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  1. This has become my go-to for just about everything Italian that I cook. You can get it on Amazon. Game changer.

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    Believe it or not, add some of that and a little salt and pepper to a jar of this and it's a red sauce that's pretty close to just about anything you can make from scratch. I'm a stickler for homemade sauce and if I can make a 10 from scratch, this is solid 9 every time. Stumbled onto it out of pure laziness and now it's hard to justify doing homemade.

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    It's still fun to do homemade just for the purity and nostalgia and authenticity and all that, but when looking at getting all the ingredients and a lot of prep and hours of cooking vs. a few minutes with this, it's hard to beat. Thank me later.

  2. Any of you Nebraska guys hearing anything? Posted in the the Deion thread…

    Sports radio station The Fan in Dallas reporting Former Cowboy Deion Sanders has accepted the Nebraska job according to source.

    Haven’t seen it anywhere else.

  3. 12 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    I'm off to find some recordings:

    From The Athletic article on the OU-Nebraska game:

    https://theathletic.com/3603202/2022/09/17/nebraska-observation-oklahoma-urban-meyer/

    Found it free...

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    LINCOLN, Neb. — The first game that Mickey Joseph coached in charge of the Nebraska football team, a 49-14 loss Saturday against Oklahoma at Memorial Stadium, and the last game he started at quarterback for the Huskers, a 45-10 loss against the Sooners in 1990, looked strangely similar.

    They were not. Three decades ago, the woes for Nebraska in this storied rivalry rated as an anomaly, a smudge on the program’s exemplary record. The end of that season helped push the Huskers in a new direction to recruit speed and play more aggressively, giving birth to the greatest five-year run ever at the school and three national championship seasons.

    The fourth game of this sunken season for Nebraska exposed a deep stain. It is a troubled football program. Until the Huskers face that reality — the process began six days earlier with the firing of Scott Frost as coach — they cannot move forward.

    If Saturday represented the start of Nebraska’s climb, it’s staring at a steep hill.

    After 13 consecutive defeats by single-digit margins, all in the past 19 games dating to November 2020, the bottom fell out for Nebraska against Oklahoma. These Huskers are not close to turning a corner, as Frost implored repeatedly during the almost-unfathomable stretch of tight defeats, which served to simply reinforce his coaching inadequacies.

    And the debacle that we saw Saturday, after fans chanted for Urban Meyer during Fox’s “Big Noon Kickoff” pregame show staged nearby on campus, was unequivocally not the fault of Joseph.

    “This is on me,” the interim coach said. “Not my players. Not my assistant coaches. I’ve got to do a better job.”

    The Huskers disagreed.

    “That’s what he’s supposed to say,” safety Myles Farmer said. “As a team, we know it’s not on him.”

    Said tight end Travis Vokolek: “It’s not on him. We’re the players. He can say that. He’s a coach. But we’re the players. We’re the ones out there making plays. So it’s on us, and we’ll take responsibility for that.”

    Should it be a surprise that Joseph was quick to take responsibility after a key message from athletic director Trev Alberts in firing Frost focused on accountability?

    Joseph was modeling what he wants to see from his team and what Alberts wants in a coach.

    “I’ve got to do a better job,” he said.

    This loss was on all the coaches and players who played a part in allowing Nebraska to sink this far. It was on administrators who fostered an environment for gossip and dysfunction to grow. Like Brenden Stai, an assistant AD, on Friday who aired his grievances over more than an hour about Frost and Nebraska into a hot mic recorded online during breaks in a Lincoln radio show.

    Stai talked of Frost’s poor work habits and of issues that involve the Nebraska roster.

    It’s all just so self-sabotaging. And it’s the predominant way Nebraska has conducted its business for many years.

    Saturday against Oklahoma showed Nebraska in a free fall. The Sooners exposed the Huskers for who they are — an ailing program nowhere near the breakthrough promised since before the day the former coach took command.


    Let’s talk about Meyer. He was in town with Fox and set up shop Saturday morning outside of the Nebraska Union for the network’s national preview program.

    Nebraska fans noticed.

    CBS Sports reported that Meyer had been contacted by Nebraska, though not necessarily to gauge his interest in the open coaching job. By Saturday, he’d been in Lincoln for parts of three days. Stands to reason that more than a few people associated with the Huskers, including the AD Alberts, would have had contact with him.

    Based on my discussions with people inside and outside of this state connected to the coaching industry, I do not expect Meyer to emerge as a candidate for the Nebraska job.

    His presence in the conversation serves only to portray more serious candidates more negatively. None of them have won three national championships as Meyer did as Florida and Ohio State. Also, none of them come with his baggage from college and the NFL.

    It’s not a likely match, Nebraska and Meyer.

    What about Joseph? He didn’t do anything to sink his candidacy by losing big against Oklahoma. Joseph said he could have more adequately readied the Huskers. Nebraska again didn’t tackle well and it allowed 580 yards of offense a week after surrendering 642 against Georgia Southern.

    The Sooners could have passed 700 if they’d taken the second half seriously.

    But Joseph had less than six days as interim coach before kickoff. Fans move on fast from a fired coach. It’s not the same for players. Many of the Huskers struggled through the past week.

    “He sat in our living rooms,” linebacker Nick Henrich said of Frost. “We believed in him. Now we believe in coach Joseph and what he’s doing. It’s been a tough week. I think the guys did a good job of sticking together.”

    Said Vokolek: “We all loved coach Frost. He did a great job here. I love him. He’s a father figure to me. But it’s a business. Firings happen. We were obviously upset. But we’ve got to move on. Coach Mickey is a great coach, a great dude. I love him to death. I’m glad he’s leading our football team.”

    Nebraska, at 1-3, turns its attention to a bye week. Joseph said he expects to evaluate the Huskers’ performance and consider changes.

    “We’re going to dissect this film, and we’re going to find some kids who were doing what we asked them to do,” Joseph said. “We’re going to find the kids who can tackle and who can block and do the right things. And we’re going to increase their reps if they weren’t a starter.”

    Asked if he would reassess coaching roles, he said, “I can’t see that right now.”

    Alberts will judge Joseph on his ability to keep the Huskers engaged and working hard. Wins and losses matter, too, of course. After the bye, Nebraska hosts Indiana. The Hoosiers beat Western Kentucky 33-30 in overtime Saturday to improve to 3-0 and visit Cincinnati before traveling to Lincoln. Nebraska then plays at Rutgers and Purdue in consecutive weeks before another bye.

    Evaluate Joseph on that trio of Big Ten games.

    Alberts, in making the move to replace Frost with Joseph, said the Huskers needed to hear a “new voice.”

    Nebraska’s offensive captain agreed.

    “Coach Mickey said we started 0-0 with him being the coach,” Vokolek said. “I think that’s good for us. We took away the Blackshirts. I think that’s good for us. Guys are adapting well. Today stunk, obviously. But we’re just super excited for this bye week. To have another opportunity with the guys is something I’m looking forward to.”


    Most of the scenes Saturday in Lincoln were stark. Memorial Stadium began to empty at halftime as the Huskers trailed 35-7. In the press box, visiting national writers prepared their latest rounds of obits on Nebraska football early in the third quarter after Trey Palmer fumbled on the first play and the Sooners scored again in less than two minutes.

    When OU went up 49-7, I thought of 1997. That’s when Nebraska, with Frost as the starting quarterback, scored three touchdowns in the final 20 minutes to beat Oklahoma 69-7. It remains the largest margin of victory in the series.

    Brent Venables, the Sooners’ first-year coach, went easy on Nebraska. OU didn’t score again after its seventh touchdown with 8:59 left in the third quarter. Nebraska inserted backup QB Chubba Purdy, who finished 7-of-11 passing and scored on an 8-yard run with 3:17 to play.

    Casey Thompson, the Nebraska starter, hit 14 of 20 throws for 129 yards. His 32-yard touchdown pass to Palmer put Nebraska on top 7-0 after the Huskers got a defensive stop against Dillon Gabriel and the Sooners to open the game.

    That was it for Nebraska momentum. Fast, the Sooners asserted control, starting with a 61-yard Gabriel TD scamper on a third-and-7 play with the volume cranked up. It was the first of many clear signs that Oklahoma, even after an offseason of turmoil and transfers that followed the departure of coach Lincoln Riley to USC, held a major talent advantage against Nebraska.

    “We’ve got to do a better job in recruiting,” Joseph said. “They had better skill players.”

    He tried to walk it back a bit. “We have really good skill players also. We’ve just got to get them to execute.”

    The truth was right there, for everyone to see. Whomever is coaching Nebraska next season faces a challenge just to get it on the level of a mediocre Big Ten team.

    Up next, the fate of Nebraska’s sellout streak. It reached 385 games Saturday. Starting Oct. 1 against Indiana, tickets remain available for each conference home game.

    And, of course, the coaching search continues.

     

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  4. 11 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    Hate is too strong of a word. KC just seems like a more boring Dallas with more generic chain restaurants and fountains.

    Having lived in both, I can assure you...Dallas >>>>>>>>> KC

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    I mostly stay downtown and it’s just blah, I mean it’s nice enough for a midsized city but a good portion of restaurants shut down annoyingly early which also doesn’t improve my opinion of them. Arrowhead wasn't impressive. I ate BBQ at original Joe’s gas station location which was described to me as “the best BBQ in the US” but was only slightly better than Rudy’s with weird sauce.  I just don’t see the appeal.

    Perfect description and examples. Found all of that plus some to be the case when I lived there.

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    If you have to go the zoo is okay (my kids liked it) and as a baseball fan/history buff I enjoyed attending a Royals game and both the WWI and African American baseball museum.  You could knock those all out in a single weekend and never go back and not miss much.

    Pretty much. The most annoying part is that they think they're really something special. They're the most wannabe big city I've ever been in. They're kind of the aggy of cities. Think they're better than they are in just about every aspect, without enough self-awareness to know what they really are.

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  5. 29 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Look at his head coaching record before he was hired.  Yes I know blah blah blah Darrel Royal blah blah.   He was not a proven head coach at the D1 level.  If you think they couldn’t get one then at least get a proven coach at the next level down.  They got a coach who had one good year at the lower level and the overriding factor was the emotional appeal of having a hometown hero.  

    Yeah except Nebraska wasn’t the only team who thought he was a hot commodity. He was on most lists. He was pretty much Herman 2.0 except Frost had an undefeated season. Very few people viewed that as just an “emotional hire”

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  6. 11 minutes ago, Go Pokes said:

    Or there is shit going on behind the scenes and he is so fucking incompetent, think John Blake with OU, that every day he was there he destroyed the program a little more

    Has to be something along these lines. They’ve got ousux and Indiana in the next 3 weeks. Maybe they thought those are both losses with how Frost had them playing but maybe a change could at least give them a shot against Indiana. So, is it worth $7.5M for a shot at an extra win and a 3 week head start toward a hopefully better product than what they’ve been seeing (couldn’t be much worse)? Not to mention a 3 week head start on finding the replacement? Probably becomes pretty easy to justify when you look at it that way.

  7. 29 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    its gonna be funny as fuck to watch that shithole start out by shooting for the stars, and gradually readjust their expectations. Trev is gonna be left standing in the corner with his dick in his hand. Gotta be one of the hardest jobs to fill these days. 

    Yeah they gonna be all like “we gettin Saban.” You’ll take Charlie and like it.

    Or “we gettin Urban.” You’ll take Sark and like it.

    Gonna be hilarious.

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  8. On 7/29/2022 at 9:20 AM, C-Man said:

    Jack Perkins has posted on Facebook that Rafa’s is closing or has closed.

    I think old man Rafa just died didn’t he? Guessing that has something to do with it.

  9. 1 hour ago, gmr548 said:

    lmao negged - this is the food and travel board. Take your political axe back to Texags.

    Traveling to California sucks. Does that help you?

    Wife is from there and each trip we’ve taken to visit her parent there gets shiftier and shittier.

  10. On 7/25/2022 at 2:45 PM, C-Man said:

    Lucky's across from SMU is "closed for remodeling" -- not sure if they're changing the concept or what. I loved the food but it was never very crowded.

     

    5 hours ago, bluto said:

    Seems like a quick turn for luckys and surprising given that groups record. 

    Think I read somewhere they got the chance to get the space next door so decided to expand the footprint and do a more upscale concept in the total space

  11. 23 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Nor did I. Mine came out terrible. The Ooni is amazing. Get one.

    Listen to this man, he’s pre med.

    23 hours ago, Post Oak said:

    I've never had much luck on my BGE.  Trying to convince my wife we need an ooni.

    Been covered at length in this thread, but the BGE (without a conversion kit) is actually one of the WORST devices for making pizza. All the heat comes from below with none of the necessary heat from the top, because you have to open it and pizzas are meant to be cooked very hot and fast. Only thing worse that I can think of would be an open flame.

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  12. 9 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

     

    Checking in.

     

    We were in the pool at Caesars for the night swim.  Pretty chill.  I looked up and saw the cocktail waitress sprinting away from the bar, along with the bartenders.  Some guy came out and told everyone at the pool to evacuate through this door; that there was a situation in the casino.  So, we obliged.  We were led into the basement, which is a fucking huge labyrinth.  More and more people kept pouring in (dealers, food service, regular people, you get the idea).  No one had any idea what was going on.  Eventually, someone in a suit with his Caesars badge came in and told everyone to start walking in this certain direction.  We must have walked in the basement for at least 15 minutes (sidenote:  Caesars doesn't spend any money on the upkeep of their employee dining area and all the other stuff down there).  We came up a flight of stairs, down another hall and were outdoors.....in the parking garage on the opposite side of the casino from where we first started.  We got back inside at the food court by the Forum Shops, wound our way back to our room in the Palace Tower and that was that.

    Saw a lot of police, security, whatnot while walking back through the casino.  No telling how much money was lost; left behind on tables, not cashed out on slots, whatnot.

    Bad night for casino security and LVPD.  Some door shattered at the valet at MGM Grand, people thought it was a gunshot, and it started a chain reaction of panic among strip properties.

     

     

    You left the part out where you found the hottest girl in the room and told her “we’re all gonna die…might as well bang”

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  13. 22 hours ago, Brew said:

    This all depends on the circumstance in my view. If you are double checking everything is in the bag, I don’t see much of an issue with that although I’m not going to do it. If you’re double checking your special order requests, you’re the one that complicated things so you need to get out of the way to check.

     

    20 hours ago, Js1 said:

    This. Should take 5 seconds - “2 burgers. 2 fries. Done” and drive away. Don’t be opening the burgers up in the drive thru line to check for your no mustard, sub organic texas toast, add grilled Vidalia onions, exactly 4 pickles on the top bun BS.  

    Yeah, well, here's a thought...if they can't handle special order requests, maybe don't fucking offer it.

  14. On 7/8/2022 at 6:55 AM, tx ind said:

    Fuck that,  pull your ass around to the parking lot to check your order and stop clogging the drive thru for everyone else.  There's a special place in hell for people who use the drive thru and slow order, make an order for 10 people, or check the order at the window when there is a line.

    If there's a special place in hell for people who check their order at the drive thru, there must be a really super duper special place in hell for the lazy incompetent moron who can't do the simple task they are being paid money to do who causes me to have to check my order at the drive thru. Or does your world not work that way? Might be part of the problem.

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  15. 1 hour ago, DFWTexEx said:

    Blew Monarch away.

    Well, in fairness, that’s two completely different experiences. Kinda like comparing a Vegas resort to a boutique hotel. I mean, yeah they’re both hotels, and these are both Italian restaurants, but get past that and it’s pretty apples and oranges.

  16. 19 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    To bring it back on topic, I also have notes I’ve taken on a variety of products including hot sauces. And it just seems strange to me that anyone who is a presumably educated person would give someone shit for taking notes on literally any topic. So mock away. I’m impervious.

    And maybe start taking more notes on things in your life just out of curiosity.

    Just out of curiosity...does one of your notes look something like this?

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  17. 1 hour ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    I've never had a pizza order fuckup and I eat my fair share of pizza hut and dominoes.

     

    50 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    I don't think I've ever had a pizza order that was wrong.

    Last 3 pizza orders were messed up for me. Dominos took 45 mins to show up after they notified me the order was out for delivery. Ice cold and one of the pizzas was wrong. Asked the delivery guy what took him so long and he said “no drivers”. Next was my local go-to which is always pretty solid. Asked for extra cheese and it showed up with no cheese. I called them on that one and made them send me a new one. Last one was Pizza Hut, they didn’t get the extra cheese or light sauce memo, “pepperoni lovers” had about 5 slices of pepperoni total, and they sent a brownie instead of wings.

    I get that these workers have a low level of give a fuck. But the flip side of that is that they’re not being asked to cure cancer here either. I mean, you’ve got one job. And it ain’t rocket surgery.

  18. 43 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

    did you go?  The Mexican is getting trashed in its reviews.

     

    Huh, we went and thought it was pretty damn good. First I’ve seen anyone not liking it.

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