The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

betty rose

Well-Known Member
It most certainly is! I have spent the last 67 years perfecting that shape and have finally gotten it to its glorious, majestic place. What's that old saying... "Thin may be in, but, fat is where it's at.":cool:

Another thing to remember is fat fills in wrinkles. Want to look younger have a cheeseburger!
I can't have cheese, so I'll take a triple burger with lots of mayo....all that fat will fill in those pesky wrinkles!
 

MinnieM123

Premium Member
I love to watch bowling, I go and watch the grandkids it looks like so much fun. I took a semester of bowling in high school, I was never any good. And I loved watching all those bowling shows on TV, what ever happened to those. They don't show them any more.

I recall on weekends, the local networks in my area had a few bowling shows. That was ages ago. My parents used to belong to a weekly bowling league for recreation. They had fun with their pals.
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I'll have to upload photo's from two places but it will be one of my favorite restaurant finds in a long while. Normally when we are in Lincoln Park Chicago we eat at RJ Grunts, the first Lettuce Entertainment restaurant and the home of the Original Salad Bar concept. Sad I was that I couldn't land a ressie. So I went to Zagat and found Chicago Pizza and Grinder.

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History of Building, freak'n old. "If the building ever did possess gentility, though, it was abruptly forsaken on February 14, 1929, as the guttural yammering of submachine guns in a garage almost directly across the street brought the notorious “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” to headlines around the world. Rumor even has it that the house at 2121 North Clark served as a lookout post for hoodlum henchmen of the Valentine gunners."

They have a very limited menu and the only substitutions is vegetarian or meat varieties, mushrooms or no mushrooms. It is posted this a CASH ONLY restaurant and in case you don't notice they tell you again as you are seated. Menu: http://chicagopizzaandovengrinder.com/menu.htm

We were seated in the booths with the roof. This is it, the entire restaurant. No ressies, he doesn't take your name, everyone was told 45 minutes and 45 minutes it was, exactly. We couldn't figure out how the dude did it. He doesn't write names down, people are in a breeze way, outside and a tiny lobby about 8x8 feet. But he found us.
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We started with the flatbread a Mediterranean and Slurp it was good. Plus a Small Country Salad to split that would have easily fed 8 people. It had Lettuce, onions, peppers, tomatoes, chopped green onions, green and black olives, cucumbers, artichoke hearts... topped with crumbled Farmers cheese. They brought all three salad dressings to the table, Italian which was meh, Sweet Sour Poppyseed which was excellent and creamy sour cream garlic. The mix of the poppyseed and garlic was yummy.
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We we flatly told since we had not been here before we would all be ordering Pizza Pot Pies as that is what they were most famous for even though the Grinders are considered excellent. So there were several Meat Pot Pies and one Veterinarian Pot Pie ordered and multiple glasses of wine.

It comes out upside down, they flip it over and everything that was cooked in the bowl with the dough on top, they pry the bowl out and all this loveliness sets up quickly in the pizza dough.

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It was honk'n amazing. All the fresh ingredients are aside from the cheese are diced finely and are part of the sauce which was heavenly.
 
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MinnieM123

Premium Member
I'll have to upload photo's from two places but it will be one of my favorite restaurant finds in a long while. Normally when we are in Lincoln Park Chicago we eat at RJ Grunts, the first Lettuce Entertainment restaurant and the home of the Original Salad Bar concept. Sad I was that I couldn't land a ressie. So I went to Zagat and found Chicago Pizza and Grinder.

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History of Building, freak'n old. "If the building ever did possess gentility, though, it was abruptly forsaken on February 14, 1929, as the guttural yammering of submachine guns in a garage almost directly across the street brought the notorious “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” to headlines around the world. Rumor even has it that the house at 2121 North Clark served as a lookout post for hoodlum henchmen of the Valentine gunners."

They have a very limited menu and the only substitutions is vegetarian or meat varieties, mushrooms or no mushrooms. It is posted this a CASH ONLY restaurant and in case you don't notice they tell you again as you are seated. Menu: http://chicagopizzaandovengrinder.com/menu.htm

We were seated in the booths with the roof. This is it, the entire restaurant. No ressies, he doesn't take your name, everyone was told 45 minutes and 45 minutes it was, exactly. We couldn't figure out how the dude did it. He doesn't write names down, people are in a breeze way, outside and a tiny lobby about 8x8 feet. But he found us.
history-left-big.jpg


We started with the flatbread a Mediterranean and Slurp it was good. Plus a Small Country Salad to split that would have easily fed 8 people. It had Lettuce, onions, peppers, tomatoes, chopped green onions, green and black olives, cucumbers, artichoke hearts... topped with crumbled Farmers cheese. They brought all three salad dressings to the table, Italian which was meh, Sweet Sour Poppyseed which was excellent and creamy sour cream garlic. The mix of the poppyseed and garlic was yummy.

We we flatly told since we had not been here before we would all be ordering Pizza Pot Pies as that is what they were most famous for even though the Grinders are considered excellent. So there were several Meat Pot Pies and one Veterinarian Pot Pie ordered and multiple glasses of wine.

It comes out upside down, they flip it over and everything that was cooked in the bowl with the dough on top, they pry the bowl out and all this loveliness sets up quickly in the pizza dough.

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It was honk'n amazing. All the fresh ingredients are aside from the cheese are diced finely and are part of the sauce which was heavenly.

What a fun place!! I love landmark establishments like this; I've always been drawn to historical restaurants, hotels, etc. Every state has something unique along these lines. And that pizza pot pie--to die for!! :hungry: Great descriptions and good photos--I'm turning up the applause meter! :cat:
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
What a fun place!! I love landmark establishments like this; I've always been drawn to historical restaurants, hotels, etc. Every state has something unique along these lines. And that pizza pot pie--to die for!! :hungry: Great descriptions and good photos--I'm turning up the applause meter! :cat:

Thank you, thank you very much. With all the variations of pizza I've had I have never had anything like this, the sauce with all the additives mixed in was so flavorful. So impressed and what a great Mothers Day treat.
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
And onto the zoo, hope these photo's upload nicer....

Free zoo. Entrances around the entire park and you can come and go as you please, at one exit there is a patio bar and next to that an ice cream parlor.

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The Zebras behave so much better than the Disney Zebras so they were a tad bit more boring to watch lol.

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I was sad though, I didn't know they shipped off my favorite critter, the polar bear (s) to another zoo while they build the a whole new home.

And again 'cause I can....

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