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10396. Ms. No - 7/19/2004 12:44:28 AM Have a good evening the both of you!
10397. PelleNilsson - 7/19/2004 3:48:09 AM You brought home leftovers from a restaurant? How quaint. 10398. Ms. No - 7/19/2004 4:42:19 AM No, I picked up take-out. 10399. Jenerator - 7/19/2004 4:58:05 AM Ms. No,
Next time you're in the Big-D, try a place called Tukta Thai, it's worth it! 10400. Jenerator - 7/19/2004 4:58:42 AM Pelle,
Do people not take home leftovers in Sweden? 10401. Magoseph - 7/19/2004 5:05:36 AM Yes, good question, Jen! 10402. Ms. No - 7/19/2004 5:15:54 AM Thanks for the rec, Jen! What area is it in? 10403. wonkers2 - 7/19/2004 5:50:12 AM Taking home leftovers is not quaint in the United States. It's quite common in many types of fine restaurants, especially Chinese or other Asian restaurants where servings tend to be large. Also true in Lebanese and other Middle Eastern restaurants. Not taking home the left-overs is wasteful. Why throw away half a serving of strip sirloin? Some take the leftovers home to feed to their dogs. 10404. arkymalarky - 7/19/2004 10:37:38 AM Hell, half the fun of eating out is taking home an extra meal for the next day. It's the only way I feel I got my money's worth.
We talked to a woman in a Chinese restaurant in Boulder about Americans and the size of portions in American restaurants, and she said they had to adjust their menu portions upward to that. If we ate American portions at any restaurant around here--no matter what the ethnicity--we'd have to be carted out of the place.
10405. jayackroyd - 7/19/2004 1:51:45 PM Dinner for me tonight was doggie-bagged vegetable biranyi from the relatively new Indian restaurant a block from here. Their portions are huge. 10406. arkymalarky - 7/19/2004 3:46:49 PM I went to Western Sizzlin, which I'm not that fond of, but we had a meeting there. They overcooked my steak, the waitress noticed it herself and offered to get me another, which I requested to go. It was overdone too, though not as bad as the other. I'm still going to have it for lunch tomorrow.
Trivia:
Jim McDougal used to eat at that particular Western Sizzlin every Saturday before he died. It was better then. 10407. PelleNilsson - 7/19/2004 4:55:34 PM No we don't bring home leftovers here. I don't think it's done anywhere in Europe. I must say that the idea of bringing home a half-eaten steak and some soggy french fries strikes as less than appetizing. 10408. Macnas - 7/19/2004 4:57:53 PM Meal portions in Yurp are generally a good deal smaller than in the 'States. There is very little left at the end of the meal if it was a good one.
10409. alistairconnor - 7/19/2004 5:32:44 PM Jay :
at first glance I read that as
"doggie-based vegetable biranyi"
... raised my eyebrows. 10410. Magoseph - 7/19/2004 7:46:14 PM The custom of bringing home leftovers is one that I welcomed gladly when the kids were small, especially from the Pizza Hut. The boys and their father relish cold refrigerated pizza and I did not have to cook breakfast. I don’t know if any of you have ever eaten cold slices of Pizza Hut pizza, but if you haven’t—don’t knock the idea until you try it. 10411. alistairconnor - 7/19/2004 9:06:33 PM Hey, I never met a pizza I didn't like.
I count this as a vice, or at least as a character weakness. 10412. Macnas - 7/19/2004 9:37:03 PM Except the pizzas with fish on, fish do not belong on pizza. 10413. alistairconnor - 7/19/2004 9:42:19 PM Anchovies, yes. Salmon, yes, in certain circumstances. Tuna, in a pinch.
My philosophy is libertarian, or even libertine : anything goes on a pizza. 10414. Macnas - 7/19/2004 9:44:24 PM I thought you were vegetarian? 10415. alistairconnor - 7/19/2004 10:03:20 PM Currently a non-practising vegetarian. The cycling trip did me in. I would have eaten anything, generally a kilo of pasta or potatoes per meal, along with any bits of cheese, dead animals, or even greenery that got in my way.
But even as a practising vegetarian, I was a fish-eating apostate.
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