On Sun 08 May 2005 06:59:23p, Monsur Fromage du Pollet wrote in
rec.food.cooking:

> Damsel wrote on 08 May 2005 in rec.food.cooking
>
>> A little birdie told me that "Nancy Young" > said:
>>
>> >Yay, I figured it out.
>>
>> You go, girl! Congratulations!
>>
>> >Okay, I love Italian meatballs. I'm fussy about them. I hate
>> >that since I moved down the shore, more or less, that meatball
>> >subs have sucky meatballs. You cut into them, what the hell is in
>> >those things?
>>
>> Textured vegetable protein, sawdust, and oregano.
>>
>> >When I see meatballs in a plastic bag in the grocery freezer, I just
>> >shudder. Who buys that, make your own for Pete's sake!
>>
>> Sing it, sister!
>>
>> >(laugh) Yup, I just looked down on a few of you, perhaps.
>> >Sorry. I'm sure you'll be up all night sobbing into your pillow.
>>
>> I don't mind if other people like them. As long as they don't
>> expect *me* to like them.
>>
>> Crash has been proclaiming himself a food snob lately. He's
>> learned to expect a higher quality of food than the stuff he used
>> to eat just to stay alive. No more Dinty Moore
>> beef-like-substance stew. No more canned peas. No more brown 'n'
>> serve rolls. YAY!
>>
>> We're in the process of trying all kinds of steaks. He discovered
>> sirloin steaks at Applebee's awhile back, and has become a sirloin
>> junkie. A couple weeks ago, we got some NY strips, and he's
>> really liking those. Some time in the future, we'll be getting
>> porterhouse, t-bone, and rib eye steaks so he can see which of
>> those he likes best. This is getting expensive. Of course, my
>> favorite is the tenderloin, but we only have that about once a year..
>>
>> I'm kinda flattered that he will only eat soup that I've made.
>> Nothing from the store or in restaurants. I've been wanting to
>> make potato leek soup for weeks, but there isn't a decent leek to
>> be had in this town, and he is holding out for the real thing. No
>> onion substitutions allowed. <G>
>>
>> Which reminds me. I'm gonna try to get a batch of Jill's
>> butternut soup made either tonight or tomorrow.
>>
>> I don't think we're food snobs. We just appreciate a certain
>> level of quality that we hadn't in the past. I'll fight to the
>> death someone's right to put cream of mushroom soup in their food, but
>> I'll be damned if I'll eat it. LOL!
>>
>> Carol
>
> A T-Bone is my favorite after that a Porterhouse.
>

If it isn't a ribeye or a bone-in rib steak, it won't be on my plate.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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