The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[donaldtoo]

Ugh. Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but there's nothing I want that much to send me out into a mob like that. Ever since the Black Friday media hype started some years ago, I've just avoided shopping on that day. I'll go to small, local stores today or tomorrow (Small Business Saturday), but I'll definitely avoid big stores and malls like the plague today. I've also found that many good deals can be had on various days prior to Christmas, if you watch the online ads closely. That helps to save my sanity each year.

Yep, I don't want anything that much either. We have yet to leave the house today.
We used to have people come into TDS after the Holidays asking why we didn't have any post-holiday sales.
It's because we had them all through the Holidays. We had all kinda' product bulk-stacked and on sale for a solid month.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Ugh. Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but there's nothing I want that much to send me out into a mob like that. Ever since the Black Friday media hype started some years ago, I've just avoided shopping on that day. I'll go to small, local stores today or tomorrow (Small Business Saturday), but I'll definitely avoid big stores and malls like the plague today. I've also found that many good deals can be had on various days prior to Christmas, if you watch the online ads closely. That helps to save my sanity each year.

Online. I'm on Amazon and getting some fantastic deals.

My parents need to go to Home Depot later thanks to our garage door opener breaking

 

[StarWarsGirl]

This was posted on the Facebook page of a local news station up here.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Did you know that you can get a weekly email from Buzzfeed called "This week in cats"?

I may or may not have signed up

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Star Wars

 

[FutureCEO]

Star Wars

mehhhh. I hate teaser trailers to begin with and since the movie is 13 months away, it doesn't really do anything for me except I don't like the cross lightsaber.

 

[Wrangler-Rick]

I've posted this before (and, I'm not the only one), but, non-vegetarians/vegans, beware the strip steak. Unless things have changed, I've had better $10 steaks at our local Applebee's. DS and myself had it, and it was the same for both of us.
However, those who had the ratatouille, salmon, and shrimp & scallops really enjoyed their dishes.

Unfortunately I had the same experience with the strip steak last December. Ordered it medium. It was tough and gristly. Would go back for lunch, won't go back for dinner....

 

[donaldtoo]

Unfortunately I had the same experience with the strip steak last December. Ordered it medium. It was tough and gristly. Would go back for lunch, won't go back for dinner....

Yep, exactly. We had dinner there in June of '13. Very disappointing, in that regard.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Y'know - I do believe that getting up at 4:00 a.m. is even worse than getting up at 6:30 a.m.
All in agreement, say "Aye".

No, no, not you @MinnieM123.

Aye!

 

[JenniferS]

Unfortunately I had the same experience with the strip steak last December. Ordered it medium. It was tough and gristly. Would go back for lunch, won't go back for dinner....

Ditto.
Lunch is awesome.
Dinner is meh!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I've posted this before (and, I'm not the only one), but, non-vegetarians/vegans, beware the strip steak. Unless things have changed, I've had better $10 steaks at our local Applebee's. DS and myself had it, and it was the same for both of us.
However, those who had the ratatouille, salmon, and shrimp & scallops really enjoyed their dishes.

The slow-cooked pork is by far the best thing on the menu.

I have a rule about steaks: if there are other kinds of dishes and then one strip steak on the menu, order something else.

BOG is, IMO, by FAR the best TS in MK. I've never done lunch there. Lunch menu does not appeal to me.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Star Wars

Agreed. I love all Star Wars to the max but when trailers are put out this far in advance, sometimes chances are part of those scenes may be cut.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I'm waiting to get a deal on Amazon on movies. At a certain point, they have them on sale for a limited time at significantly reduced prices. I'm just waiting to hit it.

I love Black Friday online. I'm having so much fun doing this from the comfort of my couch

 

[MOXOMUMD]

@MOXOMUMD How did the deep fried turkey go? Or how was the ham?

The day was horrible. The ex showed up extremely late (and had already drank half a bottle of Crown Royal) then decided he was grilling the 16 lb turkey. He forgot to tell me to start making the other fixins before the turkey was done (because he finished the bottle of CR) so at 9 pm we had the turkey, a can of green beans and microwaved potatoes. Never again.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

The day was horrible. The ex showed up extremely late (and had already drank half a bottle of Crown Royal) then decided he was grilling the 16 lb turkey. He forgot to tell me to start making the other fixins before the turkey was done (because he finished the bottle of CR) so at 9 pm we had the turkey, a can of green beans and microwaved potatoes. Never again.

I think I'm starting to see why he's your ex...

 

[JenniferS]

The slow-cooked pork is by far the best thing on the menu.

I have a rule about steaks: if there are other kinds of dishes and then one strip steak on the menu, order something else.

BOG is, IMO, by FAR the best TS in MK. I've never done lunch there. Lunch menu does not appeal to me.

The lunch menu also offers the same slow cooked pork.
All three of us had it for lunch earlier this month. I posted this pic:

It was very good.

 

[FutureCEO]

I spy an éclair

 

[JenniferS]

The day was horrible. The ex showed up extremely late (and had already drank half a bottle of Crown Royal) then decided he was grilling the 16 lb turkey. He forgot to tell me to start making the other fixins before the turkey was done (because he finished the bottle of CR) so at 9 pm we had the turkey, a can of green beans and microwaved potatoes. Never again.

Sympathy like.
Sorry that your day did not work out.

Next up - Christmas dinner.
Ban the ex, nail it, and banish all memories of a mediocre Thanksgiving meal.

 

[JenniferS]

I spy an éclair

You do. We all ordered the orange eclair.
It actually wasn't bad. Certainly better than their yucko, wet cupcakes, that's for sure.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

The lunch menu also offers the same slow cooked pork.
All three of us had it for lunch earlier this month. I posted this pic:
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It was very good.

But see, to me, that is dinner food.

Lunch is a sandwich or a burger or something. Dinner is a steak, chicken or pork with veggies, although some foods can cross over from being lunch foods to dinner foods and vice versa, but slow-cooked pork is not one of them. Yes I am weird.

I also like their potato gratin, and that's not on the lunch menu. We also get the mussels, which are not on the lunch menu. I've never bothered trying them for lunch. Just easier to go elsewhere rather than trying it and worrying about whether or not you'll get in and get your food in a reasonable amount of time (or if they're doing that return time thing). The other thing is that there's nothing on that menu that my brother will eat, unless we just let him eat french fries. At dinner, he'll eat the steak.