Comfort food

[oldbandnerd]

Tonight I had to cook dinner and I decided to fix some comfort food. It is cold here (28 F) and I am
tired. I just wanted a full,happy belly.
Tonights country cuisine :

Cambell's Tomatoe soup ( made with milk ), grilled cheese sandwhices (real butter not crappy margarine), a pound of hickory smoked bacon and ice cold milk(whole milk,not that pansy 2% junk) to wash it all down .

I feel all warm and fuzzy inside now.

[bort]

That sounds a LOT better than the bowl of soup and bagel that I had. I'm out of beer too!

[tubatooter1940]

It was cold last night. My wife made a big pot of elbow macaroni with crumbled up hamburger, one can of cheddar cheese soup, one can of celery soup and diced canned tomatoes (including juice) with a sprinkle of Tony Chachere's seasoning. Everybody loves it and the stuff tastes even better the second day after a night in the fridge.

[NickJones]

home made seafood and sweetcorn chowder...thick sliced toast with welsh butter or melted cheese and a pint of cider

[scottw]

Potroast that's been cooking all day! The smell builds you up, and the taste doesn't let you down--ever.And, you get your daily dose of carrots and potatoes at no extra charge. A little hard roll with butter and you need a nap immediately.

[The Big Ben]

Comfort food to me is anything that has big gobs of melted cheddar cheese. Left to my own devices, I could go through a 2# block of cheese in a week. Grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese, cheese pizza, nachos. The list goes on and on.

Relating to OBN's need for butter and whole milk: I guess it's what a person is raised with. We didn't go without but seemed to always be on the edge so we always had margarine and 2% milk. We ate lots of bread, too. My Mother had the scam on that one: She would shop at the commercial bakery outlet store. Lots of times, they baked more really good bread for their commercial customers than their customers could use so they sold it off in the outlet store. She would get things two dozen "five loaves for a dollar really good sandwich bread" and bring them home and freeze them. She also cooked a 20# turkey once a month, had hot out of the oven turkey dinner on a Sunday and the rest of it was made into turkey sandwiches and turkey salad for sandwiches. I was the kid who got to pick the bits off the carcass and put 'em all through the grinder. My brother and I had these turkey salad sandwiches on fine rye bread with lettuce and good mustard and loved them. I was the envy of other kids who had a single bologna-slice-with-yellow-mustard-on-Wonder at lunch day after day..... Gotta love those mothers who grew up in the Depression. Mom could take a dollar and buy a dollar-fifty's worth of stuff.... I love turkey dinner- it reminds me of home and my Mother.

I'm not much for Rush either but his profession- sitting behind a microphone for four hours a day and probably going to a lot of banquets and 'rubber chicken dinners"- does make it difficult to lose weight but he seems to be succeeding with the plan he has.

I've lost much in the past (and should get started again) using the packaged meals approach. The various vendors offer a wide variety of tastes and flavors so there is a fair amount of choice. All of the plans that utilize packaged foods allow quite a bit of choice outside of what is packaged. When it is packaged, it makes it convenient to choose rather than eat something high calorie which is also convenient.

Jeff "Yes, I'm a Mama's Boy" Benedict

[oldbandnerd]

bloke said :

I'm walking into the front end of a serious personal commitment (no "clubs", thanks just the same) to cease being an over-eater.

Don't go changing ...we love you just the way your are .

[Rick Denney]

I've heard that - sometimes - when people are in the process of weight loss, they tend to be "short" or a bit "terse" on discussion lists.

In that case, you ought to be thin as a rail.

Rick "And Dale ought to be anorexic" Denney

[MartyNeilan]

My wife worked until after 9 last night in the freezing cold, and ordered some "comfort food" on the way home. She ordered a Wendy's Bacon Double Cheeseburger. Note the words Bacon and Cheese included in the title and reflected in the price. When they asked what she wanted on it, she replied "only mayo, pickles, and onions." Weird, but that's what she was in the mood for after freezing her butt off since early morning.
So...
When she came home tired and pissed off and opened up the bag...
She had a bun with two pieces of meat and mayo, pickles, and onions on top. No bacon and no cheese, despite paying for them. They took her just a little too literal on the toppings.
Needless to say, she was not comforted by this food but yelled and cursed at me for 10 minutes about it.
even though I had absolutely nothing to do with it

[MaryAnn]

Ah, it was the word "only." I feel her pain....I wonder if counter people where you live have been as robot-ized as they have where I live.

I still remember going Back East at one point (20 years ago, but I already lived in the Southwest then) and being just downright astonished that I could say an entire order in one sentence and have the counter people get it. I didn't have to do it this way:

Hamburger
(counter person pushes button, says "Do you want cheese on that?")
No
(counter person pushes button: says "Do you want fries with that?")
No
Small Coke
(counter person pushes button, says "Do you want a combo with the large drink?")

It doesn't even matter if I say
"I want a hamburger and a small Coke and NOTHING ELSE," the exact same sequence will happen as above, unless I walk out, which I have done on a few occasions. Sometimes I'll run through it three times, verbatim, and if they won't take my order as given I decide I'm really not all that hungry anyway. It's like they have a sign that says "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone who won't play our little stupid game."

Back in Albany, NY, when I went into a burger joint, I was able to give them a complete order in one sentence and they were, lo and behold, actually willing to believe that I knew what I wanted, and they had the IQ to remember it and punch it in the stupid cash register without having to do it one word at a time.

We may not be having global warming, but we sure are having global stupiding.

MA

[The Big Ben]

Ah, it was the word "only." I feel her pain....I wonder if counter people where you live have been as robot-ized as they have where I live.

I still remember going Back East at one point (20 years ago, but I already lived in the Southwest then) and being just downright astonished that I could say an entire order in one sentence and have the counter people get it. I didn't have to do it this way:

Hamburger
(counter person pushes button, says "Do you want cheese on that?")
No
(counter person pushes button: says "Do you want fries with that?")
No
Small Coke
(counter person pushes button, says "Do you want a combo with the large drink?")

It doesn't even matter if I say
"I want a hamburger and a small Coke and NOTHING ELSE," the exact same sequence will happen as above, unless I walk out, which I have done on a few occasions. Sometimes I'll run through it three times, verbatim, and if they won't take my order as given I decide I'm really not all that hungry anyway. It's like they have a sign that says "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone who won't play our little stupid game."

Back in Albany, NY, when I went into a burger joint, I was able to give them a complete order in one sentence and they were, lo and behold, actually willing to believe that I knew what I wanted, and they had the IQ to remember it and punch it in the stupid cash register without having to do it one word at a time.

The counter help is given a script and their evaluation is based on how well they follow it. Management has a running video of each worker and it is frequently evaluated. Standardization is the thing in those places and there can be no deviation from the rules.

[MaryAnn]

I've had more than one counter person call over a manager when I refused to play the game.

And, if they treat their employees that way, rewarding them for being robots, they truly do not need my business.

M "can be obstinate" A

[Dan Schultz]

...... The counter help is given a script and their evaluation is based on how well they follow it. Management has a running video of each worker and it is frequently evaluated. Standardization is the thing in those places and there can be no deviation from the rules.

That being the case... I simply take my business elsewhere.

Two years ago, I was in a hurry to get to a community function. I breezed into the drive-thru at Hardee's and ordered two regular cheeseburgers. I pulled up to the window and handed in a $20 for what I think was a $2.4X purchase. The window closed and the next thing I knew I was handed my two cheeseburgers. When I asked about my change, the girl replied "oh my God... I forgot to give it to you. I can't get back into the drawer so I'll have to call my manager." The manager appeared and took the cash drawer. He asked me to pull forward so other customers could be serviced while he counted the drawer. I refused to move and stayed in my car outside the window for what seemed like ten minutes waiting for my change. Remember that I was in a hurry to get to a function. The manager got downright nasty and I invited him to call the police if he wanted me to move. I finally got my change and moved on. The manager explained to me that this was store policy. The next day, I went to the regional Hardee's office and complained. It was explained again that this is store policy. I suggest that the policy should be "give the customer his change, get his ID, and be done with it". They weren't interested. I will no longer darken the door at Hardee's.

[bort]

Comfort lunch: 2 PB&J sandwiches and a glass of whole milk. Delicious!