What are you eating right now?

[Nitro Express]

This is the best German food anywhere near me.. Not to mention they serve beer in boots!

Ah the infamous Hoiffbrau Das Boot.

[envy_me]

Lots of schnitzel?

Right now, I'm still in my bed, surfing on my phone. But when I get up and turn my computer on, I can google the stuff we ate a lot of in the old country and post pics.

[Nitro Express]

He didn't know what it was? Why didn't he ask before he ordered. Haha, poor staff. They probably have a lot of stories to tell.

I don't know why but over here when you watch shows and movies if German food is mentioned it's always wienerschitzel and also there used to be a hot dog chain named Der Wienerschnitzel. So people from the US who don't speak German know that word and when they go to a restaurant and see it on a menu they get excited because they can finally see what it is.

[sadaist]

Today I skipped lunch & saved my money to combine with my dinner money. I bought a chicken Caesar salad from McDonalds. It was pretty good. I actually was hoping for a little more lettuce though. The chicken is just a piece of chicken they use in the sandwiches and then sliced. but they dont even mix it in. Just plopped right on top but with cut lines through it. But decent tasting chicken. I broke it up by hand into chunks & mixed in to the salad. The dressing packet was a Newmans Own Caesar. Wasn't quite enough to really cover the entire salad so I had some dry fork loads.

Overall not a bad meal. Not great, but not bad. For some reason I was craving a salad. Maybe my body needed the roughage? Funny, but our bodies will crave what we need. It's up to us to listen.

I give the salad a 4 out of 10.

[sadaist]

there used to be a hot dog chain named Der Wienerschnitzel.

Still is but they pretty much removed the "Der" from the name. Pretty awful food. Up through the 80's the hot dogs were great. At some point in the 90's they changed the brand or recipe and it's been shit ever since. They've tried upgrading a few times but still can't recapture what they had before. Very very few of them now when before they were extremely common.

Sad too. Not like they have any competition for fast food hot dogs. So easy to make a great hot dog & these idiots just can't pull it off. Many of them are also now paired with a Fosters Freeze or something possibly to draw more customers. Still crap. I hit them up about 1x per year and regret it every time. I buy at least 1 of my dogs as a kraut dog and it inevitably ends up in the trash bag half eaten.


*Oddly, the Big Bite hot dogs from 7-11 are currently the best out there. AM/PM used to have delicious dogs but they also changed their brand in the mid 90's and its never been the same. Get a 1/3 lb Big Bite from 7-11 and slap the jalapeno slices on it with some chili & cheese. YUMMY!!!!!

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Still is but they pretty much removed the "Der" from the name. Pretty awful food. Up through the 80's the hot dogs were great. At some point in the 90's they changed the brand or recipe and it's been shit ever since. They've tried upgrading a few times but still can't recapture what they had before. Very very few of them now when before they were extremely common.

Sad too. Not like they have any competition for fast food hot dogs. So easy to make a great hot dog & these idiots just can't pull it off. Many of them are also now paired with a Fosters Freeze or something possibly to draw more customers. Still crap. I hit them up about 1x per year and regret it every time. I buy at least 1 of my dogs as a kraut dog and it inevitably ends up in the trash bag half eaten.


*Oddly, the Big Bite hot dogs from 7-11 are currently the best out there. AM/PM used to have delicious dogs but they also changed their brand in the mid 90's and its never been the same. Get a 1/3 lb Big Bite from 7-11 and slap the jalapeno slices on it with some chili & cheese. YUMMY!!!!!

angus pastrami dog yesterday in a pretzel bun, mmmmm. http://www.wienerschnitzel.com/menu_wienerschnitzel.php

[VAiN]

Not sure what this is..

[Nitro Express]

Still is but they pretty much removed the "Der" from the name. Pretty awful food. Up through the 80's the hot dogs were great. At some point in the 90's they changed the brand or recipe and it's been shit ever since. They've tried upgrading a few times but still can't recapture what they had before. Very very few of them now when before they were extremely common.

Sad too. Not like they have any competition for fast food hot dogs. So easy to make a great hot dog & these idiots just can't pull it off. Many of them are also now paired with a Fosters Freeze or something possibly to draw more customers. Still crap. I hit them up about 1x per year and regret it every time. I buy at least 1 of my dogs as a kraut dog and it inevitably ends up in the trash bag half eaten.


*Oddly, the Big Bite hot dogs from 7-11 are currently the best out there. AM/PM used to have delicious dogs but they also changed their brand in the mid 90's and its never been the same. Get a 1/3 lb Big Bite from 7-11 and slap the jalapeno slices on it with some chili & cheese. YUMMY!!!!!

They were all over the place in SoCal in the 70's. What's funny is you know they used the name Wienerschitsel because it has wiener in the name. I bet they got German tourists showing up wanting some veal. LOL!

[Nitro Express]

Really the key to a good hotdog is a good wiener. Hebrew National used to be good but they moved operations from The Bronx to Indiana when ConAgra bought them and it's not as good. Nathan's hot dogs are still good if you can find them. Then buy some good buns. Then of course whatever you want to put on them. It's like sex actually. Got to have a good wiener and some good buns. Those are the basics. LOL!

[FORD]

there used to be a hot dog chain named Der Wienerschnitzel.

.....Which inspired possibly the shortest song ever recorded......

[DONNIEP]

We used to have a Wiener King close by. When I was a kid it was a damn treat to get to go there when we went to Charlotte - which was rare. Was just googling it and saw that the same company owns Tastee Freez. Anybody remember that joint? We had a Tastee Freez in town and I must have spent a fortune in there playing Space Invaders. Never paid for food cause my buddy's sister worked there. Free burgers and fries and sodas and all the Space Invaders you could afford. It was torn down and replaced with a bank years later. That's what's wrong with America.

[Nitro Express]

Oh the 1970's commercials with their cheesy jingles. The family station wagon was a beast of a tank. If dad bought the trailer towing package it would lay you into the seat when he stomped on the gas to downshift.

[DONNIEP]

Oh the 1970's commercials with their cheesy jingles. The family station wagon was a beast of a tank. If dad bought the trailer towing package it would lay you into the seat when he stomped on the gas to downshift.

Dude - the best was the station wagon we had. Big ass Chevrolet with jump seats in the back that folded out and faced the car behind you. Right over the gas tank. I loved it. There was nothing like riding back there, out of ear shot of the parents and fucking around with the people behind you on a trip to Gatlinburg.

[Nitro Express]

I loved the jump seats. My dad had a big ass Pontiac station wagon with the towing package. He pulled a big double axle snowmobile trailer with it. We would go on one week snowmobile trips and just leave the car and trailer sitting on the side of the road for a week. Sometimes we had to dig it out with shovels but it never got stuck and it wasn't four wheel drive. He just put snow tires on it. Now everyone uses big four wheel drive vehicles to pull such stuff. We never had four wheel drive. Just a big ass station wagon with snow tires and it seemed to get the job done.

I remember he would go to pass a slow vehicle on a two lane highway and he would stomp on the gas to downshift and it was like he pushed a rocket booster button. You would hear the big V8 rev and it would launch. It was like being in a fucking dragster or something. That car had some balls.

[DONNIEP]

Yep, those were the days. We all survived it. Too many parents today are raising pussies. My 12 year old daughter started competitive cheer leading 2 years ago and for the first year came out after practice with an occasional busted lip or a bruised cheek or something. And I kept telling her that that's part of it and really to just suck it up and keep going. And she did. And it didn't kill her.

So load up the Wagon Queen Family Truckster and make a run for the Wiener King. Take the neighbor kids too. You know you have the room - just flip up the jump seats