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  1. Bob Wells
    Interesting. That sounds a bit like the crabcakes up at Friendly Farm in Upperco, MD, which are really good (as are the fried ersters; avoid the roast beef). Of course, the shape of crabcakes has little to do with how they taste.
  2. Bob Wells
    I'm curious to know if this place is any good. I've never seen or heard it mentioned anywhere other than on the Tony Kornheiser show (Flaps is a sponsor but they seem to honestly like the food).
  3. Bob Wells
    ow would you guys compare this place to some other local sushi joints, like Yoko in Oakton?
  4. Bob Wells
    So, has anyone tried the husband-and-wife lung slices yet? I finally got my first takeout order from CG last night -- see today's thread on Chowhound for writeup -- and the lung slices just didn't make the final cut.
  5. Bob Wells
    there's definitely a lot of menu overlap. recently someone gave us a GAR gift card for doing them a favor, and we went on line to compare menus at the various locations. after reviewing the menus we decided it didn't matter too much which one we went to. We ended up at the Centreville Sweetwater, by the way, and it was very good.
  6. Bob Wells
    Having had a most unfortunate experience with campylobacter, and also having spent many summers in Maine, where I interacted with many Frenchmen (mainly earthbound), I'll take my chances with Jumpin' Pierre. Remember those signs and bumper stickers that said "LOSE WEIGHT NOW! ASK ME HOW"? I'll tell you how: Get infected with campylobacter. I lost nine pounds in a week. I did get $100 from the chicken company for my troubles, though.
  7. Bob Wells
    Every restaurant reviewer seems to have "go-to" words. For Phyllis Richman (and others) the word was "gutsy." I hate that description. How is food gutsy? Perhaps the chef is gutsy, but the food?
  8. Bob Wells
    Anyone who doesn't start drooling while reading Kliman's description of the food at Szechuan Boy should have his/her vital signs checked. I am seriously jonesing for those pork ribs.
  9. Bob Wells
    My word for Amphora would not be bad, but ehhh (if that's a word). Plus it's not so cheap, either.
  10. Bob Wells
    Agreed. Tysons Bagel Market (I think that's the name) is maybe a hair below my local favorite, Bagel Buddies in Fair Lakes, but it's still one of the best in the area. In case anyone is looking for more good bagels, the only other place I'd recommend in NoVa is Main St. Bagel Deli in Fairfax.
  11. Bob Wells
    LOL everything is relative, I guess. This "far out somewhere" location is just west of Fairfax Circle on 50/29, in the vicinity of local red sauce favorite The Espositos'. For us boondockers this is good news.
  12. Bob Wells
    Mark: Surely you wrote that merely to start a discussion, right?
  13. Bob Wells
    When I was in graduate tax school there were several weeks when my sustanence consisted of something very similiar: a big pot of elbow macaroni with the canned tuna, the heaps of mayo, and the parm. Eaten straight from the fridge-chilled pot with a big wooden spoon.
  14. Bob Wells
    One place also worth checking out is Paya Thai, in the same strip as Songbird.
  15. Bob Wells
    I'm intrigued by one aspect of this dish. Jonnycakes are (1) very filling and (2) something most Rhode Islanders talk about more than they eat. How many jonnycakes are included on the plate? If the lobster is as delicious as it sounds, I suspect a lot of jonnycakes get left on the plate, unless they absorb that sauce, in which case I might eat them and forgo dessert.
  16. Bob Wells
    When I moved to the DC area in '92, the Sly Horse Tavern salad was widely considered to be the best salad in the area. Did you have the salad or see anyone else eating one? I live nowhere near Crofton so I'll never be tempted to eat there but I'm curious about this once-legendary salad.
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    LOL funny you should mention Almac's (or as my cousin called it, "the Almac"). My brother and I were just this past weekend talking about a cool feature of our local Almac's (on East Ave in Pawtucket): After your groceries got bagged, they were put in a box on a slow-moving conveyor belt made of ball bearings (or casters, whatever you call those things). While you went and got your car, your groceries would toddle down the belt to a hole in the wall where they would proceed outside, hang a uey, and arrive at the end of the belt just as you drove up. Really quite ingenious. Us kids loved it. Our other local grocery store was the Big G. Remember that one?
  18. Bob Wells
    the only possible good news in this is that "way out Lee Hwy" would put Chef Chang closer to moi. I will keep my eyes and ears open for developments out this way -- reviews in the local fishwraps, etc.
  19. Bob Wells
    There's an excellent Web site that offers in-depth reviews of chocolate purveyors: http://edp.org/chocolat.htm Based on that and other glowing reviews, I ordered a Valentine's box from Burdick's for Twinsmommy. Twinsdaddy will of course have to help her eat the chocolates while they are fresh.
  20. Bob Wells
    Y'all should come on out to Loudoun County. H-T has set up a veritable Maginot Line of stores along the Route 659 axis. Parking for thousands. And I have to say, I am impressed with H-T. I have been a regular Giant customer (other than during a few years I was out of the area) since 1979, and we got a shiny new Giant in South Riding, but I now do my regular shopping at the H-T in Stone Ridge. The new Giant, with its Stop & Shop layout, just doesn't do it for me. Maybe it's flashbacks to being dragged by my mother to the Pawtucket Stop & Shop circa 1965, or maybe it's the fact that their deli meats seem to have a very short half-life, but for whatever reason Giant has pretty much lost a long-time customer.
  21. Bob Wells
    The Midget was even featured in a Zippy the Pinhead strip.
  22. Bob Wells
    Here are two more oleo cases: Collins v. New Hampshire: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getc...ol=171&invol=30 and McCray v. U.S.: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getc...ol=195&invol=27
  23. Bob Wells
    It looks like Swedenburg v. Kelley was consolidated with Granholm v. Heald. There's also the Bacchus Imports case in which a Hawaii liquor tax exemption for locally produced pineapple wine (yum!) was struck down. For some light reading, try to find a book called "Coca-Cola Reports, vol. 1." It's nothing but opinions issued in trademark infringement cases brought by Coke back in the day. People would bottle stuff under names like Koka-Kola, Co-Cola, Caca-Cola, etc., and Coke had to sue them one by one. Each opinion is accompanied by a picture of the offending bottle. Don't ask me how I found this classic.
  24. Bob Wells
    N.B. for Jacques and anyone else who wants to do some good old-fashioned legal research, the case name is Swedenburg. The Swedenburg Winery joins Ollie's Barbecue (Katzenbach v. McClung) and Maurice's Piggie Park (Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises), among others, in the "food and drink" section of Supreme Court jurisprudence.
  25. Bob Wells
    The first yogurt I ever ate was "Firm n Fruity" made by Hood. Had the texture of aspic. I did like it enough to venture on to more grown-up yogurts.
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