Can't promise how they'll hold up in the tupperware tho.....
While I appreciate the free enteprise school of thought, I couldn't do that to you. These'll be on me for giving me the inspiration, or perhpas goading me into having the gravitas, to make one last trip to San Fran before I skip across the pond - so I'll send three of them to you, gratis.
Then in return I shall deliver unto you 3 of the finest cornish pasties a la:
1. Burritos from Gordo (Berkeley and San Francisco, CA). I missed those even when living in the Mexican food heaven of LA.
2. Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles (Oakland and Los Angeles, CA). You won't want KFC after having their chicken.
Oh this is torture, now I'm craving too many things.
Zackary's Pizza in Berkeley, CA. It's not technically fast food, but so awesome...
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Also, Piononos and Alcapurrias from Puerto Rico. For those of you in the know, I'll think of you when I'm there this summer.
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That Pizza looks
I dare you to try it and see how you feel. Seriously, I've seen many Chicagoans convert.
..yeah, and Chicagoans don't know one thing about Pizza. The best Pizza I had in the US was in downtown Chattanooga...
Hmmm, I wonder if I'll ever make it to Chattanooga 'cause now I'm curious. What's the place? Overall I like NY thin crust better than Chicago style, but there's nothing like Zachary's -- it's a category of its own.
That pizza looks amazing - are those fresh tomatos and basil that were baked in the pizza oven on top? What's on the grill in that bottom picture -- roasted plantains?
..yeah I forgot what it's called..but it was right downtown Chattanooga...it comes really close to a decent Italian Pizza.
Pizza: yep, very fresh tomatoes and basil and spices on top -- cheese and fillings inside.
Bottom Picture: Those are the local fried fast food: alcapurrias (stuffed taro root fritters -- the best ones are filled with crab, but you can also get them stuffed with shrimp, ground meat, etc.), bacalaitos (salted cod fritters) and piononos (stuffed plantain fritters -- usually stuffed with ground meat and spices, and sometimes with cheese)
You can't get any real pizza outside the tri-state area, but I won't go there because few here would understand
there's too many good ones to mention, but Ray's on Bleecker is always a good one (and well known)
Stuffed plaintain fritters - I gotta try those.
Also not fast food, but if anyone ever flies into Tampa, you gotta go straight to La Teresita - http://www.lateresitarestaurant.com/ - a Cuban joint about 5 mins from the Tampa airport. Filete Salteado, with cuban black beans, amarillo rice, and plantains.
EDIT: Ray's has killer Pizza. My sister in law used to live on Minetta Lane - right close to Ray's. I made more than a few clandestine trips to Ray's.
I am missing one big bad "smazak" (fried cheese). Had it two days ago when I flew home for a couple of hours, the best fried cheese ever.
Where is that from? It looks really good. What kind of cheese?
There are about 12 fast food stands in this square in Prague (Vaclavske nam.), they all sell smazaks, it's about 3 CHf.
I think it is eidam, a few months old only. Younger and fattier the cheese is, better it melts. I don't think it looks particularly tasty..But it is. Aaaah. We always had those after a gig. The stands never close.
This thread is pure food porn; no wonder it has so many posts. This is Switzerland, after all. Is there any Swiss fast food? No? That's why they're all depressed wondering where their next rosti will come from.
That's about the going price for one here in Basel
In London ... a plate of roast duck and crispy pork on rice in a cafe for £5 (Hungs, Wardour St or Four Seasons, Queensway); a decent kebab (Efes, Great Titchfield St); fish & chips (Leigh Street WC1 is the best near me). I'd like to include a drink: peanut butter malt shake (Ed's Diner, Old Compton St).
In Beijing ... I lived there for 6 months. Almost everything is tasty, even if the ingredients are sometimes suspect. Jianbing (breakfast crepe-cum-omelette thing, spicy and crispy); jiaozi & baozi (various types of steamed dumpling) and ... kebab! Either in bread or skewered lamb.
In Shanghai ... their soup-filled noodles, and something called "hand pulled noodles" in soup.
In Singapore ... almost everything counts as fast food there. Most of it pretty good, although chains take away some of the fun.
In Chiangmai ... pad thai, green curry, in fact everything. I think all thai food can be cooked in 60 seconds, or at least it seemed that way!
Damn. I'm in the wrong continent. Stick your f/cking Döner up your tight arses.
This was a theraputic, self indulgent post brought to you by adrianlondon.
The picture, by itself, wouldn't have been quite as appealing as the knowledge that the brown crust has loads of melted cheese beneath.
EDIT: And the fritte - makes me long for the fritte stands in Liege and Brussels.
This is Hardcore Food! Send the kids out the room!
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My husband would like to get hold of leberkase, which he used to buy at service stations when driving. I think it translates as livercheese and, to me, tastes even worse than the name implies!
Oooh, that reminds me when we used to get this uncooked slowly smoked meat paste in commie Eastern Germany, decades ago...Heaven.
What's leberkase, is it spam?
Over all, though, the best tasting bad food I ever had was in any regular greasy spoon. It would be lovely to find one of those noname greesy spoons with crass and funny big waitresses, hashbrowns, eggs, sausages and bacons. And endless bad coffe and so many fun people to watch and chitchat with.