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Some People from Phoenix Arizona never heard of Frozen Custard

 

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I was checking out at the grocery store near my house in Phoenix Arizona and the cashier noticed the frozen confection I picked up called frozen custard.

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The cashier was an older woman in her 60s and told me she never forking heard of frozen custard and asked me what it was. I told her it’s like frozen soft serve but much richer and smoother because it’s made with eggs. I was surprised she lived all her forking 60 something life and never heard of frozen custard but then I thought about it a little forking more and realize that frozen custard really isn’t an Arizona Thing.

I don’t forking know why?

Maybe you need to live near a forking boardwalk to enjoy frozen custard?

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We do have some frozen custard right here in Phoenix. I’ve seen it at Freddie’s, Culver’s and Rita’s but they aren’t the same.

 

Frozen custard was invented in Coney Island New York in 1919 by ice-cream vendors Archie and Elton Kohr. The brothers found out that just adding egg yolks to their ice-cream helped the treat stay cold longer and also gave it a richer silkier texture.

Some people from Phoenix never heard of frozen custard!

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Special “K” isn’t really so Special anymore because there is more than One

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Special K Cereal used to be special because it use to be just one variety of cereal that was plain. It was almost like rice krispies for adults. Special “K” seemed like an adult cereal. It wasn’t too sweet and the commercials made it sound healthy. They were known for something about if you ate it for a week or so with the Special “K” plan that you’d lose weight.

These days you have many varieties of special K to choose. Maybe you need to get more protein in your diet? I wonder what kind of protein is in your box? Could it be kidneys or forking liver from an unidentified animal? (seriously vitamin B2 riboflavin is Kidneys and or Liver that might be an unidentified animal source most likely beef or pork)

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Maybe you need cinnamon and sugar to cover up the forking protein taste and want your cereal to be a different shape and not look like special K?

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Mmmmm this Special K is made with real berries.

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I don’t see a mention of real berries in this box but it is also chocolatey!

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These are BOTH forking fruit and yogurt. I didn’t read the fine print to see how they differ.

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Cinnamon Pecan Special K does sound tasty.

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Some sort of brown little nuggets in that bowl that forking look like rabbit turds called Chocolatey Delight!

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Oats and Honey are good for when you feel like eating like a forking horse.

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Chocolate Almond for those times you feel like a nut with a little chocolate.

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Vanilla Almond sounds good unless you find out that the vitamin D3 in it is made from forking sheep’s wool! BAHHHHHHH Bah!

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Special “K” isn’t so special because there’s more than one variety now.

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Forking Truth

 

The FORKING TRUTH is that YOU’VE Been eating Sheep’s Wool (bah..)

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The FORKING TRUTH is that you’ve eaten sheep’s wool most of your life without even knowing it.

WTFork!

This is Forked Up!

This is Forked Up!

Many packaged cereals and other products have vitamin D3 added.

Vitamin D3 is extracted from lanolin from sheep’s wool.

A material called cholesterol is extracted from wool grease and then other materials are extracted from the cleaned wool and then those materials go threw a four step process that includes radiation. So in my words it sounds like forking wool dirt and forking wool juice somehow forking turn into forking vitamin D3.

Vitamin D3 is used as a rodenticide. Well they don’t forking call it vitamin D3 they use it’s forking chemical name but I’m calling it vitamin D3 because that IS WHAT it is and I can’t forking pronounce the chemical name cholecalciferol.

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Vitamin D3 is also a HAZARD to DOGS and CATS and can cause renal failure to them and to other creatures.

Is vitamin D3 good for us? I don’t forking know.

I found out it’s in many Kellogg’s Foods.

Kellogg’s and Wikipedia are my references.

The Forking Truth is that you’ve been eating Sheep’s Wool. BAH baHhh

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Some of My Food Pictures of my food are more popular than my Forking Blog

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I took this picture of the forking breakfast I prepared for my husband and put it up on twitter today. All of a sudden a bunch of foodies from all over were favoriting and retweeting my photo.

In just a matter of only a couple minutes this photo was retweeted to OVER a FORKING @#$%^&*()_ TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND people. So I thought it was worthy to post on my blog.

Last year my most popular photo on twitter was the one of my signature pizza with heirloom tomatoes.

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Not sure but somewhere around fifty five thousand people got this photo retweeted to them. Even Chef Emeril Lagasse favorited some of my pictures and favorited my forking pizza twice.

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My food photos of my food are more popular than my Forking Blog.

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My Wolfgang Puck Pot is still a favorite Pot after 10 FORKING years!

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I have been using this pot several times a week for over ten forking years.

Many of the forking recipes on this site were made with this pot.

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The pot somehow magically stays clean even around the handle area.

I purchased it on clearance from either Marshall’s or Home Goods for only $10. so my pot was also forking cheap.

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Thanks Wolfgang! This is a great forking pot!

 Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

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Forking Dangerous levels of ARSENIC You might be Consuming

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White wine, beer, rice, brussels sprouts, dark meat fish, and unfiltered tap water all have possibly dangerous levels of arsenic. Possibly dangerous levels of arsenic are considered low levels because it’s the forking HIGH levels that kill you!

We don’t know all the effects of arsenic yet. We also don’t know exactly how the arsenic gets in these things we consume. We know that plants absorb arsenic. We also know that arsenic is found in soil, water, fertilizer, pesticide, pressure treated wood, and clay soil.

A study showed that people who drank one and a half beers a day or one glass of white wine a day had THIRTY Forking percent more arsenic in their bodies than from people who didn’t drink alcohol.

Arsenic is also found in apple juice, grape juice, and rice cereals.

References-Men’s Journal & News.Discovery.com

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A different way to prepare Eggs in a very light way.

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I haven’t seen this before so I think it’s unique. I took two eggs and cooked the beaten whites with some scallions

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and cooked them in a regular (not forking non-stick) fry pan with a little canola spray on medium heat.

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Then slid them out on a plate.

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Then I beat the two egg yolks with some sautéed red bell peppers and onions.

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I sort of scrambled them and placed them as filling in the cooked egg white.

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Topped it with salsa.

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Folded it up.

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Added some potatoes.

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Something Different. The Yolks in the center are super rich without the whites and seem indulgent.

Forking Good!

Forking Good!

Your Food Might NOT Be What You Forking Think It Is

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Food manufacturers get forking sued because they put things on their labels that isn’t forking true and the other problem is that they don’t tell you what’s actually in the product.

According to Top Class Actions Diamond Foods labeled several varieties of their Kettle Tias Tortilla Chips as “All Natural” although they contain the synthetic Maltodextrin and Dextrose.

The FDA has no definition of what is  forking “natural” according to naturalnews.com.

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Tropicana markets it’s orange juice as “Fresh from the Grove” “Great tasting 100% Juice” BUT THE FORKING TRUTH is that it’s heavily processed with added chemically engineered flavor packs.

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Besides no longer going snap, crackle and POP! No forking person would ever guess that this forking box of Rice Krispies has unidentified animal in it that’s possibly liver or kidneys in this box of cereal. I forking purchased this box and noticed it didn’t have any mark for dairy or kosher or vegetarian so I thought that was odd and I read the ingredients and nothing seemed unknown at all. I forking called up Kellogg’s myself and asked them if the cereal was vegetarian. I was told the Riboflavin was sourced from an unidentified animal. I looked up riboflavin and found out it comes from Livers or Kidneys from animals.

Uncertified V for vegan and uncertified K for Kosher appear on food packaging. I was told it’s legal for manufacturers to do so. The Gelatin box below has an uncertified K and is not kosher although the misguided or forking stupid manufacturer believes the product is kosher.

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Pork can never be forking kosher.

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Maybe some day someone will chemically change forking lumps of poop into meatloaf  and tell you it’s not poop. How the fork would THAT go over?

Certified Vegan and Vegetarian Symbols.

Vegan and Vegetarian Symbols

Vegan and Vegetarian Symbols

Certified Kosher Symbols.

Kosher Symbols

Kosher Symbols

If you purchased processed bread and baked goods you might be purchasing L-Cysteine. Anything made with common L-cysteine also not Halal, Not vegetarian, Not Vegan and Not Kosher.

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I wrote about FORKING L-Cysteine a few post back. It’s crazy that people would use such a thing.  I do understand it’s possible that it might be needed in certain countries that are very poor where people are starving but it shouldn’t show up in the United States.

The one that I can’t get the fork over…..is another WTFork.

This is Forked Up!

This is Forked Up!

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If it’s listed on your food label it’s listed as “Natural Flavor” and that’s because IT IS natural flavor but what they don’t tell you is that it is called Castoreum. It’s the secretion from the castor sacs of beavers. It’s the scent gland located by the beaver’s anus and the very strong scented liquid gets mixed with beaver urine and most of it’s food use is for flavoring vanilla, strawberry or raspberry items. Only a trace amount is needed. I have no FORKING idea why someone would want to eat castoreum and why the FORK that person would think other people would want to eat it.

Packages that are marked Vegan, Vegetarian or kosher don’t contain castoreum.

It doesn’t forking matter if you read the label. Your Food Might Not Be What You Forking Think It Is!

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Stop #4 The Search for Lox in Metro Phoenix AZ …Mission Complete

The Smoked Fish Supreme Platter from Scott's Generations Restaurant Phoenix AZ

The Smoked Fish Supreme Platter from Scott’s Generations Restaurant Phoenix AZ

I had to forking eat my way threw three other delis (* see the other searches Stop #1, #2 & #3 The Search for Lox if you forking care too) until I just discovered Scott’s Generations in Phoenix AZ. My forking goal was to find a deli that had very good lox and tasty pastrami that’s seasoned in a similar way to what I used to eat back east.

As I walked into Scott’s I noticed the decor is a little dated and so were most of the help but they had a current grade “A” health inspection so that was forking OK with me.

The menu is very large and they offered far more fish items than I’ve ever seen on any deli menu before. I also noticed that they offer both the belly lox and the nova.

I went with the smoked fish supreme platter with a choice of three of the many fish they offer. I did ask for belly lox but they were out of it so I went with the nova.

I received fresh hand carved Nova Scotia Lox of very good quality. (Bingo) The white fish was outstanding and the sturgeon was good. I think anyone would like the meaty sturgeon even if you don’t usually eat fish. I don’t know how the sturgeon compares to other places because I haven’t eaten much sturgeon since it can run $70.00 a forken pound. The pickles were fresh crisp and garlicy. The potato salad and cole were nicely flavored and fresh but a little drippy. The everything bagel was unusual but good. It was more like a very oniony bagel with a little everything topping. My platter was very large and I took enough home for another meal.

My husband had The #5 “Harvey” Triple Decker.

#5 "Harvey" Triple Decker from Scott's Generations Phoenix AZ

#5 “Harvey” Triple Decker from Scott’s Generations Phoenix AZ

All three meats Turkey, Corned Beef & Pastrami seemed freshly prepared. The turkey tasted like fresh carved turkey, The corned beef was good. The Pastrami was very good and tasted like regular pastrami you’d get back east. It’s not the hand sliced kind but this pastrami from Scott’s is very good and the most authentic tasting I had in a long time. The sandwich platter came with a forking mountain of what seemed like fresh cut red potato fries, crispy zesty pickles and fresh cole slaw.

I recently seen the new movie called “Deli Man” and after that had a very strong desire for deli food.

Deli Food is made by people who are preserving history. “The cuisine of the Delicatessen comes from a world that no longer exists” (from the movie “Deli Man”)…

Scott’s is the best East Coast Style Deli in the Metro Phoenix Area to me at this forking moment.

 Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

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Forking Tiny tables and an Inexperienced Hostess Story

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I find that service from newly opened restaurants usually isn’t smooth and something will always happen.

We dined at a newly opened restaurant in Glendale AZ.  We were about to forking leave after we were seated because someone turned up the music to an uncomfortable level. My head was forking pounding. Eventually the music did get turned down so we stayed.

We dined at a pizza place and ordered individual pizzas. The pizzas arrive and they were good. They both had nice light crispy crust and were topped with quality toppings and were tasty.

What forking bothered us most about our dining exsperience was not the food or our server but the hostess.

The dining room was basically forking empty. Only us and a single man were seated in the dining room.

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Then the hostess comes up to us and starts removing half our table that she sat us at and forking says something like she needs to table to seat a party of five next to us. We didn’t pick this table she sat us there. This was two two-tops that were pushed together.

The whole place is forking EMPTY and I counted at least forking TWELVE people standing around that looked like wait staff so it’s not like they only had one server on.

She could have forking sat the party of five to our other side or anywhere else in the FORKING dining room but NO she has to disturb us….the only forking people in the room since the single man left by this time. It’s not that I minded having a table next to us. It only was a problem because the tables are very small.

I didn’t finish my forking pizza so I had a box and made the mistake about ordering dessert. I found out latter this was a mistake because the table wasn’t big enough to hold a small pizza box and  a dessert plate.

Someone runs out our dessert to us and says something like,”I don’t know what this is but here it is”. I feel bad for that guy because the restaurant didn’t train him in what he was serving.

The dessert was a mistake to order because we didn’t have room on the small table with the box for forking dessert. My husband insisted we couldn’t put it on top of the box because the box was hot.

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We stuck our box on the empty table on our other side so we could eat the forking dessert.

And THEN the forking hostess sits a forking people at that forking table on our other forking side so we have to pick up the forking box.

Tiny tables and an inexperienced hostess doesn’t usually add up to the greatest dining exsperience.

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