A FOOD poll

[clare]

I made an awesome frittata for dinner tonight. Fried up red onion, garlic, zuchs, mushrooms and red caps. Smoky paprika and herb salt for seasoning. Eggs, a bit of milk with more herb salt, and some tomato slices, parmesan and more paprika on the top. Cooked it on the stove top until it was getting firm and then whacked it in the oven to cook the top. Genius move (I thought) I put tajin on it. I'm totally into tajin - it's great, and I'm annoyed that mango season is over so I can't put it on them.

[coldforge]

Finally hit up Grand Sichuan last night. It was fucking great. The spicy lamb with ginger was essentially a soothing balm in comparison to the Chongqing Chicken, which is basically a giant pile of dried roasted chiles with chunks of fried chicken in it. So I was in total combat mode, going to town on these peppers, cursing God and the Chinese nation. Really tasty stuff. Spiciest meal I've had in years, but no gastrointestinal distress to speak of. I still have a little to-go container stuffed with peppers that i have resolved to put in every meal until they're gone. I shall go back for sure.

[Thermofusion]

Milly I was researching that Made-Rite, original purveyors of the "loose meat" sandwich, they randomly opened a location in NC earlier this year! Worth driving 2 hours for, dogg?

Worth flying 20 hours for! (or at least the bloke reckons so -he grew up in Des Moines)

Yesssss, this is what I wanna hear, sister! I'm gunnin' for ya, Maid-Rite!!!

[peacocks]

sounds like the company that makes bandaids

[YojimboMonkey]

Alton Brown visits one of the Maid Rites in my hometown

[Thermofusion]

I appreciate that they just let all the loose meat simmer in a giant vat all day, something very midwestern and horrorcore about that

[cold before sunrise]

best.

[clare]

The bloke has tried to emulate Maid-Rite here, but it's not quite the same he claims. i still like it better than sloppy joes, which are bad, apart from their name...

[Thermofusion]

I never liked sloppy joes either (or to be more specific I never liked Manwich sauce). Maid-Rites look to be flavored and seasoned quite differently, though.

[elpollodiablo]

There was a Maid-Rite in Oxford for the first six months we lived here! I put them in the category of foods that I wouldn't look at twice when sober but which are damn satisfying when you got a drunk on.

[elpollodiablo]

Finally hit up Grand Sichuan last night. It was fucking great. The spicy lamb with ginger was essentially a soothing balm in comparison to the Chongqing Chicken, which is basically a giant pile of dried roasted chiles with chunks of fried chicken in it. So I was in total combat mode, going to town on these peppers, cursing God and the Chinese nation. Really tasty stuff. Spiciest meal I've had in years, but no gastrointestinal distress to speak of. I still have a little to-go container stuffed with peppers that i have resolved to put in every meal until they're gone. I shall go back for sure.

Holy jesus Grand Sichuan. I used to go to happy hour there sometimes with people from work and eat and eat

[Thermofusion]

There was a Maid-Rite in Oxford for the first six months we lived here! I put them in the category of foods that I wouldn't look at twice when sober but which are damn satisfying when you got a drunk on.

Alright, pack some High Life on my four-hour-round-trip Maid-Rite vision quest, got it!

[davy]

I never liked sloppy joes either (or to be more specific I never liked Manwich sauce). Maid-Rites look to be flavored and seasoned quite differently, though.

There's a vegetarian alternative to Sloppy Joe's -- made by that Fantastic brand, maybe -- that's actually really good!

[Thermofusion]

"Gourmet" sloppy joes (usually in the form of sliders ft. x trendy ingredient) are also kind of a creeping trend in douchey dining lately, also

[Chet]

yo thermo, remember that southern bbq place 'southern eleven' here? i went today. it was AMAZING. i dunno how it stacks up against you know proper US south bbq, but to me it was delicious. i had a platter with pulled pork, beef brisket and belly ribs. the brisket and pulled pork in particular made me want to jack off right there and jizz in my own mouth.

[Thermofusion]

That place looked straight legit son when I first peeped that menu. I was like, damn, that shit pretty authentic lookin for NW England! Glad it lived up to the anticipation, man! Pulled pork BBQ sandwiches are the true taste of my home turf, man. You gotta little bit o' the Tar Heel State up in ya now my man.

[Ignatius]

the brisket and pulled pork in particular made me want to jack off right there and jizz in my own mouth.

Had you gone through with this, you would have recreated what is known as "Jacksonville-style" bbq.

[Thermofusion]

Have any of you guys ever tried Alabama mayonnaise-based "white sauce" BBQ? Is it bizarre.

[jess]

Weird. I am probably going to Alabama next month, on my first foray into the deep south (not including a very brief visit to Atlanta that I don't think counts), but will be on the gulf coast, so not sure if that is a thing there. If it is, I'll try it, though it doesn't sound appetizing. Planning to eat a ton of cajun food though, which does, and have been promised a crawfish boil and various other enticing things.

[El_Josharino]

Oh man, crawfish boil.

[G.C.R]

I made bread rolls with rosemary in them last night, and I've been eating them all day. They're pretty fantastic.

[Thermofusion]

Weird. I am probably going to Alabama next month, on my first foray into the deep south (not including a very brief visit to Atlanta that I don't think counts), but will be on the gulf coast, so not sure if that is a thing there. If it is, I'll try it, though it doesn't sound appetizing.

I'm assuming that Alabama, like any other Southern state, has intrastate factional disputes about what constitutes appropriate BBQ sauce, but I sampled it in Montgomery. The main ingredients are mayo, horseradish and vinegar + various spices and IMO it didn't mesh well with pork but worked OK with barbecued chicken. It kinda tastes like a really aggressive salad dressing, or maybe a distant cousin of Arby's "Horsey Sauce"

[YojimboMonkey]

I bet it would be killer with some brisket, horseradish is best on beef IMO

[Greg Nog]

Reminder that Joy Of Cooking's horseradish cream sauce is the greatest fucking thing on any red meat ever, anwhere

[Thermofusion]

Here's a pretty delicious-looking recipe for the Alabama-style sauce:

http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Alabama-Style-Chicken-Sandwiches-with-White-Sauce