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05 November 2008
I have now experienced the best bad-for-you food of my life.→[More:] Philly cheese steak egg rolls. Yep, steak, cheese whiz and onions wrapped in a wonton and deep fried. I can now die happy.
Christ, I ate some fried pork belly with stewriffic a few months ago. She and another friend had to stop me from ordering a THIRD PLATE. My arteries thank them for it. It was some good shit. I drool just thinking about it now.
Really, I'm swiping drool off my lips as I type. MMMMMMMM.
About once a month I get an irresistible craving for fried Spam. I eat a piece hot and fatty right from the pan, and then I make a sandwich, with mustard. I can't leave it alone. I inevitably hit the leftovers in the fridge until they're gone.
I've eaten a lot of unhealthy delicious stuff, including my grandma's chicken fried steak done in bacon drippings with cream gravy....and still, Poutine takes it.
Although french fries in truffle oil with aged Parmesan were a contender, too.
The 'Southwestern' not-eggroll eggroll is big here--black beans, corn, jack cheese, maybe chicken, maybe rice, maybe peppers, maybe cilantro--I'm a big fan.
Also on a lot of menus around here: catfish and/or crawdad sushi.
Oh yeah, poutine, baby. Good any time, and the best hangover food ever. Sits in your belly like a potato fist and sends you into a delicious digestive coma. Also, I will always remember the first time I had crab rangoon (last year). Holy dinah, are those things good. I'd never seen 'em before, and think it's a crime we can't get them in my neck of the woods.
OOoooooh, porkin' arteries. My grandmother's house/family business was next door to a Chicharrones factory. Every so often one of grandkids would go over and get a tall paper grocery bag full of "leftovers" for free. Those suckers were huge. Bigger than your head. They'd curl up in cones and be full of texture and flavor.
Everything is better cheesesteakatized! Those eggrolls sound delicious.
I'm taking a break from cheesesteaks for awhile, though. We ate a lot of them during the World Series.
I have never even heard of cicharrones, lysdexic. I thought for a minute there that they were like elephant ears, then I clicked on you link and noted the texture.
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