Cracker Barrel is decent enough for gotta pull off the road for food… But waffle house? Well could be worse could be Perkins.
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Could be a Bob Evans!! (I got BERY angry i a Bob Evans in Florida once. I will not return!)
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Because sometimes, you’re poor.
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You say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Steak-Umm is great. It’s essentially a prefab slice of beef that I always assume are just slaughterhouse sweepings, chopped and formed into a slab like particle board. A box includes six double-thick Steak-Umms, and I use two per sammich. I think that box of six goes for like five bucks or so. And it’s effort-free. I used to fry 'em up in a pan, but sometimes I’ll just break each frozen slab into four quadrants and microwave 'em in a bowl for 60 seconds per side, then drain the grease. Tear a Kraft single into two to fit longitudinally on the sammich and your old man’s sibling goes by Robert.
Sounds horrific, tastes just groovy.
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Gotta say, sounds pretty good to me.
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Do you use a safety razor or one of those 7-blade cartridge razors?
Convenience. If you keep a box in the freezer you know that at any moment you can crank out an emergency cheesesteak in a few minutes.
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Chili and lime Doritos are a thing that exists??? I suspect they’re not quite as good as the chili and lime Sabrositas that Fritos used to make, but I’ll take what I can get. Maybe this is a thing I need to have my parents in San Diego look for.
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Our cheapass dinners were the Banquet boil-in-bag turkey & gravy over white bread. Not Wonder, though. That was the expensive bread.
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I definitely am unmonied, so I can relate. But my experiences have always been that packaged and processed foods only appear to be cheaper because they fill it with something else which I would never want. Like meat + sawdust, cheese + vegetable oil, etc.
There is always some ingredient/convenience tradeoff. But if it’s a food I am not familiar with, I wonder what it is.
But I already do that anyway…
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Oh man an open face turkey sandwich is such wonderful stuff… too bad it is also not the heathiest thing to have.
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Same same! Sabritos = Fritos Lay = Doritos!!
All the same company depending on geography!
If.you are in the SW USA its Fritos Lay.
And Chili Lime is a delicious delicious thing!
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Oh, no doubt. But chronically being poor tends to mean you buy what you can afford, and for most people that’s cheap stuff like steak-umms.
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Wow! I haven’t had one of those in… decades! As a kid we also enjoyed Banquet TV dinners from time to time.
For what it’s worth, Steak-Umms are 100% beef. They’re coy about exactly which bits of cow you’re eating, but apparently it’s all cow.
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The Doritos I believe I can get…but I’ll want to eat them. Lime is as addictive for me as dill. (Waffle House and Cracker Barrel? ::face palm:: Oof-da.)
@TobinL: That’d be approximately north of the 43rd for me, bub. Windsor is south of Detroit.
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I heard tell of a city boy born and raised there.
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Oh, you…
[edt] I have, IRL, shouted “Windsor” at that point in that stupid song at Joe Lewis Arena (i.e.- at Red Wings games) several times. Even a good chunk of the born-n-bred locals can’t seem to make the connection in spite of Detroit news only ever coving east, west and north.
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Look we just dont have a place to get shredded fried potatoes with chocolate chip waffles ok? Not a chain anyways. And NO WHERE here does chicken and dumplings and collard greens with vinegar! Thats not a thing here! Also dry restaurants? Thats just fuckig adorable!
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We too, used to get steak-umms when I was a scamp. I still remember how they taste, but I haven’t had them in years…
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I was tickled to discover them in my local Ralphs about ten years ago. Before then, I hadn’t seen them since the Reagan Administration.
I have some in my freezer even now.
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