Showing posts with label Half-Assed Gourmet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Half-Assed Gourmet. Show all posts
Friday, April 20, 2018

Half-Assed Gourmet: DQ is your source for country gravy and toast?

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On various "apps" and streaming video services, I keep running into a Dairy Queen ad touting "fan food"--not fast food, ...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Half-Assed Gourmet: SO RIGHT micro meals get at least one thing right

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As a longtime connosieur of processed microwave-ready convenience meals, I have experienced many small annoyances when reading the instructi...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Half-Assed Gourmet: Little Caesar's has a cheap pizza that is slightly less cheap than its regular pizza

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Can you imagine walking into your local Little Caesar's franchise, striding to the counter, and declaring, "I'd like your SECON...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Half-Assed Gourmet: Love that chicken from Popeye's, but the atmosphere...

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This year, before a lot of you go bird wild on turkey, let me talk about MY kind of dining experience: a trip to a local fast food joint. ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Half-Assed Gourmet: Red Lobster Endless Shrimp

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Watch a football game on the weekend, and there's a good chance you'll see an ad for Endless Shrimp, the annual event designed by Re...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Half-Assed Gourmet: Fast Food Adventures

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Let me present some observations based on recent excursions to various cheap eats joints, or fast food establishments , if you will. *Burg...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Half-assed Gourmet: The Tony Danza Breakfast

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Did you read about Tony Danza's secret method for longevity? He eats the same breakfast each day : a banana and 3 breadsticks. He makes ...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Half-assed Gormet: Chik-Fil-A's Berry Protein Blast

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You  know, I'd write more about Chik-Fil-A except I have one big problem with it: No, it's nothing political. It's  just that I ...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Half-Assed Gourmet: What the heck is a Whopperito?

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I would write more about the happenin' fast food trends in America, but usually by the time I get around to trying a new menu item, it...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Half-Assed Gourmet: Cheez-It GRIPZ

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Continuing our country's trends of miniaturizing things (by making them smaller for no apparent reason) and of infantilizing them (by sp...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Half-Assed Gourmet UPDATE

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Recently I expressed my discomfort (“bitched” just sounds so inelegant) with McDonald's decision to slap mayonnaise—which has been clas...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Half-Assed Gourmet: Grilled Chicken, Cheddar and Onion with WHAT?

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I somehow developed an affinity for the McDonald's Dollar Menu's CBO burger--that's Cheddar, Bacon, and Onion to those of you wh...
Saturday, July 9, 2011

On the Road: Half-Assed Gourmet is grateful for Chik-Fil-A

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I know some people have problems with Chik - Fil -A and its politics and its Christian orientation, but how can you not love its food? Not o...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Yo kind of quiero-ed Taco Bell

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A few weeks ago, I had a hankering for something my father had described to me: the new Pacific Shrimp Taco at Taco Bell. I have never been ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Half-Assed Gourmet: Viva Los Taco Doritos!

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The other day, I'm in the local outpost of The Greatest Supermarket Chain Known to Mankind, Wegmans , when I see a nice-looking family--...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Half-Assed Gourmet: Ah, trans fats...

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I recently looked through one of those "Eat This, Not That" books (which are excellent, by the way, loaded with info and lively wr...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Half-Assed Gourmet: Hard to find good help?

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On Mother's Day weekend, my family and I decided to be clever and go out the day before Mother's Day. You know, Saturday is the new ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Half-Assed Gourmet: McDonald's Angus Burger

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It will come as no surprise to eaters of fast food, or to readers of this blog, for that matter, that hamburgers often look much better in ...
Sunday, August 9, 2009

Half-Assed Gourmet: Chain Restaurants

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OK, a lot of of you out there probably loathe so-called "neighborhood casual" chain restaurants--you know, your Friday's, Ruby...
Friday, March 6, 2009

Half-Assed Gourmet: Arby's Roast Burger

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The other day, I was oot and aboot, as our Canadian friends might say (though I wasn't in Canada), and I needed some food, fast. So I we...
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