What's overrated and/or overpriced?

carumba! i could go for that, even in the land of rubio fish tacos, if anybody makes a turkey pancetta.

Oh, don't add it salted pork, the pancetta is WAY salty enough, I even give it a rinse in a colander before throwing it in.

with the pancetta, you get all the flavor, none of the fat.

Yitwail - would you use turkey product to avoid the fat, or do you not do pork?
The pancetta is VERY low in fat, much lower than turkey I'd say.
Overall, I would call it a fat-free dish.

The first couple times I made these beans, I would take a pound of center cut bacon, fry it up crispy, then stand there pulling the fat part away from the meat. Then, I'd wrap the meat in paper towels and SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE.
I'd end up with probably 6 oz of meat, and that was too much like work for the cost of the bacon, when for a comparable price I could get the pancetta.

OK - the HEB on Brodie and Wm. Cannon.
The section where they sell the fancy cheeses?
It's in there. It's actually some german brand I think.
There's slices and diced.

Hmmmmm, I'll bet it would taste good with no meat at all.

Wait, hold on, I have to get a pen to write down that spanish rice receipe

ordering from college students, feeling weird?
Think about that shewolf, is that for ALL stuff? I can't think of a reason.

B.O.B.'s are over priced... :-)

I.....hesitate to ask......

B.O.B.'s?

battery operated boyfriend

hm, tempting. i avoid fat & don't do pork, generally. philosophically i'd like to wean myself from meat, then poultry, then fish in that order. who says you have to go vegan 'cold turkey?' but i'm not dogmatic about it--they don't make fish hot dogs, for instance, so i go with turkey franks when available, or even a yummy Hebrew National dog if there's no alternative. i don't drink, either, but the other day i was in a restaurant that had absinthe on the drinks menu, so i would have tried it except they'd run out.

you even shop where i shop



Ok so NO salted pork.
I was just drooling over the idea of it. I have not had salted pork in YEARS...


I remember one time, I was in line at a grocery store and I was buying ( gasp.. oh my god ) tampons..
College student.. MALE.. at the check out.
Here I am a grown woman , cowering..
yeah.. i guess it is all stuff

Well, you might want to try turkey bacon then, fry it up crisp and dice.

You know though, I just figured it up, and with the beans swelling and all, you end up with more than 4 1/2 pounds of food.

If there's 8 servings, you only eating an ounce and a 1/2 of meat.

Oh, the stuff freezes well too.

If it was for philosphical reasons, of course avoid meat, but if it's for health reasons, I don't think it'll make any difference.

Oh, serve it over a GOOD brown rice.

OK - official tangent time...(what in the world was this thread about anyway)

I go to the Brodie store because (a) the one on Far West is a lot smaller, I only stop there on my way home from work if I basically need/want some type of Slavic/Jewish foods. They even have a separate kosher market in there. I'm not Jewish, but I like a lot of that stuff.
(b) the one on Congress and Oltorf is a circus.
Actually, I like it if you happen to go in there when it happens to be what I call "alternate lifestyle" night. I feel like a friendly visitor then. I mean, there's buddist monks and gays and that guy who has the horns implanted in his head, with all the tatoos all over his face. And then, there's the really strange people. What I hate about that store is that there's all these families who go there and it's like their version of a weekly family reunion
OK Folks, please don't block EVERY single aisle, I know you haven't seen each other since yesterday, but I don't want to be here for the next 4 hours, like you're planning to be. Last time I was there, this, oh, about 12 year old girl started taking stuff OUT of my cart, looking at it, poking it, throwing it back in, while I had stepped away to get something. "I was all like..."I don't want to buy something after you've poked it with your fingers and all" gawd.

OK, switching gears....
I go to that Walgreens on South Lamar.
There is this guy there that is such a F-ing FREAK....

If you're buying a pack of gum, he'll put it in a big bag before you can even say anything.

If you're buying tampons, he'll hold the box up and say..."Do you need a bag for this"?

Awhile back when I was dealing with that ovarian cyst, my Aunt Flow didn't come to visit, so I bought a pregnancy test just to make sure. I seem to recall I was also buying something else pretty personal at the same time, like toilet paper.

Oh great, it's got to be the day the freak is there.

He rings me up and of course does the "Do you need a bag for this" thing.
I just said to myself, oh what the hell, go for it....

"YES, I would like this HOME PREGNANCY TEST in bag"
pause...
"AND, WHY is it when people are buying things like "TAMPONS and PREGNANCY TESTS you ask us about a bag....but you put EVERYDAY ITEMS in a bag as a matter of course??????

oh, uh, I didn't know what you were buying....uh......

He's never done it again.

So, no, I'm not shy about that.

HA!

I know the kid you are talking about.
He questions everything, yet, says nothing..
Annoying little turd

Have you met Puzzle man and his Cat wife yet?
The congress HEB is one of thier regular shopping places.
I absolutly agree though ( not a racist statement but-) after a certain hour, you almost need to speak spanish to get help.
THEN- after that hour, only tatoos are allowed..
THEN- in the final hour, you get normal boring people like me..

I remember one time, I think I had lived here about a year.. so i was still the looky loo square who wanted to stop and talk to everyone with more then 50 tatoos and 3 colors in their hair..
ANYWAY- I saw this black woman . Oh my she was SO beautiful. She had on a HUGE white afgan , and her dark DARK black skin against it.. wow.. just a breath taking woman.
She has grey eyes. I could see the contrast from my car!!
So.. i waddled up to her and said hi.
Then I commented on her eyes and asked if they ran in her family.
She laughed at me like the country bumpkin I am and said, No honey.. they are contacts.

I think i spend 2 months looking for them for myself.

that store is alot of fun.

My other fav
Tesoros- on 2nd.