I love my Kroger, but I refuse to shop at Walmart...unless I have to.  I don’t think their meat is very good quality.  I don’t like the way their employees are treated.  And I don’t like how they underprice small suppliers and run mom-and-pop’s out of business.  My kitchen is full of Kroger brand everything. Read more

Safeway.
I just can’t. Read more

I detect no humble-bragging here. The photo is lovely and I feel so at home just looking at it. Read more

This thing is as much of a “steak” as a huge cross-section slice of cauliflower that gets thrown on a grill. Read more

Isn’t it basically just a variation on this? Seems like just another in a long and glorious tradition of dressing up bread and calling it meat...  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit Read more

Parmigiano-Reggiano isn’t from beef cattle, they are from a specific breed of cattle (usually bianco Modenese) that are used solely for dairy, and they are raised in the zones in Northern Italy where Parmigiano-Reggiano is made. Read more

i love going into french supermarkets at the end of november and getting free glasses of beaujolais nouveau handed to me, usually along with some hors d’œuvre. always makes my day, because i always forget. :D
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After grad school I was moving myself from Texas to Utah for a job. Just me and everything I could fit in the car. My travel route had me stop for a night in Durango, CO. It being the days before Yelp, I asked the front desk for a recommendation of a restaurant in walking distance. This place had a back patio and… Read more

Is it a sandwich though? Read more

I spent ~2 weeks somewhat near Hershey PA for work several years ago. We stayed at a pretty middle of the road Hampton Inn or maybe Comfort Inn kind of place. It was 45 mins to our worksite in middle of nowhere and about ~30 mins other direction to Hershey Park. The hotel knew they’d have park goers so they’d give you… Read more

Stayed at a now-closed hotel in Scottsbluff, Nebraska that had breakfast included. This was not ordinary continental breakfast: homemade biscuits and gravy, eggs, home fries, and link sausage, plus pastries, with family style seating at a table that sat at least 16. The food was amazing, the seating was weird, the… Read more

Courtesy food/drink in general has been getting sadly less common. Read more

God, I’m so jealous you have a Pizza Hut buffet.
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Back in the day, I had a lot of buffet restaurants around me. There were chain places like Old Country Buffet (my choice for breakfast) and Golden Corral, and a bunch of local places too. However, over the years, all of them except Golden Corral closed down, and this was long before the pandemic hit. Read more

I pulled on my chaps and shined my boots/I looked much better/Than the men in 3-piece suits! Read more

Embossed/printed ashtrays in fancy restaurants made great souvenirs.  Read more

I do love buffets, especially the sushi buffets (which were mostly all-you-can-order, with minimal actual buffet). Hope they come back too. Read more

I’m vaccinated, but I’m a hard pass on buffets for now. Wasn’t too keen on them before Covid.
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To say that prices have gone up is an understatement.  I work as purchaser for a casino resort in northern nevada and our buffet is reopening tommorow, and the price of some things have gone through the roof.  Casino buffet regulars like prime rib and crab legs up 33 percent or much more, vinyl gloves have close to… Read more

Peanut butter pie in and of itself is a pretty uniquely southern American thing. Read more