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Facebook Aunt posted:It's sort of in the same space as microwave frozen dinners in that it is food made in a factory and frozen months ago and then warmed up. Except it still actually tastes fine, unlike microwaved dinners. Panera's pretty good. Sure, there's a lot of places I'd eat over it, but it's fine. Seeing this doesn't put me off their mac & cheese at all.
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DiggityDoink posted:i don't see how retort pouches are awful food porn The idea that anything isn't hand made from scratch is a common attack against any food service business. People honestly expect that for $10 they are getting handmade from scratch from the finest ingredients a dish lovingly prepped by a team of 6-10 expert chefs. "Fast food" everyone knows and accepts its all frozen, pre-made slop but once you go a single step up to Applebees or a local diner suddenly getting previously frozen food/premade items is a now a huge ripoff. Even using boxed pasta and a quick by hand basic cheese sauce(milk, butter, flour, cheese blend) would be insanely expensive for a major chain much less the level of skill needed to do it exactly right every time.
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Oct 13, 2019 07:09
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I think the point we're driving at here is that that video is only shocking to stupid people, who probably deserve to be shocked once in a while.
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Oct 13, 2019 07:11
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The real panera afp is them falsely accusing their competetors of using human hair as an ingredient.
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Oct 13, 2019 07:18
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Yeah, it kinda depends on the type of restaurant. I worked at one spot that made the cheese sauce from scratch, but they'd make a huge amount and keep it warm during service hours so it was always ready to go. The pasta was par-cooked, so when someone ordered it, it would only take a couple minutes to finish cooking and slap some sauce on it. Another place I worked had a giant steam oven, so you could load a hotel pan with food or retort pouches to cook/heat it. Pretty much all of their soups were made that way. 
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Oct 13, 2019 07:27
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Pastry of the Year posted:
Ugh, do we have to post about Brexit in every thread?
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pentyne posted:The idea that anything isn't hand made from scratch is a common attack against any food service business. People honestly expect that for $10 they are getting handmade from scratch from the finest ingredients a dish lovingly prepped by a team of 6-10 expert chefs. Ugh, fast food is sooooo disgusting and lazy!!! *goes to a NYC pizza joint where the pizzas sit in a room temperature glass case all day and they grab a slice off it and warm it in the oven for two minutes before throwing it in a box for you*
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Oct 13, 2019 13:02
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That video made me feel significantly more positive about Panera, honestly
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Oct 13, 2019 13:04
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I mean, most stuff you're going to get at Panera actually is made from scratch right then and there. Salads, sandwiches, those don't come out of an MRE bag. Mac & cheese is kind of a supply-chain worst-case scenario for a fast food joint menu
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Oct 13, 2019 13:21
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Data Graham posted:I mean, most stuff you're going to get at Panera actually is made from scratch right then and there. Salads, sandwiches, those don't come out of an MRE bag. Yeah, and I never would have guessed each person got an individually prepared and measured portion like that. I pictured it coming out of a soup pot or warming tray and being a total quality crapshoot
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Oct 13, 2019 13:31
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Panera should invest in these bois, heat it up in the microwave, serve it al dente.  "It's liquid gold"
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Zipperelli. posted:Hot tip: if you ever eat at Boston Market, that's how every side dish is warmed up before putting it into the shallow pans you see under the hot case. what? i worked at a boston market for 2 years and the sides and chicken are made from scratch in the back, portioned in to pans and then held in steamers they're not sous viding the stuffing, guy
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Data Graham posted:I mean, most stuff you're going to get at Panera actually is made from scratch right then and there. Salads, sandwiches, those don't come out of an MRE bag. That's not 'made from scratch.' That's just 'assembled.' They don't even make the dough for the bread.
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Oct 13, 2019 17:05
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If they're not killing their own macaroni out back it's not fresh enough
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I knew a guy in college that got fired from there for that, granted it was figuratively not literally.
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MariusLecter posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6hBeRA6hnY&t=170s Weirdly, my family was amongst the Disloyalists, it doesn't come up much since it was like 200 years ago but we're apparently seditious to the Crown of Canada
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Using a cake fork for a terrine monstrous
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DiggityDoink posted:Awful food story time. I was just chopping some habaneros to put in my pickled onions and after washing my hands like 3 times, I went to the bathroom. I guess I didn't wash them enough because my dick is on fire right now, goddamn. I did this after halving ghost peppers and carolina reapers to dehydrate them for superhot chilli powder, do not recommend The Bloop posted:That video made me feel significantly more positive about Panera, honestly It actually gave me a good idea for meal prepping mac and cheese at home, freezing a bunch in single serve vacuum packs
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Foxfire is the bioluminescence created by some species of fungi present in decaying wood. It occurs in a number of species, including Panellus stipticus, Omphalotus olearius and Omphalotus nidiformis. The bluish-green glow is attributed to a luciferase, an oxidative enzyme, which emits light as it reacts with a luciferin. Some believe that the light attracts insects to spread spores, or acts as a warning to hungry animals, like the bright colors exhibited by some poisonous or unpalatable animal species.[2] Although generally very dim, in some cases foxfire is bright enough to read by.[3] The oldest recorded documentation of foxfire is from 382 B.C., by Aristotle, whose notes refer to a light that, unlike fire, was cold to the touch. The Roman thinker Pliny the Elder also mentioned glowing wood in olive groves.[4]
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boar guy posted:what? i worked at a boston market for 2 years and the sides and chicken are made from scratch in the back, portioned in to pans and then held in steamers Mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, sweet potatoes, spinach, all that was delivered frozen, then warmed up in the sous vide things, then dumped into hotel pans and brought to the line as needed. I forget how the stuffing was made, but it was probably bullshit too.
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Zipperelli. posted:Mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, sweet potatoes, spinach, all that was delivered frozen, then warmed up in the sous vide things, then dumped into hotel pans and brought to the line as needed. must be some sort of commissary/franchisee model? we did that poo poo live.
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My aunt wanted to try Cracker Barrel, so we went last week. It was... okay, I guess? Nothing exactly objectional, just eh. Kinda bland, portion sizes for the elderly, gift shop full of hokey crap. I'm from Texas, there are standards for chicken fried steak. As big as the plate, smothered in so much gravy you can barely see it, tenderized but with a bit of chewiness you just can't hammer out. Cracker Barrel was a good yankee chicken fry.
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rndmnmbr posted:My aunt wanted to try Cracker Barrel, so we went last week. It was... okay, I guess? Nothing exactly objectional, just eh. Kinda bland, portion sizes for the elderly, gift shop full of hokey crap. the only good thing about cracker barrel is the potato casserole. its probably some retort pouched bullshit but it's delicious.
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rndmnmbr posted:yankee chicken fry. This isn't even a thing Cracker Barrel is Midwest safe/bland personified. They also, somehow, have the single worst cornbread I've ever encountered
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The best thing at Cracker Barrel is that golf tee triangle game.
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rndmnmbr posted:My aunt wanted to try Cracker Barrel, so we went last week. It was... okay, I guess? Nothing exactly objectional, just eh. Kinda bland, portion sizes for the elderly, gift shop full of hokey crap. Cracker Barrel is extra bland food for white boomers.
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Solice Kirsk posted:The best thing at Cracker Barrel is that golf tee triangle game. My mom loving loves Cracker Barrel, and insists that we all play it the entire time we're waiting for food to show up. I"m so sick of that game.
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The "cracker" in Cracker Barrel is white people
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Iron Crowned posted:Cracker Barrel is extra bland food for white boomers.  shame on you, Cracker Barrel 
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Few years ago I wanted to try Cracker Barrel, imagining it would be passable "southern" food but like mega corporate. I was shocked at the whole forced gift shop situation. The food and service were god awful. The customers were the saddest bunch of single old white dudes I've ever seen anywhere, was like a widowers AA meeting. The waiter asked me how the food was and I said "Well this is my first time here and the food is terrible." The manager came over and asked again how the meal was and I told him terrible but since I came there on a goof, I could care less. He was really confused when I declined a different meal or refund, given the old boomer clientele I'm sure he assumed my reaction would be a full on loving tantrum. And just to be clear, I could throw a rock and hit 5 places that serve excellent chicken fried steaks...this loving thing was clearly frozen, and put under a heat lamp to the point it was like leather..and the biscuits tasted like they'd dumpster dove them out from behind red lobster. LifeSunDeath has a new favorite as of 13:58 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Our chicken fried steak is frozen and reheated/fried and it is Not Good the chicken fried chicken is hand breaded and actual chicken, and is delicious. Mac and cheese is water-cooked in bigass retort pouches, portioned, cooled and then reheated. Mashed potatoes are made from scratch, then either cooled and re-steamed later or kept in a warmer for four hours we apparently used to do the "use the fryer to cook soups" thing despite having a 6-burner range but the GM caught someone doing it like her first week here and had a fit that the prep cooks still remember, so we don't do that anymore
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Cracker burial.
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LifeSunDeath posted:The customers were the saddest bunch of single old white dudes I've ever seen anywhere, was like a widowers AA meeting. That's weird, every time I've been to Cracker Barrel it's always been packed with families, with at least two boomers and what I assume are their descendants. Then again my only times I go to one are when I visit my family for Christmas.
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The cracker barrel gift shop is pretty good if you have a family member who loves extremely tacky elvis memorabilia. They always seem to have new elvis crap every year despite it all looking like it was made in the 80s. It makes christmas shopping for my grandparents super easy, they can't get enough of it.
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