Food 2: Chew Harder • Page 94

Stuffed some crescent rolls with seasoned broccoli cheddar onion, more cheddar on top

 

After all the Five Guys talk in here I ended up making a copycat Five Guys burger for dinner last night. Excuse the chips instead of 15 pounds of fries

 

I had Freddy's for the first time recently. That place really impressed me. I need to have it again soon.

 

Now you just gotta throw peanuts on your floor!

 

The grilled cheese steak burger is my favorite thing they make, but it's not always available.

I just wish it all wasn't so pricey.

 

Damn, that looks great. I had the California style double and I loved it. Their patty melt looks pretty good too.

 

Im a big fan of the shoestring fries from Freddy's

 

Yes, their fries are my favorite fast-casual fry.

 

I just learned about chicken salt from Australia and now I'm interested to douse some fries in it.

Basically a seasoning blend with chicken bouillon powder hence the name chicken salt. Sounds great though...

 

Also I had my first non smash burger in a while from a really good local place I hadn't been to in a while and it ruled. Medium cook with American cheese, LTOP and mayo and it was perfect. I think it was just a nice change from the ultra caramelized smash. A good change of pace to have a thick (but not too thick), extremely juicy patty.

I was also smashed myself and that may have had something to do with it but one of my best burger experiences in a long while.

 

Are we referencing hamburgers now as non smash burgers?

 

I feel like that's the burger style almost everywhere I go and it's literally been forever since I had just a regular hamburger. So long ago that I did indeed forget the olde language.

 

ya'll are making me wanna chew harder on a burger tonight.

 

It feels as if every pub and grill these days has switched to smash burgers, even though a lot of those places don't actually smash their patties.

 

Most places just call a double cheeseburger a smash burger and don’t know what the hell theyre talking about.

 

On a road trip to Canada and my mind was blown that Maine sells liquor in grocery stores when we made a pit stop

Liquor is food right? That counts in here? Haha

 

I've always found it much weirder that NH separates liquor to the state run stores. Kinda inconvenient tbh. MA is the strangest I've heard of here in New England. Apparently a retail company can only have like 9 liquor licenses across the entire state, so the entire Hannaford corporation can have that many stores with liquor throughout the whole state. This is why there are package stores all across the state instead of every grocery store just having alcohol sales.

 

PA has state stores. Only recently could you buy beer and wine at a grocery store.

 

You still can't in Maryland. I don't live there anymore, but visit for an O's game every year and it annoys me having to make a separate stop from the grocery store for beer when stocking the air bnb for the weekend.

I guess Maryland argues it protects the smaller stores from the big chains? Idk about that but it's lame.

 

I remember walking into the beer store my junior year of college to get a 4-pack of Sierra Nevada tall boys. The guys at the register laughed and said I had to buy the whole pack. Wasn’t looking to spend like $45 on a case of beer so I just left lol.

I had to drive a half hour to Wegman’s to buy anything less than a 24-pack.

 

California is normal, you can buy regular beer, wine, and liquor at every grocery store and liquor store.

 

Yeah but woke

 

I remember being so disappointed on a road trip driving through Colorado and having to get 3.2 beer because only the grocery store was still open. I never knew that was a thing. Flyover ass states.

 

The liquor laws in CO is what made craft breweries so successful there. They didn't have to compete with the macro breweries for shelf space at an entire grocery chain and could just go to the local stores and talk with the owners, who were willing to give a chance to anyone pretty much

 

Celebrated National Ice Cream Day with some amazing vegan mango sticky rice ice cream from Wanderlust Creamery here in SoCal. Only planned on getting a small scoop, but got a whole cone once I saw they offered an ube waffle cone!!! It was absolutely fantastic



Not pictured: My wife got the ube malted crunch which was also phenomenal. It was ube ice cream with chunks of uncoated malt balls throughout. The chunks were big too, which I love. Also on an ube cone!