Wall-e wrote: while making a decent bagel seems to be practically witchcraft. Much of the country thinks by shaping white bread into a circle they've created a bagel.
I see pics of NYC bagels and think "Wow! ever poofy looking!" Are they poofy or just big? They bagels I mentioned above are kinda chewy, but the texture and flavour are brilliant. They're also about 20psi smaller looking than the NYC bagel appears to be.
had to take a picture of these in Berlin, I guess they don't have "ranch" flavor over there.
Damn. If I would have seen those, I would have brought home a bag, just for the LOLzers.
I think its awesome this thread has made it to 4 pages.
johndej wrote: had to take a picture of these in Berlin, I guess they don't have "ranch" flavor over there.
Maybe they actually taste like America. Which I assume is eagle meat seasoned with MSG
fasted58 wrote: They make flavored peanuts in the shell now, must be a flavored brine. Only time before there is bacon flavored peanuts in the shell. I must be a purist (or boring) as I like peanuts and chips w/ only a little salt, no fancy-schmancy flavors. Coffee black and plain old vanilla ice cream too, I really am boring.
You could just say you're the Colin Chapman of flavor profiles.
akamcfly wrote: I see pics of NYC bagels and think "Wow! ever poofy looking!" Are they poofy or just big? They bagels I mentioned above are kinda chewy, but the texture and flavour are brilliant. They're also about 20psi smaller looking than the NYC bagel appears to be.
They've gotten bigger and puffyer in recent years for some reason. They should be dense and chewy like you say. Some newer places tend to be dryer and overinflated.
In reply to Brett_Murphy:
I don't know if I've ever had pizza there. My inlaws get their wings occasionally but usually get pizza from some places on the other side of the river.
The other side of the river is not Albany. You can tell because there is a river there. 
In any case, ignore the pizza, go for Ted's Fish Fry.
In reply to fasted58:
Don't know where in the country you are, but 'round these parts, roadside stands selling "boiled p-nuts" are all over the place.
I guess if you run those through a dessicator, you might get back to a reasonable approximation of flavored peanuts in the shell.
Given sufficient pocket change and confidence in the proprietor's sanitary skill level, I can polish off well over a pound of good Cajun boiled p-nuts!
petegossett wrote: In reply to Streetwiseguy: I love their Voodoo chips!
I still need some of those. Ive only ever seenthem at racetrac.
N Sperlo wrote: Sometimes I'm amazed people have lived lives without eating the staple St Louis foods. It's always interesting to see the reactions of people eating your local area's foods. I suggest those watches on the you tubez.
Cholos try is the funniest thing ivr seen on youtube in a long time.
Brett_Murphy wrote: The other side of the river is not Albany. You can tell because there is a river there.
OK, what kind of fish is that?
In reply to Brett_Murphy:
The Albany area does have some truly terrible pizza, or at least Troy does. In my 4.5 years there I could never find a pizza place to my liking.
I could also never muster up the courage to try Ted's, despite the strong encouragement of one of my friends who grew up local to the area. Their location on Hoosick St in Troy just gave off too much of a roach palace vibe.
Bombers burritos are the E36 M3 tho.
I went to the Ted's in Watervliet or on Wolf Road in Colonie.
I am pretty sure the fish they use is Cusk. It is bigger fish, and they cut strips out for the fillets.
We go to the Teds on Watervliet a few times every summer. Up the block from there we go to Schylers bakery which makes really good glazed doughnuts.
Schuyler's bakery has some of the best cookies, too.
Stopped at racetrac, got my hands on some zapps. The dill ones were amazing. I have high hopes for the voodoo and cajun.
keethrax wrote:Wish I could get these locally
Dio Approves.
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