Apartment #1034 Weekly Din-Din Thread

[Ironic Mustache]

Gaz comes through with the carribean masterpiece. I suddenly feel very pathetic about being so riveted by this thread.

[Orgazmo]

We could very easily have an iron chef competition as the next ONC...all we need is a theme and some very detailed with picture entries...

[Ironic Mustache]

There's no taste factor for those outside of Indiana though.

[f3lix]

Excellent effort and planning Gaz. I wish it would have been served a bit earlier so that I wouldn't have had to be worried about two things at once.

Crafty story to delight our meal experience came along with it, and a well-themed effort.

The upper-class is concerned more about presentation than taste, and this fit as an upper-class meal. Taste wasn't my favorite, but I appreciated the difference it was compared to generic foods.

9.2

[Orgazmo]

Originally posted by Ironic Mustache:
There's no taste factor for those outside of Indiana though.

Right...so it'd be all about creativity...basically.

[Ironic Mustache]

I'm willing to work with that and will strive to present an incredible meal based on creativity alone. I say the nubblies iron chef is long over due.

[Ugly Bastard]

f3lix's cumulative rating totals after 3 meals: 74.2

tonguegina's cumulative rating totals after 3 meals: 74

Ugly Bastard's cumulative rating totals after 3 meals: 75.5

Orgazmo's cumulative rating totals after 3 meals: 78.3

-UB

[Ugly Bastard]

Okay, f3lix here is how I am going to do things. On most meals, I give a very comprehensive reply about my feelings on the meal. With your meal, I was forced to score it a 6.2. Now, if you want me to give you the comprehensive breakdown post like I normally give, simply ask for it, and thou shall receive.

In the meantime, I'll spare you the slight embarassment that may arise when I share my full feelings on your meal.

I will say that I apprecited you getting me a little buzzed, and the cheesecake tasted nice. The buck stops there.

6.2

Thank you for the meal.

-UB

[Orgazmo]

7.8.

Pubes and taste took you down a few notches.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

I am requesting a comprehensive breakdown post.

[f3lix]

Like i continuously say, scores don't matter to me. Tell me how you felt.

[Ugly Bastard]

Alright, you're probably going to get a slightly abbreviated version, since I'm really not in the mood right now. Here we go:

The salad started off weak. We were not given any utencils and had to stare at it for a few minutes. It was small and weak (but admittedly delicious) to begin with, which didn't help it a lot.

Then onto the disasterous margaritas. On the side of the jug it said "serve on the rocks or frozen". We got neither. Instead we were served the beverage mildly-chilled w/o any ice. Also, after about 5 minutes of drinking the stuff, you remembered there was margarita salt, which I love. Unfortunately, you can't dip a glass in margarita salt when its still got half the beverage left in it. There were some various other problems with this section of the meal, but I'll leave it alone at this point since I got a pretty good buzz off of it.

Lets see. The main course had a nice amount of effort put into it, but it just lacked that overall flare like you showed in your seafood alfredo meal. This seemed dry, and boring. I had to fetch Worchestershire sauce and salt just to make it half-way edible. I appreciate the attempt to have us eat something healthy, but I'd much rather eat something unhealthy that tastes amazing.

More into this, while it didn't bother me as much as the other two, there certainly were some questions about the hairs that were being pulled out of the meal. I'm not suggesting anything, simply saying its at least a little gross.

The cheesecake was delicious, but dreadfully small. I don't need to tell you that. I could have ate 3x the amount that I ate, no problem. It honestly was the smallest cheesecake I had seen in my life. It looked like something they'd squeeze into a TV dinner.

I mean, there are a few other small issues that didn't do much for you. Timing, timing, timing. Timing of the meal in general, as well as timing of each dish as the meal progresses.

I mean, lets be honest with each other f3lix, you and I both know you could have done far better. As always, I appreciate the effort, but I think that even you'd agree tonight was far from your best.

-UB

[tonguegina]

A lot of effort was put into the meal. It apparently gave me heart burn (though I'm not sure what part of the meal that was). The drink was good, and I would have had more had I not had heart burn, and the cheese cake was good, but there wasn't a lot of effort in that. The meal itself was kind of bland in my mind, and the hairs quite unsettling.

That being said, I can't give it a lower score than the Velveta Lasagna, so I'll give it a 7.4

[Beebs]

TTT so the stupid bullshit isn't at the top

[Ugly Bastard]

God damn that was annoying, Beebs.

-UB

[Beebs]

More annoying than the alternative?

[Ugly Bastard]

No. The People need our help! When members of the Lucio bury threads, it gets nothing done!

-UB

[Ugly Bastard]

Last Thursday tonguegina prepared a meal for us. I have given his meal a rating of 8.7.

We had shrimp as an appetizer, which frustrated me because I love shrimp, but not frozen shrimp.

He served Jumbalaya which was quite delicious. It contained both sausage and shrimp. It had the perfect amount of spice in it. Anymore and I wouldn't have been able to enjoy it. Any less and it would have just lacked the zing that made it so good.

This main dish of this meal was my favorite tasting dish so far. I liked it even better than f3lix's seafood alfredo, or Orgazmo's jerk chicken.

We begin to see lost points in the form of some carelessness that apperead throughout the meal. You have stated several times that you "don't care about your score" (this of course after being in last place after 3 rounds); and it showed in your meal.

Some small things like laughing about how the apple pie called for an hour and 45 minutes to prepare to perfection, but you only gave it like an hour, 'cause you were doing "other stuff" (like playing Playstation in your room) makes it hard for me to give you a really high score; which God knows I'd love to after tasting that jumbalaya.

Either way I appreciate the tasty meal and well coordinated menu selections.

-UB

edit: Also, sorry for taking so long to get your meal reviewed. There have honestly been like 15 different occassions where I came into my room this week with the intention of getting online and posting your review, but then I'd open up the internet window, and see I had new email, blah blah blah, get sidetracked, and totally forget why I ever sat down.

[ November 21, 2005, 12:43 PM: Message edited by: Ugly Bastard ]

[Orgazmo]

Beverage: Red Stripe Beer

I liked the beverage a lot. I appreciate you introducing me to what is now a favorite beer of mine.

Appetizer: Shrimp

Would have been quite a bit better had they not still been frozen. Still okay, though.

Main Course: Jumbalaya

Pretty delicious. Two things would have made it better in my mind: different meats and a bit more spice. On the different meat note: shrimp and sausage are pretty low on my list. I would have loved to see some chicken in there as a replacement...especially for the shrimp. That said, even considering how much I normally dislike the two, they weren't too bad in this dish. In regards to the spice: it was mildly spicy...which is nice, but, unlike Mr. Bastard, I think that more kick would have simply made the dish that much more desirable. Unfortunately, you obviously can't please everyone at the table when it comes to the how spicy it is...as we clearly have different standards.

Dessert: Apple Pie

Bastard has done a fine job detailing this dish.

I give your meal a rating of 8.5.

[Ironic Mustache]

Red Stripe is pretty delicious. I haven't had it in a while actually.... I believe I'll have some soon.

Maximum points should be awarded for food too spicy for the normal human pallette to handle.

I don't know how to spell pallette.

[f3lix]

Beer: Thanks for it, despite it not being your choice.

Shrimp: Good, but frozen. Letting it sit in some water for a bit would have greatly helped.

Jumbo: Good, but struck me in an odd way. I still can't put my finger on it.

Apple Pie: Good, but poorly served.

7.9

[Orgazmo]

The meal was delicious and the presentation picture-worthy.

Beverage: Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat Beer

I liked it a lot. A little shitty at first...but, by #3, it was tasting pretty delicious.

Appetizer: Mozzarella Sticks + Marinara

A tad cold...but really pretty good in my book nonethless. I also liked the fact that there were a metric ton of them served.

Meal: Hot Italian Sausage with Peppers and Onions + Twice Baked Potatoes.

Pretty good on the whole. Not a fan of the pepper sand onions themselves...but they added a bit of flavor which was good. The sausage wasn't "out of this world" amazing...but very solid. The potato I found to be not quite as good as I had hoped...but certainly nothing to cock a bear about.

Dessert: Pumpkin Pie + Whipped Cream

Self Explanatory. Delicious. Plus there was as much as anyone could possibly eat. Nice.

In the end, I give the meal an 8.9. The taste was very solid, even though it wasn't my absolute favorite. Nonetheless, the effort and presentation definitely plays into the score.

Well done, old sport.

[f3lix]

I appreciated two things about this meal: effort and that my body didn't hate the meal as much as I did.

I didn't care for the cherry wheat stuff at all.

The Mozzerela sticks were undercooked and not even warm. The amount was wonderful, serving about 50 sticks for 5 of us to share. That was all fine until you said there were more that either "fell in the oven or fell on the floor, and I just used the 5 second rule for those." I thought to myself, 'wow, i'm glad he didn't serve us those'. Then you did. Not only did you put those on the table, but you personally decided to dip one right in the middle of the bowl or marinara. If I wanted to eat off the floor, I'd do it myself. I completely lost my appetite for the sticks after seeing that.

Being Italian, I was happy to see Italian Sausage. Being Irish, I was happy to see twice baked potatoes. Being a human with taste buds, I hated both. Cooking the sausage in wine was impressive and added a nice flavor, but one that did not reflect Italian Sausage in any manner.

The twice baked potatoes were cold and rather stiff. It seemed they weren't even baked the first time. The stuffing that went on top of the hard bottom was not really definable for its content nor it's taste.

For the second time this year, we had pumpkin pie. Already once this year, I declined because I simply don't like pumpkin pie. You had the knowledge of my dislike for pumpkin pie at hand, yet had no substitute. I had no dessert for this reason.

The timing of this meal was off, as you spend half of the appetizer round cooking the main course.

You claimed the meal had a theme, but I was at a loss when trying to figure it out. The "fall" theme had to be explained by Orgazmo, since you couldn't do it yourself, and then said that "I thought it just went together." This was by far the greatest disappointment of the year on most accounts, and only because of your effort will you receive a decent rating of 5.1

[tonguegina]

I didn't like the beer, but I don't like beer for the most part.

The mozzerela sticks were cold and were not crisp. I think of mozzerela sticks as crunchy on the outside and gooey cheese on the inside. These had neither.

The Italian sausage could have been summer sausage for all I could tell, f3lix is right in saying the wine took away from it.

I didn't like the potatoes at all for some reason.

All that being said, I liked the meal. I love sausage and peppers are something that I've recently found a taste for. It would have been nice to have a side that I enjoyed (I'm thinking the potatoes were cold...like the cheese sticks), but the pie was really good, too.

All of this taken into perspective, I give the meal a 7.6

[Ironic Mustache]

What would you say he dropped more of? The breadsticks or the ball?

pwnt