Dining Out - Pleasurable or Painful?

[Jeff Wrangler]

nobody call suedes turnips?

Suede turnips? 

[Jeff Wrangler]

I checked "Other" because most of the places I eat, especially when I visit my dad, the problem isn't portions that are too small, it's portions that are too large. And it isn't always convenient to take your leftovers home with you.

No wonder the U.S. now has more people who are clinically obese than merely overweight. At least, I think that's what I heard a day or so ago.

On the other hand, in a "nice" restaurant I will never order "medallions of veal" again. I did once. ... The menu made the dish sound yummo. When it arrived, I had three or four pieces of meat each the size of a quarter.   

[Kelda]

Suede turnips? 

oops spelling!!


swedes = turnips = rutabagas

[southendmd]

I've seen this soda, and never tried it.  I always say "Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwh" when I see it.   

Funny, I was just at Rein's, a wonderful deli just outside of Hartford, CT, this past weekend, and they had Cel-Ray soda (not to mention killer pastrami).  Dr. Brown's also makes root beer, black cherry, and cream soda.  Here's what Wiki has to say:

"Dr Brown's Cel-Ray soda is a soft drink with a celery flavor. It is fairly easy to find in New York City. Outside the New York City region, it is rather obscure but can sometimes be found at Jewish delicatessens and restaurants. In addition, it can be found at certain grocers that specialize in American food in Israel, and other specialty grocers.

The flavor is reminiscent of ginger ale, but with a more pronounced celery flavor that is more pungent or peppery, derived from celery seed extract."

[CellarDweller]

Maybe you should buy a can and taste it for us Chuck. If it makes you ralph, I'll send you a bottle of Pepto Bismol compliments of moi.

Oh sure!  make me the sacrificial lamb!

 

[David In Indy]

So then it really isn't carbonated celery juice. It tastes like a peppery ginger ale. That probably wouldn't taste too bad then.

[Kerry]

Funny, I was just at Rein's, a wonderful deli just outside of Hartford, CT, this past weekend, and they had Cel-Ray soda (not to mention killer pastrami).  Dr. Brown's also makes root beer, black cherry, and cream soda.  Here's what Wiki has to say:

"Dr Brown's Cel-Ray soda is a soft drink with a celery flavor. It is fairly easy to find in New York City. Outside the New York City region, it is rather obscure but can sometimes be found at Jewish delicatessens and restaurants. In addition, it can be found at certain grocers that specialize in American food in Israel, and other specialty grocers.

The flavor is reminiscent of ginger ale, but with a more pronounced celery flavor that is more pungent or peppery, derived from celery seed extract."

I'm rather fond of the flavour of celery. My Mum's home-made vegetable soup had celery in it. It lifted the flavour and made it lighter on the palate. There's a very distinctive celery flavour in V8 vegetable juice too, which I love. Yumbo! 

[Jeff Wrangler]

swedes = turnips = rutabagas

I like turnips.    Never had rutabagas, though.

[CellarDweller]

V-8 juice is the work of the devil! 

[Kerry]

V-8 juice is the work of the devil!