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JimH wrote:

Uh, Florida is one of the largest beef cattle producing states there
is, for one thing. So if you can't get good beef there, I don't know
where you'd get it!

Here's a good place:
http://www.wrightsgourmet.com/Menus/Menus.asp


Florida raises more cattle than Texas.

Eisboch


But what is the beef finished off with at the feed lot?

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On Jan 23, 3:33 pm, "D.Duck" wrote:
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There's plenty of authentic ethnic foods in Florida. It's a whole
industry catering to snowbirds.
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I don't know what type of ethnic food you are referring to, but
other
than
Latin food stuffs in South Florida I haven't found a wide variety in
my
time here. I'm referring to the raw material to prepare for yourself
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Uh, Florida is one of the largest beef cattle producing states there
is, for one thing. So if you can't get good beef there, I don't know
where you'd get it!

Here's a good place:
http://www.wrightsgourmet.com/Menus/Menus.asp

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Did you favor the grilled cheese or PB&J sandwich at Wrights Deli?

BTW: How do they "produce" beef cattle in Florida?

Same way they do it in Kansas.

ROTFL!!!

Glad you liked that.

Cattle is raised, not produced.

You did not know that?


Cattle *is* raised?

Yes. It is not produced but raised.

You did not know that?


Well the cattlemen I know all are referred to as Cattle Producers. Even the
Beef.org group lists them as "Cattle Producers"

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On Jan 23, 3:33 pm, "D.Duck" wrote:
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There's plenty of authentic ethnic foods in Florida. It's a whole
industry catering to snowbirds.
==================================
I don't know what type of ethnic food you are referring to, but
other
than
Latin food stuffs in South Florida I haven't found a wide variety
in
my
time here. I'm referring to the raw material to prepare for
yourself
at
home.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Uh, Florida is one of the largest beef cattle producing states there
is, for one thing. So if you can't get good beef there, I don't know
where you'd get it!

Here's a good place:
http://www.wrightsgourmet.com/Menus/Menus.asp

=======================

Did you favor the grilled cheese or PB&J sandwich at Wrights Deli?

BTW: How do they "produce" beef cattle in Florida?

Same way they do it in Kansas.

ROTFL!!!

Glad you liked that.

Cattle is raised, not produced.

You did not know that?


Cattle *is* raised?

Yes. It is not produced but raised.

You did not know that?


Cattle *are* produced. Go learn something, and then come back and say
thanks.

http://beef.unl.edu/
--
Red Herring

We can produce a car, a blender, a plane............but we cannot
*produce* cattle.

I thought you knew that.


How do you get a cow to raise?

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:54:41 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:


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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:28:31 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:



Another "thing" is ordering pickle on your hot dog. Nice big fat
slice of pickle. And real mustard, not the crap mustard most hot dog
places have. Properly chunked spanish onions.

mmmmmm.....

You forgot the celery salt and tomato and sweet pickle relish and poppy
seed
bun and....

The list goes on. And people here still argue about where you get the
best this and that, but are in general agreement about some.
We haven't mentioned gyros, and I've got a place on Milwaukee avenue
that was my favorite. Gyros sliced so thin you could see though it.
Mom and pop operation called 3 Sons. Don't know if it's still there,
as the old man was getting up in years.
But gyros is real manly stuff, and some don't have the stomach for it.
Even had me burping for days afterwards.

I don't care for gyros - they just don't settle right. :)

Speaking of odd things you don't find except for (name the place)...

Frozen custard.

There's a place out on Greenfield Ave and W. 57th (I'm doing this by
memory - it's been a while) in West Allis that has hand made frozen
custard. My favorite is French Vanilla second to coffee.

To freakin' die for.

One of those items you just do not hear about anymore. Frozen Custard used
to be on lots of menus. I think the younger generation just has not been
introduced to a lot of different foods. Was at a buffet Thursday night in
an indian casino in Oroville. Girl asked her mom what an item was. Mom did
not know, and when I said Flan, a Mexican Custard, she made a face and said
ugg. And it was good flan.

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Eisboch wrote:
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:18:04 -0500, hk wrote:

While I
do expect this country to collapse into class warfare, I don't
believe
it will happen in my lifetime, though I think the time is getting
closer
as the gap between the "haves" and "have nots" widens.
I'll tell you what - if the Clinton's don't start a race war, Obama
will start a class war.

Watch and see.

Ol' Bill is caught between a rock and a hard place. He and his
sidekick are showing their true colors.

Eisboch
What? That they won't roll over and play kissyface and holdyhand with
the Saudis while Cheney et al rob the country blind?

I'll bet he's referring to the C's campaign tactics.


No one in politics is smarter or tougher than the Clintons. I like the
Clintons and the Obamas, but I think Obama has gotten pretty much of a
free ride to date, even when he flings one at Hillary. One of the reasons
why Hillary so infuriates the Republicans is that she has more balls than
any of them.

Hillary is the one with the free ride so far. And look at the stink, when
she got a question that was not prescreened.

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:33:04 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:

I don't know what type of ethnic food you are referring to, but other than
Latin food stuffs in South Florida I haven't found a wide variety in my
time here. I'm referring to the raw material to prepare for yourself at
home.

Food is an international commodity these days. The regional
differences we grew up with are quickly becoming insignificant.
This time of year produce is coming from Mexico or Sourh America, no
matter where you live.

Yep, you're right. I still long for a tomato that tastes like one.

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:30:17 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:

Can't get good beef down here for home use either. I really miss the good
corn fed beef available in Chicago.

Occasionally they do let a decent marbled piece of meat through at the
Publix or Winn Dixie. You just have to watch for it. A week or so ago
Publix had rib roast on sale and they had a case full every day. I
managed to pick out a couple loin end pieces that were bordering on
prime. It took a week of looking tho.

Maybe I'll have to go on a mission and check the meat counters at
Winn-Dixie, Albertsons and Publix for several contiguous days. Maybe I can
score a decent roasting cut.

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:10:05 -0600, Vic Smith
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:54:41 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:


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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:28:31 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:



Another "thing" is ordering pickle on your hot dog. Nice big fat
slice of pickle. And real mustard, not the crap mustard most hot dog
places have. Properly chunked spanish onions.

mmmmmm.....

You forgot the celery salt and tomato and sweet pickle relish and poppy
seed
bun and....

The list goes on. And people here still argue about where you get the
best this and that, but are in general agreement about some.
We haven't mentioned gyros, and I've got a place on Milwaukee avenue
that was my favorite. Gyros sliced so thin you could see though it.
Mom and pop operation called 3 Sons. Don't know if it's still there,
as the old man was getting up in years.
But gyros is real manly stuff, and some don't have the stomach for it.
Even had me burping for days afterwards.

I don't care for gyros - they just don't settle right. :)

Speaking of odd things you don't find except for (name the place)...

Frozen custard.

There's a place out on Greenfield Ave and W. 57th (I'm doing this by
memory - it's been a while) in West Allis that has hand made frozen
custard. My favorite is French Vanilla second to coffee.

To freakin' die for.

One of those items you just do not hear about anymore. Frozen Custard used
to be on lots of menus. I think the younger generation just has not been
introduced to a lot of different foods. Was at a buffet Thursday night in
an indian casino in Oroville. Girl asked her mom what an item was. Mom did
not know, and when I said Flan, a Mexican Custard, she made a face and said
ugg. And it was good flan.

Heh - sounds like my youngest boy.

If it ain't recognizable, he won't eat it.

Which means meat, potatos and certain veggies - peas, corn, string
beans, etc.

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:59:44 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:



Actually it's I-94 and Wisconsin 50, just a couple of miles north of the
border. I haven't been there in probably 25 years but we started eating
there in the '60s. Hwy 50 is the route we took to Camp Lake where we had
a
home on the lake.

Just for fun I Goggled it, low and behold, it's still there after 46
years.

Three things I miss since leaving Chicago area are brats, good pizza and
Italian beef sandwiches.

http://www.bratstop.com/contact.htm

If you do stop there, have a couple for me.

Thanks, I saved it. You've given me the idea to go to Kenosha
and maybe visit the waterfront. Real quick trip compared to going out
on I-90 to see farms.
You got that right about pizza and Italian beef. I hardly ate brats
until I moved to the suburbs. 'Cause I can't find decent pizza or
Italian beef nearby!

A couple of years ago my 90 year old Aunt in Arlington Hts became
terminally
ill. My brother, from Michigan and I both traveled there to be with her
as
she had no other family. The three weeks I was there much of our dining
was
on pizza and Italian beef. When I arrived home in Florida I jumped on the
scale only to find I had gained 13 pounds.

Haven't found a decent pizza joint here. There have been a couple of
places
that opened and served pretty good Chicago style Italian beef but neither
of
them lasted very long.

When I first moved to Florida I walked into a "Italian" pizza restaurant
and
ordered an Italian beef to go. They looked at me like I just fell out of
tree, they had never heard of such a thing. I didn't realize it's a thing
pretty much unique to Chicago.

Yep.

Another "thing" is ordering pickle on your hot dog. Nice big fat
slice of pickle. And real mustard, not the crap mustard most hot dog
places have. Properly chunked spanish onions.

mmmmmm.....

Used to be only one place out here in the west that had those great pickles
like the midwest. Not worth living in the midwest for the pickles, but I do
eat them when in Chicago.

We have a real New York Deli in Vernon, CT - Rein's. They pickle
their own pickles.

Most excellent.

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:16:25 -0500, hk wrote:

While McCain is the only candidate suitable for and qualified for the
White House,

~~ cough ~~

Boy - got that right. :)