Question For Everyone. . . .

[sweptawaybayou]

I spent the day asking everyone I work with this question . . .

So I'm asking you.

First thing that pops into your head.
Not including atmosphere/location/circumstances . . .

What is the best meal you've ever eaten? And where?Dessert is also considered a meal here

Comments

[tesla321]

I've never had just food do it. It's always been the time, the place, and the person I was with.

Having said that, I once had tomato/basil soup in a bookstore in Nashville just before seeing Garrison Keillor at the old Ryman; and four years before that, I had a variety of meals with the same good friend in D.C. on spring break from law school, with the same woman. It's the joy of her company, and she's been involved in family dramas for about six years now. I never get to see her, but she was my greatest friend in law school.

I'm just gonna have to come to Leavenworth and eat BBQ one weekend.

[sweptawaybayou]

I once had tomato/basil soup

Thank you for that. ::sigh:: It sounds wonderful!

I'm just gonna have to come to Leavenworth and eat BBQ one weekend.

And don't even tease me! *dies* I would so love that!!! *dances at the thought*

Thank you!!!

::smooches and hugs::

[tesla321]

Where's the nearest airport I would go into?

[sweptawaybayou]

Kansas City International. MCI for code.

About twenty minutes from my house.

And what did I say about not teasing me?

*g*

[glossing]

Gah! I don't have a *best* meal, but several. Let's see

[sweptawaybayou]

Oh. The description of the sushi meal. Perfect! Thank you!

but it's also the company that makes the meal

And yes, I've found that to be true all day. Although not in all cases, but most.

Thanks again for such a delicious reply.

::tight, warm hugs::

[lady_t_220]

Ohh, food porn! Food porn!

There's nothing that will ever, ever beat my grandmother's roast dinners. Nothing quite like it in the world.
Roasted potatoes so good you can't jeat eat a few, you have to eat half the pan, hot from the oven and sweet and salty from the meat juices, crispy outside even while the middles have fallen into whisper-soft mush...
And some weird concotion of minced beef and rich, dark gravy with soft, heavy and undeniably incorrect yorkshire pudding that somehow is all the better for being completely, totally and utterly WRONG...

That was food that never needed a time, place or context to make it orgasmic. It just WAS.
Heavy and bursting with fat and salt and all the things that are so, so bad for you, but that taste so, so good... *gah*

I've dedicated yeeears to trying to recapture her roast potato magic... still working on it, but I';m getting there... ;)

[sweptawaybayou]

Roasted potatoes so good you can't jeat eat a few, you have to eat half the pan, hot from the oven and sweet and salty from the meat juices, crispy outside even while the middles have fallen into whisper-soft mush...
And some weird concotion of minced beef and rich, dark gravy with soft, heavy and undeniably incorrect yorkshire pudding that somehow is all the better for being completely, totally and utterly WRONG...

Gah.

*wipes drool from chin*

Thank you so much!

[sweptawaybayou]

Even though I have no idea what Yorkshire pudding is . . . you made it sound good.

*g*

[tesla321]

Yorkshire pudding is the bomb with roast beef!

[viciouswishes]

French Onion Soup in a tiny cafe surrounded by art galleries on a hill in Paris with good friends. Ironically, down the hill from it was the Red Light District.

[felisblanco]

Was it in a red house on a corner? Called Restaurant d'Ambassade or something like that?

In 1991 I went there with two friends and they had a three meal offer. Onion soup, chicken and then ice cream.

1997 I went there with hubby. They had exactly the same offer, except hubby got rabbit instead of the chicken. Still talks about it as the best meat he's had.

[viciouswishes]

To tell you the truth, I don't remember what it was called. But it sounds like that, and I do remember it being in a red building.

[sweptawaybayou]

Ahhhh. Paris. French onion soup. Art galleries.

*dies and goes straight to heaven*

Thank you.

::gropes you while you're not looking::

[illmantrim]

a juicy, sweet, well done steak on a sandwhich with whole slices of white fluffy bread, mayo, and tomato. mmmmmmmmmmmmm

[sweptawaybayou]

MMmmm. Steak.

Sounds delicious.

Thanks!