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Marnie Shure
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Marnie Shure is managing editor of The Takeout.

Trader Joe has cookies that are close in taste as well Read more

After looking at all this pictures, I think I’ll go for an Italian bread BMT tonight.
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I wanted to love the footlong sides, but they are gross. The first subway I walked into that had been updated to the new interior design and removed barq’s rootbeer will be the last. These two things were just the last straw.  Read more

Either KFC or Pizza Hut should sell an actual fried chicken pizza, I don’t understand why they’re screwing us around with the Chizza. Read more

Sad, they kept slowing getting rid of things I liked over the years.  I didn’t have a reason to go for the last 4 years.
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If you’re going to invest in an air fryer, I suggest buying an air fryer oven. I was gifted one and I use it for everything I would use my normal oven for. Read more

Could that soft-serve Ice Cream serving be any smaller? My favorite vending machines were the $.25 beer can machines installed in darn near every US Navy barracks in the late 70's/early 80's. Read more

Yeah, trying to use an air fryer for steak is fairly firmly in square peg in a round hole territory. The attempt to cook everything in the universe in an air fryer is kinda silly. Read more

I am ever seeking the perfect reverse-seared medium steak that grilling can make easy. My prep always involves seasoning and also brushing on olive oil to infuse the flavor and help lock in moisture. A few months ago I accidentally got it right in the air fryer with some steak skewers. Since you can’t sear skewers as Read more

Because there are ten billion flavors of ice cream and this one is vanilla with some chipped chocolate in it.  Read more

Cookies and cream has made chocolate chip obsolete.  It’s like chocolate chip ice cream was a precursor to cookies and cream and at one time had a place in the freezer.
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Friendly’s is the best! (I also worked there while in college). I have not read all the comments, but in the ones I read nobody mentioned a good chocolate peanut butter ice cream...not with the actual cups, just ribbons of a nice smooth, creamy peanut butter in chocolate, not vanilla, ice cream. Read more

Chocolate is just so much better warm, if not hot. If you want chocolate and ice cream, put some vanilla ice cream on a nice fudge brownie that’s still warm from the oven.  Read more

Let’s start with the fact that they are, indeed, big; you can often find large, bulbous Honeycrisps at the grocery store standing in stark contrast to the relatively puny Pink Ladies and Galas.
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Having worked in restaurants for years, burgers tend to also lead to more customer complaints and as a result, more food waste.

It doesn’t matter if there is even just one style of burger on the menu, a good chunk of customers

A) Don’t understand burger temps

B) Forget what toppings they wanted/didn’t want/toppings Read more

Two varieties we use a lot are Hoji Cha which is roasted green tea and Genmaicha which has roasted rice mixed with green tea. I also like Lapsang Suchong which is processed in a way that adds a smoke flavor like single malt Scotch
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We bought a couple larger frying pans at the local Restaurant Supply and they have been, by far, the best pans we ever bought. They cook better and nothing sticks to them which also makes them super easy to clean. Read more

I’m not sure if restaurant culture is a bit different here in New Zealand than in the US, but I would expect more often than not on a fine dining menu for there to be a burger. I think here a lot of people who can afford to go to fine dining places, ultimately want basic food, but want the status of going somewhere Read more