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kevwun

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  1. It's reliably good meat because it has to meet quality standards, but it may or may not be angus.  The animal only has to have a 51% black hide to be considered angus so that part is bullshit.

  2. The ones I made yesterday turned out just fine.  Walmart has greatly improved the quality of the meat they sell.  I refused to buy any from them for years because of the crap they used to sell.  That's not the case anymore though.

  3. The only downside to airbnb is arranging to meet with the owner to get in to the apartment or house.  Often it's later in the day so you have to kill some time waiting after you arrive.  Other than that issue, it is great.

  4. My FIL has a Bradley.  We did a brisket in it once and it turned out pretty well.  We had to cut the brisket in half to fit it in his and finished it in the oven once it was ready to wrap because it was really cold that day and the smoker was struggling.  I was pretty shocked that it was actually good.  My experiences with Traeger's have not been as good.

  5. I have only looked at booking hotels in Rome and London , but so far it seems like most European hotel rooms are very small and very expensive.  I had hell just finding rooms with anything above a full size bed when I was looking for a place to stay in Rome.

  6. There are lots of good airbnb options.  My wife found a really nice apartment that was $800 for 6 nights.  It's not very close to the city center but we wanted to stay near her friend.

  7.  

    14 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

    Only reason I see for passing this bill is to make Trump sign a law banning any type of government-funded vain artistic tribute to himself.

     This is apparently exactly why they did it.  Trump just made a fool of himself.

  8. La Matriciana is good.  It's an old school grand cafe.  They also claim to have invented amatriciana.  It is very good there, true or not.

    Colline Emiliane is excellent.  They specialize in food from Emilia-Romagna.

    La Taverna degli Amici was the best place we ate in Rome.  It's on a small piazza and the food was fantastic.  We liked it so much that we ate their twice.  We had the same waitress both times.  I had osso bucco and spaghetti with clams.  Also try the fried salt cod appetizer.

    We stayed in Trastevere, so the rest of my recs are all in that area.  I would stay there as it is in the middle of everything and a really cool neighborhood.  We stayed in a great airbnb that I can send you a link to if you are interested in it.

    Trattoria da Enzo was a good neighborhood place right by our apartment.  It's very small, so reservations are a good idea.  The carbonara there was the best we had in Rome.

    Trattoria de Teo was another good neighborhood place.  It is also very busy because all the locals eat there.

    Ai Marmi is a really good pizza place on the main drag in Trastevere.

  9. I think my wife saw a cottonmouth yesterday when she was going to plant some flowers.  She said it was short, black and hissed at her.  I got to finish planting flowers when I got home from work.

  10. I don't remember him giving me a pizza place, but all the restaurants we tried that he recommended were really good.  We lucked out that there was an awesome pizza place a couple of streets over from our apartment.  It was so good we ate there a couple of times.

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