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I have a cast iron stomach too - and used to eat it quite frequently when i was younger. and then i stopped eating all fast food for about 3 years, came back, tried it and got sick. very strange. Glad to know i'm not alone. Chipotle woks for me too, but for some reason I can't deal with the super hot salsa there. for now, when i need a quasi mexican fix, i actually pick up an ortega dinner kit. and i'm nto embarrassed to admit it.

well i'm not jewish, but i would dive straight for the everything bagel, and snag a cheese danish for later. no other danish need apply.

Is this biryani you are making? or taking out from soemplace? it could be the spice mix used. I get stomach upset when i eat at various restaurants, and on occassion it happened from my mother's cooking too. The only thing I can truly count on is that some spice mixes (podis) are jsut not good for my system. I don't ahve the same problem, when I cook biryani as I blend my spices from scratch.

traditional for that region, if i recall correctly is tandoori food. So lots of dry-grilled meats and naan. i also recall from my tour of India when I was small - the poori bhaji was quite good for breakfast up north. (of course dosai down south)

you know this statement reminded me of soemthing i saw on cable a few months back. It was in regards to Korean women who became wives of American GIs while the GIs are stationed there. Apparently, some faction of Base Domesticity created a training course for these Korean women in how to be able to "fit in" with their American husband's lifestyles too ease the culture shock. So there are etiquette classes, and role-playing in "difficult" culture-clash situations, and finally, a class on making a Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner. And it involved all the usual suspects - from how to roast a turkey, to making stove-top stuffing, to how to put together a green bean casserole, and make a pumpkin pie (using pieshells, and pumpkin pie filling). Oh and deviled eggs. Which was even more interestng to me, because one of my close friends is the daughter of an American GI/Korean Woman marriage - and she is downright fanatical about her deviled eggs. I guess she got imprinted too.

holy crap - soba you weigh 187 now?! i'm very very impressed.

I had a really good grilled cheese the other day - it was made with sourdough, and mild gooey melted cheese (american is my best guess), with sliced roasted garlic. all cooked in a lot of delicious butter.

can't speak to the veggies - but with the fruit, perhaps because the climate in most of the country dictated that most fruit be preserved out-of-season?

so how come everytime i go there my health gets violated. (i've literally been 3 times in 5 years, because everytime i go I wind up with some sort of intestinal distress.)

i've never eaten at Church's for one reason and one reason only. a few years back, i was a phone jockey for fast food customer service lines. And Church's tended to get the nastiest calls of all of them. things like dead roaches on the food, fried foreign matter all sorts of things. jsut bad - remarkably worse than the the number of other places we got calls from (several of which are on your list)

I'm with you - Sonic is it for me. Everything i've ever had there, i've liked.

pot noodles, pork scratchings and doner kebabs post-newcastle binge? after a while ask him if drinking newcastle makes him argumentative.

One at a time is how they do it at the stalls in India - or at least any Pani Puri stall i ever went to. (ok all of them were on the beach, but still)

first - milk in my tea please. second - cake rusks.

hey roux - i'm so sorry to hear about all this madness. I really do hope y'all pull through this like champs. I know you must be really be freaking out at the moment. Is insurance at least, not giving you a hassle?

wow - i hink we had a thread on this at one time - at least i know i had one last year that touched on this topic - but i envy you the luxury of getting adventurous with the Turkey Dinner. it's been my experience that most people (or at least the people i know) have a very "fixed" idea of Thanksgiving Dinner. any movement away from the norm really stresses them the heck out. it's very strange - that panic.

brown sugar for me when i sweeten it. i picked up honey as a sweetener from a greek friend in college. that takes soem getting used to. love condensed milk in coffee if there is some available. word of caution - do not try palm sugar. it is very bad with coffee. at least this last time i tried it. I could have sworn that's what it was sweetened with when I lived in India. so either it was the type of coffee i was using, or the palm sugar i found is total crap. either way - bad - very very bad.

i'm with you. whilst i've heard of apple pie with cheese, i don't recall ever having it. love me soem apples and cheese tho. preferably granny smiths and a good cheddar. or if there is no good cheddar - portwine cheese spread. also good with pears.

doh! forgot to report back. it's delicious! very spicy but quite yummy. i actually was expecting more of a vinegary taste, but i'm pleasantly surprised. thank you so much for this thread!

i like the idea of oreo cookies or ginger snaps

i don't eat cereal much - because neither cereal nor milk are friends of mine - we had a falling out a few years back. But every once in a while i invite them back for a visit... so to start off witht he healthy-ish ones: grape-nuts, special k red berries, and crispix - cuz they're crispy times 2. and then there's the saturday morning watching cartoons cereals: golden grahams, cap'n crunch, lucky charms, the old recipe cookie crisp. Fruity pebbles used to be good too.

ah. i got it all backwards. thanks for clarifying.

that's the stuff the Chicagoans douse in sherry and set on fire, right?

Nuevo laredo on Chattahoochee is still my favorite. If you want to try some intriguing latin food that's not Mexican (argentinian) i suggest Alameda at the corner of Atlanta Road and Paces Ferry in Smyrna. Another good place I've been is Acapulco on Peachtree (i think?) in midtown. i really liked their fajitas.

question? how long can eggs sit outside unrefrigerated?