
Texzilla588
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I’m watching alone Australia and they’re not doing good. They’re almost as wussy as the limeys.
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I figured he was going to break it way down and smoke it go slow down decay loss. Looks like small mammals will eat most of it.
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She’s a lesbian! A lesbian!
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Hopefully, they will allow him to keep the head and cape for taxidermy purposes, even if he doesn't win. Very impressive kill.
No doubt that was a hell of a job to take it down with those old timey bows. I hope he’s not the one extracted as he seems to be a rare person who is wired for that situation. He’s not entangled in relationships at home, he thrives on the isolation, and he was raised in what sounds like an off grid no electricity cultish home. I like his rendering and storage of moose fat; he knows that’s the key to survival in that environment. That cape and hide will be very warm in his shelter. -
I hope the moose guy isn’t the one medically removed from the game leaving a wasted 1000 lb moose behind. He seemed to want to kill it out of pride more than game strategery.
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I’m prepared for ludicrous writing and a disappointing ending to wrap it up.
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Chuy's has kind of sucked for a while so I won't really miss it.
I'm starting to get concerned these restaurant conglomerates are all that will exist in the not so distant future though. Several local places have closed recently because they just can't keep up with rising costs and rents.
All restaurants in the future will be Taco Bell. Saw it in a movie.-
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The Chuys in the west suburbs in Denver recently went out of business. Not surprising. It was always empty AF and the food tasted like re-heated frozen dinners. At least the jalapeño ranch and chips slammed
It wasn’t there When we lived there in early 00s. I would have killed for a Chuy’s or an el Chico or el Fenix. I would have killed for an el charrito frozen dinner. I lived in Tex Mex deserts like San Francisco, Portland, and Denver. We drove 2 hours to eat at an on the border in the South Bay and it had been Californiated. We’d eat at Chevy’s for chrissakes which is like No-Mex Mexican food. Like fucking Iowa on a tortilla-
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Agreed. I also dont think she was a fit for this storyline and I don’t like how she’s been written. Or the kids. Maybe that’s the point to show Rusty’s separate life but it seem like the kids and Barb are connected and Rusty is an outlier.
Barb and the kids having to see and hear about his obsession with Carolyn, his impregnation of her, his willingness to leave them, and continual flood of lies would surely cause more conflict at home than we’re seeing. Having to bear witness to that publicly you’d think they’d just murder him. At least banish him to the cabana. -
HEB opened in Mansfield and I loaded up with all kinds of stuff.
Heb butter tortillas with heb queso with heb hatch breakfast sausage-
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No way this needed to be an 8 episode series. They could have easily covered most of the important ground in 3 or 4 episodes or, I don't know, a 2 hour movie. There's a lot to be said for great editing and the essential elements of storytelling.
No shit. Or come up with some additional complexity to the story instead of endless flashbacks or bad dreams of Rusty fucking Carolyn. The heart event for Raymond was a silly contrivance to get Rusty to be his own attorney and then expose himself. Or some more pained looks from Barbara. I’m glad it’s hopefully a wrap next week. -
One thing that is sort of interesting me regarding Michelin is the Bib Gourmand ratings. As it was something I searched when we went to NY and Philly 2 weeks ago.
Bib Gourmand
Not quite a star, but most definitely not a consolation prize, the Bib Gourmand - named after Bibendum, the friendly Michelin Man and the official company mascot for the Michelin Group - is a just-as-esteemed rating that recognizes friendly establishments that serve good food at moderate prices.
We found a place called Little Alley in NYC around the corner from our hotel that was awesome for the money. We even got happy hour discounts. So while I don't see an avalanche of Michelin Stars in Texas, I would think that a few would be in order. But we tend to do more casual dining (because it's Texas and I only put on long pants in Summer for funerals and weddings.). So the bib gourmand ratings will probably be the ones I will start trying out in my travels. I'll check the others out in winter...
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Speaking of Tex-Mex. I lament that Taco Diner is officially dead now with the last few spots being shuttered I believe now, but I was at HPV the other day and noticed that the cousin restaurant Mi Cocina's as taken the one thing I loved and incorporated it: Los Cabos Salad.
Other than that, Mi Cocina's sucks. Their chips are stale and the salsa is average and the food is below average. I'd rather eat Chuy's than Mi Cocina's.
Mi Cocina represents everything shitty about Dallas condensed into a bad combo plate.-
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He was so fuckin funny. Whatever he did.
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Never cared much for Chuy’s. Now I can say it ain’t even Tex Mex but Florida shit.
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I’d like an opinion from the barristers here. How realistic were the two court scenes I found flawed as a layman? Would the judge have allowed the exchanges between her son and Rusty? “You killed my mother !” Over and over? And the final testimony had so much speculation, commentary, etc I thought the judge would step in.
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I'll eat my hat if either of those restaurants get two stars. Barley Swine is great, but I've never been to Pasta Bar. But neither are not doing anything that 200 other restaurants in America aren't already doing. Nowhere in Austin offers menus as sophisticated, or the level of service required to earn two stars. Two star restaurants tend to be $300+ per person tasting menus with a $100+ wine pairing. That just doesn't really exist in Austin because the people here are (traditionally) unpretentious and don't tend to value that kind of dining experience (or price) so it historically hasn't been offered. We're a taco truck (and now $17 cocktail) kinda town. But that's changing and we might see something like that in the future.
There are EXCELLENT restaurants in Chicago (my reference point as I lived there for 10 years and ate out for pretty much every single meal) much better than Barley Swine that did not earn a star. Avec and Girl and the Goat were Bib Gourmands. Hell, Publican was just a "selected restaurant" and it's comparable to Barley Swine.
Point being, it's REALLY fucking hard to earn just a single star and you have to be doing something truly innovative with exemplary service to get a single star, much less two.
If girl and the goat doesn’t have a star then there’s few joints in Texas have a shot.-
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https://nypost.com/2024/07/17/us-news/top-chef-masters-star-naomi-pomeroy-49-killed-in-freak-river-tubing-accident-in-oregon/
Wow she was a really good chef. What a shame. Terrible way to go -
this is probably the truest statement on this thread. Cafe Annie, Abacus, The Mansion on Turtle Creek, Routh Street Cafe. those were all worthy of a star. groundbreaking Southwestern cuisine that would have matched up with Michelin criteria.
I really miss all those places and how magical those high end gamechanger joints were. I’d take my out of town vendors to places like that and they’d be blown away. They lived on the road taking clients to the same fucking steakhouse or fancy French joint all over the country and then would just have a lobster taco at mansion or those lobster shooters at abacus or the tamale custard at Routh Street and they would just die. They’d come to town just to eat at these places. They taught us all so much about how we could all elevate our common Texas foods and make them really special.-
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That would be a dream threesome
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In the day in Ft Worth I would give La Familia a star. The Tex Mex was ethereal, the service impeccable, and it operated flawlessly. Alas, the owner died and the kids lazy shits and it got sold and resold. It to me was a model for any restauranteur and I sent several there to see how to do it.
I think Goldee’s and Franklin have a shot.
I think Stephan Pyles, Robert Del Grande, and the Rathbuns in their prime would have earned stars and I would expect Fearing to polish his place up a bit to try to earn one to cap his career off.-
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Yeah I’ve struggled to explain to my friends who are iffy about Denver about the difference between a dry cold in Denver and a humid cold in Houston. Not to mention the sun being stronger and how quickly Denver warms up / feels warm
Denver doesn’t get that much snow though they want folks to think it’s like steamboat. And they know how to clear the roads in nothing flat. There is little ice like Texas storms and the snow is dry and powdery like sand. Conversely the dry heat is wonderful. As a Texan that grew up misplaced in Memphis, humidity is a curse from God and I’m done with it.
We lived in Broomfield but if we could go back and had the bucks I’d likely go to a place like Ft Collins or more into the front range.
If no grandkids I’d be in Portugal or outside Barcelona or Majorca, or Ireland. -
I had limited experience as my cousin would take me to the one in Handley when my folks would come in to visit. I was as in jr high / high school and loved the joint compared to the Pizza inn and shakeys we hung out at in Memphis though they were more lax serving the beer up there.
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Well fuck. I don’t eat at joints that might kill you. It’s pretty hard to get closed down. First rule: don’t kill the customers. I don’t give them second chances. That’s just nastiness, indifference, ineptitude, or laziness by ownership or management. Panther city off my list. Plenty of other joints that give a shit.