I feel 100% safe in saying somebody was at work completely stoned.
Potato salad does look like egg salad if the potatoes are cut very small and you don't give a rat's ass.
3: The mistake was not discovered until we'd departed, and the pot. salad one was Thundersnow's. I gather she made a half-hearted attempt at eating it.
My sandwich they screwed up in less oddball ways, interpreting my order of a cheese and veggie sandwich with "absolutely no meat whatsoever, right?" to mean slather with gallons of tuna salad. Which is how my cow-orker got a free tuna salad sandwich.
(And I did call the shop later on to explain what had happened, and the owner kindly offered two complimentary sandwiches.)
Given 4, I'm even more with 1 than I was at first.
We knew you'd understand because you're such a great guy.
I have difficulty finding a substance commonly called food more revolting than egg salad. A potato salad sandwich sounds like an improvement.
7: Egg salad is great, if you get good egg salad. It's like devil eggs between slices of bread.
What have you done to the yolks, you maniacs?!
Does the verb "to devil" exist outside of the context of eggs?
You can devil chicken - broiled with a coating of hot mustard. Probably any other kind of meat too.
Deviled cantaloupe.
Those lead to meloncholy.
The trick with deviled cantaloupe is you need several dozen egg yolks to fill a cantaloupe half.
Of course, some things are too vile to be effectively deviled. Mayonnaise, for example.
The Bedeviled Elf makes the worst toys.
Where I am, devilling is the internship type thing that young barristers do before they can start earning money.
I once ordered chocolate mousse for dessert in a restaurant and they brought a ramekin full of smoked fish mousse. People get tired, under pressure; stuff looks more or less the same; shit happens. I can easily imagine this mix up.
Czechs serve various things 'Ďábelská' [Devilled]. Seems to just be generic mustardy/spicy.
7:I have difficulty finding a substance commonly called food more revolting than egg salad.
There is a cuisine I associate with church potlucks in Wisconsin and thereabouts which consists almost entirely of things more disgusting than egg salad. Various cold slimy things which are passed off as some sort of salad. Often they involve Jello, mayonnaise, or some ungodly combination of the two. I'm feeling queasy just thinking about it.
Various cold slimy things which are passed off as some sort of salad. Often they involve Jello, mayonnaise, or some ungodly combination of the two.
What about marshmallows?
7, 30: Haters gonna hate.
Also, isn't the most likely explanation for Stanley's experience that they gave him someone else's order? There's probably a blog post out there on the interwebs complaining about "WTF NO POTATOES IN MY POTATO SALAD AND NO TUNA IN MY TUNA SALAD!!!!1! OTH!!!"
I have no idea how that "o" got into my pseud. Maybe I'm really just that funny.
I have no idea how that "o" got into my pseud.
Lolsmosis.
NMM to Cafe Intermezzo in Berkeley! [horrified emoticon, about to bite into a sandwich that is now GONE FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER.]
WHAT??
Looking at the article, I also noticed this:
The former Cody's bookstore - one of the largest storefronts on the street - is vacant, along with a few smaller shops along Telegraph and Bancroft.
Former? What is going on up there?? And someone told me that the UC Theater closed. Occupy everything up there until my familiar haunts return.
Former? What is going on up there??
For over 2 years now (it was closed when I came to Berkeley). I later ran across the owner's estate sale and picked up some prints and Civil War-era Harper's Weeklies.
34.--Damn, that sucks. I still jones for those sandwiches.
Putting potatoes in sandwiches can be awesome - I have encountered standard sandwiches w/ french fries tucked into them (this might be of French origin?), french fry po-boys in New Orleans (you know, the vegetarian/healthy version of a po-boy!), and I once had a street food sandwich of basically home fries and lots of hot sauce that I still sometimes think about. But my enthusiasm for starches is pretty unlimited.
I've been more concerned that the Cody's storefront has remained vacant all these years than that Cody's went out of business. Now if Moe's goes, that would truly be awful.
(I'm pretty sure Cody's closing has been discussed in the archives.)
Cody's and the UC Theater went out of business years ago. I thought Intermezzo had been gone as well -- the last time I was in Berkeley there appeared to be another cafe there in its place, although apparently serving a similar or identical menu.
I loved Intermezzo, but I lived just across the street (at Rochdale) and eventually got so sick of the food there that for a long while the smell of poppyseed dressing would make me retch.
Raleigh's burnt down too; I guess no one misses that place. I remember I once ate a French onion soup there that tasted just like a bowl of steaming hot vinaigrette.
38: not to mention that staple of Northern food, the chip butty.
Does the verb "to devil" exist outside of the context of eggs?
Yeah, interning for barristers, and more generally "doing the hard detail work for someone else".