And it's my turn again - sorry for the late post. My turn came around quick!
Every Wednesday in August, California Tortilla is having a special day in honor of their birthday. 8/2 was free cupcakes. 8/9 was a scratch-off ticket with any burrito purchase. 8/16 was a 2 for 1 coupon with any entree purchase. 8/23 (today) is double stamps on your frequent shopper card, and 8/30 is free chips & queso with an entree+soda. I get so excited about free stuff. Why? It's burritos. It's not like it's sushi. It's a big tube loaded with fat & calories (so much for my workout last night . . .). And although, I do love the CA Tortilla, I get more excited just because it's something for nothing. I suffered through horrible service day after day at Cosi's, just so I could get my free damn salad. So I have my 2 for 1 coupon from last week and I'm wondering if I use it today, do I get FOUR stamps?? Eh, probably not, but a girl can dream. And in spite of my dental appt this morning (sore jaw - should probably stick with Boston Market side platter of creamed spinach, yams, and mashed taters), I will be buying a burrito or burrito bowl so I can get 2 stamps, b/c I am a sucker for so-called "deals". What are you a sucker for? 2 for 1? Free soda with purchase? Coupon for 1/2 off next time you come in? Is there a place that you'll throw caution to the wind for if you get something for free? Any place you would not in a million years step into, unless there's something for free going on?
And it's Liverwurst on Wonderbread day! Ew.
So WFL people? Is it liverwurst? On Wonderbread? B/c . . . ew.
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I'm a sucker for a little joint called Angles. They have a two for one burger special that runs Sunday-Wednesday (tuesday?) every week. I used to go at least twice a week for burgers and beers. In all honesty it wasn't really the burger deal that drew me there, but I always partook and frankly I don't think I've ever looked at my bill to see how much the burger costed.
Besides that I can't think of any food deals that draw me in regularly.
I had a liverwurst and salami sandwich on rye at the Grubb Rd. Deli on Sunday. It wasn't braunscweiger wurst. A much softer consistency. Still pretty good.
Are their any chopped liver fans out there?
Not sure about lunch yet today. A big salad sounds good. Soho perhaps...or Just Fresh...or maybe High Noon...
"there" not "their"
I love free, but I hate effort. So I won't necessarily get off my ass and go to a place because of a promotion, but If I'm already committed to a place, I'll look in to the free stuff. Chinese joints are always tricking me into doing dumb stuff to get free junk. The worst is having to spend a minimum ammount to be eligible for 'Free delivery"
"I'll have a general tso chicken dinner special"
'That's only 8.95'
"OK add Crab Rangoon"
'$11.90'
"How much to deliver?"
'$13.00'
"Add a sprite"
'OK, for you that one dolla'
"Shit. OK, combo lomein"
'That, $21.87'
Free Delivery, shoosh.
and grocery stores are for girls
Back when my office was in scenic and accessible downtown DC (and not in banal and inconvenient Vienna, VA), I would routinely hit up the Fourth Estate on Fridays for free happy hour munchies. The specific freebie would rotate each month, and my favorite month was Rib Month. Shockingly good ribs, especially for free.
I should also admit that the dollar drafts did not hurt my willingness to go a block out of my way once a week.
WFL? That's an excellent question. I had an outstanding breakfast sandwich experience this morning at the newish deli across the street. It was my first experience there, and I think it may have inspired me to make this a full-scale tryout day. I'm thinking something corned beef-ish.
i'm a sucker for half priced burgers and beer at toledo lounge on sunday nights. it's so tasty and the bill comes out to around $6! you really can't beat that with a stick.
today is the same as yesterday, except i ran out of lettuce. i'm so stressed out today it's not even funny.
anyone know that PeeP is a reverend????
If Peep is a reverend that makes two OWFLers who can preform marriage ceremonies. Right HT?
Oy! Name the offending Lunch spot miu!!!
We must shun them!
miu - that sucks. Take solace in the fact that it could have been 10% worse. (Well, I suppose it could have been 1/9 worse, but let's not get in to a math debate.)
I hate specials, too, Peep. And if there's a mark up due to the inclusion of a fountain drink involved, I extra extra hate it.
That being said, I think I'll go for the two char dog combo at gold coast dogs, today. This does include a fountain drink, but I crunched the numbers -- two dogs and fries w/o drink still would be more $ so I consider my root beer to be gratis.
just because you put cheese on a tortilla doesn't make it a quesadilla
can i get an amen?
i said CAN I GET AN AMEN?!
im having a chicken "quesadilla" (various sized chicken chunks, plain cheddar and green bell peppers on a tortilla) that has absolutely NO seasoning.
shouldn't there be a touch of cumin? maybe a dash of chilli powder?
GARLIC?
To make matters worse the shredded cheese isn't fully melted. its in that crappy state between its original form and melted where the texture is like that of sponge cake.
i am also drinking rootbeer
with ice.
Oy! Name the offending quesadilla maker m!!!
We must shun them!
I am dining on a chicken salad wrap with some MamaZuma's Revenge Green chil enchilada chips and a Pomegrante Blue Honest Ade.
I'm more into beer discounts then food discounts, hence the good ol' days back at Crush, where the $1 miller lite's flowed like wine, and the snobbish among us could go high class for a $2 corona (i usually started high class then shifted to the dolla deal).
I'm also a fan of the angles burger deal, and I suppose it may have brought me in on an occassion or two.
The only food dealy I got involved in were those subway ticket things, but when they stopped that I forever gave up on the whole "getting points for food" thing
Sounds like a great soda there Miu.
I can see the ad now:
Tastes Weird! Won't leave your kidneys feeling good like the OTHER brand!
I like surprise free things. I stopped off at a sleven en route to Richmond over the weekend. Grabbed a turky pita and pretzels and upon checking out I was informed that I got a free fountain soda due to some meal deal thingy. Which I guess really wasn't a special freebie deal I suppose, just their standard promo...but I had no idea and I welcomed the frothy beverage especially considering my two hour road trip turned into a four hour road trip due to the horrible traffic and overpopulation of this area.
Lunch is leftover stir fry with brown rice seasoned with chinese five spice powder.
Miu- that sammie sounds like a Massive Delts special.
Man, nothing is worse than half-melted cheese. I love cheese & I love melty cheese, but the half-way - I guess it reminds me of cheese that was melted & then congealed back to solid form. Uck.
I want to try Celsius - maybe you're part of a market test trial, Miu! How exciting!
Lunch today was a two-stamper fajita burrito from CA Tortilla. More calories than I should have had. But less than halfway through I sort of disassembled it & stopped eating the tortilla, so I suppose I saved ~50 calories or something. It was tasty. And I used 'Red Bandit Red Sauce' which is "stolen from an old family recipe". Ha ha!
Where is massive delts? I miss his violent tendencies he brings to our lives . . . I'm still cracking up over his haiku.
By the way, I was in Michigan last week and managed to choke down three of Zingerman's Reuben sandwiches. Amazing! Get ye' to Zingermans!
http://www.zingermans.com/deli/menu.pasp
Zingerman's Corned Beef
Cured especially for Zingerman's from Premium Gold Angus Beef by our friend, Sy Ginsberg. We cook over 1000 pounds in our kitchen each & every week! It's the tenderest, tastiest corned beef around.
#2 Zingerman's Reuben
Zingerman's corned beef, switzerland swiss cheese, sauerkraut & russian dressing on double baked, hand sliced, grilled Jewish rye bread.
$10.50 / $11.99
Actually, I got suckered in by a deal just last night! I met a ridiculously attractive former colleague of mine for dinner at Tonic. I arrived a few minutes early, and I perused the menu. In keeping with a recent move toward healthier lifestyle choices, I was seriously considering the veggie stuffed peppers or the chop salad special.
But, god damn it if burgers aren't half-price from 5PM-7PM. I wound up with a guacamole burger because you can't turn down a $3 dinner (with tots!).
I did, however, make the concession of substituting a veggie burger at no additonal cost.
GARR!
This is the second time that this has happened! My two char dogs with everything (everything Chicago-style, that is) both only have one sport pepper on them. A Chicago-style hot dog, by law, has TWO sport peppers. And I was standing there thinking, “maybe I should order extra sport peppers to ensure that I get at least two.” The last couple of times there, I have gotten two, but I always remembered the time I got one and now it’s happened AGAIN!!! What do I do!!? Is this laziness?!! Is it a cost-cutting maneuver?!? Should I write the mayor?!! Does anyone else have a crush on Christian Science Monitor journalist, Jill Carroll?!?
Wow, three reubens. Always the reubens, I assume, WD? There are so many excellent sandwiches on the menu. I'd freak out if I had to choose just one. Georgia Reuben's damn tasty. A few of those chicken sandwiches are outstanding as well.
dippy, I feel your pain but I don't know if the mayor would respond to a sport pepper complaint unless it was on a foie gras char dog these days.
And for the record, I'm more of a Lara Logan guy.
"Rats! Rats for sale! Perfect for Rat pie, Rat stew, and the ever popular, Ratatatouille!!"
I'll bet this wouldn't happen at a dog joint south of Madison.
If you write to your congressman, you get counted as 7. They figure everybody who actually writes in is speaking for six other people who are either too busy, dumb or apathetic to write in for themselves.
Perhaps the Mayor's office only counts letters X 3 or 4, but that's a good whistle to blow. you don't want Chicago to get watered down with less than sufficient pepper distribution.
Dip, yes three reubens. I know they have lots and lots of good sammies, but i'm nutty over the reuben, and that's the sandwich they specialize in.
What the hell is a sport pepper? Do they have eXXtreme sport peppers?
I think Jill Carrol is kinda cute, I went to high school with her, though she was a freshman when I was a senior, so I never noticed her. only if!!
EQ, half price burgers trump healthy life choices every time. You can't argue with value when its combined with ground meat!
hey earthquake, could the former co-worker you be talking about be aptly nicknamed indianabornworldtraveler?
yeah, that's who I figured.
Ah, jo, excellent guess on several levels, not least of which are the accurate (albeit vague) description, recent public appearances, and neighborhood proximity.
I am happy to report, however, that I enjoy an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the number of ridiculously attractive former colleagues who are willing to eat half-price burgers with me.
You have the wrong one.
This time.
You should definitely take that up with the mayor. It's like the Sonic Burger I had Sunday coming back up from the coast - I had a desperate & sudden craving for it, b/c I knew that would cure my hangover for good (the Advil had finally kicked in for the head) & the lady in the box said "would you like ketchup, mayo, mustard?" & I said "all 3, please" & she said "would you like cheese?" & I said "no, thank you". Then she gave the price & we drove up & as we're driving away, I'm passing out food & by the time I get my burger out we're too far to go back, which I desperately wanted to do b/c my hangover cure had ONLY ketchup, mayo, and mustard on it and NO lettuce, tomato, onion, etc. WTF?!? Stupid sonic lady!! Nonetheless, it helped the hangover. And the tots were yummmmmm.
"No no no no no no yes. No no no no no no yes. No no yes, no no yes. No no no no no no . . . . YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!"
well done LT!!!
"Hump or Death!"
Equake - FYI, ladies love half-price meat
earthquake, I had to guess. And I thought the odds were in my favor.
For those of you who peruse wikipedia on a regular basis, I direct you to the featured article of the day. And I implore you to read it.
Half Price meat is not a bonus or a freebie. It's more like a penalty.
jo - fantastic guess. In fact, fantastic idea.
uni - your use of the words "meat" and "half" in the same sentence reminds me of a story: when I was in 12th grade, I drove up to Atlanta to visit my brother. I was staying with him in his Georgia Tech dorm room. As I was walking out the door to go visit a friend of mine in the Atlanta area (a lovely girl I had an enormous crush on at that point and through much of my college career - perhaps another ridiculously attractive former colleague?), my brother's roommate grabbed me by the shoulder and said in his Staten Island accent, "and just remember: if she asks you to give her all 10 inches, you tell her, 'I don't fold my shit in half for anyone!'"
God bless you, John Giacona, wherever you are!
Just made a new avitar. how's it look? Sexy right?
silly miu...
avAtar.
Thank you, Jo. It's hard to do justice to that movie in words alone. Walk this way! Man, I need to buy that movie. What a classic. Jeeeeeeewwwss iiiiiinnnn Spaaaaaaaacccceee!! Pingpong with my balls! Etc.
just to weigh in. i am pro discounted meat although it has burned me before [shakes fist in air angrily]
also. jo, can you do the Ethiopian Shim Sham Sand Dance?
can anyone here?
i place the responsibility on miso to learn it and teach everyone at the conference, she likes to shake her ass and she has the patience of a saint.
My boss drinks as heavily as I do. Every time we go out for a business lunch there are usually 3 or 4 margaritas on the company card. I Agree E-Q, Wasteful Corporate Excess is a great treat.
"Where you from?"
"Ethiopia."
"What part?"
"125th street."
miu, when your bad spelling starts to influence others (mikey s.) I have to draw the line.
Aight suckas, I'm out. I'm going househunting! So exciting! Yeah, who's the sucker now?? Yep, me. Sigh!
horsehunting? are you hanging with massive delts?
I kinda like Miso though Miu...go by "Miso Horny"...funny...tee hee hee.
It's a shout out to Full Metal Jacket, 2 Live Crew and your love for lunch all in one little name!
Speaking of Full Metal Jacket, "Alabama black snake" is rico's second self imposed nickname.
ummmm....donde esta the horny part???
miso:
yes
but in a
good way
pictures!
I've had to pull clown noses out of some weird places before, too.
Sincerely,
Clown
Ya'll been busy today. I went running for lunch. I then had the ubuiqitous bag lunch.
I'm a huge chopped liver fan jo ... that shizzle is the best of lean corn beef.
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