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12 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I appreciate the offer, but my wife wouldn't be real thrilled about it.  Might have to take you up on the rice though. 

Of course, I don't get through Ottumwa often at all.  No friends/family in the area and it's not really on the way to anywhere I go.  I think I've been through there once.

Google says like 3.5 hours from you right? Worth it.

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18 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Google says like 3.5 hours from you right? Worth it.

Right on the nuts.

27 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Google says like 3.5 hours from you right? Worth it.

 

7 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Right on the nuts.

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I just remember that he lives really close to the SPAM museum in Austin MN, but on the Iowa side. Hard to forget the majesty of the SPAM museum. 

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I'm sure I've mentioned the name of the town I live in before.

My first wife and I were young poors back in the day and we would slice Spam and put in a baking dish with slice pineapple with some of the juice mixed with a tiny bit of brown sugar. I think it was good.

1 hour ago, Underdog said:

Wait... There's a Spam museum?

Yup.  Just outside of downtown Austin*.

 

 

*Austin, Minnesota that is

25 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

My first wife and I were young poors back in the day and we would slice Spam and put in a baking dish with slice pineapple with some of the juice mixed with a tiny bit of brown sugar. I think it was good.

Spam, Hamburger Helper and whatever I brought home from Church's were the meals of our early days of marriage. 

1 minute ago, Underdog said:

Spam, Hamburger Helper and whatever I brought home from Church's were the meals of our early days of marriage. 

Hamburger Helper Beef Stroganoff was awesome.

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HH is the bomb, and anyone who disagrees needs to be ex-communicated from this thread. 

I made HH Spaghetti Sunday and have been eating it for lunch all week. I make white bread sandwiches with it. Delish. 

Cheeseburger macaroni and tuna tetrazzini(canned chicken used) were always in our rotation. 

21 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

HH is the bomb, and anyone who disagrees needs to be ex-communicat

This. 

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49 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

HH is the bomb, and anyone who disagrees needs to be ex-communicated from this thread. 

A bowl of meaty gloppy goodness was always welcome.

It would be welcome today.

1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

I made HH Spaghetti Sunday and have been eating it for lunch all week. I make white bread sandwiches with it. Delish. 

With this & you're really ballin'. 

 

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3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

I made HH Spaghetti Sunday and have been eating it for lunch all week. I make white bread sandwiches with it. Delish. 

Keeping your gastroenterologist happy, I see...

I don’t know why they call it “Hamburger Helper”, it does just fine by itself. I like it better than Tuna Helper, myself.

It goes better topped with real tomato ketchup Eddie.

In college I lived off of Tuna Partner and Panburger Partner from Hy-Vee (think HEB for the western Midwest) as it was at least $.50/box cheaper than the real thing.  Douse in hot sauce, and plate it up onto a saltine cracker, and that my friend, is L-I-V-I-N

15 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Hamburger Helper Beef Stroganoff was awesome.

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Add some Hatch chilis and sauteed mushrooms and that is fine eating.

12 hours ago, SurlyGator said:

Keeping your gastroenterologist happy, I see...

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4 hours ago, baboso said:

Add some Hatch chilis and sauteed mushrooms and that is fine eating.

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On 1/16/2025 at 4:07 PM, Al_4_ISU said:

Yup.  Just outside of downtown Austin*.

 

 

*Austin, Minnesota that is


I thought you lived in London?
 

London, IA that is 

1 hour ago, Covri said:


I thought you lived in London?
 

London, IA that is 

Closer to London, MN

13 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Closer to London, MN

That’s what get for zooming in so close lol

Could cross-post in the "trivial things that please the..." thread- when the leftovers are better than the actual meal. Had a big gathering of folks from my wife's family last night at the original El Fenix. It wasn't good. Food was pretty much room temp, service was off, all that. I chalked it up to one server waiting on a humongous party, so whatever, who gives a shit. Wife and I got both versions of the fajita cheese enchiladas- one topped with chili con carne and beef fajita meat, the other sour cream style topped with fajita chicken. Took most of it home. 

Tonight I decided to make tacos wth the leftovers. So we've got enchilada tacos with the accompanying rice and beans, fresh japs, onions, cilantro, homemade copycat Chuy's creamy jalapeno, and Salsa Dona. A thousand times better than the sit-down dinner we had last night 🤘

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Had some beef brisket bacon (our local HEB caters to the kosher crowd, picked up a pack a while back to try it....not bad) that I needed to cook.  So, made myself a beef bacon and 'merican cheese sammich for an early lunch today (working from home due to the blizzard of '25).
 
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1 hour ago, Steel Shank said:

@Brisketexan Ima mark you down as "safe and fed".

You usually can.  If we can also check off "laid," then we're L-I-V-I-N.

48 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

Holy shit, tell me more about beef brisket bacon.

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This stuff.   Not cheap, but actually pretty damned good.  All-in-all, good old pig bacon will be my go-to, but this is nice variety, and it's cool to have something like that available when we have our jewish pals over.

31 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

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This stuff.   Not cheap, but actually pretty damned good.  All-in-all, good old pig bacon will be my go-to, but this is nice variety, and it's cool to have something like that available when we have our jewish pals over.

You have my undivided attention with that beef bacon.  That said, I had a lot of Jewish friends growing up (still very close to many of them), and I can't think of one who didn't go for seconds on the bacon.  I believe the word I'm groping for is "reformed."

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45 minutes ago, dcbc said:

You have my undivided attention with that beef bacon.  That said, I had a lot of Jewish friends growing up (still very close to many of them), and I can't think of one who didn't go for seconds on the bacon.  I believe the word I'm groping for is "reformed."

Oh, we definitely grew up with the much more casual jews.  They loved them some ham and bacon.  But we do have a few friends here in town who actually keep kosher (driven in large part by one of their kids, who has gone pretty hard-core religious; the parents are more ambivalent about it.  They went to school in NOLA, and miss the hell outta shrimp and oysters).

4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

They went to school in NOLA

Let me guess where.

15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Oh, we definitely grew up with the much more casual jews.  They loved them some ham and bacon.  But we do have a few friends here in town who actually keep kosher (driven in large part by one of their kids, who has gone pretty hard-core religious; the parents are more ambivalent about it.  They went to school in NOLA, and miss the hell outta shrimp and oysters).

That's some pretty shellfish behavior on the kid's part.

 

/I kid.  I kid

27 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Let me guess where.

Oh, jew know.  And, dude, stay in your lane.

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

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This stuff.   Not cheap, but actually pretty damned good.  All-in-all, good old pig bacon will be my go-to, but this is nice variety, and it's cool to have something like that available when we have our jewish pals over.

First experience with beef bacon was at Katz Deli on 6th. 
Can also be found at the Far West HEB along with the better sights amongst the Austin HEBs, if open of course. 

4 minutes ago, Al Czervik said:

First experience with beef bacon was at Katz Deli on 6th. 
Can also be found at the Far West HEB along with the better sights amongst the Austin HEBs, if open of course. 

Indeed.  That's our store.  Best time to hit it?  Around 10:00 am on a Tuesday.  After all the yoga classes and such let out.  One time years ago, I had a Tuesday off, and ended up there at that time.  I bumped into a dozen women I know, all of them looked fantastic, I had a delightful time.

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7 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Had some beef brisket bacon (our local HEB caters to the kosher crowd, picked up a pack a while back to try it....not bad) that I needed to cook.  So, made myself a beef bacon and 'merican cheese sammich for an early lunch today (working from home due to the blizzard of '25).
 
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I appreciate your attempt at keeping it healthy by using bread that was dipped in a bird feeder and rolled in freshly mowed grass prior to baking.

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8 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I appreciate your attempt at keeping it healthy by using bread that was dipped in a bird feeder and rolled in freshly mowed grass prior to baking.

Sigh.  I lets the wife buy the bread, this is the stuff she brings home.  I'm lucky it's bread at all, and not some sort of "cauliflower soy imitation bread product."

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34 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Sigh.  I lets the wife buy the bread, this is the stuff she brings home.  I'm lucky it's bread at all, and not some sort of "cauliflower soy imitation bread product."

Haha I get it, I have to eat the Dave’s superlicious 21 grain bread from HEB or similar too.  It’s not bad, but makes a mess in the toaster and in my frying pan.

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When my MIL comes to visit (she’s 80 and tries to eat healthy) my wife buys these frozen English muffin things that I swear you could get in the horse aisle of Tractor Supply for half the price.  Have to chew the damned things for 10 minutes and drink a gallon of water, and the seeds still clank when they hit the toilet bowl.  

Haha I get it, I have to eat the Dave’s superlicious 21 grain bread from HEB or similar too.  It’s not bad, but makes a mess in the toaster and in my frying pan.

Pretty sure this is that Dave’s bread, because I read the name on the label and as I put it in the toaster I said “Dave’s not here, man.”
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41 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


“Dave’s not here, man.”

Dave needs his entire ass kicked, or else needs to come clean my toaster.  

8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Had some beef brisket bacon (our local HEB caters to the kosher crowd, picked up a pack a while back to try it....not bad) that I needed to cook.  So, made myself a beef bacon and 'merican cheese sammich for an early lunch today (working from home due to the blizzard of '25).
 
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I don’t care what those fuckers say about the bread, that is one fantastic looking sammich.

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