"Margaret Suran" <
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>
>
> Jack Schidt® wrote:
>
> > I gotsta disagree on the 'made to order' status of pizza or takeout
chinese.
> > Can you request the crust be thick or thin or somewhere in between? Can
you
> > ask that the lo mein noodles be cooked al dente? Could you substitute
wide
> > noodles for narrow ones? Just my impression of what's 'fast food'. I
know
> > my local chinese takeout joint has vats of stuff cooking all day and
they
> > then mix them and put them in the cartons for takeout. It's always '10 minute'.
>
> I am used to ask for no added salt and at times, no soy sauce in some of the dishes I order from
> the Chinese restaurant. I have asked for some dishes with a different vegetable, for no water
> chestnuts, but sugar peas, instead. I have just recently asked for those long green beans, that
> are sautéed with garlic, to be made without the garlic, because someone who was eating with us, is
> allergic to it.
I should clarify; my local Chinese joint is takeout only, not a restaurant where one can sit down
and enjoy a meal.
>
> I have never tried to ask for different noodles, I like the ones that are used for lo mein, but
> some of the restaurants actually specialize in noodle dishes and then you have a choice of many
> different kinds.
>
> When I order Pizza, I order either thin crust or regular crust, but I have asked for more or less
> cheese, to add a different one if it is available, which is not always the case and other minor
> changes. I have to admit, I do it only when someone who will eat the pizza with me, asks me to ask
> for these changes. I can't even remember what kind of cheese the last person asked me to order on
> the pie.
>
> The restaurants, mostly small pizzarias, that sell pizza by the slice, have pizza pies in the oven
> at all times, but the ones that sell only whole pies, even if they are only individual ones, make
> and bake them only after the customer orders them. In that case you can order them any way you
> want them. We have several of these places near by, Totonno's is one that I like, even if I have
> heard that the one in Queens is much better than the one near me.
> >
> > The driveup window scenario rings so true. Recently I'd read where
someone
> > with 2 way radios on same frequency as their local fast food drive up (forget the brand)
> > hijacked the airwaves, so to speak, and took to
insulting
> > the customers. Too funny.
>
> That cannot happen here. No drive up windows, no two way radios, nothing but old fashioned ways of
> ordering food in the Big Apple. You can go to the restaurant or you can telephone.
> >
> > Jack Marconi&Cheese
>
> You make me hungry for that dish. I only ate it once, but it was really good. Four friends and I
> (we had met on the internet) went to Lake Tahoe for a long week end almost three years ago. We
> rented a condo with a kitchen and on the last day, one of the women took all the left over
> cheeses, the left over eggs, the left over bacon and kosher Zabar salami, found a box of elbow
> macaroni and while the rest of us went for a walk, she made lunch for us. As a surprise. The pasta
> was incredibly tasty, with little flecks of crunchy bacon and chunks of salami and there was a
> marvelous crust on top of the dish. I could never make anything that would taste that good.
>
> My mother loved the macaroni and cheese that came in a box. From Kraft.
>
I'm jonesing for some mac and cheese too, especially since Nancy Young admitted to putting some
cayenne on top. Put the bug in my ear, big time.
Jack Kraft
