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Tried Boca burgers. Yuck, smells awful. I call them Butt Burgers. I too have been disappointed with many Trader Joe's frozen foods, but for a quick & easy meal I love the Trader Joe butterfly fried shrimp (in the blue box). I recommend cooking them longer than the time recommended on the box so they are extra crispy. I make the cocktail sauce from scratch with lots of horseradish. Also wonderful is the Trader Joe frozen french onion soup. Delicious on a cold night with a green salad! Occassionally, I will get a hankering for cheddar stuffed jalapenos. The A&P store brand is quite yummy.

My husband will make a sandwich out of anything. He once made a sushi and Russian black bread sandwich at a Russian restaurant (they also served sushi -weird??) in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Other strange sandwiches: in grade school, this girl Jody with blue frame octagonal glasses used to bring a peanut butter and mayonaise sandwich for lunch everyday. The gloopy mess would get stuck in her braces for the rest of the day. Yuck my childhood buddy, Neil, used to make a snadwich out of white bread and Grandma's Browns Baked Beans (I have seen this brand sold only in the upstate NY region). Not too bad. I love a white bread-butter and sugar sandwich and peanut butter and potato chips is very tasty.

When is Hot Rod's going to open. I drove to their old location in Mine Hill a few weeks after they closed. I was told they were opening a new place by the end of August 2004. I checked their web site at the end of october & they still weren't open? What is going on? I am jonesing for some BBQ close to home.

At least one a month, fried shrimp. This thread got me thinking of hush puppies. Love them but haven't had any decent ones in years.

I defintiely know I am a foodie because: one of the primary reasons I quit my new job (that's a short commute from home) after four months and returned to my old job in downtown New York City (an hour & 45 min commute each way) is because I missed the great food so much! Vietnamese sandwiches at Sau Voy Corp on Lafayette, goat cheese omelettes at Kitchenette in Tribeca, Cajun fried shrimp and crab cakes at Jeremy's Ale House, trips to Chinatown for dim sum and cheap delicious congee, the Union Square Farmer's market, Grimaldi's for pizza, the fresh fruit smoothie truck parked outside my building. I could go on and on.