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DalTxHornFan

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  1. 26 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

    Long overdue.

    The new place was a disaster nearly from the get-go, and whoever was running it nearly destroyed that brand. They certainly harmed its reputation.

    I was rooting for it living in the area and having known the food truck well for years. But the food and service here was routinely slower even than the food truck, or absurdly late (like 1 hour for two tacos in our experience) or never available -- that's not unusual for BBQ but if you have a big brick and mortar open 6 days a week you need to figure that out.

    Staff looked confused or idle or disinterested a lot.

    And old man thoughts, but the music was way too loud. Had to yell to have a conversation. 

    Hope they turn it around.

    I drank free bourbon there one afternoon because they were short-staffed and didn't have anyone capable of operating the POS system.  Not that I am complaining about that afternoon!

  2. 8 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

    Weren't they the ones accused of fucking over their employees?

    Of course that is better than the la Barbecue employees losing their fingers.

  3. Stay away from the US postal service for any payments by check.  I handle business affairs for my church and we ended up moving our mail delivery from our physical address to a P.O. Box due to all of the mail theft and check-washing that we experienced.

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  4. 20 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Yeah, I'm too old for XXX.  I'm XX all the way.

    This reminds me, I need dinner.

    One of my frat brothers came in for a football game and ordered the habanero chili.  It was a near-death experience.

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  5. 5 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Good luck! Downtown still seems pretty sleepy to me but I'm only down there one or two days per week these days.

    Don't forget that After Irth is moving from Lufkin!  Downtown Dallas will seem absolutely buzzy in comparison.

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  6. 9 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    imagine that your direct supervisor at your job tells you that you and one of your coworkers are going to be competing for a promotion, and that the winner of said promotion would be whoever made the most sales. 

    you continue to come into work every single day with your head down, consistently doing your job and making sales. meanwhile, your coworker has stopped coming into work altogether, other than to take his morning dump and steal the newspaper on his way back out the door. your direct supervisor is now repeatedly reprimanding your coworker for this frankly unbelievable behavior while you continue to do your job every day making sales.

    they day of the promotion comes, you are excited to receive the promotion, when suddenly, your boss’s boss- a man who has gone out of his way to be a total POS to you on multiple occasions, a man who wears his personal hatred of you with pride- shows up and says, “your coworker is getting the promotion, and i have some new rules for you to follow, and if you don’t follow these new rules you’re fired.” are you seriously trying to tell me that you would just take all of this stride, shrug your shoulders, and accept it as if it was just some totally reasonable and simple request? i don’t think so. not even a little bit.

    It could have been a lot worse.

     

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  7. 3 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Best spot to go in Ft Worth with a bunch of kids for lunch? Bringing relatives from Buffalo, NY so it doesn’t have to be Goldee’s quality. 

    For a crew like that, why not Angelo's or Railhead?

  8. 1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

    I think it would be the perfect location for a world-class opera/music/cultural venue like the one in Sidney, Australia.

    Instead, it is a world-class parking lot:

     

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  9. 1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

    Brother was CEO of Seton Hospital  that was located in the West Campus area during the 1970s - He oversaw the construction of the new facility on 38th Street and the demolition of the old one. Prior to the demolition, he went in the old building and salvaged about a dozen of the PO Boxes from the hospital mail room and set them into the little wood box frames.
    Pretty neat thing to have.
    I salvaged the lower counter cabinets from a nurses' station on the 3rd floor, and it still serves as my garage workbench.
    Sure was a chore dragging it down those two long flights of stairs though.
    This is the old now-demolished hospital that dated from 1902…

     

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    My parents ended up with some furniture from there.  Also from the old Sigma Chi house on University.

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  10. 22 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    is there a dish that y'all have found is just the right size for making enchiladas?  I always end up with a neat row of however many enchiladas and then two sets of two going the other direction and then a dead corner. Also going to try and roll/sauce/freeze an extra tray when I'm making them this week.

    I'm usually full of shit, but on that subject, I've started to make my enchiladas in shallow aluminum pans and then immediately freeze them.    As I've said plenty of times, I am a NEISD enchilada devotee.  There is just something about freezing them that keeps it all from being a big gooey mess when you later bake them and put the enchilada gravy on them.  I'm convinced that all the old traditional Tex-Mex places did it this way, hence all of the "no substitutions" and "the plate is hot" admonitions.

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