I picked up a can of Spaghettios while shopping for groceries the other day.
Man, it's been at least 5-6 years since I last ate Spaghettios!
I got the kind with the sliced franks in it. I've got a lot of fond memories of that particular kind because my mom used to serve it to us kids all the time.
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Are there any foods that you like but haven't had in awhile?
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About 14 years and counting. I loved them, but my mother didn't want me eating them.
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Linguini Puttanesca. Used to work in a hotel and one of the chefs used to make me a bowl of this stuff now and then, was the best food I have ever tasted. Hands down. 2 years and counting...
Gee Ash, when I read the title, I thought you got laid. :teddyr:
Quote from: AndyC on April 08, 2009, 03:44:51 PM
Gee Ash, when I read the title, I thought you got laid. :teddyr:
Heh! I thought that too.
Actually, it has been awhile since I've had:
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I have not neen keeping track, but is easily a decade, maybe even more since I had one of these.
Lobster... :bluesad:
Spaghetti carbonara.
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It's been years and I suddenly just got a craving.
Roast chicken
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Glumpkies.Also known as Pigs-in-a-Blanket...stuffed cabbage.
My step mom used to make these....I haven't had any in over 20 years... :bluesad:
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Frankie's Chicago Style Pizza - I lived in Minneapolis for many years, and there was this little restaurant called Frankie's that has the best pizza I've ever had in my life. Now we live about 2 1/2 hours from Minneapolis, so we only get up there once or twice a year - an we ALWAYS stop there for lunch. Last time was 6 or 7 months ago.
Meatball sub - when I lived in California, there was a little Italian take-out restaurant that had meatball subs that were just extraordinary. All other meatball subs pale in comparison - like comparing a real pizza with a frozen one. Haven't been to that place since about 1982.
Hardee's mushroom and swiss burger - I love those things! The only Hardees around here is way downtown and with all the stoplights and 30 mph traffic, the thing would be cold by the time I got home, so we never go there. Haven't had one of those in years.
When I was a kid, supermarkets sold SPACE FOOD STICKS. This was in the years following the first moon landing. The televisions claimed the astronauts ate these things. They came in boxes of a dozen or so. They were thin, cylindrical, individually wrapped snacks that had a texture sort of like a tootsie roll (but much softer and easier to chew). They came in various flavors like chocolate and peanut butter. I remember asking my mother to buy them every time we went to the supermarket. Yeah, sure the astronauts ate them.
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Over a decade....
Doner kebab. Fairly easy to find where I used to live, with the best being served at a little diner across the street from my office. The owner was from Cyprus and had the machine shipped over from Turkey. Prepared the meat himself, all fresh and no filler. On a pita with tomato, lettuce, tzatsiki, etc., it can't be beat.
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That's not him, by the way. It's a picture from Wikipedia.
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Though that logo isn't the one I remember, I defiantly bought and drank RC Cola quite a few years ago, though everybody else who drank cola drank Coke or Pepsi. I collected the bottles and lined them up in my window until my Dad told me to throw them away :hatred: - that's him = :hatred:
Now, I see his point... :lookingup: :drink:
I actually bought a 2 liter of RC cola about a month ago.
UGH! It has seriously gone downhill in taste.
I wasn't even able to finish a single glass, and when it sat in my fridge for over 2 weeks, I ended up dumping it down the drain.
Awful, awful soda. :thumbdown:
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Mmmmm-White Castle Sliders! When I was a teen and worked in a theater I would show up on my day off and watch free movies all day with a bag of these by my side. I could easily eat 20 in one sitting and finish a large fries and jumbo coke. I ate 3a few years ago and was nauseous the rest of the day. But at least now I don't have the pickle and onion burps :thumbup:
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 09, 2009, 06:28:00 AM
Glumpkies.Also known as Pigs-in-a-Blanket...stuffed cabbage.
My step mom used to make these....I haven't had any in over 20 years... :bluesad:
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There is a restaurant near my house that does these really well. To my mind its the only legitimate use of cabbage.
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Quote from: AndyC on April 09, 2009, 10:51:00 AM
Doner kebab. Fairly easy to find where I used to live, with the best being served at a little diner across the street from my office. The owner was from Cyprus and had the machine shipped over from Turkey. Prepared the meat himself, all fresh and no filler. On a pita with tomato, lettuce, tzatsiki, etc., it can't be beat.
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That's not him, by the way. It's a picture from Wikipedia.
I love a kebab as much (or more) than the next man. But that picture looks like he's serving roast leg.
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Quote from: AndyC on April 09, 2009, 10:51:00 AM
Doner kebab. Fairly easy to find where I used to live, with the best being served at a little diner across the street from my office. The owner was from Cyprus and had the machine shipped over from Turkey. Prepared the meat himself, all fresh and no filler. On a pita with tomato, lettuce, tzatsiki, etc., it can't be beat.
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That's not him, by the way. It's a picture from Wikipedia.
Sounds alot like a 'Gyro'
Quote from: Ash on April 10, 2009, 12:43:00 AM
I actually bought a 2 liter of RC cola about a month ago.
UGH! It has seriously gone downhill in taste.
I wasn't even able to finish a single glass, and when it sat in my fridge for over 2 weeks, I ended up dumping it down the drain.
Awful, awful soda. :thumbdown:
When I was around 14 or 15 years old, one of my neighbors worked for RC. Heand hiswife were good friends with my parents. One time, he brought over a promotional 33 1/3 RPM record album of various versions of the "What's good enough for other folks ain't good enough for me and my RC" commercial jingle. Boy, did I get sick of my father playing that thing.
Quote from: ghouck on April 10, 2009, 12:58:40 PM
Quote from: AndyC on April 09, 2009, 10:51:00 AM
Doner kebab. Fairly easy to find where I used to live, with the best being served at a little diner across the street from my office. The owner was from Cyprus and had the machine shipped over from Turkey. Prepared the meat himself, all fresh and no filler. On a pita with tomato, lettuce, tzatsiki, etc., it can't be beat.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Bursa24.JPG)
That's not him, by the way. It's a picture from Wikipedia.
Sounds alot like a 'Gyro'
Sounds like it, only made exclusively with lamb, I guess. Gyros can be made with any kind of meat (I sw goat meat in Greece). Maybe the spices are different too.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 10, 2009, 07:09:33 PM
Quote from: ghouck on April 10, 2009, 12:58:40 PM
Quote from: AndyC on April 09, 2009, 10:51:00 AM
Doner kebab. Fairly easy to find where I used to live, with the best being served at a little diner across the street from my office. The owner was from Cyprus and had the machine shipped over from Turkey. Prepared the meat himself, all fresh and no filler. On a pita with tomato, lettuce, tzatsiki, etc., it can't be beat.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Bursa24.JPG)
That's not him, by the way. It's a picture from Wikipedia.
Sounds alot like a 'Gyro'
Sounds like it, only made exclusively with lamb, I guess. Gyros can be made with any kind of meat (I sw goat meat in Greece). Maybe the spices are different too.
I always understood Gyros to be made of lamb. . .
Gyro is the Greek variation of doner kebab. In Canada, it seems like the two are almost interchangeable. I think it really depends on whether the owner of the restaurant is Greek or Turkish. There is actually a Canadian variation called a "donair" which isn't all that different either. I think the sauce might be what makes it a donair.
That cucumber sauce is AWESOME, , I had a gyro where they used ranch dressing, it was god awful, partially because I was expecting such a different taste than what I got. Pretty sure I tried for a refund.
They're not bad with hummus. I used to love them with hummus and onions, but I needed my wife's permission, because it made me stink for about two days. :teddyr:
Quote from: AndyC on April 11, 2009, 07:45:52 AM
Gyro is the Greek variation of doner kebab. In Canada, it seems like the two are almost interchangeable. I think it really depends on whether the owner of the restaurant is Greek or Turkish. There is actually a Canadian variation called a "donair" which isn't all that different either. I think the sauce might be what makes it a donair.
Memories coming back... of a trip to Canada I had tried to block out of my memory. :wink: I believe I had donairs. The sauce is definitely different than a gyro. They were good, though. Still not sure whether a doner kebab and a gyro are different names for the same dish, but they're all good.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 14, 2009, 10:27:55 AM
Still not sure whether a doner kebab and a gyro are different names for the same dish, but they're all good.
More like two different countries' variations of the same dish. I think one is actually derived from the other. In any case, the guy I usually bought from was a Turk, so it was a doner. It tasted similar to the gyros I bought from the Greek who owned the restaurant many years before him. I suspect both dishes were Canadianized.