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They aren't hurting mom and pop pharmacies. Walgreens and their ilk took care of them.already. Walmart is giving Walgreens a dose of it's own medicine. High time too, they have raked it in for too long by overcharging for dirt cheap generics. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

Walmart is a mixed blessing. They destroy small towns by building out of the city's tax range and out- compete the mom and pop stores that are the anchor of those towns. Just when I'm really ready to hate them they expose the greed/fraud of chain pharmacies and charge $4 for a months worth of many critical generic drugs. I think Walmart is both the best and worst outcome of free market economics. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

RR is controversial in the gossip rags at the checkout counter. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

I would never criticize you for picking a clown, Honkman.

Containers for what? I don't like the idea of reused containers for deli stuff. Who know what gets transferred from some guy's unclean container to the serving spoon and then to the cole slaw?

The topic of the discussion was World's most controversial food figure. Americans tend to forget that the US is just a very small part of the world and that somebody like Alice Waters might be reasonable well known in the US (and even this is debatable) but nearly unknown outside of the US. So she's not eligible because she's an American?

Guy fieri. I know I should despise him but he's such a joyous knucklehead its hard for me to dislike him. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

I completely agree with this! Me too.

Alice Waters. The perfect controversy mix of smug preachiness, being largely FOS, and having devoted followers/press who think she's Mother Teresa.

In curing, I thought that nitrates and nitrites were converted to nitrous oxide through enzymatic action. NO is highly reactive and quickly is converted into N and O-. The O- oxidizes stuff, esp bacteria and is gone. So why would using nitrate be bad and why would it linger after a week in the cure? Is there a food chemist in the house?

Liquid Smoke is a completely natural product Liquid smoke is essentially bottled air pollution from the colonial era.

That's why we have an appendix? Legitimate reference please. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

Aggressively conservative. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

Liquid smoke

me too

I'd separate the veg from the meat so it doesn't get soggy. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

I agree. Interesting old thread here

I heartily disagree that you can't judge a chain by a few experiences. From this diners point of view the whole purpose of a chain is to give me a reliable meal in an unfamiliar city. What does a chain's name stand for if not a certain reproducible experience? If every coca-cola tasted different would you continue drink it? Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

Lots of variation it seems. In Delaware, the Sullivan's is all atmosphere and bad food and service.

I had an object lesson re meat contamination not so long ago. I set a warm meatloaf on top of a new unopened package of ground beef in the fridge. Next AM the raw meat package had inflated and smelled like garbage. Makes you think twice about rare hamburgers.

Things may be slowly changing. Purdue now has a cage-free line of chicken. Who'd have thunk. Must mean that there's demand.

I think we have two lines of thought here. One says that RC isn't all that bad (OK I'll agree,it isn't horrible and I've had good meals there). The other says that RC is expensive relative to what you get and is unpredictable. I'll agree with that too. Compared to Delfrisco's and Morton's chains it is a clear third, though better than Sullivan's which is better than Outback (thoughOutback is a pretty good value).

Very nice indeed. We've been vacillating about redoing our kitchen. Seeing yours being finished may satisfy me for the time being. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

At Daniel prices?! I find that hard to believe. Actually, I find it a wee bit of an exaggeration. And as I wrote in my original post, although I don't know about the prices other locations charge, for my $50 I got a full sized Caesar salad that was as good as a Caesar salad needs to be, a 16 oz. tasty, tender, cooked right ribeye, a side of creamed spinach and dessert. How does that equate to the check at Daniel? The Daniel comparison was a bit of hyperbole. But I think you found a bargain. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

I've had good meals at RC and bad ones. The good ones were OK. The bad ones were memorably bad. It seems that my good meals were in the past, before there were so many outlets. All the recent RC meals have been disappointments on one level or another. They set themselves up for harsh judgment with $7 spuds and sides that aren't in line with their menu description, and some gnarly cuts of beef I've had. Service that can't get the right steak matched with the right diner adds to the frustration. Corporate QC is lacking. If I got these meals at Outback prices I'd be ecstatic. But these are at Daniel prices and far far below that quality. Mortons and DelFriscos are a few notches higher.