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shaydee said:
Everything I have read about the meat is that you shouldn't add anything other than salt & pepper. Some fanatics even frown at that!! I guess each to their own, but for true American style cheeseburgers, they add nothing to the meat, apart from s&p (I'm starting to repeat myself nowww!) That sounds interesting, rolling the pattie in gravox. Might have to try that!!

I do like Grill'd but their fries annoy me. I don't like it when they put the herb on them. YOU'VE RUINED MY CHIPS!!!

I'm a HJ's fan too.. except the last few times i've had it, the burger has been stone cold. Not even a tinge of warm. Meh.. the microwave heats it up and it's still tasty reheated, unlike maccas which tastes like ass if you nuke it. Eurgh!
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My last HJs experience was bad too, so much so that I seriously contemplated throwing it out. Sad!
 
Has anyone tried one of those cookers that you can air fry stuff, no oil, or a teaspoon of oil?
Aldi has them sometimes for $99.

Personally I don't like fried stuff, but kids, this could be good for healthier kids food.

What various international/different culture snacks/junk do you like?

Chinese is the best in my opinion/taste - yum cha is like a snack feast
Indian has samosas, curry puffs and marsala dosas, yummy fast food.

Italians & Greeks have the best biscuits and sweet treats
 
KIK said:
Has anyone tried one of those cookers that you can air fry stuff, no oil, or a teaspoon of oil?
Aldi has them sometimes for $99.

Personally I don't like fried stuff, but kids, this could be good for healthier kids food.

What various international/different culture snacks/junk do you like?

Chinese is the best in my opinion/taste - yum cha is like a snack feast
Indian has samosas, curry puffs and marsala dosas, yummy fast food.

Italians & Greeks have the best biscuits and sweet treats
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Yes, my flat mate has one of the air fryer things. I haven't ever used it but she was using it to air fry potato chips the other day. (The frozen pre-prepared ones). She said when she first moved here (not with me, but to this city) she basically cooked with it for a couple of months before getting any additional cookware.
 
Jam said:
I still believe that nachos is the best junk food on the planet. It's also healthy! Corn (chips)! Vegetables (jalapenos)! Dairy (sour cream)! Fruit (tomato salsa)!
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It's pretty darn good fo sho.. but I must have mine differently to yours. The amount of cheese & sour cream I have on them, it's not healthy at all. Or did I miss the sarcasm in your typing? :P
 
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KIK said:
Has anyone tried one of those cookers that you can air fry stuff, no oil, or a teaspoon of oil?
Aldi has them sometimes for $99.

Personally I don't like fried stuff, but kids, this could be good for healthier kids food.

What various international/different culture snacks/junk do you like?

Chinese is the best in my opinion/taste - yum cha is like a snack feast
Indian has samosas, curry puffs and marsala dosas, yummy fast food.

Italians & Greeks have the best biscuits and sweet treats
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One of my friends uses it all the time & she loves it. I tried some 'Fit Chips' once and she said they tasted just like that. Not a fan of fit chips at all... but chips is chips right?

I love a good onion bahati, samosas. I love a good pie but I rarely get them anymore as every. single.time. I find a tube in it. I can't eat it after that. My go to snack/junk is always chips. God damn it. I could eat chips for every meal :(
 
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I hate chips.
I like the crunchie scraps you get at fish and chip shops, some shops let you buy just those crunchie bits.
Do not like chips of any kind, not the snacks in bags, and not fried potato bits.

I used self hypnosis as a 13 year old to despise all potato, and refused to eat them for years.
I like potato in most forms now, but still hate chips.
I made myself hate a few things that I thought were wasted calories - I was terrified of getting fat & often threw my dinner out my bedroom window
 
KIK said:
I hate chips.
I like the crunchie scraps you get at fish and chip shops, some shops let you buy just those crunchie bits.
Do not like chips of any kind, not the snacks in bags, and not fried potato bits.

I used self hypnosis as a 13 year old to despise all potato, and refused to eat them for years.
I like potato in most forms now, but still hate chips.
I made myself hate a few things that I thought were wasted calories - I was terrified of getting fat & often threw my dinner out my bedroom window
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Wow, that's some serious chip hate right there! I wish I hated chips. I love potato in any form. mmmm carbs.
 
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Yep - and chips are everywhere, actually difficult to avoid, they throw the on meals willy nilly, and the other kind crowd around dips uninvited.


Those triple cooked Heston type chips, unlike any ordinary chunk of greasy potato, they are reasonable, I could eat 4 or 5 of those I think.
And the old fashioned crunchie potato skins, that nobody does anymore - they turned them into crap wedges, too much potato.
I don't get how anyone wants a whole bucket of tasteless potato - part of the dislike is the abundance, piles of it everywhere - like rubbish, they often treat it like rubbish.
And deep fried anything is not very appealing, I think I have that cell that tastes fat, and hates it
 
LOL, good pun:)
I'm probably not using the right scientific terms, but they recently reported about having taste buds that discern fat, like it was something amazing them, and possibly not everyone has the fat detector or something.
And it puzzles me, for there are plenty of people like me who find fat repulsive, and plenty who love it, so why did it take them forever to figure out we can taste it?
 
I was at a Burger King at a major bus station / Metro station today, and the woman in front of me managed to ask for 2 chicken burgers in an English that was clearly her their language. And she seemed confused by the menu, which doesn't surprise me, because I never feel like I know what is going on with the way the menus are just pictures of value meals and specials instead of a list of everything available. Anyway, this woman was trying to buy 2 "chicken burgers" and the woman at the counter had the good sense to just get two chicken burgers instead of asking if they wanted a Deep South Crunchy Roaster or a BK Chookie Deluxe or whatever. The woman had enough English to do her job at a Burger King in a busy international bus terminal, but not much beyond that. Now, when she asked the customer if that was all, the woman asked "Is it halal?" She didn't understand, and asked again if they wanted the burgers, but they only wanted the burgers if they were halal and the woman had no idea, no beginning of a conception of what she was being asked in her third language about 2 frozen chicken sandwiches. They brought over the guy with acne from the Simpsons, who was managing that day, and had a bit better English, but if you don't know the word halal, you don't. Do you want the burgers? We do if they are halal. Are they halal? Do we have any 'halal', Petr?

I tried to explain, but it didn't help and I was too hung over and in need of that special Hungry Jack's meaty stodge to be able to explain what was going on. Czech are super disinterested in religion. They are not so much agnostic or atheist, they just don't think about it or care about it.
 
Winterbourne said:
I was at a Burger King at a major bus station / Metro station today, and the woman in front of me managed to ask for 2 chicken burgers in an English that was clearly her their language. And she seemed confused by the menu, which doesn't surprise me, because I never feel like I know what is going on with the way the menus are just pictures of value meals and specials instead of a list of everything available. Anyway, this woman was trying to buy 2 "chicken burgers" and the woman at the counter had the good sense to just get two chicken burgers instead of asking if they wanted a Deep South Crunchy Roaster or a BK Chookie Deluxe or whatever. The woman had enough English to do her job at a Burger King in a busy international bus terminal, but not much beyond that. Now, when she asked the customer if that was all, the woman asked "Is it halal?" She didn't understand, and asked again if they wanted the burgers, but they only wanted the burgers if they were halal and the woman had no idea, no beginning of a conception of what she was being asked in her third language about 2 frozen chicken sandwiches. They brought over the guy with acne from the Simpsons, who was managing that day, and had a bit better English, but if you don't know the word halal, you don't. Do you want the burgers? We do if they are halal. Are they halal? Do we have any 'halal', Petr?

I tried to explain, but it didn't help and I was too hung over and in need of that special Hungry Jack's meaty stodge to be able to explain what was going on. Czech are super disinterested in religion. They are not so much agnostic or atheist, they just don't think about it or care about it.
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I'm more impressed during your hung over state you took that all in and were patient enough to wait to be served lol.

But seriously how good is a whopper during a hang over? Probably the rare times I used to have one.
 
KIK said:
LOL, good pun:)
I'm probably not using the right scientific terms, but they recently reported about having taste buds that discern fat, like it was something amazing them, and possibly not everyone has the fat detector or something.
And it puzzles me, for there are plenty of people like me who find fat repulsive, and plenty who love it, so why did it take them forever to figure out we can taste it?
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I can't stand fried food. Like fish and chips? The batter physically makes me I'll. chips? I'm one of those annoying people who don't understand the hype about it. Deep fried anything really just makes me go gross. It's just oily, greasy, slimy... I just can't do it. My fil will always buy KFC and I'm looked at strangely by all when I start to peel the skin/batter off and only have the chicken part.
 
Sweetgeek said:
I can't stand fried food. Like fish and chips? The batter physically makes me I'll. chips? I'm one of those annoying people who don't understand the hype about it. Deep fried anything really just makes me go gross. It's just oily, greasy, slimy... I just can't do it. My fil will always buy KFC and I'm looked at strangely by all when I start to peel the skin/batter off and only have the chicken part.
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I used to love KFC, at least a couple of times a week. Since I started eating healthy I've only had KFC 2 or 3 times in about 5 years, if someone else has bought it. I don't crave it in the slightest, and the times I have had it I've found it totally dripping in fat, as you said. I can handle a twister or burger or their chips, but the actual pieces of chicken are so unappealing to me. I prefer grilled fish to deep fried too.
Healthy food is actually NICE, who would have thought it?
 
Sweetgeek said:
I'm more impressed during your hung over state you took that all in and were patient enough to wait to be served lol.

But seriously how good is a whopper during a hang over? Probably the rare times I used to have one.
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Whoppers are amaaaazing when hungover. Sometimes I feel like they are God's way of saying that it's ok I drank too much the night before, they're that good.

But this talk of kfc. I really do have to draw the line there. I love fried food but that chicken is gross and their burgers suck. The extra items however are good, or can be good at least, and soon I shall try this fold-it.
 
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