What's the point in anything if it can be looked on that way?Originally Posted by hfswjyr
What's the point in anything if it can be looked on that way?
Fried dough (which was warm) with a shit tonne of cinnamon sugar and chocolate sauce. It's a perfect combination but what do I know, I've never spent £99 on a roast dinner.
I'm such a fat bastard though. I went to a restaurant today to eat some lunch before going to uni to get some work done. I had a 3 course meal and then had to go home to lay in bed for 3 hours :\
Suppose it's one of those kind of foods for me. Same with doughnuts. I'll happily eat them to fill myself up, but I'm much happier to see just about any other snack.
Unless they open a Cinnabon here any time soon then is take a doughnut over just about any sweet treat.
Never tried a cinnabon but doughnuts are absolutely glorious.
If you like greasy stodge and dying of heart attacks, and who doesn't, churros are basically the peak of the genre. Dip them in hot chocolate sauce for extra points.
I had them from a kiosk in Seville, which probably helped. No doubt other countries try and make them healthy.
Yeah, churros are mega. 'Cinnabons', on the other hand, are not.
Tonight I will mostly be using crushed cornflakes instead of panko breadcrumbs to make tonkatsu. It's on Nigella if it's shit.
Doughnuts are good when they're kept simple. Like a plain sugar coated one (they get called gravy rings here - is that a thing in the rest of the UK?) and those glazed Krispy Kreme ones. The ones which try to do too much with loads of icing and flavoured shit inside are just too sweet.
A woman in work brought in some lemon drizzle cake she'd made today. It was fucking great. Maybe the middle aged women aren't so bad.
Them Krispy Kremes being about fifteen quid each is worse than the wank some of them come with.
I only had a Cinnabon once but the thing I got was the nicest dessert thing I've ever had. Not sure if it was their regular type thing but it wasn't cinnamony (which would be a big no for me).
One of the women in work brought in banoffee and red velvet doughnuts to work the other day which were amazing, though I do like the regular Tim Horton ones too.
Never heard the gravy ring thing in my time up there.
Aren't cinnabons a breakfast item (I know, it's America etc)?
Also, I've no idea what tonkatsu is but crushed up cornflakes are better than breadcrumbs in most situations I've found that I'd need breadcrumbs.
I'm not sure. I had it in Krakow and it was a gooey mess of awesome caramel, near needed a shower after it
Cinnabon is without question the worst food product in America. Even worse than aircraft fuel gallon sized fountain drinks at gas stations. It is not a surprise that their outlets can be found almost exclusively in mall food courts or airports. All places where people are effectively trapped.
I have never seen one in an American airport, or even America for that matter. Must be a regional thing.
He's right though, Cinnabon is fucking disgusting. Far too sweet and sickly for anyone over 7 to cope with.
I liked the one I had anyway.
I travel fairly extensively for work and I've never seen one outside of those settings. They are among the least regional thing in existence. Our regional food is generally good and our generic stuff is horrid. Generic corporate copies of regional food like Cinnabon must violate the Geneva convention.
Ah, you're one of them.
Cinnabon's are so popular in prison that they're the effective currency rather than cigarettes now. (I say that with a large apparently, I read it somewhere ages ago)
I had a cinnabon in a stand alone 'high street' outlet somewhere in California. Something beach, maybe Pismo?
Anyway, the cornflakes were awesome.
Churros are boss. There's a Cinnabon on Oxford Street that always smells great, but I've never been there.
Recently I've been eating shitloads of tapas in Barcelona. I've no idea how everyone in Spain isn't obese, I barely saw a vegetable whilst I was out there (aside from patatas bravas for dayz)
Office work is basically signing up for type 2 diabetes if you find it hard to resist free food. I don't think I ever went more than about a week in my last job like that without some middle aged woman bringing in about 10 cakes because it was someone's birthday or wedding or some shit.
Speaking of petty office politics/diabetes: we have free fruit delivered on Monday morning. Quite a few people take an absolute shitload (like, a bowl full - maybe 5-6 pieces). I'm going to put a snide note in to the anonymous suggestion box at our next company meeting that we should limit this to 2 pieces per person, just to make a load of people seethe
Yes, definitely one of those. I'm always going to choose a restaurant where they cook things instead of reheating something frozen or from a vat. There are always cheap local options that are better: taquerias, meat and threes, diners, or whatever.
Better if you prefer them. I always think there's room for both and just don't go to the ones you don't like.
I think one of the best places I ate food at in New York was some shit house Mexican place. It looked the pits but the food was fucking incredible, you could tell that it was fresh.
Lamb bhuna
Lamb karahi.
Lamb.
My mother took me for some 'Italian tapas' (they have their own word for it, but who cares?) so I could TRY SOME NEW THINGS. I just stuck to small pizzas and pasta, because new things are crap, but what a brilliant idea.
The La Tasca near me closed and has been replaced by a Bella Italia. An upgrade in options, if not quality.
Antipasto has always struck me as a daft name for it. It sounds like you hate pasta.
Trying my hand at a joint of pulled pork. Had it marinating overnight in a wet marinade of bbq sauce, paprika, brown sugar, garlic and salt and just going to stick it in for 6 hours on a tray with some water underneath.
Wish be luck, it cost me about £20 tip buy everything for it.
Slow cooker is a great job for this too.
Yeah don't own one unfortunately otherwise that's what I'd have used.
Good idea with the water anyway. Is there vinegar in the bbq sauce?
I just tried making a Victoria sponge (I think I've mentioned how bored I am), but when it said to 'fold' the flour in I just tipped it into the mixer. Is that why it was a foamy mess that failed to rise?
Yes, you need to sieve in the flower and fold it in to keep air in it.
"I can't cook" really does just translate to "I don't bother following the recipe".
No not beyond a fraction anyway.
It's nearly ready anyway, just letting it rest to absorb all the juices before I start pulling that fucker apart.
My friend in America is at some pizza gaff on his dinner break, and they have a challenge on the board that sez if seven of you can eat this fifty-four inch, two-hundred dollar pizza in two hours you win a grand (and get the pizza free). Is this me giving it the large'un again, or is that not particularly daunting provided your team didn't have any birds/losers holding you back? On the other hand, if it was that easy you would expect LADS to be in there all the time eating for free, so fuck I don't know.
54 inch per side? That's an area of 2916 in^2. The regular pizza you get over here is 14 inch (my missus and I usually share one), which has an area of 154 in^2. I reckon I could eat it all on my own plus probably half more if I was motivated. So my contribution would be 231 in^2. Seven me's would fall way short at 1617 in^2. Then again, I am 145 lbs. You basically need each person to be able to eat almost three full 14 inch pizzas each to make it.
It all depends how thick it is, really.
I'm with you, between seven that looks doable.
If Pepe is correct (and when is he not?), I'm having second thoughts now.
2 people to dedicate themselves to each flavour and the seventh is the fattest cunt of the group who gets stuck with the Margarita.
If that has an American style doughy base there's absolutely no chance. If it's thin and the topping is most of the deal, then you could maybe have a dig at it with shrewd team selection.
The pizza is two-hundred dollars, and each topping is fifteen, so you could just have it all plain.
You need a normal sized pizza near it for scale - I reckon it'd look fucking ginormous then.
The real question is how to distribute the earnings. Would you divide it evenly, or based on who ate more?
By contribution, I reckon.
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