"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:18:03 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> The chicken my daughter had was an unbreaded breast. Her complaint about
>> it
>> was that it was so covered in gloppy sauce. Some kind of cream, cheese,
>> mushroom thing. There really was a lot of that sauce.
>
> Teach her how to read a menu. If it comes with a sauce, it says so on
> the menu. Then teach her how to say "no sauce". If she wants to try
> the sauce anyway, teach her how to say "sauce on the side".

She knows how to read it. She thought she would like the sauce. But it was
literally drowing in it. I could see it if it came with pasta but it
didn't.
>>
>> I used to love Cracker Barrel but I never ordered an actual meal there.
>> Just the sides.
>
> That pork was a special. I thought their main menu was middle of the
> road, heavy, mainstream American and their sides pretty much sucked.
> I had to look long and hard at the list to decide on two I thought I
> might like, but I didn't. Maybe I ate most of one, but it wasn't
> anything memorable. I only took one bite of the other and thought it
> was awful. The special, however, inspired me to go home and cook pork
> shoulder (aka: butt) in apple juice. Cider is seasonal here and it
> was gone so fast, I didn't even see it on the shelf.

I don't want to think of how many calories were in those sides and I can't
eat them now. Not most of them anyway. I used to get the hash brown
casserole thing, cottage cheese, applesauce, I think green beans and
something else. I think they offered you a choice of 5 sides. I could
never eat them all but no matter because when we went there my husband and
his brother were usually there and they'd eat the extra.