!grillers

!goyslopenjoyers

these Michelin spots are a pile of bologna. Buncha pretentious, high brow, nonsense smoke and mirrors for tiny bites of crap

surprise, surprise, the former chef has a different opinion than the guy who thinks there's nothing special about Michelin starred restaurants.

Calories.... 2 McDoubles = 800 1 small fry = 365 1 small drink = 150 1315 calories...

Eh, they wouldn't want a loser like you in there anyway

There isn't all that much inter-personal drama yet, it's more one cohort beating their chest signalling that they're too smart to pay for air and the other calmly and politely explaining the context, but with a real possibility of either group losing patience with the other, I reckon that the thread may develop explosively.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1bz4t0v/a_floating_bubbly_dessert_has_redditors_foaming/?sort=controversial

After years of Big Biscuit pushing super flaky biscuits on the American public, I had a crumbly type biscuit for breakfast this morning. The inside was so tender it made me cry.

Lafayette, LA is a good food town.

What am I supposed to eat with chicken wings now?

Also did a blue cheese and bacon salad with a simple red wine vinagerette, some roastie potatoes, and smoked sweet corn salad with a cilantro lime dressing

https://youtube.com/@Oliviatieds

I got a free 2 month trial of Panera's Sip Club they are constantly shilling and I have opinions about it. I was planning to send this as feedback for the survey they send me via email almost every visit, but these frickers are so cheap you don't get anything for filling it out. Might as well get some DC instead.

The main problem with this whole thing is that the drinks at Panera just aren't very good. The quality of all the drinks (most of them!) I've had are middling at best. That immediately sets this thing up to fail, it doesn't matter how many options or how cheap the club is if the drinks aren't worth drinking.

The other main problem is that the selection is weird. There are a bunch of items, but they are almost all the same type of product with very few exceptions.

They may have 25 items, but let's break them down so you can see how little meaningful variety there is:

• Only 4 of those drinks are caffeine free, and 1 isn't available after 2 PM.

• 4 coffee options, but 2 of those aren't available after 2 PM (including the decaf!)

• If you want iced coffee, the dark roast is your only option, no decaf, hazelnut, or light roast.

• The hot tea has many flavors (6), but they only list the ingredients of the Br*tish Breakfast and they all taste pretty similar.

Another issue is the warped sense of value, they market it as "once you get 4 drinks, it pays for itself". However the drinks are an overpriced ripoff without the sip club, soft drinks are $3.19! If you pay that much for a soft drink, you might be r-slurred. This is the only place in town that serves soft drinks for anything over $3, and most places have a much wider selection of sodas. The coffee is $2.89 which isn't bad, if it wasn't gas station quality... None of the drinks they offer as part of the club are worth more than $2. This means you'd need to get 6 drinks a month to make it worth getting.

The frustrating part is they do offer some other nice interesting drinks, but they aren't part of the sip club. I understand why, they cost more to make, but they should have an option to get them for at least discounted. Even better would be making them free, but no refills, or even only allowing someone to claim 1 a week. Any of these solutions would allow someone to get these nice higher quality drinks as part of the sip club, without causing Panera to lose tons of money.

Also corporate has mandated that you get the cups with your order. They used to be right near the counter, however now they have to serve the empty cup with your food. This is brain dead. The time it takes to actually get the drink means your food is getting cold while getting your drink. It also means you can't enjoy your drink while waiting for the food, which takes time. This means the best way is to place 2 separate orders, one for just the drink first, and then another for the food. I don't need to explain why this is stupid. It also doesn't help that the app is slow as shit.

The program has one potential saving grace, the coupons. The idea is that every Saturday (and other days randomly) you get a coupon, not bad right? The problem is most of them suck; from a pathetic $2 off a Pick Two, to "Buy One Get One 50% Off" entrees, few are worth using. This means I usually just end up getting the Value Duets and using the entree coupons on them, as they are the only items that aren't a rip-off.

If Panera wants this to actually go somewhere it needs to do any one of the following:

• Reduce the cost of menu items to make eating here a better value.

• Make the coupons better, they don't need to be Burger King good, just better than what they are now.

• Allow the Sip Club to be used on premium drinks, whether that is only a discount, free with no refills, only so many a month, or some combination of those restrictions.

• Add more self serve drinks, specifically more soda and decaf options. Pepsi Zero, different Mt Dew or Pepsi flavors, fruit juices, iced decaf (and make the decaf coffee all day please!), and non caffeinated still lemonades would all be fine additions.

Note, it doesn't (nor should it) do all of these, that's unreasonable. However if they did even one of these it would be worth keeping the subscription. As it stands after my subscription ends, I don't plan to ever go back to Panera unless they fix the Sip Club or lower prices.

Also this is a small little tangent, but holy shit do a lot of the stuff they serve have too much sugar. All but 1 dessert item has more than 20g of sugar, and many are around ~50g! Also excluding the drinks that have 0g of sugar, most are around 50g a serving, I don't want to know how many people get refills on these... This place is one of the unhealthiest for desserts where I live, most donut places are much healthier! Kinda wild, it's not like the desserts really sell, so I'm not sure why they do this.

I am curious to see if other people view Panera differently these days so I'm going to make a poll. Do you go to Panera?

orange site discusses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39385092

I need ideas

This one is my personal fav fish dish

Incidentally in place of Bhetki(though you should be able to find it if there's any Bangladeshi fish stores in your neighbourhood ) any generally bland tasting fish should work. I don't think oily or sea fish would taste particularly good with this method but I've never tried it. For some reason this is the only fish traditionally cooked in this style.

Tastes of nothing but shitty bbq sauce. Sorry, not sorry. Don't @me

!pinknames

I think the onion won

https://rdrama.net/h/food/post/240460/what-did-mcdonalds-mean-by-this

Thank you to @PrettyKitty for alerting me to this delicious burger. You made this all possible

The burger is plated in a unique Double Big Mac Box with purple accents. It's barely able to contain the juiciness of this treat.

This monster was a bit intimidating if I am being honest. Smells a bit beefier than a normal Mac and i believe that is some grilled onions placed between the stacked patties. I was originally a bit disappointed it wasn't a bit more sauced, but that proved to be a non issue.

It was much easier to bite than I anticipated. This burger is much better than a normal Big Mac. The Double provides a much beefier taste without changing the tried and true thin patty texture that I prefer. The Meat:Cheese:Veggie Ratio is spot on here. More sauce would have ruined the delicious beefiness produced by this burger and made it a mess to eat.

The onions between the patty really do it for me. Not 100% sure they are grilled, but I am guessing they are. Once again, it's just setting itself miles ahead of the normal Big Mac.

Considering that the Big Mac is already one of the best and most iconic fast food burgers in the entire world, it's impressive how much the scientists at McDonalds were able to add to this classic without significantly changing the basic recipe. The Double Big Mac is a hard hitter with heavy flavor, but it's not messy and it's easy on the mouth to chew. Even as I type this, the delicious mixture of beef, onions and Mac sauce lingers in my mouth.

The Double Big Mac is unapologetically a

It's not every day you improve a classic in every way while retaining all the elements that made it great. McDonald's knocked it out of the park with this one. Highly recommend you get one for lunch or dinner today.

Edit: I have been informed that the onions are in fact not grilled. They are still delicious though

Delicious

!latinx