I Won $10,000

[stray]

Playing Bingo. 

I think I've found a new hobby.

[schild]

What? Seriously?

[voodoolily]

Happy fucking birthday indeed.

[stray]

What? Seriously?

Yup, but it's not exactly 10 grand. I had to wait 10 days for it too....

And what's the first thing I do?

Wal-Mart baby!! 

Seriously. I was in dire need of some groceries....and a new video card.

[schild]

So, what did you actually win? Wanna help me pay some bills?

[voodoolily]

Dang but a ninja can get a lot of ramen for ten large.

[Shockeye]

Yup, but it's not exactly 10 grand. I had to wait 10 days for it too....

And what's the first thing I do?

Wal-Mart baby!! 

Seriously. I was in dire need of some groceries....and a new video card.

You went to Wal-Mart for a video card?

[stray]

You went to Wal-Mart for a video card?

Heh...It wasn't really planned.

You know what the first thing I went to was though?



OK...THAT, I'll admit, was pathetic  :-D

So, what did you actually win?

Can't I just say 10 grand and be done with it? It sounds so much cooler  :-(

Wanna help me pay some bills?

At this point in time, I have room in my heart....For my own bills alone....And maybe, just maybe, that crippled, construction worker dude.

EDIT: What are we talking about here (and are you serious?)? F13 bills or something else?

[voodoolily]

I love mac and chee. It's a special thing. Getting the kind with the sauce already all sauced up? You are livin' LARGE, my friend!

You should trust me on this, from one punk-lovin' Cancer to the next. Put a little ketchup on it. You can thank me later.

[WayAbvPar]

I love mac and chee. It's a special thing. Getting the kind with the sauce already all sauced up? You are livin' LARGE, my friend!

You should trust me on this, from one punk-lovin' Cancer to the next. Put a little ketchup on it. You can thank me later.

GAG. Is that how they do it in the trailer park? Jesus that is foul.

[voodoolily]

Oh, The Jesus. So young, so naive. Ketchup makes everything taste better. I'm not talking drowning yer mac and chee, just a little drizzle. Don't knock it 'til you try it.

Actually, there's some science to this, too. Umami is the name of the savory sense of taste, and is found in tomatoes, among other foods and foodstuffs. Glutamines are what make it good, and glutamic acid is especially brightened by salty or sweet tastes, as are found in ketchup.

Oh, snap there's a wiki link for it here.

Edit: It's actually glutamates, not glutamines.

[Rasix]

If you put sauce on something that already has a sauce, you might be a...

[Paelos]

I don't care if it makes scientific sense. Unless you are five, keep the ketchup out of your pasta.

[voodoolily]

YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME, PAELOS!!

[Paelos]

YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME, PAELOS!!

Careful, you're getting a bit saucy.

[voodoolily]

If you put sauce on something that already has a sauce, you might be a...

Do you ever dip Buffalo wings into blue cheese dressing?

[schild]

If you put sauce on something that already has a sauce, you might be a...

Do you ever dip Buffalo wings into blue cheese dressing?

Blue cheese isn't a sauce. It's a way of life. Also, hot sauce isn't a sauce. Nor is buffalo sauce.

It's a NECESSITY.

Yeesh. Sometimes I wonder about you people.

[schild]

YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME, PAELOS!!

Careful, you're getting a bit saucy.

What you did there, just then, that's a crime you know.

[Paelos]

YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME, PAELOS!!

Careful, you're getting a bit saucy.

What you did there, just then, that's a crime you know.

If puns are wrong, I don't want to be right! 

[Rasix]

If you put sauce on something that already has a sauce, you might be a...

Do you ever dip Buffalo wings into blue cheese dressing?

The buffalo wing is one unit.  It's harmony.   Try again, Cletus.

Edit. ><

[schild]

The buffalo wing is one unit.  It harmony.   Try again, Cletus.

I'm sure she will, Mr. Kanjakikawa.

[Shockeye]

Buffalo wings are not "dipped" into anything after they get "sauced". If you have to dull the flavor and the heat of good buffalo wings with some white substance, you are a wuss. Pure and simple.

[schild]

Buffalo wings are not "dipped" into anything after they get "sauced". If you have to dull the flavor and the heat of good buffalo wings with some white substance, you are a wuss. Pure and simple.

You said Good buffalo wings. MOST buffalo wings are utter shit. Blue cheese makes those TASTE better.

[Shockeye]

Buffalo wings are not "dipped" into anything after they get "sauced". If you have to dull the flavor and the heat of good buffalo wings with some white substance, you are a wuss. Pure and simple.

You said Good buffalo wings. MOST buffalo wings are utter shit. Blue cheese makes those TASTE better.

First of all, blue cheese makes nothing taste better.

Secondly, you are a wuss.

[Alkiera]

Bleu cheese dressing is a truly foul substance.

I like most normal cheese, like sour cream, like all kinds of dairy products.  Something is just WRONG with bleu cheese.

Alkiera

[schild]

First of all, blue cheese makes nothing taste better.

Secondly, you are a wuss.

Mr. Fancy Pants is too good for blue cheese.

[HaemishM]

Blue cheese is decent on hamburgers.

[voodoolily]

God, I go afk to get a latte and this happens. Sigh.

First of all, Rasix, you are just WRONG. Wings are saucy by nature (as am I, Paelos), which is what makes them "buffalo". Blue cheese dressing is godsauce. Spicy, tangy hot sauce + cool, creamy, pungent blue cheese = foodgasm.

Second, Shockeye and Alkiera: veined cheeses are for those of us possessing a sophisticated palate and a superior fashion sense. Stick a clump of gorgonzola into the middle of a burger patty before you grill and prepare to have thine toes curled, my friend.

Third, Rasix again, that's Princess Cletus to you, mister.

Edit: Jesus, Haemish, get out of my brain. We keep sync-posting and it's creeping me out.

[Shockeye]

veined cheeses are for those of us possessing a sophisticated palate

In other words, if you like eating shit, you'll like bleu cheese.

[Rasix]

Blue cheese is fantastic, but you know what's better? Roquefort.  (well, technically it is a blue cheese) That stuff is FANTASTIC.

Take a baguette, slice, lightly toast each side in a broiler.
Top each slice of bread with a thin slice of pear, walnut or pecan bits and crumbled roquefort. 
Stick under the broiler until cheese melts and the bread browns a bit.

mmmmmm

Quite honestly, the more vile smelling the cheese, the better it is.

[voodoolily]

Amen, brother. Ever have morbier? Smells just like the inside of your belly button, I shit you not. It's because lactobacilli bacteria live in moist places like the human belly button and French caves (where cheeses are sometimes aged).

[Alkiera]

Quite honestly, the more vile smelling the cheese, the better it is.

I have some brown cheese here, it smells pretty vile... prolly from the bacteria where it, uh, aged.

Alkiera

[Hanzii]

Blue cheese is fantastic, but you know what's better? Roquefort.  (well, technically it is a blue cheese) That stuff is FANTASTIC.

Danish blue or Stilton you french lovin' heathen.

[Merusk]

Well, first off grats on the 10 large.  However, buying velveeta shells and cheese at Wal*Mart is a crime I just can't find the words to describe.  If you're going to eat Mac & Cheese go for the powdered crap or go my preferred route and make the real stuff.  Use 1/3 cheddar, 1/3 colby-jack, 1/6 mozzarella and the last 1/6 is Velveeta you lay in strips on the top to keep the real cheese from burning.  Mmm, binding.

Blue Cheese by itself is pretty vile.  I've only just started to appreciate it on hamburgers, though.

And while we're sharing cullunary delights, here's one I learned from an ex-fiancee's Hungarian family.

Go to a butcher (yes, a real one) and get a slab of bacon, a loaf of italian bread and some onion. It has to be a slab, as this doesn't work with strips. Slice-up the onion and put some onion on piece of bread, and keep this nearby.  Start up a fire and score one surface of the bacon slab in a criss-cross manner.  Cook this over the fire on a stick like you would a hot dog or marshmallow. As the bacon cooks pull it out of the fire every so often to drip the fat onto the onion & bread. Yummy.  As you run out of uncooked bacon, chew it off the hunk and cut more crosses into the slab.

[stray]

Whoa? This thread was supposed to be about money (I think)....I didn't mean to start a fight about Mac & Cheese.

If you're going to eat Mac & Cheese go for the powdered crap or go my preferred route and make the real stuff.

No way, man! My mom used to buy that powdered stuff all the time when I was a kid. I hate it. For some reason, it turns out all sticky and dry. I always envied the other kids who got the other stuff. Ever since I've been on my own, I've been strictly a cheesy, creamy, pouch kind of guy. *Sorry Mom* 

Then again, I may be the one that's screwed up. Being that she's part Thai, she'd cook all kinds of Thai food, and yet, I'd still cry about wanting a Happy Meal or something. She always cooked rice out of a rice cooker as well, and yet, I somehow preferred the watered down white trash instant crap that everyone else was raised on. Now it seems that all anyone talks about these days is "Thai food".....Except me.

I have a friend who recently graduated from culinary school, and has dreams of opening a restuarant. I told him he should open one up that specializes in Meat & Potatoes (but to be serious, he cooks the kind of "Meat & Potatoes" that is fit for Kings.....If you can imagine).