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This is episode 99 of the Bear and Curadh podcast.
We're going to review our favorite restaurants.
Okay, okay.
But first, we got another email from HotCub, and I'd like to read it.
Okay.
Hey, boys.
Great show is usual.
Obviously, he had just listened to our last episode about TV shows.
Great show is usual.
Pushing Daisies was a lot of fun, but it was killed by not the most recent writer's strike,
but the one before that.
So I didn't--
I didn't realize there was a writer's strike before that.
I didn't either.
Leapace went on to be in films like The Hobbit series.
Okay.
Which one's Leapace and The Hobbit series, do you know?
We didn't talk about The Hobbit series, so it must have been some other show that he
was in.
Well, no.
The Hobbit series, he's talking about the movies.
Okay.
But--
Actually, he's talking about an actor named Leapace.
That's what I'm saying.
I don't recognize who that is.
That's what I didn't know a character he played in The Hobbit series.
That's what I was saying.
Okay.
Bear, you were thinking of Dead Like Me, which is also fantastic.
Patincan left that show pretty early, I think, after the first season.
Classic Who demands a separation of enjoying the sci-fi itself and not concentrating too
much on the wobbly sets, which were a result of the Miniscule budget, which-- kind of
what we said.
I think he agrees with us.
I actually prefer them to The New Who.
That's an interesting way of calling it The New Who.
I definitely recommend Sandman, which follows some of the original work pretty well, of
those-- some gender swaps, which work to their advantage.
I don't think gay men is gay, though.
You might be thinking of Clive Barker.
Anyway, I love you guys, hope all as well.
I didn't actually look to see if Neil Gaiman was gay before we did the podcast.
It was just something, as I mentioned in the podcast, an X of mine was a big comic book fan
in Neil Gaiman in particular, and he made me read The Sandman series.
And he told me that Neil Gaiman was gay, and I just believed it.
Okay.
It doesn't matter.
You know, either here or there.
I don't think it's necessarily bad that he is or bad that he isn't.
Oh, it's bad if he's straight.
I refuse I'm kidding.
Kind of a strange mind for-- it's usually gay people who have such imaginations.
Yeah.
No.
Recently anyway.
Well, yeah, since Rome was an empire, I guess.
Okay.
So the reviews of our favorite restaurants, these are probably going to be short reviews.
Yeah.
We've got a lot to go through.
Well, we go to a lot of restaurants.
I don't know.
Do you have any idea how I compiled this list?
Do you look at our credit card receipts?
Yes.
Wow.
Okay.
Barker Central.
Do you remember?
Yeah.
Which one is Barker Central?
Yeah, probably the only place in town that has a frag egg on a hamburger.
I think there's other ones that have--
Maybe Bionic Burger does.
Yeah.
There's just places we don't normally go to.
We're thinking you got to be like 10 sees and, you know, more than the cash flow.
The mom and pup places.
Yeah.
The national chains just don't do that.
Yeah.
In fact, I don't know of any national chain that has a frag egg, they're usually like hard
cooked.
Yeah.
Well, that's what this is when you order it, right?
It is hard fried.
Mine was for easy.
Mine's always been hard fried, so which is good because I don't like it.
Hmm.
So you see.
No, but it's a good place.
And I think it's locally owned.
It has the look of a place that's locally owned.
Yeah.
I like it, too, because that I gave my funnel cheesecake, my funnel fries, funnel cake fries
with my burger.
So.
So you get savory and sweet at the same time?
Yeah.
But it's a good place.
It's a little routine stop that we go to after we go to--
When we go to the zoo.
It's right under the zoo.
When we go to the park.
So I think it's a great place.
And the next one, it's a Gramaltese pizza.
Gramaltese pizza is a New York-- pizza-- New York style pizza chain.
I think it is a national chain, although I think when I looked up their menu, there was only
like a dozen--
Yeah, there's not many of them.
It's really strange that they would have one in our town, especially in the city where
pizza hut was invented and pizza hut came from here.
So why would you go here to start a new chain, new pizza chain?
Apparently, Wichita has one of the best test markets in the nation, like second only
Hong Kong, right, like in the world.
And that's why we get all of these restaurants in town, probably these chain restaurants will
pop up here.
That's why there's so many places to eat, because that's all there is to do here.
There is a lot of places to eat there.
But it's like one of the biggest test markets in the world.
And it sounds very weird, but I've read an article somewhere about that.
But that's why we get so many restaurants.
And it's pretty much the only thing you do here is get your car washed, go out to eat in
bowl.
Well, it doesn't help to cut corners here, you know, make your portions too small or have
in different weight staff, because there's just too many other restaurants that you can go
to, you know, that you can say, this is the last time I'll be here and mean it.
Yeah, yeah, because there is a ton of places you guys are going to find out just by the
review that we did today.
I don't care for New York pizza.
Oh, I didn't know that.
I'm used to pizza hut, you know, where you've got 10 different toppings on a pizza and
five different crusts and thicker, thin, and New York pizza just seems kind of plain.
I guess when I call them there anymore.
And this place is Grimaldi's, apparently it has some kind of special water filtration
system to make it like the New York city water, make the dough the way it is because the water
is a big part of it.
That's what people say.
So it's just like by the bread at the sub back home, it's so much better.
So there I know they have a sub shop that seems in New Jersey called White House subs that
they actually opened up a restaurant with the casinos on Vegas and actually there's water
out there.
They fly the water out there every week to make the dough.
So unfortunately our water here isn't the same, it doesn't have salmonella in it.
Salmonella?
All the people think.
Taco Bell.
Gotta do the bell.
You think that a Mexican phone company?
Taco Bell, what can you say about it?
Cheap.
Yeah, a lot of fast food, Taco places are cheap and that's a good reason to go.
And if you don't have much money, they have thousands of things on their menu.
I think because they can take a flower tortilla or a corn tortilla or a hard shell or a soft
shell and put different things in it and call them something different and when you've
really only got four basic ingredients.
Yeah.
I mean I like Taco Bell, it's good and good in a crunch.
I don't like that they no longer take orders.
You have to go to one of those computer kiosks to place your order.
Yeah, I wonder if there is a lot of business for go to that.
Probably from the old people.
We've seen a lot of people turn around and walk out.
We've seen old people come in and they say you've got order and they just turn around
and walk out.
Yeah, they get pissed.
And I've been seeing like yesterday we went to three different fast food places for breakfast
and the lobby was closed and said drive through only.
Yeah.
I've been seeing it and our pharmacy is starting to do that now.
I don't like that.
I don't.
No, especially because you don't like to eat in the car.
No.
You're supposed to drive in a car, you're not supposed to eat in it.
Well, it seems pretty obvious they're doing it because they can't hire people.
Yeah.
Well, are people who refuse to work there because they're not paying good enough wages?
Or maybe it's a bad work environment.
Yeah.
I think they're going to be counting those things wrong with it.
Yeah.
So.
But I don't like that.
That's the only thing.
Yeah, either do I.
Like I said, we went to three different places so we could end up eating some place inside.
Yeah.
Yeah, the first place we went to was Burger King, which is the next time we went to.
Yeah.
Burger King.
You've been liking them lately.
Yeah.
It's something different.
I like their whoppers.
And it's just around the street from work.
In their breakfast, I do like to practice.
That's what I liked it there.
What they call flame broiled.
Yeah, they're done on an infrared burner.
Oh, is that what it is?
It cooks the food really fast.
And flame broiled or, you know, what we used to call barbecued.
The hamburger isn't on a flat grill, cooking in its own fat.
The fat.
That all drips out.
Yeah.
I've been like you said, Burger King is going to do like the flame broiled.
But I'm picky about what I do eat there now.
I don't stray very far from my normal choices.
But do you mean do you eat there very often, except with me?
No, I don't think I do.
I don't know.
That place is just kind of off in a corner.
I don't even think about it.
Yeah.
I didn't mean it straight there, but it is, you know, it's probably within walking distance
for you.
For work?
Yeah.
I don't work over there.
I really don't.
I try not to walk anywhere that I don't have to.
Sonic drive in.
I haven't been there forever.
I love it.
I like Sonic.
I like their food.
Yeah.
Sometimes I'll go there when you're not with me, and I need to eat something.
You get the chili coni?
Yeah.
The chili cheese coni.
Yeah.
I like their drinks.
Oh, like their drinks.
Oh, yeah.
If you got something like a million combinations, you get all these different and not just
Pepsi and Coke products, I mean, they have both.
Yeah.
Which is really unusual.
Mm-hmm.
I think they had that, OK?
And at least I think they do.
Oh, really?
And all these different flavors.
And you can get all of these different, like, syrups in them for other flavors.
Yeah.
I believe they said they have over a million combinations.
My favorite thing to get there is a cream slush where they put a slush and then they put
ice cream in it.
Mm-hmm.
Muy bueno.
It's so good.
And then they do the half-priced drinks on a happy hour, too.
Oh, yeah.
From, like, two to five or something like that, it's all half-priced drinks.
So, but, uh, yeah, they have a lot of combinations.
If you can't find what you want, it's Sonic, you know, there's something wrong with you.
Their menu is huge, too.
I don't know what it tastes like, I don't think it's really cheap, though.
I mean, I haven't had their-- I don't think they're appetizers or, you know, like they're
helping your cheese puffs, poppers or something like that.
But their burgers are pretty good.
Mm-hmm.
Not a lot of places put fresh lettuce and tomato on their stuff anymore, and they do.
And I like-- I don't think you should have to have lots of ketchup and mustard and whatever
on a hamburger.
Mm-hmm.
I think it should have good enough flavor that you don't need.
All of that.
Yeah.
So, there are some places that have a really plain hamburger and I don't want to put ketchup
on it, so I'll put-- I'll ask for chili.
Okay.
And now I'll give the burgers some flavor.
Yeah, give them extra flavor.
There you go.
I've always had this idea, well, maybe not always, but you know how they have the little ketchup
packets and mustard packets and sometimes relish in packets, so when you get something to
go, you can put it on there when you get home.
I think somebody should make a chili packet.
Mm-hmm.
There you go.
Yeah, sometimes if you ask for chili on it, by the time you get it home, it's kind of
like pudding.
Yeah.
It's-- and it would be nice to have a little chili packet that you could just spread it
on there before you eat it.
Yeah.
I have actually looked on Amazon to see if anybody sells anything like that and nobody does.
I imagine be hard to get a package and they have to be big packets.
Yeah, kind of like the packets--
We'll go to oatmeal.
We'll come through salads.
Oh, okay.
Probably about that size.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Mm-hmm.
So here I put this idea out into the world, you can make a billion dollars by making sure
you think it's--
Going shark tank with me.
Mm-hmm.
Your favorite shell.
Oh, yeah.
I'm rolling my eyes.
Um, Chico's Mexican restaurant.
My favorite Mexican restaurant in town.
Yeah, by far.
Definitely locally owned.
The woman who owns it does a really good job.
It is more Americanized Mexican, which is what I like.
Yeah.
I once brought home a Mexican guy who said, if you want to know what goes in an authentic
Mexican barito, go look in the refrigerator.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
But I like a nice bland kind of consistent Mexican food.
Yeah.
You know, very adventurous in what it comes to the spices.
Not the spices, no.
So?
No, but it's good food.
I mean, we always get the same thing.
We know where it goes.
Yeah.
And we know what we like.
So?
Well, I get-- why-- why experiment?
Mm-hmm.
Spangles.
It's another locally-owned, although I think they have maybe a dozen different places around
town.
Yes, I think so.
And own your bite towns.
Yeah.
It used to be called Coney Island when back when they started the Twin Lakes Shopping
Center.
They were going there.
Okay.
And they decided they wanted to franchise, and they didn't want to use that name.
So they had a contest in the-- the name that one was Spangles.
Okay.
And they have this slogan that they have on all their effortizing.
It just tastes better.
And I think the number one, vandalizing of those sciences to change to say it just tastes
bitter.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
It's a pretty good place, though.
Kind of expensive.
Mm-hmm.
But, you know, to get food that you'll actually enjoy and eat is probably worth it.
For a faster place, it is expensive.
But I mean, they have a pretty good variety of food.
Mm-hmm.
I like that their fries are dipped in egg.
Yeah.
I get the same thing every time I go there, I can get the sourdough bacon sauce burger,
which I think serves you all for every time I eat it.
And I think they're the only place in town that will do any hamburger protein styles.
Mm-hmm.
So instead of getting a bun--
Get a burger and lettuce.
Yeah.
And you've done that before.
Oh, that's time.
Yeah.
Okay.
Jimmy's egg.
Standard diner food.
Yeah.
Or no, no, okay.
It's locally owned.
Yeah.
No, it's a chain.
It is?
Mm-hmm.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Um, it's our go-to breakfast place.
Probably, because we like a particular--
Waitress.
They have there.
She's very good at her job.
Very good at her job.
Very sweet.
Um, but it's fast and it's relatively cheaper when we get her for the amount of food.
Well, they're a breakfast only place.
They open at like 6 a.m. and close at like 2 a.m.
And people won't pay huge prices for breakfast.
No.
But once again, I change it up a little bit when I go there to eat.
But you pretty much eat the same thing every time.
I used to get their cornbeath hash and biscuits and gravy.
But they started making their own cornbeath hash, which was awful.
Mm-hmm.
So I had to stop buying that.
Okay.
Now, I order off the 55 plus menu, which is usually about half as much food and half as much price.
Mm-hmm.
And, um, no, since the gallbladder burst, I don't eat as much.
Yeah.
Well, I pay for a full meal and it's just going to--
Go to waste there.
Yeah.
I always get to, um, the Baja Humlin, which is, uh, baking avocado--
I'm gonna let it-- baking avocado with tomato.
It's probably the-- the Baja.
Well, it makes it the Baja is the-- the avocado.
Yeah.
It's really tasty, though.
I enjoy it quite a bit.
So I enjoy having cravings for it at times.
So that's-- yeah.
I would say that's our go-to breakfast place out of everything where we go.
If it's not going to be fast food.
Yeah.
Okay.
Wendy's.
Yeah.
I was-- I'm trying to think of what to say on this podcast of what--
Okay.
occurred to me is Wendy's is just okay.
It's-- it's not bad.
It's not really good.
It's just okay.
Mm-hmm.
They're one of those that have the-- the plain hamburgers.
Mm-hmm.
And I will often ask for chili so I can put it on the hamburger.
Yeah.
They're-- they're-- they're good.
Oh, and they have baked potatoes.
Not many places have potatoes.
Yeah.
And I'll get the baked potato and ask-- and get a bowl of chili and put them together.
Yeah, especially since you've had your oral surgery and all that.
So--
That was really easy to eat.
Mm-hmm.
I haven't been back there for a while.
But we tried yesterday.
And they're--
Yeah.
One of the places that we--
Mm-hmm.
We left.
And then J.
I think that's locally owned Mediterranean food.
Mm-hmm.
I think they only have one.
Yes.
As far as I know.
Got a little market in there with it.
Um, yes.
They have a bakery where they-- they sell--
Oh.
Not just baked goods, but also like staples and canned goods and stuff like that.
Mm-hmm.
But you can't get anywhere else.
It's Mediterranean, but it's not too Mediterranean.
It's sort of Americanized, which pleases me.
Yeah.
I don't like really highly spicy stuff.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I enjoy it.
I think they have the best hummus in town.
Probably.
But how could you really screw up hummus?
Trust me, you can't--
I don't know if you're talking about--
I don't know if it means an oil and a teeny.
Yeah, that's it.
We make our own a lot.
Mm-hmm.
It's good, though.
I mean, but yeah, I enjoy their food.
Um, they get really good kevvy.
But not too spicy for kevvy.
No.
Yeah.
And their swarm is good.
Um, but it's overall good experience to retumb it to all of that.
Mm-hmm.
So--
There is a sort of like almost fast food Mediterranean chain called Maddie.
Mm-hmm.
I've tried it a couple of times and it's too Mediterranean for me.
Yeah, you don't like it?
No.
Yeah.
And I'm the picky eater.
Mm-hmm.
And no.
But you are?
No, I'm fine.
Uh, all right.
Carlos Suquiles.
Mexican Irish.
What?
More Mexican than Irish, I guess.
Yeah.
It's a joke on the name.
It is a national chain, I'm sure.
Yeah.
And another huge menu, I like the seafood enchilada.
Mm-hmm.
Actually, you would probably get about how much seafood is actually in it.
Yeah.
I figured it would be like two shrimp line each.
Mm-hmm.
But no, it's pretty much stuffed with--
It's impressive.
Yeah.
I like their chips and sauces.
Their case is good.
It's a guacamole is good.
But it's-- it's-- it's very Americanized.
Texmex type of--
Yeah, I suppose.
But they have a huge variety.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
You're right.
On the border.
Well, we just went there recently for the first time.
I don't remember.
I don't remember it's going there.
It was right after I got my classes.
Remember you--
Oh, okay.
You asked the waitress if you could get a cola.
So you could just take the Carlos Suquiles,
sign down and put it on the border.
It would still be the same restaurant.
Pretty much.
They're no more for their alcoholic beverages or anything else.
Yeah.
And since either one of us don't drink.
Mm-hmm.
But I liked it.
I thought it was good.
I used to go there all the time before.
But I was disappointing the portion size.
Yeah, me too.
It was very, very small.
Cutting back on the portions just isn't going to save you money
because people are going to stop coming.
Yeah, so I don't foresee it's coming back there anytime soon.
I don't either.
So yeah, I was really, really disappointed in the portion size.
I mean, I think I ordered a grilled chicken breast.
And I think I got like a little four ounce chicken breast.
And everybody knows right now the chicken breast
that you can buy in the store are like 12 ounces.
I mean, they're behemous-sized chickens.
Yeah, we'll come back to that.
Yeah.
That's a big--
Long John Silver's.
Ack.
I love it.
I love the place.
A fried fish is one of my favorite foods.
And I'll go there just because I love you.
You get clams.
No, I'll get your clams and I've been getting their salmon rice bowl.
Mm-hmm.
That's just pretty good.
But I did eat a piece of fish the last time I there, remember?
Kind of.
Yeah.
I don't think you died.
My arteries were clogged for three days.
I kind of breathed properly into that.
But, yeah, I know you love long jumpsovers and if you could.
The grease here is a bit better.
Oh.
It's--
Anytime you pick up something and your fingers get dripped with grease, it's not good.
Well, don't worry.
You won't get pimples from it.
Mm-hmm.
No.
I don't care what your mom says.
Yeah.
Arbise.
I enjoy Arbise.
I send her you don't think much of Arbise.
Mm-hmm.
Sliced roast beef.
It's kind of a plain food.
The one that they have with the cheddar cheese sauce is pretty good.
It has a beef and cheddar.
Yeah.
A very messy to eat.
I need a knife and a fork to eat that.
Yeah.
I always get the French dip.
And I don't like putting sauce on things.
So I think most people who eat Arbise put lots of their--
Where's the sauce?
You saw some on it.
Yeah.
But I think they got a new little slider and buffalo chicken slider there.
That's pretty good that I enjoy.
But do you need to eat like six of them to get full?
Yeah.
So.
Because it's basically just a chicken tender.
Dip the buffalo sauce with ranch dressing.
Get a pickle on a whole iron roll bun.
Mm-hmm.
But they're tiny.
Mm-hmm.
So.
But I like Arbise.
And it says that's also real close to work.
Yeah, they're right next to the burger.
Burger King, so.
McDonald's.
We've really only go there for breakfast.
Yeah.
So.
Don't care for their quarter pounder or that.
If I have to go there at lunch, I'll get there--
Totally officially.
--of each sandwich.
Mm-hmm.
--and usually order a double.
Yeah.
You picked that up for me, the chicken tenders, the chicken nuggets, and they were good.
So thank you.
I love the fries.
Their breakfast is good.
Mm-hmm.
And it's consistent.
Very good.
You can go to any McDonald's in the world and get the same thing.
Yeah.
Their fries-- I do enjoy their fries, but their fries don't like me.
Mm-hmm.
So.
I have to pay the price if I do eat their fries.
But their fries are one of those things that you have to eat immediately.
Well, any fries, if it's cold.
But even those are even worse.
It's like you've got to eat them before you leave the parking lot if you don't attract them.
So.
Okay.
Wasabi and Kaku?
And Kaku, yes.
Okay.
And Kaku is the word dignity in Japanese.
Okay.
I don't really know that that's--
There's probably lots of different meanings for the word.
And it probably means like fancy.
Okay.
What does wasabi mean?
Wasabi is a kind of food.
Oh, okay, down.
Is it green?
The green.
That's right.
Yeah.
It's like a root.
Mm-hmm.
But in the United States, you're not getting real wasabi.
You're getting horse radish with some green food coloring.
Wasabi, it's a locally owned fishy.
I think there's only one in town.
No, there's three.
Oh.
There's one on Maze Road and there's one on Rock Road.
They're very expensive.
Mm-hmm.
But, you know, that's what you go for is to have good food.
Their rolls are very large though.
Yes, they are.
So.
I don't think--
You don't want to order two rolls.
I mean, you made them a steak for.
But they make them so big where--
I mean, sushi you're supposed to be able to eat a bite, you know,
take a piece of sushi roll and eat it one at a time.
I don't think that's true.
Really?
But I don't know.
I'm not an expert on--
But I mean, the rolls seem huge.
I mean, they couldn't eat one at a time, one piece, one slice at a time.
And the last time we were there,
I ordered a spider roll and they kind of like rolled it out flat before they fried it
and made it the center of the roll.
So it was as long as a sushi roll.
Normally, a spider roll, they just cook it and it's like sitting on the side.
I don't know.
I don't want to get their bento box when we go there.
And probably the only place you ever get a bento box.
Fat Ernie's.
Greasy spoon, right wing hanging out.
What makes them distinctive is huge glasses.
You don't need to ask for refilling because it's a huge glass of whatever you ordered.
The plates are big.
The portions are big.
And so are the customers.
We have to be very careful when we go there, not to mock Trump because we know that people in our state carry weapons.
Basically, Fox News is playing in the background.
We have to keep each other in check about what we say over there.
But great food.
Very good food.
It's the only reason we go.
When they used to have the Baehr run here in town,
that was the restaurant they chose to do their catering.
But they didn't seem to mind a bunch of gay people buying their food.
Green, green, color money.
Gangnam, Korean girl.
Expensive.
Pretty expensive, yes.
You know what gangnam means?
Gangnam style.
Is there a dance song?
There's a dance song?
No, no.
I don't know gangnam means, but I mean south of the river.
Oh, is it okay?
I don't want to eat their game.
Well, kind of like that place.
We hadn't been there in forever.
They didn't, they didn't want to call themselves Ganges because they were so ready restaurant called Ganges.
So they just called it yellow river.
Oh, wow.
I want to go to a restaurant called the yellow river.
Yeah.
P-river.
That's funny.
But it's a Korean girl.
We've never done the grill.
No, we haven't.
I would like to try that one time.
Mainly because I prefer bokeh-ge.
Yeah.
They got a pretty good bokeh-ge.
I don't think you can get bokeh-ge on the grill.
Yeah.
Maybe you could.
And also, I'd say I want to try the grill, but who actually wants to go out to eat and make their own food?
Mm-hmm.
I mean, is that the reason you go out to eat and someone else makes the food for you?
Yeah.
Although, we haven't done it.
I used to get hot potter for once in a while.
Which is like a big bowl of chicken or beef broth with a sterno under it.
It's extremely hot.
And then they give you all this raw meat and vegetables that you put it in there yourself and cook it in heat.
Really?
Do you do that in town somewhere?
There is a couple of places, yeah.
We haven't been to--
Yeah, absolutely.
We have a hot pot in the basement.
Oh, do we?
Yeah.
I'm going to be willing to try that.
Angelos.
One of my favorite Italian restaurants.
Pretty obvious that it's going to be an Italian restaurant.
It's called Angelos.
They have been around forever.
Mm-hmm.
It's funny.
Any time I post, there's an Angelos back home in New Jersey in a Laney City.
We actually went-- we were right by when we went home visiting.
And I posted on Facebook that I was eating dinner at Angelos.
And all my friends from New Jersey were like, "You're home?
What are you doing home?
You need to tell us you're home."
My mom even said she's like, "I was going to be really upset if you were at Angelos."
And they'd tell me, "I'm like, yeah, I'm going to fly.
I'm so made of money that I'm going to fly."
All the way to New Jersey to eat there.
And then come back.
And the food's good, but it's not that good.
But it's pretty good Italian restaurant.
More authentic Italian than a lot of places.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
They make the room homemade Italian sausage.
And pickle eggplant.
Pickled eggplant.
Which spaghetti by the pound?
Mm-hmm.
That's a place that ought to have a little bakery and store and sell that pickled eggplant.
Yeah.
That would be awesome.
But I enjoy it.
It's one of my favorites.
It could be a little pricey at times.
Mm-hmm.
But I think you enjoy it.
Yeah.
I do.
Okay.
Rubens Mexican grill.
Another Americanized.
Americanized, yeah.
That's a big, very large menu.
Pretty large, yeah.
Ruben, the guy who owns it, was robbed.
A guy came into the restaurant and pulled a gun in his face and demanded money.
And I think he said something like, "Please just put down the gun and take everything you want."
Mm-hmm.
And I guess the guy got a bunch of money and started to leave and then turned around and said something like,
"It's too bad this is going to be the last thing you'll ever see in shot, Ruben."
Wow.
And I guess he carries a gun.
Carry him here.
And he shot the guy back.
They caught him.
I think he got five years or something like that.
Well, and Ruben's still not the same.
I think they had to remove most of his intestine and he'll probably never be able to use his arm ever again.
Oh, wow.
That's a shame.
But he's still.
He visits with all the customers and everything.
Yeah, but he can tell he's different.
Yeah, he is different.
Yeah.
And he was before.
That's what happens when you put your fatal, almost running with death.
But it's a good place to go.
It's one of our stand-by Americanized Mexican girls.
It's a shame that that story is more interesting than the review.
Yeah.
But...
Filipees.
Filipees...
More of a Mexican restaurant.
More of a traditional.
Not quite as Americanized.
Yeah.
It's not fast food.
You definitely have to sit down.
I think they have two or three locations.
One of them is very fancy with a courtyard and fountain and everything.
That's when you're out.
But it's good food.
It's nothing to rave about, but it's...
The main problem is they don't open till five.
No, that's chicken.
Filipees doesn't open till five, either.
Well, when you're a house does, it's run across towns and open like halls for hours.
And like old people, we have to be in bed by five.
Yeah.
So...
Kentucky Fried Chicken.
What can you say about Kentucky Fried Chicken?
I think it's the standard for fried chicken.
Yeah.
Even though it's not fried chicken, it's pressure-cooked.
Pressure-cooked chicken.
They must get some really monster chickens.
Because in comparison, when you get fried chicken anywhere else, it's like you're eating fried pigeon.
Because the chicken at Kentucky Fried Chicken, they must be huge.
Yeah.
Put all the others to shame.
I don't think I really want to know what kind of conditions those huge chickens were raised in.
No, no, you don't.
You don't want to go to any chicken farm.
It's gross.
Don't want to know how the sausage was made.
No, not at all.
Really gin.
Another breakfast place.
Locally owned, I think.
Chain.
It's a chain.
Oh.
Well, now that I think about, they all have uniforms.
And the pie.
All the services very standardized.
They say the same thing every time.
Yeah, that the select chain.
We used to go there because...
You like the horn B-fash?
No, it's because I like the hash, hash browns.
Oh, that's right.
Okay.
Because every restaurant that has hash browns, they're like burnt on the outside and still frozen in the middle.
And Billie Jean has started doing that too.
And I have a theory about that.
But my theory is that the health department makes them run the grill at a certain temperature.
And it's too high to make good hash browns.
Everybody ends up burning them on the outside.
Okay.
That would make sense.
I don't know how they got away with having good hash browns for so long.
Now they're like everyone else's.
Yeah.
But the other kind of known for their pies.
And I don't think I've ever had pie there ever.
I think I might add a once or twice, but it's okay.
It's pie.
Yeah.
You want a good pie?
Yeah.
That's all.
So.
Taco shop.
Fast food Mexican.
Probably the best fast food Mexican in town.
I barely, barely can call it Mexican food though.
Just because I use tacos and tortillas does not make it really much better.
Because it is the most planned American style.
Which I just love.
I know you do.
And so.
They have several locations.
They are locally owned.
I think my mother knows the woman who owns the company.
But it's cheap.
Very cheap.
Yeah.
And good main, pretty much consistent.
You know where you're going to get every time you go there.
I wish there was one closer than Taco Bell because we ended up going to Taco Bell because
they're close.
There's the one right there George Washington and Harry.
But you have to worry about waiting on a train when you go there.
Yeah.
That's true.
Okay.
Noree, Japan.
That's the place in the mall, isn't it?
Yes.
Okay.
You know what?
Noree, yes.
Is it eggs or some sort?
Noree is seaweed that's kind of planted into a flat sheet.
And that's what they wrap the sushi in.
Oh, okay.
This place is at the mall.
There's lots of places at the mall food court that will eat because you can go to one place
and I can go to another place and we can sit down and eat and both get what we like.
Yeah.
I don't know anything about this place because it's one of the places that you go to.
It's one of those hibachi grill kind of places.
Although I generally just get a bento box and maybe some furniture.
Longhorn steakhouse.
Your average chain of steakhouse is pretty good.
It what?
It can be inconsistent though, I think.
The surface can, but the steaks are all there.
You ask for medium or medium well.
That's what you get.
The size is always about the same.
Really the only inconsistent thing is you just don't know who your waiter is going to be.
Yeah.
And I don't really like to give a bad review of a restaurant because of the surfer.
Because next week it'll be a whole different person.
You can be having a bad day.
But that's kind of like our...
We have all the steak places.
That's when we probably go to the mall.
Yeah, we tried them all and that's the one we ended up going back to.
Also, Oriental restaurant.
My favorite place.
Also was started by a Korean woman who came to town and opened this little tiny restaurant.
And I like Bulgogi.
They have the best Bulgogi in town.
But a few years ago she sold that to somebody else.
And it's been sort of inconsistent since then.
Okay.
It's so pretty good though.
Yeah.
Mine, too.
You just never know.
Yeah.
Dave and Buster's.
No more for the video games and arcade stuff.
And we really just went there and went off just because my work was having a function there.
Yeah.
And they paid for it.
Yeah.
And then we ordered food.
But I mean, they had a...
I think we paid for the food but they gave us a $25 card for the games.
Which lasted about one minute.
Yeah.
I think we went through two of them.
My work was yours and mine.
And then we wound up whatever prizes we wanted we gave to one of my co-workers.
The prize points.
Yeah.
So she could get a better prize.
Yeah.
She was so excited too.
Because she got what she wanted.
It made her day.
But yeah.
I mean, I enjoyed it.
But I just...
I got chicken tenders when I was there.
So you got like a salmon plate.
Oh.
Yeah.
I don't remember if it was good or bad.
You still liked it.
No, we were there, so.
But it was a one-off.
I don't think we'll be back.
It's...
We...
Too many little kids running around.
There.
And the only reason we ate there is we had a pirate room.
Can you imagine eating out there in the middle of the...
Of the...
The clatter and...
Bob, Bob, Bob.
Yeah.
No.
I...
So.
You're not the most talkative person, so.
Maybe if we went after my work, you know, from four to five.
Maybe it wouldn't be like that.
Yeah.
Because we went on the...
But we would probably want to go mainly for the food and...
You could get that stuff anywhere.
Yeah.
We went on a Saturday night, I think, at like eight o'clock at night.
You've got lots of kids.
It's probably the place to go.
Yeah.
So.
And our kids have four legs in first, so.
Hi, Rudy.
New way, loose meat sandwiches.
Another one of your favorites.
Yes.
Go for it.
It's like a hamburger.
But they...
They're not hamburger patties.
The hamburger is chopped.
And into little bits.
And cooked in spices.
Spices?
I mean, it's on fat.
Yeah.
It's on fat and lots of onion.
I love it.
You can order them...
Do you see or dry?
And you always order them dry.
Because you don't want to get a little speck of fat anywhere in your sandwich.
No, I don't want to squeeze it and have it look like a sponge.
That's where you're stripping out.
Oh, that's when it's the best.
When it's dripping onto your plate.
It's like a bit of vomit.
They also have pork tender and hot dogs and stuff.
But why do that when you can have a loose meat sandwich?
Yeah.
It's only got to say about that.
Unfortunately, the one near us did not survive the pandemic.
So we have to drive much further to go to one.
Yeah.
Master walk.
Master walk is one of the one of those places in the food court at the mall.
Do you got the food there just because...
No, you did.
You got the fried rice there.
Because it was made up to your food surgery.
I went to church.
I think what mainly distinguishes them is the person who stands out in front with the little free samples on toothpicks.
Mm-hmm.
Try to think of a free food.
Charlie's filly steaks.
Love it.
Also in the wall of food court.
Yeah.
It's one of the best things in town that you can get here anyway.
So...
Probably.
So you get a cheese stick and I go get a bento box.
You're at Japan.
But yeah, it's...it's good. I wish there was a better cheese stick places here in town.
No, the only other one that's better probably be a Mike's.
Oh, a firehouse sub.
She liked him, don't you?
Yeah.
But a cheese stick.
Jersey Mike's is probably the best for a cheese stick.
Oh.
Yeah.
But they're...
Unfortunately, they're expensive in one time.
They double charged me.
So it was 70 bucks.
Yeah.
Two sandwiches.
Ridiculous.
Yeah.
So.
Queen.
Also in the food court.
We know we go there and get through Orange Julius.
Yeah.
And sometimes that'll be our drink.
But sometimes we just go and just get an Orange Julius.
Or a...
Blizzard.
Yeah.
I sometimes get there hot dogs.
I don't think that particular one has hamburgers or chicken sandwiches or anything.
It's just ice cream.
Yeah.
Olive Garden.
Olive Garden's standard...
Chicken.
We go there very much because we're not lesbians.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's...
I don't want to say it's good, but it's not bad.
I like...
I'm more like they're...
They're bowl of the soup and they're...
Mm-hmm.
Unless a breadsticks in salad.
Aren't they the place that has the cheese bread?
I don't know.
The cheese biscuits.
Yeah, that's red lobster.
Try to be biscuits.
Oh.
Yeah, well, we may have to go there because red lobster just declared bankruptcy.
So they probably won't be around much longer.
Oh, okay.
And it realized that...
Now, like, we went there very often and so...
Too expensive.
Mm-hmm.
First of the amount that you get.
Domino's pizza.
I like Domino's.
Can't believe I'm admitting that.
It was my Jersey car for saying that.
I like their thin crust.
You don't really particularly like them.
No.
And they slather on lots of sauce.
Mm-hmm.
I don't care for that.
Yeah.
Do you like the blender the better?
I suppose.
And I like lots of toppings.
You know, I'll get beef and mushroom or...
Mm-hmm.
And I like to have better choices, I guess.
Yeah.
Mediterranean grill.
Um, right outside them all.
Mm-hmm.
Sort of like a cross between Angelo's and N&J.
Yeah.
Very inconsistent service.
Yeah.
So they're okay.
Yeah.
They're not good.
They're not bad.
They're just okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
You're going to be there a while.
Yes.
So, um, they have like one server and one cook.
Yeah.
So.
But it's pretty good.
It's a nice change of pace.
We don't come there very often.
I think it's just locally owned.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I don't think they even have, they just have the one restaurant.
Yeah, I think so.
And then finally, Chili's.
Chili's.
Um, the name speaks for itself.
Yeah.
Just once again, not, not great, not bad.
Just kind of there.
Yeah, just okay.
Yeah.
So that's it for the restaurants.
The bad thing is there's probably a ton of more restaurants that we could have went through.
So, but which your favorite joke this week?
How do you find a Greek sandwich?
No guesses?
No.
You got me stumped.
You look through a gyroscope.
Oh, that's good one.
That's cute.
It's a bad joke, but it's cute.
Oh, you're daddy anyway.
So, can't call you my silver fox.
Wow, it looks good kill right now.
Well, sorry, we rushed through this, but um, I think Kurt has an appointment to get to in the basketball game or something.
No, I'm getting hungry, actually talking about all this food.
Me too.
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