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Yeah it was always open to traffic in the 80s/90s/early 2000s. Closing it down to vehicle traffic is a relatively new thing. It started with Halloween, then extended to a few other big party nights, and then ultimately they started doing it every weekend. And back when, it wasn't a real issue. It wasn't until the lurker/loiterer/troublemaker crowd with zero intention of entering the bars, started occupying the street itself, that it became a problem. I think there will be a transition period where that crows still tries to linger, perhaps on side streets, but ultimately without the ability to mass congregate in the most interesting areas of the street, they'll find some other place where they can congregate. Highland Mall is no longer available but Lakeline is half-empty these days...

Pretty much

Aggies, is there anything they don't know about excellent QB play??

Yeah my kids knew at least one food runner that was cut from the Lakeline location. And it sounds like the plan is to cut most/all food runners and put that burden onto the (remaining) wait staff. Guess we'll see how that goes.

They are always do damn high. It's amazing, really, that they ever manage to produce a pizza at all. But I still love it so GD much.

I love U2 The Joshua Tree but absolutely loathe "Bullet The Blue Sky." It's an instant FF/skip for me. Back when I first got it and dubbed my album to cassette tape, I just omitted that song, and then pretty much just listened to my tape all the time. So as much as I love the rest of it, that album doesn't make the "albums with no bad songs" list for me.

ha! true again. I don't think I'll try again. Final conclusion-- get the large. It is irrelevant whether or not it's cheaper. It is bigger, and that is what's important.

Sandy Cheeks is pretty hot. I like her accent.

Dangit, squared the wrong variable in my formula. Try this" But let's do some math. Conan's website says the small is 10" and the large is 14". So total area of the small is 314in^2, and the total area of the large is 615 in^2. So half the small is 157 in^2. Back in my high school and college days I could just about eat a large by myself. But these days I'm older and wiser and I'm also not a great big fat person, so usually 2 out of 8 slices on a large, is enough for me. That's 154 in^2 which is slightly less than half of the small, so the small would be sufficient for 2 people. If you wanted to do 3 slices, you'd get 231 in^2 out of a large, which is more than the 157 in^2 that represents half of a small. Same conclusion though-- get the large and have extra.

Yeah, I've never in my life ordered anything other than a large. You gotta get deep dish, and the whole wheat crust is delicious, it's actually better than the standard white. So it's a thick, substantial pizza pie. But let's do some math. Conan's website says the small is 10" and the large is 14". So total area of the small is 98.5 in^2, and the total area of the large is 138 in^2. So half the small is 49 in^2. Back in my high school and college days I could just about eat a large by myself. But these days I'm older and wiser and I'm also not a great big fat person, so usually 2 out of 8 slices on a large, is enough for me. That's 34.5 in^2 which is less than half of the small, so the small would be sufficient for 2 people. If you wanted to do 3 slices, you'd get 51.8 in^2 out of a large, which is slightly more than the 49 in^2 that represents half of a small. In conclusion, the small is probably okay for two, as long as you are not great big fat people. But seriously, why? Just order the large and make sure you have enough for some leftovers. It's great the next day.

The problem isn't that they talk about Texas all the time. This is what rivals do. We have this thread and a much longer one on the football board that are all about the ags. The problem is that they weirdly post a new thread for every thought that comes into their heads, and then argue with one another over whether all of those threads are necessary. And, of course, they aren't. You'd think one of them would be smart enough to make a "t.u. Departures Thread LOL!" or a "Things going wrong with arrogant t.u. Megathread" and they could all post their relevant insanity to the one thread, and thus avoid at least half of their arguments which consist of nothing more than being angry with one another for starting so many threads about Texas. But they're not smart enough to do that. They just can't help themselves, each of those self-important self-righteous dipshits believes his own thoughts are so profound and unique, it warrants a separate thread, although it's the exact same topic as three dozen other threads. As always, their stupidity and ignorance makes for great entertainment, so I hope they never change. And we all know they won't.

Yeah you could get green chile on the CFS. But that's not it. Their smoked chicken dishes were really good, their tinga relleno was really good, their chorizo-stuffed chicken was really good, their migas were really good, and their chipotle sauce is my all-time favorite and it's saddening that I'll never get to taste it again.

I imagine they'd want to continue the Japanese look/feel of the Shogun story. That's what really brought in a lot of folks. Taipan might be a chronological "sequel" but it's not really a sequel. It's an unconnected story and I don't think the general public would really follow it if they called it "Shogun 2: Now in Hong Kong! (and 250 years later)" That said, I'd love for someone make a Taipan series with the same level of thought, effort, and production as Shogun. And a new Noble House miniseries would kill it, too.

And here I was thinking I couldn't possibly hate you any more. Just kidding, you've been an excellent guest. Hope you stick around.

Tinga chile relleno with chipotle sauce was fantastic. Smoked chicken enchiladas and chorizo stuffed chicken were great too. Their standard Tex-Mex cheese enchiladas, not so much. Anyway, it was an Austin icon for decades despite its late-season slide in quality and it'll be missed.

I'm not sure how much "love" it ever got. It's been constantly shit upon on Longhorn message boards going all the way back to austin360 days. But you answered your own question with the free-flowing booze and hot college girls. In the late 80s thru late 90s, there were a handful of these places around town, and Trudy's was one of them. Personally I never understood all the Trudy's hate. Their traditional Tex-Mex cheese enchiladas with brown chile gravy weren't very good, but they had some non-standard dishes that were extremely tasty, like the pecan-smoked chicken enchiladas with chipotle sauce. Throw in free-flowing booze, hot college girls, a decent tap list, and relatively cheap food and drinks, and it's easy to see why folks liked it.

Probably more appropriate for the Tex-Mex thread but either way, I too spent a lot of time at the Texas Star in college, and a lot of time at the North Star in my early professional career. Some folks thought it always sucked, they are incorrect. There were some dishes that sucked, and some that were great. They were never much good at making traditional Tex-Mex, specifically their cheese enchiladas with brown chile gravy weren't very good, but there were several other dishes that were quite tasty. But even before COVID, the quality definitely slid. And post-COVID, after the Carolina venture capital firm bought it out, it was pretty much unrecognizable. I went maybe twice I think, and it was like a totally different restaurant. But I'll always fondly remember the Trudy's of the early/mid 90s, and for that, I'm sorry to see it go.

Yeah, objectively, their 6-7 season was just as good as our 13-3 season where we also happened to beat them 34-3 head-to-head.

Matter of personal taste. I find it more satisfying not to have to stand around and stir. I peek at the oven roux every 30 minutes and stir it for 15 seconds, then go about the rest of my business. It's easy enough to plan ahead and get the roux started 1.5 hours earlier.

You could pull and finish on the stove at any time. But the entire point of the oven method is that it's basically set it and forget it. I stirred four times over two hours, for a grand total of maybe 45 seconds. That's just so much easier than doing any of it on the stove.

I wish I could do the same, but there's so much evidence to the contrary, that there really are ags that think and behave this way. And I say that as a Longhorn who's married to an ag who comes from a huge ag family. She and her immediate family are all great, but some of the more distant cousins are lunatics, just like this dude.

That take could have used a "common sense" filter or perhaps even a "basic level of human intelligence" filter. But ags gonna ag.

All caught up and waiting for the next one. It's rare that I can get my busy teenage kids to sit down next to me for any length of time, but they love this show and we've had a good time watching it together. I also love to make them cringe by saying that Jod seems like he's skibidi beta.