Lunch With The Kzin + food meme!

[zrath]

Today's lunch destination is Carl's Jr.
I was in the mood for a big-ass burger and didn't want to drive, so I walked to the local Carls.
And holy crap, the prices have gone up! Actually, I think it's just this Carls that happens to be more expensive.
I ordered a Bacon Cheese Six-Dollar Burger with medium fries and drink and a Spicy Chicken sandwich.
At my usual Carls on Santa Monica Blvd, this would cost around $8.50 or $9.
At this Carls near work, I paid $10.25!!!
And they listed the Bacon Cheese Six-Dollar Burger as costing $5.49 by itself! It shouldn't be more than $4.75!
The Six-Dollar Burgers will eventually cost $6 for real if this keeps up.
Anyway, the food was tasty, but the steep prices make me reconsider going back.
That's a heck of a price difference.

And now, a food meme ganked from doronjosama!
It's kinda long, so it's under a cut:



The VGT (Very Good Taste) Omnivore's Hundred:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea (it's Rooibos red tea or nothing!)
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (which is not pudding, it's blood sausage, "boudin noir" in French)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht (not anymore though, I hate beets)
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich (or PB&P in my case, I use fruit preserves, not jam.)
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses (so many French cheeses, so little time!)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (I do not drink... . . . . ...Wine...)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes (yummier than normal tomatoes!)
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras (are you kidding? I'm French!)
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese (OH HELL NO!)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (can't do spicy stuff)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters EW!
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas (NO SPICY!)
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (OH YES!!)
33. Salted lassi (Here in the US, it's mango lassi)
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float (Root beer? EW!)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea (you can tell this is a Brit meme. Rooibos only I said!)
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (vodka is like rubbing alcohol to me)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal (NO SPICY!)
44. Goat’s milk (also, goat cheese is awesome!)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu ( I don't wanna die that way)
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin (I can't eat those, they're too cute!)
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini (what makes it dirty?)
58. Beer above 8% ABV (all beers taste like liquid fermented bread to me)
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips (yes, carob is a dirty hippie trick on chocolate)
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (you want me to eat dirt? What!?!?)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis (NO!)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (Andouillette yes!)
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe (what? What does "louche" even mean in this context?)
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (if properly grilled, why not?)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail (hon hon hon!!!)
79. Lapsang souchong (ROOIBOS!)
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse (this is where all the horse lovers defriend me!! :D
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake



o/~ I eat cannibals! It's original! o/~

Comments

I HATE SPAM!!!

[coyoteseven.livejournal.com]

Re: I HATE SPAM!!!

[zrath.livejournal.com]

In France, we didn't have Spam(tm), we had "corned beef" in cans.
I was flummoxed and flabbergasted to discover upon my arrival in Los Angeles that you could get FRESH SLICED corned beef at the local deli! And that it was DELICIOUS!
My dad and I used to go to Farmer's Market (next to CBS Television City) regularly to eat corned beef sandwiches.
I think I told that story when we went to Canter's with your parental units and I ordered the corned beef.
Man, that stuff is even better than pastrami!

I have tasted Spam(tm) but I don't like it. I doubt I will eat it ever again.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I'll forgive the horse thing, because you are French. See? That comes in handy occasionally.

"Louche" is the procedure of dripping drops of absinthe over the sugar cube and adding water to make it pearlescent. It's part of the ritual. You will probably not go near this on account of the alcohol.

Funnily enough, a South African on my friendslist complained about this being an excessively American list on account of the USAn branded foods like McDonald's and Krispy Kreme. But most Americans don't get "Clotted Cream Tea" at all. That's not a dish, that's a meal, with tea and scones with clotted cream. OMG good but you might as well just inject in my arteries and get it over with. Sigh.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

I have been forgiven! Yea! :D

Ah, okay, I didn't know the procedure was called "louche".
"Louche" means either "ladle" or "being cross-eyed" or "suspicious".
So imagine my confusion.
I have had Pastis, which is Absinthe Lite and popular in Southern France.
It's yellowish clear and turns milky white when mixed with water and ice cubes.

US-centric? Mon derrière! That list is so Western Euro, it's not funny!
Apparently, UK market chain Tesco is overflowing with Krispy Kremes!
I tried KKs a couple of times but they're way too sweet and have too much frosting.
I dig buttermilk bars and old-fashioneds anyway.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I think much of the charm of Krispy Kreme is the childhood memories. Jim, for example was thrilled when they brought the chain to L.A. I swapped laundry duty with him to sit on line at the KK drive through, which that first weekend was an hour long. I got to read a book and relax while he did laundry, but he got his childhood memory brought to life. Fair trade.

The KK where this took place has been replaced by a Mexican chicken joint, which may indicate that there was not so much of a market here as previously thought. Shrug.

[snapes-angel.livejournal.com]

I might try this when I'mmore awake (bed straight afgter! 3:36 AM here!)

35. I like root beer floats. Grew up drinking them. Root beer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in it. I also like McDonald's original Shamrock Shake (St Patrick's day special, vanilla ice cream with green food coloring: I just liked the thought of a green milkshake, lol). In a similar vein was Howard Johnson's orange sherbet cooler, which was an orange sherbet shake with a scoop of lime sherbet in it. One drink I really had to get used to though, and only had it in Massachusetts, was a lime rickey. I'm still not sure to this day what goes into one of those.

One I had to get used to, but though the idea was strange at first, they turned out pretty good? Hot, soft pretzels with msutard.

[snapes-angel.livejournal.com]

Spam is really good when baked with chives and a bit of brown sugar (not much, just a pinch for flavor). Otherwise, no spam for me. GMail will, though, post spam recipes on occasion.

The first (and the last!) time I had a S'More was at sleepaway summer camp in 1972. Graham crackers with a bit of chocolate and toasted marshmallow made as a sandwich thing. It made me sick to my stomach. Go figure, since I like chocolate, graham crackers, and marshmallows.

Speaking of marshmallows, I liked the ones best that were burnt on the outside because they wre all gooey and sweet on the inside.

[equusmaximus.livejournal.com]

I'll also forgive you for eating Horse, given your heritage... However, a Frenchman who doesn't drink wine?!?!?! Personally, I can't drink the stuff, or any kind of alcohol. Just makes me very ill...