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They’ve fantastic marketing, and nasty, burnt charcoal swill they sell as overpriced coffee. That’s why multiple flavored sugar pumpers are needed. Mo gets it @3:20


And yet...$30 billion.

I'm not much for coffee, frou-frou or otherwise. But it's hard to argue with $30 billion.
 
They are like lightly flavored Perrier except with 5% ABV. Sorta like a beer without the belching and farting.

The young chicks behind the counter at Sheetz "oooo and ahhh" when I buy them so you know they like them.

So...basically a wine cooler, then?
 
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Mae West is credited with this quote, "Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" Are you sure they were't giggling at the G43 in your pocket? <snicker>
Oh no, they start talking about the White Claws if I happen to buy them there. They even tell me where you can get the latest new flavors. They are ACTIVELY interested in this beverage. Certainly not in me.
 
I want to know why there are always soggy vanilla wafers in banana pudding. Is that a southern thing?
How can you put vanilla wafers in the pudding without them absorbing some of the moisture?
 
I want to know why there are always soggy vanilla wafers in banana pudding. Is that a southern thing?
That's how banana pudding is made. With nilla wafers and merengue. Or coolwhip if you're some kind of animal.

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Why put them in and ruin perfectly good banana pudding?


I’m trying to assimilate to Southern Life. For the most part.... it’s been very positive.

But there have been trade-offs. The inability to get a good donut down here** has been traded for fried chicken that is so good it’ll make you slap your momma.




Seriously.... I used to think my grandma’s “Texas”*** fried chicken was the best in the world. Then I got here. Man the fried chicken is good here.


**Krispy Kreme donuts are crap. The donuts that sit in a vending machine for two months taste better.

*** My grandma’s from NYC.... but she lived in Texas long enough to know how to cook.


:D
I don’t know where to begin.
 
Why put them in and ruin perfectly good banana pudding?


I’m trying to assimilate to Southern Life. For the most part.... it’s been very positive.

But there have been trade-offs. The inability to get a good donut down here** has been traded for fried chicken that is so good it’ll make you slap your momma.




Seriously.... I used to think my grandma’s “Texas”*** fried chicken was the best in the world. Then I got here. Man the fried chicken is good here.


**Krispy Kreme donuts are crap. The donuts that sit in a vending machine for two months taste better.

*** My grandma’s from NYC.... but she lived in Texas long enough to know how to cook.


:D

You're supposed to put the Krispy Kreme donuts on the smoker for about 15 to 20 minutes.

It's been proved.
 
Different. They are fizzy with a lighter flavor.

I'll try one soon enough, I'm sure. My youngest daughter sent a request for Mango White Claw. I picked some up while working up here in VA...and then all the COVID-19 restrictions came out and I haven't been able to drive back home to SC. So they sit until I do.

I like wine coolers OK...but they don't like me. For wine, I can't drink red wine because it gives me powerful headaches even after one glass. White wine doesn't bother me. However, white wine coolers have the same effect on me that red wine does. Much as I like the wine coolers, I can't really drink them.

And when I say "powerful headaches", I mean only a few sips can start the headaches...and a full glass is positively debilitating to the point where it even affects my vision.
 
I'll try one soon enough, I'm sure. My youngest daughter sent a request for Mango White Claw. I picked some up while working up here in VA...and then all the COVID-19 restrictions came out and I haven't been able to drive back home to SC. So they sit until I do.

I like wine coolers OK...but they don't like me. For wine, I can't drink red wine because it gives me powerful headaches even after one glass. White wine doesn't bother me. However, white wine coolers have the same effect on me that red wine does. Much as I like the wine coolers, I can't really drink them.

And when I say "powerful headaches", I mean only a few sips can start the headaches...and a full glass is positively debilitating to the point where it even affects my vision.
The White Claws around here come in variety packs. The mango is in the newer variety packs. It might be weirder than I am. Dunno.
 
Mmmm Hotdogs, one of the most misunderstood foods ever. I was raised on the red weenies, mayonaise, mustard, ketchup, slaw, onions, and chilli style southern dawg served at most every little league baseball field in the south. It wasn't till I was older and started traveling that I found out that every other region in the USA had these nasty ass, no flavor, soggy, no topping, worthless attempts at a Hotdog. I was embarrassed for the people in the different regions, the poor souls had no idea what an amazing dining experience they were missing. I felt compelled to educate and elevate them, one slow southern syllable at a time. It was very rewarding to return to a little restaurant a few months later to find the "Southern style hotdog" on their menu.

Same for cheeseburgers.
 
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Mmmm Hotdogs, one of the most misunderstood foods ever. I was raised on the red weenies, mayonaise, mustard, ketchup, slaw, onions, and chilli style southern dawg served at most every little league baseball field in the south. It wasn't till I was older and started traveling that I found out that every other region in the USA had these nasty ass, no flavor, soggy, no topping, worthless attempts at a Hotdog. I was embarrassed for the people in the different regions, the poor souls had no idea what an amazing dining experience they were missing. I felt compelled to educate and elevate them, one slow southern syllable at a time. It was very rewarding to return to a little restaurant a few months later to find the "Southern style hotdog" on their menu.

Same for cheeseburgers.
I lived in Oswego, NY in the early 80's working on a Nuc plant.
Went to a friends potluck party where one of the local ladies brought slaw.
The look on her face when I put her slaw on my dog was matched by her indignation of what I did.
I still LOL when I think of that party.
 
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I will admit if you want to find the best breakfast haunts around The Quay of within reasonable driving distance, especially including along routes to various ranges, hang with @fieldgrade

When he says the Red Barn in Angier is worth the drive, count on it - even if his favorite waitress, who happens to be the most pleasant and attentive waitress ever, looks like she just walked off a photo shoot for the Goth-Tattooed Women of 2020. I might have had some hand in introducing him to Ma's Kitchen outside Coats, a true greasy spoon which was so cheap it almost seemed they paid you to eat there. It's closed now after at least 45 years in business.
 
Mmmm Hotdogs, one of the most misunderstood foods ever. I was raised on the red weenies, mayonaise, mustard, ketchup, slaw, onions, and chilli style southern dawg served at most every little league baseball field in the south. It wasn't till I was older and started traveling that I found out that every other region in the USA had these nasty ass, no flavor, soggy, no topping, worthless attempts at a Hotdog. I was embarrassed for the people in the different regions, the poor souls had no idea what an amazing dining experience they were missing. I felt compelled to educate and elevate them, one slow southern syllable at a time. It was very rewarding to return to a little restaurant a few months later to find the "Southern style hotdog" on their menu.

Same for cheeseburgers.
Martinsville Speedway used to sell the red Jesse Jones hot dogs in their concession stands. Without a doubt, those were some of the best hot dogs known to mankind.
 
The hungarians call the homemade shine pàlinka.
My first visit over there we couch surfed at one of my FiL's old friends places. Rumor was he made epic pàlinka. I tried it. Really good. This stuff could easily be bottled and sold in a store. We left with a bunch of it in old coke bottles. On the return trip we bugged him for more. Nope, sorry all out. We'd visit a few times over a decade and he never had it around anymore. A few years ago we heard what happened. His wife hated his stuff. It gave her headaches. She'd wait for him to go to work, dump it, and replace it with store bought pàlinka. She finally confessed when he couldn't reproduce the stuff and she didn't have an opportunity to replace it covertly. Then he decided he preferred the legend of his epic creation to the truth so he stopped making it and kept her deception to himself.

Love me some pàlinka, with the triple distilled pear variety being a favorite.
 
It’s a RARE dog that I find palatable. I used to restore Vette show cars in the late ‘80’s in downtown Raleigh. There was (still may be) a hole in the wall (smallest restaurant I’ve been in) called The Roast Grill. The Greek old lady scratch made the chili, slaw, etc, would lecture anyone that asked for ketchup, she was a hoot. They also had the COLDEST drinks in town, the top of a longneck bud would freeze over when opened. I’d go in covered with what I was fixing that day, bondo dust/paint/fiberglass/grease and never know who I was going to enjoy lunch with. President of BB&T, Raleigh mayor, trash truck driver, etc. It was an experience.
Today I’ll skip a dog for bratwurst, equal amount of kraut, Dijon mustard & habanero- nom, nom, nom.
I will admit if you want to find the best with @fieldgrade - even if his favorite waitress, who happens to be the most pleasant and attentive waitress ever, looks like she just walked off a photo shoot for the Goth-Tattooed Women of 2020.
Are you talking about the one at Apex Wings?
 
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The hot dog conversation begins and ends with Brightleaf hot dogs. Everything else is an also ran.


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I haven't the faintest clue what you're speaking of. Chicago is the lips and buttholes to end all lips and buttholes. Other places may try, but a real hotdog can and only come from Chicago. They've perfected it and served it with a side of corruption and murder for about eight generations, the last four really heaping on the side dishes.
 
The hot dog conversation begins and ends with Brightleaf hot dogs. Everything else is an also ran.

Wrong.

The hotdog conversation begins and ends with how it's cooked.

You can grill me some Brightleaf dogs (and they better have some black on 'em), but if you boil them you might just as well toss 'em in the garbage.
 
Wrong.

The hotdog conversation begins and ends with how it's cooked.

You can grill me some Brightleaf dogs (and they better have some black on 'em), but if you boil them you might just as well toss 'em in the garbage.
Slice them open first and then grill them! The guy at Littles Hardware will cook them that way for you.
 
Hotdogs are an excellent example of how all the parts of an animal are used...no waste.

Much of the western world is hung up on the meat itself, a few organs like liver, with some thinking about hide/leather.

In nature, as well as earlier days and with other cultures outside ours, every part is utilized. Indeed, if you observe wild predators it's the soft organs which are consumed first long before the actual meat. Interestingly, this is also where the most nutrients are.

In the meat industry, meat is carved away, hide is processed, organs are removed, bone is ground up, fat is rendered, etc. Sausage? Traditionally packed using intestines.

Any part which is edible is used somewhere. Sometimes it's the scraps which go into things like hotdogs. Bone meal used in lots of products, including pet foods. Sometimes, because our squeamish culture "doesn't like the thought" of certain parts as food, it's shipped to other countries where it's a common food.

Regardless of who makes those favorite hotdogs we may each prefer, they're STILL an example of not wasting the lowest quality, least desirable parts of the animal.
 
I could go for a whole plate full of corndogs right now.

Some homemade ones would be best, but I'm not that picky.

Sucks as I'm still working on trimming down my weight. Maybe in another 10-15 pounds.
 
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Hotdogs are an excellent example of how all the parts of an animal are used...no waste.

Much of the western world is hung up on the meat itself, a few organs like liver, with some thinking about hide/leather.

In nature, as well as earlier days and with other cultures outside ours, every part is utilized. Indeed, if you observe wild predators it's the soft organs which are consumed first long before the actual meat. Interestingly, this is also where the most nutrients are.

In the meat industry, meat is carved away, hide is processed, organs are removed, bone is ground up, fat is rendered, etc. Sausage? Traditionally packed using intestines.

Any part which is edible is used somewhere. Sometimes it's the scraps which go into things like hotdogs. Bone meal used in lots of products, including pet foods. Sometimes, because our squeamish culture "doesn't like the thought" of certain parts as food, it's shipped to other countries where it's a common food.

Regardless of who makes those favorite hotdogs we may each prefer, they're STILL an example of not wasting the lowest quality, least desirable parts of the animal.

Speaking of no wasted meat, bologna (fried of course), Vienna sausage, and potted meat come to mind.

I'm hungry now.
 
Speaking of no wasted meat, bologna (fried of course), Vienna sausage, and potted meat come to mind.

I'm hungry now.

That reminds me of these, from when I used to smoke. I always felt like the tobacco used in them was swept up from the barn floor.

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Speaking of no wasted meat, bologna (fried of course), Vienna sausage, and potted meat come to mind.

I'm hungry now.
Fried bologna sandwiches are great with some onion and mustard. South Boston, VA Speedway has their Bologna Burger. It is a thick slice of bologna, fried up real nice, served on a hamburger bun with mustard and onions. It is a treat to behold. Elliott Sadler was said to eat 16 of them one evening.
 
Slice them open first and then grill them! The guy at Littles Hardware will cook them that way for you.

I've been known to skip a few lunches because off that fella and the newer Hispanic gal.

Also, lips and buttholes are the ends of the same tube.
 
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