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  1. 8 hours ago, mchookem said:

    if Austin wasn't in Texas, i would have stayed put forever. 

    i tell everybody here that asks, "i broke up with Texas...but Austin is still my heart!"

    Eh.  I love Austin especially because it IS in Texas.  It's part of the character of the city.  If you dropped it into any other state it wouldn't be the same.

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  2. 1 hour ago, SimonBolivar said:

    I'm assuming this storm that has been sitting over San Saba County for an hour and is still moving incredibly slowly is a good thing for y'alls lakes?

     

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    Sadly, no.  I mean, any rain is better than nothing, but this won't make even a tiny dent in the lakes.  It would have to be roughly 10x this amount, across an area about 10x wider, and over 10x as many days, to move the needle on the lakes.  Unfortunately, not really exaggerating there.

     

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  3. 3 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    Too damn hot.  I’ll stay out here in lonely California 

    Uhhh... I'm not sure you understand the premise of this thread.  We're delighted that you love California.  The thread for people who prefer California is over there ---->

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  4. 1 minute ago, royiv said:

    Keep fighting the good fight. Great premise for a thread, but that premise seems to be getting lost on the majority. Also seems to be turning into a thread more appropriate for Food & Travel, but I know that’s not what you intended.

    Food, local travel, and music are among the top things to love about Austin.  Seems pretty natural they'd all feature prominently in a thread like this.

    On that note, another thing I love about Austin... Bob Schneider at the Saxon Pub:

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  5. 2 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    For almost 10 years I live a mile from this place and have never eaten there. Hard to go there when Desanos is just 200 yards away.

    I like Conan's much much much better than Desanos, but it's an entirely different style of pizza.

    Deep dish Savage on whole wheat is the Truth.

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  6. Just now, BurntEyes said:

    Seriously? I'm really not trying to be a Surly ass. You've never heard of Crown and Anchor? 

    Did you attend UT? Really, Crown was among the best known places.

    He's joking.  Check the "Burgers" thread in the Austin food subforum.  HJ is there gobbling down burgers probably at least 10x per month, when he's not at Sour Duck doing the same.

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  7. 11 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    Poss East also had very solid burgers. That was over by the Engineering buildings.

    Still does!  As does the Crown & Anchor just up the street, which is also still there and still making a great cheeseburger.  As an engineering student, I spent a ridiculous amount of time at those two joints.

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  8. Just now, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Any of you old timers ever eat at GM Steakhouse? Not the one on Lamar, the one near campus. 

    You would order a burger with "everything". They would ask, you sure you want everything? You say yes, and they would whip out some random object, like a carburetor from an old Chevy, and slap that on your plate. 

    Yup.  They only had cheeseburgers.  If you ordered a cheeseburger without the cheese, they'd charge you extra.  But, the abuse from the staff, was free.

     

     

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  9. I have an idea!  Why don't we leave both the preemptive thread-shitting and the reactionary thread-shitting to the doomsayer threads like ___ what the f is wrong with you and the great enshittification thread, and leave this one positive, as it was designed and intended?

    I'll go again--

    I grew up going here as a kid in the 70s/80s, and my kids have grown up going here as well.  And it really hasn't changed all that much, aside from 1/2 of it becoming an antique mall...

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  10. Lance Stroll wears Pastor Maldonado underoos.

    1 hour ago, wood said:

    Yep. That's what I'm thinking. Just because he might be leaving the team doesn't mean he's going to another team. But who knows?

    don't you dare shatter my dream!

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  11. 10 minutes ago, NoName said:

     

    • Interstellar: did they open in the strip mall?
    • L&L: Food Truck --> B&M in 2024

     

    Interstellar was never a trailer, the owners replaced Noble Pig with their BBQ concept in the same strip mall location.

    L&L is going to be interesting to me.  I sincerely hope they can make the leap.  Maybe it helps that they're keeping the food truck open.

    1 minute ago, Jerry Callo said:

    While growing from a food truck to a brick and mortar can be a problem, adding the dinner service seems to be the biggest gamble.  

    Absolutely.

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  12. 14 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

    true but they upped their output a ton and the quality didn't suffer.  

    Sure but the model is still the same.  I'm not knocking the model, it works great for maintaining a very high level of quality.  But despite the increased quantity, Franklin still only serves until they are out, which ensures extremely low levels of waste and helps tremendously in maintaining quality.

    It's a VERY different dynamic, than running a full restaurant with dining room hours open throughout the day and evening.  Which was the point of the original statement about that being a tough nut to crack for a lot of trailer operations that attempt to transition to full restaurants.

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  13. 1 hour ago, NoName said:

    look at the blue ferrari kits in normal light (also from reddit)

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    Ugh, terrible.  Looks like some kind of sanitation department uniform or something.

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  14. 11 hours ago, YChang said:

    That and Noble House were my favorites from Clavell. 

    Yeah I'd really love to see modern adaptations of Tai-Pan and Noble House as well.

    Not that I didn't love seeing Remington Steele play Ian Dunross, because I did.  But a remake with the sensitivity of this current version of Shogun, would be pretty awesome.

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  15. 22 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Our go-to was multiple pitchers of Shiner Bock plus either Sheriff sammiches or nachos.  I cannot fathom how much beer I consumed there.

    By my senior year I was there for lunch and/or dinner pretty much every day.  We were such regulars that I got to know the manager, Eddie, pretty well. Every now and then when I was desperate I'd park out back and Eddie would yell at me that it was only for customers and I'd reply "you know I'll be back here in a couple of hours for the rest of the day."  He'd grunt but then smile and say, "well that's true."

    One morning I parked there around 9:30 before they were open.  He gave me his standard line about parking being for customers only, and I responded "Okay, can you sell me a beer?"  He walked over behind the bar, poured a Shiner Bock for me and said, "well we're not open so I can't SELL you a beer."  That day I skipped classes and drank beer all day long, my usual crowd of band and engineer friends swung by throughout the day, and at some point that night I ended up at The Crazy Lady with Eddie the manager, two of my crew, and a peeler named "Cocoa."  That was a long, interesting day...

     

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