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Oh..."Crabapple Cove, ME." Home of Hawkeye Pierce and the delectable "Adam's Ribs!"

I thought that was Biscuick.

Sandwich, MA--well...they do have plenty of sandwich shops there! (and it's East Orange, NJ )

What if Rhea Pearlman's husband joined Giada for a cooking show? Yup....In-A-Giada-Devito. *runs and hides*

I make my living working in other people's kitchens. I am a Personal Chef. Although I bring all my own equipment with me (everything from pans to dish-washing soap) I have to often put up with lousy stoves and ovens. Which is amazing because the people for whom I cook are not poor. I guess they figure because they hardly ever use their kitchens, it doesn't matter that the back burners of the stove don't work properly, or their ovens cook about 50 degrees lower than they what they're set at. You make do with what you have but yes, it's often frustrating. Especially when you've told them of the problems and they're still "getting to fixing that...I promise! We've just been sooooo busy!"

Actually I am a huge Nigella Lawson fan. I think her culinary Big "Oh's!!" are far more sincere than Ina Garten's fakey ones. Nigella doesn't NEED for you to like her food. Matter of fact, I don't think she'd care if you refused one of her dishes. She'd get out a big bowl and pour you some Cheerio's. Ina'd beat you over the head with a salami.

Umm...wha?? Who...uh.....ME? You talkin' to me?? (YES! OKAY!! I ADMIT IT!! )

Usually I don't get on the fence like this. I either love yah, or hate yah. With Ina, I can't tell. I like her food and she cooks very simply, but her delivery drives me insane. Everything she makes she wants the viewer to think they'll have an orgasm when it comes out of the oven. I'm like..."It's a fricken CHICKEN for cornssake!" And the constant "Uaugh!! This is going to be sooo goood! Aauaghh!! Augggh!!" after everthing she says is annoying as hell too. There's something a bit.... smarmy about her and I haven't put my finger on it. I think in the deep crevices of her mind, she's a Cruella DeVille type cook. She thinks her food is so sublime she'd gladly poison anyone who gets in her way. She's almost feindish when she serves her husband and all her friends--they'd better carry epi-pens and antidote for rat poison.

Had to look that one up. I got the raisin bread part all right, but I've not heard of "Plugra." It's rather an unappetizing name for butter, I must say! Did Marlon Brando use it in "Last Tango?"

Nowadays known as "diet margarine."

How about those wax lips, and wax bottles filled with sugar syrup some of us had as kids. We used to chew and eat that wax! I just thought of that today while I was driving home.

Or maybe http://it'sonitswaydown.org. (that's a fake addy I made up, BTW... )

Yeesh...some of y'all should be glad you're still ALIVE! Laundry starch, eh? That somehow makes regular ole cornstarch look very benign.

DING DING DING!!! That HAS to win some sort of prize.

I think I'll stick with paste, or boogers after THAT little tidbit of 411! Great posts, everyone!

I think if I served my guests raw potatah salad, they'd lock me up. But if the raw tater lovers in this thread really love them that much, why NOT cube some up and toss them with a vinaigrette? Overkill?

he's got some decent knife skills. I love that guy. I bought his knives! And..I like 'em!

Hah! You just said you ate the paper! PICA PICA PICA!! Neener!!

I brought up "pica" in the raw potato thread...that's the desire to eat things that are not food. Like paint chips...and uh....raw potatoes. J/K. SO....it made me think of a girl I knew when I was taking Home Ec about a million years ago. She loved to eat corn starch with a spoon, straight from the box. I admit, I used to like to eat paper reinforcements. You know, the gluey little rings you used on your paper from 3-ring binders. I still like to chew a bit of paper from time to time. ::: shrug ::: Are there any other weirdo's out there?

Harkening back to the pork/veal debacle, many Chinese restaurants (don't ask me for names...but MANY) use raw potato in lieu of water chestnuts in their dishes. Cheaper...as if I needed to add that. To each his own...but to me eating raw potatoes screams "PICA!!" LOL I have never heard, however that they are poison. You have to eat a lot of green tinged potato to become ill. We were taught in culinary school that the green part has a chemical structure akin to nerve gas!

I've heard of ketchup packets but NEVER cheese. "What's that smell?" "Oh, it must be the cheese I have in the glove box." -t The OP said "Package" and not "packet". The Kraft cheese slices he was using on his burger come individually wrapped in plastic. Then the slices also get wrapped in a plastic package. To further confuse you, Kraft actually *does* have cheese in a "packet" and it comes with their Deluxe Mac and "Cheese."

Mom used to take me to MacDonalds after I'd have my braces tightened and we used to have a "Filet O' Fish". This was in the 70's. I don't even know if they still make them anywhere now. They were pretty good, as I remember. Once a year I have to have a BK chicken sandwich--the one that's fried with globs of mayo on it. They used to taste better way back when, too. They had more pepper. That's my only fast food indulgence.

What's that?

Buy bigger buggers. Seriously...buy them loose, not in those tiny little boxes, and just select ones you think will be easiest for your hands to work with size-wise. I personally buy them the largest I can find, and have no trouble with them; peeling off the skin with a small knife as I would from an onion.

Many of these sandwiches sound pretty delicious and normal to me. I thought the thread was about sandwiches you're ashamed to admit you make? Or have we drifted into normalcy?