score any more.
 
8893 said:
A couple slices of pizza left at home by the fam. Adequate, enjoyable.
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You said you didn't want pizza.
But then you discovered one of the great truths of the culinary universe as we know it"
Time.
Appetite.
There is always enough of each for pizza.
And for bacon.
 
RichZ said:
You said you didn't want pizza.
But then you discovered one of the great truths of the culinary universe as we know it"
Time.
Appetite.
There is always enough of each for pizza.
And for bacon.
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CO-SIGN.
 
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