Words to strike terror into the sensible

[hirez]

'Food court' : Where alleged comestibles are tried and found wanting.

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Comments

[loraine]

I went to a food court in Chicago last year - we had to take a ticket and then could get anything from any of the food outlets and then pay at the end. I think it was in Water Tower Place or one block up or down from there.

[gruamach]

1. While they're expanding out into stand-alone stores, that's usually the only place to find Chick-Fil-A around the midwest. Yum!

2. You guys in Chicago? And didn't plan a southerly trip? :(

[hirez]

I fear I wanted to go and look at some northern bits this time. If I ever find myself with a private income and/or six months off, I'll have to plan some old-netgoth-I-Spy/Pokemon expedition.

[missfairchild]

What it may lack in quality, I imagine it tries to surpass in quantity.

(This comment was written to "Lost in America" by Jon Langford.)

[hirez]

You'd think.

The 'Musclecar museum' in (Napoleon) Volo managed depths of uselessness not seen since the days of BR Traveller's Fare. And as for the effing Applebee's in Fuctifino, IL... See, when I go for a sarnie from the Cornwall/Devon pastie shops at home, the meat-product within has obviously been hacked off a dead animal. Multiple layers of 'reformed turkey ham with added water and lord alone knows what else' larded with superheated cheese-analogue is more or less some bugger having a right laugh at my expense.

I'm minded to opine that European street food is somewhat better than the US these days. Something which I would have thought impossible even two years ago.

[thegreatgonzo]

But is the cookie stand part of the food court?

[gruamach]

Great American Coookie CO........ya know, never seen it IN the food court, but usually near-by.

Usually.....or else at other end of mall from food court.

oh wait, I take that back. I guess the one in that mall right next to the D*C hotels would count as "in" the food court.

[mr_tom]

Oh my word. Did they have that mystifying cheese-like food-like product that's liquid at room temperature? That gives me the fear.

[nalsa]

It's the cheese-like stuff that's aerosolised that scares me. Liquid at room temp cheese I can live with (especially if it's epoisses).

[mr_tom]

Alison won't let me have Epoisses in the house any more. I think it's something to do with the time I asked her to smuggle an unpasteurised Camembert to Scotland.

[hirez]

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