"Vegan Earthworm Holocaust" > wrote in message
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> None of the taquerias around here use lard. It is most likely that they
> use soy oil. It's in a squirt bottle next to the grill.

Soybean oil is very common in most restaurants here. Some of the Mexican
ones say that they use "vegetable" oil. Whatever that means. There are a
few places who use peanut oil and they are up front about it. There's a
little place that opened in Edmonds a few years ago. Their menu looks great
but sadly they use peanut oil so we can't eat there.
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>> >> And I'm not ripping on taquerias, just being honest.
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>> > Sure, you can eat "healthy" (and boring) there, but most
>> > people eat mounds of (boring) food.
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>> I can and do eat "healthy there" - all it involves is eliminating the
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>> superfluous sat. fats like cheese and sour cream.
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> Superfluous to a joyless ascetic.
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>> A chicken burrito with black beans, rice, corn salsa and lettuce comes
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>> in at 6 grams of sat. fat. Not an unhealthy reading at all.
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>> I can do just as well at Subway by ordering a turkey breast sub and
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>> eliminating the cheese and squeeze bottle sauce.
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> Anyone who eats at Subway has their tongue so far up their ass that
> their opinion is less than worthless.

Apparently there is some need for them. I could see it maybe if they had a
drive through, but I suppose that defeats the purpose of them having so many
topping choices. Would really bung up a drive through. They did put a
Subway in by where I worked, many years ago. I ate in there twice and it
was good back then. But then they suddenly closed. Don't know why. In
those days there were fewer bread choices. Maybe none. They pulled out the
middle of the bread on both sides and it was quite full of meat and cheese.
Still would never, ever by my first choice of places to eat but bore no
resemblance to what it is today.

At the other end of the building was a local small chain place called
Sandwich Isle. Now that place was great! No sub buns there. Freshly baked
bread of all kinds. All kinds of sandwich choices including shrimp. Small
salad bar. Fresh fruits and a limited selection of desserts. I am not even
a sandwich lover but those were damned good! So good that we would
sometimes even go there as a destination for lunch.

There was another great sandwich place called Paisano's. They may possibly
have had sub bread as a choice. Don't remember. That place boasted the
first big screen TV in the area. We ate there a lot! Then the owner (who
was Italian) for some reason decided to close that place and open an Italian
place nearby. For some reason that place never took off. And I don't know
why. The food was excellent and it was truly all you could eat. Not a
buffet but... No matter what you ordered, they told you as they brought
your plates that if it wasn't enough for you, they'd bring you more free of
charge. Not that anyone from my family ever took advantage of it. But the
big difference in the two places was that at the Sandwich shop, Aldo (the
owner) was always around. He was a very friendly and personable guy. We
looked for him at the Italian place but never saw him. In fact I think I
only ever ate there maybe three times. Italian food in a restaurant is
rarely ever my first choice of meals unless perhaps it is one of those
places that serves some of the more authentic Italian things that the other
places don't. Anyway... That place just didn't make it.