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I really liked Roald Dahl's books when I was a kid

Posted in Anniversary Raffle WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Posted 3 years ago


The golden tickets made me think of Willy Wonka too

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And we're just one page away now

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Pizza is probably my biggest comfort food, particularly stuffed crust pizza

Posted in Anniversary Raffle WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Posted 3 years ago


As for the "way" thing, I guess it was just to make ordering quicker:
"To make ordering more efficient, the brothers created the "way" system of ordering. The style has since been copied and modified by many other restaurant proprietors, often fellow Greek and Macedonian immigrants who had worked at Empress restaurants before leaving to open their own chili parlors, often following the business model to the point of locating their restaurants adjacent to theaters."

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From Wikipedia, since I'm bad at explaining things:
"Cincinnati chili (or Cincinnati-style chili) is a Mediterranean-spiced meat sauce used as a topping for spaghetti or hot dogs ("coneys"); both dishes were developed by Macedonian immigrant restaurateurs in the 1920s." "Ingredients include ground beef, water or stock, tomato paste, spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, clove, cumin, chili powder, bay leaf, and in some home recipes unsweetened dark chocolate in a soupy consistency. The most popular order is a 'three-way', which adds shredded cheddar cheese to the chili-topped spaghetti ('two-way'), while serving it 'four-' or 'five-ways' comes from addition of chopped onions and/or beans. Dishes are often served with oyster crackers and a mild hot sauce. Cincinnati chili is almost never served or eaten by the bowl."

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True. If I mention a three way then I'm probably talking about spaghetti with Cincinnati style chili and shredded cheese, but people from other places may think I'm talking about something else

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I'm not sure if I've heard of a kolache before. It sounds kind of familiar though

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And now we're just two pages away from the next goal!

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So yes, I think what you had were a kind of pigs in a blanket

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I've always though of them as hot dogs wrapped in a crescent roll, but according to Wikipedia:
"In the United States, the term "pigs in a blanket" typically refers to hot dogs in croissant dough, but may include Vienna sausages, cocktail or breakfast/link sausages baked inside biscuit dough or croissant dough. The dough is sometimes homemade, but canned dough is most common. Pancake dough is also sometimes used"

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Just three more pages now!

Posted in Anniversary Raffle WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Posted 3 years ago


That's no good. I hope it stops hurting soon

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I'm not sure what kind of spider this one is, just some small, tanish brownish spider with stripey legs. It's hard to see since it's on the ceiling