Octopus Overlords

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 9:52 pm Ive always loved bologna. As a child I ate regular bologna from Oscar Meyer. Most meat was OM for us. As I grew older and partly thanks to my wife I fell in love with beef bologna. To the point where regular bologna other than beef didn't taste so great to me any longer. I tried many brands. OM still made the best regular. But their beef was beyond compare. To this day no beef bologna beats it.

First off, my favorite beef bologna and salami is hebrew national. I currently have a hard time finding either. I used to get the salami, small cheese slices/cubes, and a box of ritz and just make small sandwiches until the crackers ran out. Good times and very much a comfort food of mine.

Secondly

I had a microwaved bologna sandwich tonight.

Fish and chicken are just stupid expensive now days. They used to be the cheap alternative to burgers.

I was readings reviews of my local Captain Ds and a guy was complaining on how much the 2 piece meal had gone up,. He said it was now $3.27....LOL review was 2014. I went and looked now...$11+

Also for YEARS the fish size is a lot smaller. Used to be a big wide filet. For years it's a skinny little plank.

Anyone else hate this stupid fast food trend where they won't simply allow you to view the menu after hours??..Oh nooooo you have to start an order to see it.

Punisher wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 11:43 pm
First off, my favorite beef bologna and salami is hebrew national. I currently have a hard time finding either. I used to get the salami, small cheese slices/cubes, and a box of ritz and just make small sandwiches until the crackers ran out. Good times and very much a comfort food of mine.

My daughter loves hard salagmi and pepperoni. The former, she's happy with store brand, the latter I get Hormel, which I like the best of the presliced stuff. The other day while shopping my son asked if I could get Prasky (a Czech cooked garlic salami). I asked him how much he wanted and he said "all of it). I bought 3/4 lb, and I doubt he ate more than 1/3 of it.

Jeff V wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 5:45 pm My daughter loves hard salagmi and pepperoni. The former, she's happy with store brand, the latter I get Hormel, which I like the best of the presliced stuff. The other day while shopping my son asked if I could get Prasky (a Czech cooked garlic salami). I asked him how much he wanted and he said "all of it). I bought 3/4 lb, and I doubt he ate more than 1/3 of it.

Aldi has 16oz packs of both those for a good price. The salami is $4.99 I think, and I like the taste. I think salami is supposed to have some fermentation health benefits?

Salami is a cured meat with lots of salt and nitrates. Perhaps a quick boost of protein with side effects?

I'll have to check Aldi, there's one nearby. The Hormel Pepperoni is, I think, an 8 oz package that was on sale for $4.

I love salami but i cant chew it any longer.

This is my plan for food today.

Split and fry 2 hotdogs. Lay those on bread covered in mayo, then mustard on top that, chili on top that, kraut on top that. All flat in a plate. Eat wit ha fork.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 4:42 pm I love salami but i cant chew it any longer.

Don't you have a blender?

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 12:22 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 4:42 pm I love salami but i cant chew it any longer.

Don't you have a blender?

A crappy one that has trouble with ice cream. looking for a better one. Maybe in the FB Marketplace.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 1:37 am

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 12:22 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 4:42 pm I love salami but i cant chew it any longer.

Don't you have a blender?

A crappy one that has trouble with ice cream. looking for a better one. Maybe in the FB Marketplace.

Well once you get it make a salami milkshake!

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 1:43 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 1:37 am

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 12:22 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 4:42 pm I love salami but i cant chew it any longer.

Don't you have a blender?

A crappy one that has trouble with ice cream. looking for a better one. Maybe in the FB Marketplace.

Well once you get it make a salami milkshake!

Im not putting my penis in that!!

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 3:37 am Im not putting my penis in that!!

...said no man, ever.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 3:37 am

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 1:43 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 1:37 am

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 12:22 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 4:42 pm I love salami but i cant chew it any longer.

Don't you have a blender?

A crappy one that has trouble with ice cream. looking for a better one. Maybe in the FB Marketplace.

Well once you get it make a salami milkshake!

Im not putting my penis in that!!

You really need to open yourself up to yrying new things.

There are certain things that just aren't worth caving into peer-pressure.

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 12:54 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 3:37 am

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 1:43 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 1:37 am

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 12:22 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 4:42 pm I love salami but i cant chew it any longer.

Don't you have a blender?

A crappy one that has trouble with ice cream. looking for a better one. Maybe in the FB Marketplace.

Well once you get it make a salami milkshake!

Im not putting my penis in that!!

You really need to open yourself up to yrying new things.

What is this...Operation?

I heartily recommend the new "Crispy Dragon Calamari" appetizer at Red Lobster. Best thing I've ever had at Red Lobster, better than the biscuits even. A bit spicy & sweet & crunchy, tastes like something that would be prepared in Thailand.

Not rubbery at all?

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 6:40 pm Not rubbery at all?

Not at all. Best calamari I've EVER had, but I'm more partial to octopus which might upset some folks here.

My lobster on the other hand was rubbery. First lobster I've had since 1984 USS Von Steuben unfortunately. ...and before that was 1977 Chick's on Brigantine Island.

I wonder if Red Lobster still has tasty Pin Coladas

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 8:13 pm I wonder if Red Lobster still has tasty Pin Coladas

I imagine they do. They have coconut shrimp with pina colada dip which is my normal go to.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 10:29 pm

I only ever had a few of those Monte Cristos, and loved them, just before Bennigans went belly up. I guess they're trying to make a comeback now.

Hep in 3...

Also CNBC have been falling all over themselves in the last two days giving free advertising to McD's for the return of the value meal. I guess it's been a long time for me. I never knew it left. I think I had McD's once since the before times. I miss fast food but not enough to pay for it literally or in calories. I also don't care for the idea of needing to use an app to get reasonable pricing which is where everything was going when I started eating nearly every meal from home seemingly forever ago now... 2018? If calories and my heart could warrant, I'd still get my Lee's on a regular basis, even at their crazy (for me) prices of nearly $10 for a lunch. Maybe higher by now. It's been six months since I last had them and in six months prices are anybody's guess.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 7:44 am Hep in 3...

He does like those Monte Cristos.

You'd think I eat fast food WAY more often than I do now. I seem to think about it much more than I eat it. Nostalgia.

I thought of Hep when I originally posted the video. Wonder why he hadn't said anything yet.

Nitro Pepsi is not a good thing. Without the carbonic bite, it's way too sweet.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 4:43 pm I thought of Hep when I originally posted the video. Wonder why he hadn't said anything yet.

Maybe he's too busy making a surplus of Monte Criscos?

Punisher wrote:

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 4:43 pm I thought of Hep when I originally posted the video. Wonder why he hadn't said anything yet.

Maybe he's too busy making a surplus of Monte Criscos?

A surplus? Might need to...

... Count.

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 3:32 am

Punisher wrote:

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 4:43 pm I thought of Hep when I originally posted the video. Wonder why he hadn't said anything yet.

Maybe he's too busy making a surplus of Monte Criscos?

A surplus? Might need to...

... Count.

Care to Dumastrate?

LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 7:44 am Hep in 3...

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hepcat wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 7:41 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 7:44 am Hep in 3...

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You've seen him?

em2nought wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 5:33 pm I heartily recommend the new "Crispy Dragon Calamari" appetizer at Red Lobster. Best thing I've ever had at Red Lobster, better than the biscuits even. A bit spicy & sweet & crunchy, tastes like something that would be prepared in Thailand.

I heard they are going down the crapper? (the restaurant, not the food). Not that it's a big loss, I doubt I go there more than once a decade and haven't been since my mom died 8 years ago. Their packaged stuff in the supermarket isn't bad, though. I had their parmesan shrimp the other day, I have a box of their biscuit-breaded shrimp in the freezer and of course the boxed biscuit mixed is good (pro tip, use beer to mix into the dry ingredients).

Jeff V wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 11:33 pm

em2nought wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 5:33 pm I heartily recommend the new "Crispy Dragon Calamari" appetizer at Red Lobster. Best thing I've ever had at Red Lobster, better than the biscuits even. A bit spicy & sweet & crunchy, tastes like something that would be prepared in Thailand.

I heard they are going down the crapper?

My Thai friends seem to like Red Lobster so I've ended up there more often than I would in my normal existence. Red Lobster has closed lots of locations lately, and I imagine they are headed down the proverbial crapper. I might stop by just by myself soon to get that particular appetizer one more time just in case it's the last chance I have.

Jeff V wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 11:33 pm

em2nought wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 5:33 pm I heartily recommend the new "Crispy Dragon Calamari" appetizer at Red Lobster. Best thing I've ever had at Red Lobster, better than the biscuits even. A bit spicy & sweet & crunchy, tastes like something that would be prepared in Thailand.

I heard they are going down the crapper? (the restaurant, not the food). Not that it's a big loss, I doubt I go there more than once a decade and haven't been since my mom died 8 years ago. Their packaged stuff in the supermarket isn't bad, though. I had their parmesan shrimp the other day, I have a box of their biscuit-breaded shrimp in the freezer and of course the boxed biscuit mixed is good (pro tip, use beer to mix into the dry ingredients).

They don't get much love in New England, where we're particular about fresh (never frozen!) seafood, but they were the Olive Garden of seafood in the Midwest. That ought to be a successful niche. I went to an all-you-can-eat crab legs promo at "Dead Lobster" as a teenager in Michigan 50 years ago and discovered that I could eat a near-infinite number of these things I'd never had before. Every time we called for "MOAR!!" the platter got a little smaller and came with more bread, but we were teenagers with bottomless stomachs and nothing better to do than break the crab bank.

Some reports say that the all-you-can-eat deals did them in, and others say that's bullshit, they were badly mismanaged for a long time. But it's still a good niche and most of their shops will still be around after they restructure. Not that it makes any difference hereabouts.

Does Arthur Treacher's still exist? I remember that as their rival but I haven't heard that name in a long time.

Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy recently. They're restructuring and trying to stay . . . afloat.

I used to sling fried seafood at the 'Lob one summer during law school when I was also clerking at the State's Attorney's office. Good times.

NPR

A private equity firm bought the chain ten years ago from Darden Restaurants, which owns rivals Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse. The firm, Golden Gate Capital, funded the deal partly by selling Red Lobster's real estate.

That meant the chain had to start paying rent. That's now a major financial factor in Red Lobster's bankruptcy filing, which asks the court to reject 108 leases, letting the company abandon those locations.

Since 2020, Red Lobster has been run by its largest shareholder: Thai Union Group, a seafood supplier also behind the Chicken of the Sea brand. And the bankruptcy filing lays much blame on Thai Union and ex-CEO Paul Kenny.
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The bankruptcy filing alleges that Thai Union interfered with daily operations and even pushed out two rival suppliers of breaded shrimp, securing a costlier exclusive deal for itself.

Hmm...a company that's been successful for decades bought out by private equity, assets sold off in order to pay shareholders, then driven to failure by poor leadership until they declare bankruptcy, absolving the investors of any financial liability.

I'm pretty sure there's a term for that, but it happens so infrequently these days that I can't seem to remember...

Kraken wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 2:09 am I went to an all-you-can-eat crab legs promo at "Dead Lobster" as a teenager in Michigan 50 years ago and discovered that I could eat a near-infinite number of these things I'd never had before. Every time we called for "MOAR!!" the platter got a little smaller and came with more bread, but we were teenagers with bottomless stomachs and nothing better to do than break the crab bank.

I had a similar experience once in northern Wisconsin. They had all-you-can-eat crablegs, I probably wasn't the only one to break the bank on it but the next year the deal was something like $20/lb.