Keith Talent
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Just for illustrative purposes, here's what cracker Fuzzy Zoeller said, it's fairly consistant with popular sentiment of a couple genrations ago; "You pat him on the back and say, 'Congratulations' and 'Enjoy it' and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year. Or collard greens. Or whatever the hell they serve," was a joke."
It was in response to Woods picking the Champions dinner menu after winning his first Masters.
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I was there recently with a chinese speaking friend, we were seated near the waiter station, the staff were dressing down a new waiter in manner that'd make Gordon Ramsey blush. Seriously. Or maybe my chinese speaking friend was just having me on, taking the piss to entertain me. Hard to tell as I don't speak madarin, and he is a bit of a joker. But from the play by play translation I got, chinese could give longshoreman swearing lessons.
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So we ended up agreeing to meet at the U District TJ's. Easy on street parking. Decided to have a drink before shopping. I've always wanted to go to The Blue Moon, got to cross one more thing off the list of things to do before I die. Slightly (no actually very) concerned upon entereing, the clientlele was a little rough around the edges. Okay alot rough. But allowances are made for any establishment with a drinking man animitronic out front. After settling in, we all agreed that the place was actually pretty cool, solid drinking mans establishment, no bullshit, no pretense. Plus a dog sleeping behind the bar. And walls lined with books, a real bar, unlike the crap erstaz english pubs we have up here.
Back to TJ's, buy groceries. Ask the latino checker for a nearby taqueria. He's baffled. As is the guy next to him. I swear, TJ's has a drug testing program, but it's to ensure the staff show up with elevated THC blood levels. Next time you're there, filter all interaction with the staff through the prism of "they're high off their ass" and all the surrealism of the staffs behavior makes sense. I guess running a grocery with a staff that perpetiualy have the munchies makes sense.
Finally, the manager directs us to La Purlita (or something similar, I forget) which was three blocks east on 45th across the street from the Neptune theatre. The TJ's manager needed to be reminded by the staff that he eats there every day, it's his favourite spot. But then again he was probably stoned so his memory loss was understandable.
The restaurant was superb. I had two tacos, one carne asada and one tongue, plus a carnitas torta. Everything was excellent. My friend had the dish of the table though, chipolte enchiladas. So good, nice smoky heat. Burritos on other tables looked good. The washrooms are accessed through the kitchen, which was as spotless as an operating theatre. I really fantasic spot. Delicious, quick and cheap. Definately recommended.
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Thanks all. I'll report back on Monday.
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Sean - I think we're too far apart politically to resolve anything without a bottle of good single malt between us, then we could sort the problems of the world. My final point is that the geography of the lower mainland is unique enough (esp. being limited on three sides) for most assumptions current urban planning theory makes to be unapplicable the here.
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Washington Trader Joe's locations Perhaps near the U district TJ's?
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Reductio ad absurdum much? (And there's probably a pretty good pun to be made about straw men in there somewhere.)
Just recognize that for every slice of heaven you preserve, one somewhere else is going to be destroyed, so then it becomes a question of what are the costs associated with each. Preserve Barnston, and traffic will be pushed farther along the 1.
I'm not qualified to say if this would be better or worse than the alternative, maybe you feel you are qualified to.
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I need a restaurant for tommorow night. Here are the criteria; Close to an I-5 exit, within a short distance of a Trader Joes. Make it easy, we're Vancouverites heading to Lake Tapps for the weekend, we'd like to meet with the other couple driving down from Vancouver somewhere for dinner, then pickup the weekends supply of cheap cheese and vino at Trader Joes, as is the custom for all Canadians.
The restaurant should be casual and quick, bonus points for Mexican or barbecue, and Mexican barbecue would endear you forever. (And to be honest, I've never seen a Mexican barbecue restaurant outside of Mexico, and no insult, but Seattle probably isn't the best place to start looking.
So to summarize, easy I-5 ingress/egress, near to Trader Joes, easy for dumb Canucks to find, quick/casual. Anyone have any ideas? Anywhere between Everett and the Weyerhaueser head office is fine as that's where we cut over to Auburn.
Thanks in advance.
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Please explain how taxpayers subsidise the ALR
Through a greatly reduced property taxation rate than would be otherwised charged if the land was used for other purposes. Those lost taxes are made up by ratepayers in the jurisdiction the ag land is located. In addition, a cost is born by people all over the region, not just Surrey in increased traffic, road congestion and pollution as the vehicles that would drive to Barnston Island will now have to continue down the 1 to Langley or whatever alternate site is eventually developed.
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I had lunch there last week with a group. I think the consensus would be underwhelmed. Upthread there was talk about how Kedah Hosuse serves a regional cuisine, and that's true. I recognized very little as conforming to what I was used to from Prata Man and Ellie, two fantastic Malay/Singapore spots in Richmond. The food bears about as much reseblance to my preconcieved notiions of what to expect to that as Cantonese does to Shanghiaese.
Service was slow. portions on the small side, spicing timid. I'd try it again, but it ceratinly wasn't the grand slam home run that various assorted critics had trumpeted it as.
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Poodles after espresso have "energy" too, that doesn't make it good. Give a Chiuahua a Red Bull if energy is what you're after.
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Not to pick on my neighbors to the north, but the other Canadian tv food personality that makes me leap for my remote is Rob Rainford of License to Grill. Was he a motivational speaker in his previous carrier? Chill the hell out, "ohhhhh yeah, these shrimp are lookin gooood!" " Mmmmm, you wanna talk gooood!" I mean, I enjoy cooking more than most anything else, but nobody narcotic free can be that enthusiastic about griling a pork chop.
To defend my countries honor, I've gotta say that I don't think anyone north of the fourty-ninth really thinks of Rob Rainford as anything more than schedule filler for Food TV. He's kinda the television equivilent of the lips and eyeball component of a hot dog. "We got this shit lying around on the floor, throw it out?" "Naw, put it on in the middle of the day when only the terminally unemployed, the elderly or insane people are watching."
Yes, he makes Bobby Flay look narcoleptic.
I fully expect the only real world food interaction I'd ever have with Rob Rainford to go something like "And I don't care if you were on Food TV, make sure I get ketchup in the bag with my fries this tiome, beeyotch. And how am I going to drink this milkshake without a straw? Joe Pesci was right in Lethal Weapon 3 (A movie as bad as your show Rob,) they do always screw you at the drivethrough."
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The post so nice it bore repeating twice.
Kadija said "I'm in my late twenties, and I know a lot of young guys who act like that, and who do things like that." Ummm...yeah, Kadija...and they are precisely the people that grown ups want to take outside and bitchslap some sense into. Takes a certain kind of person to find them endearing indeed...someone on enough mood altering medication would probably find Emo just precious when he chortles "and I thought we were going to drink beer all day". Emo and his pals should get jobs. Then they could afford to buy actual food preparation equipment and perhaps some decent ingredients.
The show is a great counterpoint to people who aren't auditioning for the next installment of Jackass.
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No, the show's a great counterpoint to people that like to eat good food.
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The looks of love respect and admiration that hat wearing indie loser gives long blond haired emo dork whenever he opens his mouth to voice some complete obvious point creeps me out. Next season is on Pridevision, I guarantee. Plus the dialogue is completely inanane. "We should make some tomato sauce, what do we need?" "Uhhh, dudes, wicked idea, but we should get some tomatoes!" "Whoa." (Previous line spoken with Keanu like inflection.)
Food Canada somehow manages to find men that speak and realte to each other like no other men in the world. Man Made Food did make Food Jammers look like Cooking with Jacques and Julia though.
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If Gullet was mentioned in The Province, no one would know nor be able to tell, a more incomprehensible collection of english appearing words I've never seen. Maybe James Joyce was more adept at making things look english, yet have meaning so densly camoflauged that only a roomful of lit Phd candidates could tease out the meaning. Mark Laba is either a genuis or an idiot. And being that he works for the Province, I'm going with idiot. It's the Mac Perry school of journalism, write without meaning. Arrange common words and phrases into what appear to be paragraphs, but are really random collections of words without meaning.
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Where is it?
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Milestones? Haven't ever eaten there. Anyone have any insight. I've seen it down on that street at the corner by the other street kinda close to the beach. By where the popcorn guys are. (Off topic; Anyone know which popcorn vendor is best? My dad says Cart #41, but he also likes that Mexican ice cream guy that cruises Kits, so what does he know.)
And thanks for the heads up that Monks and Lift had substandard fare, I'll defo keep that in mind.
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I always kinda thought he was astute enough to rip off The Frugal Gourmets shitck, right down to the creepy uncle vibe and wrap it in some shitty CBC production values. Why all the love? He stirred carrots in a non stick pan with a butter knife.
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You rock harder than Feenie in a Food TV spot fud. Don't go changing.
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What is slanderous in the above statement?
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Why would you drool at the prospect of seeing Bourdain?
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In Eatvancouver's review, he mentions Sour and Spicy Shredded Potatoes. What are these? They're certainly not potatoes, daikon perhaps? I completely love these things, they are the greatest dish. Cruchy, savoury and salty.
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I too would like to like Casa del Amigo, but can't. The food is universally prepared using ingredients for the Mexi-Casa line of foodstuffs from the Ethnic/Other isle at Safeway. Not Mexican so much as "Calgary housewife prepares her version of Mexican." And the deli section consists mostly of bottled hot sauces available at Save on Foods.
Vancouver on $44 a day.
in Western Canada: Dining
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Does it make me a bad person to wish a murder of crows to steal your box of chicken? That'd be funny.