Hey Steel Shank!

[South Austin 52105]

21 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

Ritz are an accepted cracker in this configuration.

But rep for the Triscuit, which is still a damn solid cracker. It slams with Boursin.

[Steel Shank 9409]

32 minutes ago, tigol said:

Is that some hand ripped ham?  Goddamn.  Inspirational.

It is.

[Brisketexan 104537]

But rep for the Triscuit, which is still a damn solid cracker. It slams with Boursin.

The black pepper ones and rosemary olive oil ones are next level.

[ChickenSandwich 9798]

3 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

Brilliance. The kind that got Americans to the moon and back. Cheese spread atop cheese slice. That’s big brain Texas right there.

I would have to pass on the triscuit for a ritz myself. That’s a cracker I’ve never been able to abide.

Club/Ritz. Can’t do the shredded wheat of crackers. 

[Whatever 700]

Club/Ritz. Can’t do the shredded wheat of crackers. 

Triscuit and Ritz are both in my rotation. Pita chips are pretty solid too, and would be a great vessel for Shank’s fine creation.

[futureman 22414]

what about toast points?  too bougie?

[smuggs 9341]

7 hours ago, futureman said:

what about toast points?  too bougie?

[Jameslaw121 4445]

12 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

The black pepper ones and rosemary olive oil ones are next level.

This. I usually make a snack of these with tuna salad when I'm driving for awhile. 

Helps cut down on the Allsup's burritos. NTTAWWT

[Brisketexan 104537]

1 hour ago, smuggs said:

Man, melba toast was all the rage in the 70s for some reason.  You'd get it in a cracker or bread basket at a "nicer" restaurant.  People served it with hors d'oeuvres at cocktail parties.

And it tasted like fucking roof shingles.  WTF was that shit?  Melba toast is the jello salad of crackers -- pointless white people shit.

[Texzilla58 4716]

Man, melba toast was all the rage in the 70s for some reason.  You'd get it in a cracker or bread basket at a "nicer" restaurant.  People served it with hors d'oeuvres at cocktail parties.
And it tasted like fucking roof shingles.  WTF was that shit?  Melba toast is the jello salad of crackers -- pointless white people shit.

I have to disagree with you on Melba toast. A simpler time when any meal in a better diner or fancy restaurant would start with a cracker basket. A bowl of butter pats nearby. And before the salads came a spinner thing with large tubs of 1000 Island, Red “French” dressing, and if really a good place killer homemade blue cheese.

Melba toast dipped in the blue cheese dressing, a memory that brings my mother loving on me and dad sending me to the cigarette machine for a pack of Camels. I also liked the round thin sesame crackers with butter, the rye toast, and the saltines. There were sometimes those short breadsticks too. Restaurants should get back to stuff like this.

[Brisketexan 104537]

4 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

I have to disagree with you on Melba toast. A simpler time when any meal in a better diner or fancy restaurant would start with a cracker basket. A bowl of butter pats nearby. And before the salads came a spinner thing with large tubs of 1000 Island, Red “French” dressing, and if really a good place killer homemade blue cheese.

Melba toast dipped in the blue cheese dressing, a memory that brings my mother loving on me and dad sending me to the cigarette machine for a pack of Camels. I also liked the round thin sesame crackers with butter, the rye toast, and the saltines. There were sometimes those short breadsticks too. Restaurants should get back to stuff like this.

The "dressing tree" always meant that you were in for a special, special meal.

But the proper thing to dip into the dressing was a club cracker.  Melba toast is what you put under one of the table legs if it was wobbly.  Which it probably was, because the 70s were apparently a low point in table technology.

Edited June 23, 2022 by Brisketexan

[smuggs 9341]

7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Melba toast is what you put under one of the table legs if it was wobbly. 

 

Counterpoint - 

The Babe Ruth of the Gardetto's line up:

 

[hookemATL 11602]

56 minutes ago, smuggs said:

 

Counterpoint - 

The Babe Ruth of the Gardetto's line up:

 

Racist uncle hated these and liked to refer to them as "Jew Pringles"

[RPM 26208]

Team Melba Toast

[Underdog 28443]

Same.  Used to grab a few on my out of a Luby’s.  

[Brisketexan 104537]

1 hour ago, smuggs said:

 

Counterpoint - 

The Babe Ruth of the Gardetto's line up:

 

Fair.... I DO dig the flavored bites.

It was this stuff I loathed:

[South Austin 52105]

4 hours ago, smuggs said:

I'm in a professional organization that has dinner meetings once a month at a certain establishment that puts out Chex mix throughout during cocktail hour.  If I get there early, I go from bowl to bowl eating all the melba toasts.  I'm proud of it.

Edited June 23, 2022 by South Austin

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

1 hour ago, RPM said:

Team Melba Toast

Your team sucks.

[South Austin 52105]

1 minute ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Your team sucks.

Between that and your opinion on mayo, you and I are not best friends anymore.

 

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

Put your mayo on your melba toast and leave.

[Mitch Cumsteen 18523]

I don't understand the anti-melba toast sentiment. It's simply a crunchy scaffold on which to put something tastier. Respect its contribution to the whole without unnecessarily denigrating its individual characteristics. What else are you going to do, peel that little wax cover off the butter pad and eat it straight?

[RPM 26208]

Just now, Cheeseweasel said:

Put your mayo on your melba toast and leave.

With a little ham and cheddar? Hell yeah!

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

I want to taste what's on the cracker. It should be a celebration of all the flavors, I don't want to taste a dry, angry shingle that cuts my mouth.

[RPM 26208]

Maybe you should stick to soup.

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

1 hour ago, RPM said:

Maybe you should stick to soup.

[Brisketexan 104537]

1 hour ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

I don't understand the anti-melba toast sentiment. It's simply a crunchy scaffold on which to put something tastier. Respect its contribution to the whole without unnecessarily denigrating its individual characteristics. What else are you going to do, peel that little wax cover off the butter pad and eat it straight?

ummmmmm....yes?

[Steel Shank 9409]

Lot of love all up in this thread today. I'm feeling it.

[huge 3788]

I call this one “air fryed on parchment”

[elfenix 34169]

Toast
Chipotle mayo
Tomato
Bacon
Tomato
Lettuce
Chipotle mayo
Toast

[ss13 1832]

That one deserves the sandwich thread. 

[ztejas 43262]

Agreed. Wrong thread. 

[Dutch 4465]

On 6/22/2022 at 9:01 PM, Brisketexan said:

The black pepper ones and rosemary olive oil ones are next level.

Don’t sleep on the sundried tomato variant; very tasty as well. 

[Sam Lin 3540]

10 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

What else are you going to do, peel that little wax cover off the butter pad and eat it straight?

Is that wrong?

Asking for a friend...

[Jameslaw121 4445]

All this talk of pimento cheese....

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[Cheeseweasel 26437]

Fancy plate you got there, law dawwg.

[Jameslaw121 4445]

40 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Fancy plate you got there, law dawwg.

I've been eating off that same plate for lunch at work for like 20 years....

[Dewey 3280]

So you're a fancy boy. Eh?

[elfenix 34169]

[HornOnTheBayou 8879]

6 hours ago, elfenix said:

And it was posted at 1 AM. If someone asked you to describe this thread, you would just need to show this picture.

[jw4381 3063]

[Brisketexan 104537]

The purity and perfection of this cannot be overstated. Sardines. Hot sauce. Saltine. This is what it is to be a man.

[jw4381 3063]

Not migas 

[RPM 26208]

On 6/25/2022 at 12:34 AM, elfenix said:

[MissingInAction 24806]

I present Tex-Mexiladas

Two layers of taco shells covered in refried beans, green Chile's, diced tomatoes, diced onion,japs, ground sirloin browned in taco seasoning, enchilada Rojas sauce, and of course grated colby jack

 

Edited June 26, 2022 by MissingInAction

[SydneyCarton 47836]

I've never been a huge Sardine guy, mostly because they usually come made with ingredients I don't like (cottonseed oil) and I just don't like chewing through fish bones. Much prefer smoked oysters. That being said, my costco stores started carrying these and it's been a but of a game changer:

https://www.costco.com/season-skinless-%26-boneless-sardines-in-olive-oil%2C-6-count.product.100368230.html

 

 

[Horn Draoi 254]

You don’t like the taste of cottonseed oil or is there some anti-health reason?  Honest question, and I’m gonna look for that brand you show.

[Texzilla58 4716]

I like fresh sardines grilled over charcoal like I had in Italy but never got a taste for the canned.

[jw4381 3063]

[elfenix 34169]

3 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

I've never been a huge Sardine guy, mostly because they usually come made with ingredients I don't like (cottonseed oil) and I just don't like chewing through fish bones. Much prefer smoked oysters. That being said, my costco stores started carrying these and it's been a but of a game changer:

https://www.costco.com/season-skinless-%26-boneless-sardines-in-olive-oil%2C-6-count.product.100368230.html

 

 

they're on sale this month, everyone at slickdeals is pretty happy

Edited June 27, 2022 by elfenix

[Mitch Cumsteen 18523]

Tamales and eggs with melted colby jack and cholula, refried beans, crispy bacon.