anyone ever seen this on the food channel?

My folks told me about it (they watched it on a food channel) but some
people say it's just an urban legend.

They had cameras in the restaurant, it is no hoax.

Mr Tibbs > wrote:

>anyone ever seen this on the food channel?
>
>My folks told me about it (they watched it on a food channel) but some
>people say it's just an urban legend.
>
>They had cameras in the restaurant, it is no hoax.

I never watch food channel so dunno.

But many restaurants buy the commercials equivalents of
frozen dinners and serve them up. If your lasagna or
coq au vin is a little too generic looking, that might
be what you're facing.

Steve

Steve Pope wrote:
them up. If your lasagna or
> coq au vin is a little too generic looking, that might
> be what you're facing.
>
> Steve

yeah cisco vends alot of frozen entrees, I think alot of italian places
use frozen raviolis and the like.

the show they told me about, the frozen dinners were excusively
swanson, it was in the mid west where they was doing this, the place
stayed packed, and people loved it, their comments were...like, "we
love it!"...

I could see me ordering one up...

they showed in the kitchen, a walk in full of swanson, they showed them
popping them into the oven, cooking for a very full house.

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:34:14 -0800, Switch wrote:

>
> Steve Pope wrote:
> them up. If your lasagna or
>> coq au vin is a little too generic looking, that might
>> be what you're facing.
>>
>> Steve
>
> yeah cisco vends alot of frozen entrees, I think alot of italian places
> use frozen raviolis and the like.


Cisco does IT ..Sysco distributes food products..

In article >,
ost says...
> On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:19:17 GMT, jay > wrote:
>
> >Cisco does IT ..Sysco distributes food products..
>
> Cisco does networking hardware/software, and they also make a
> fortified wine tailored to meet each states maximum alcohol
> content while still being able to be sold at convenience stores.
> In TX it's 13.9%. CA is 19.5% ; they don't even mess with states
> like SC and GA since they can't pump enough alcohol into it for
> people to justify drinking it.
>
> -sw
>

You forgot that the networking Cisco is in talks to buy TiVo.

If you have a home or wireless network chances are you've got Cisco gear
in your house. Cisco owns both Netgear and Linksys.

T wrote:
> You forgot that the networking Cisco is in talks to buy TiVo.
>
> If you have a home or wireless network chances are you've got Cisco gear
> in your house. Cisco owns both Netgear and Linksys.

No it doesn't.

Netgear was owned by Bay Networks. Then Bay was bought by Nortel, and
just before Nortel could kiss bankruptcy, Netgear's managers bought
their division out. It's since gone public. It's in talks to partner
with Skype, which will tend to **** Cisco. Cisco does own Linksys.

Netgear makes good networking equipment.

Sysco makes crappy food, shelf-stabilizes it (via chemistry or cold),
and trucks it into most low-margin, low-price food sources in most
North American cities. If you can tell the coffee from the cup, it's
probably not a Sysco product. And those neutron-green pickles will be
setting off Pretzeldent Bush's new "WMD detectors" from now until the
election...

--Blair

Lots of places use pre prepared food Dennys food came back frozen
inside once, they apologized and said we will nuke it some more.

local giant eagle, big grocery chain use stauffers frozen foods in
their hot food dept.

they mark up the food like a 1000%

Steve Pope wrote:
> Mr Tibbs > wrote:
>
> >anyone ever seen this on the food channel?
> >
> >My folks told me about it (they watched it on a food channel) but some
> >people say it's just an urban legend.
> >
> >They had cameras in the restaurant, it is no hoax.
>
> I never watch food channel so dunno.
>
> But many restaurants buy the commercials equivalents of
> frozen dinners and serve them up. If your lasagna or
> coq au vin is a little too generic looking, that might
> be what you're facing.

The average American is apparently OK with such. Places like
Applebee's are not going out of business. Ask one of those places if
you can see their kitchen sometime. You know, the place where they
reheat the frozen entrees. Americans get what they merit.
>
> Steve

--Bryan

"BoboBonobo" > wrote in news:1139243157.568171.187800
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> Ask one of those places if
> you can see their kitchen sometime.


You know thats a law here in the U.S. I believe. If they won't allow you in
the kitchen they can be fined and naturally the health department will also
visit.

I believe this to be true, I could be wrong. I forget who told me this.

Andy

Isn't that what being a restaurant is all about? Giving people what
they want? Which in our case (the U.S) is most often not having to cook
it ourselves. Yes, we have some amazing restaurants that are all about
their food quality, prep, taste and appearance but since the majority
of our restaurants are restaurants of convienance, it's makes perfectly
good sense that chains and franchises do whatever they can to meet that
demand.
Most Americans want their food fast, edible and cheap... most don't
care about the "dining experience" or "quality of ingredients"- if they
did, half of them wouldn't eat their breakfast in the car on the way to
work or feed their children "Happy Meals" consisting of fat, calories
and of no nutritional value.

"What's fer dinner? Hell woman! The bowling alley has the biggest
burgers in town!! Whatchoo' think's fer dinner!?!" kev

BoboBonobo wrote:

> The average American is apparently OK with such. Places like
> Applebee's are not going out of business. Ask one of those places if
> you can see their kitchen sometime. You know, the place where they
> reheat the frozen entrees. Americans get what they merit.
>
> --Bryan

I don't know about your Applebee's franchise, but our local one is
absolutely fantastic. My only complaint is that the portions are way
too large.

In any event, I wish I had their source for the lemon grilled salmon;
for the orange chicken & rice bowl, and a few other items. They are
perfectly prepared, no matter how they do it, and they have a terrific
wait staff.

N.

Nancy1 wrote:
> BoboBonobo wrote:
>
> > The average American is apparently OK with such. Places like
> > Applebee's are not going out of business. Ask one of those places if
> > you can see their kitchen sometime. You know, the place where they
> > reheat the frozen entrees. Americans get what they merit.
> >
> > --Bryan
>
> I don't know about your Applebee's franchise, but our local one is
> absolutely fantastic. My only complaint is that the portions are way
> too large.
>
> In any event, I wish I had their source for the lemon grilled salmon;
> for the orange chicken & rice bowl, and a few other items. They are
> perfectly prepared, no matter how they do it, and they have a terrific
> wait staff.

I remember reading this science fiction book called "The Space
Merchants," where their meat was manufactured by a process that
involved causing chicken cells to divide, controlled only by the amount
of nutrients pumped into the giant mass of meat referred to as "Chicken
Little" That was the only "meat" the masses ever had access to, and
because advertising ruled people's minds, they had few complaints.

The trend toward pre-prepared food that is shipped frozen to these
"restaurants" is a step in that direction. No wonder why so many
people think most Americans are pigs.

That was a Hell of a good book. It was written way back in 1952, but
is still way relevant. One of the few works of fiction I heartily
recommend.
>
> N.

--Bryan