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I was disappointed in all of the food at Downtown Disney.
Years ago while living in Atlanta, our neighbors invited us over for meatloaf dinner. I was expecting meatloaf with a red sauce, corn, and mashed potatoes. I was only 20 years old, and thought that was how everybody ate meatloaf.
I got a huge disappointing surprise when a large, brown, dry, lump of meat was placed on the table. I managed to choke it down, but that wasn't the end of learning a lesson.
A few weeks later I bought some really nice steaks. We invited the same couple for dinner. They said, "We'll cook the steaks on the grill, while you guys finish getting the sides together". Hey, that sounded good.
We finished making a salad, cut a loaf of Italian bread, and pulled a pan of baked beans from the oven. Man-0-man, this is going to be good. I love steak.
We carry everything to the neighbors apartment, and sitting there on the table are my beautiful steaks covered in barbecue sauce. The wife says that the look of shear horror on my face was priceless. I'm still trying to figure out how somebody that makes a dry lump of meatloaf could even possibly think about ruining steaks with barbecue sauce.
Twenty three years later I'm still ready to choke the crap out of anybody that talks about how great Southern cooking is.
I tried making a grilled polenta last week. No one in my family liked it.....after all that whisking that was disappointing....I have wondered about that "no stir" peanut butter. I haven't bought any, as much as I dislike the stirring and unless you get it really stirred well at the get go, you end up with the hard mess at the bottom of the jar, I figured they have to be adding something to it....now I know....
Keep the peanut butter turned upside down, from the moment you get it from the store until it is about 1/3 gone (I actually put it in my cart upside down). All the oil raises to the top, so in this case, it is really rising to the bottom, making it easier to mix and keeping the bottom stuff moist until the end.
It seems like I am continually disappointed when eating out. We ate at a fast food Mexican place in northern Arizona after living and eating Mexican in southern Arizona for just over a year. Yuck! Everything was out of a can!
I still stand by my disappointment with chocolate. Herseys use to be the best but now it tastes like wax. Nestle....well with all their negative press, we don't touch it anymore. Melamine...mmmm.
Last evening I went to a restaurant that I'd wanted to try for a while, nothing grand, a franchise, but it looked promising. It was ...OK...nothing to rave about, certainly not great. I felt so disappointed.
Bought a bottle of Mountain Dew last week. Tasted off. Bought another this morning on my last five dollars until payday. Tasted off, again. And I've been drinking canned Dew regularly, so I have something else to compare it with.
Location: Prescott Valley, Az (unfortunately still here)
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The one and only restuarant up on Crown King, Arizona.
I thought the food was bad. I couldn't eat all my food on my plate. I don't think I'll eat there again. I can't remember the name of it. But I'm bringing my own food for now on.
Here, In Las Vegas, every Wed. in the Taste section, they give a long list of the restaurants in town with various grades, which were closed, which has how many demerits for this and that. I wish I had never stumbled upon this section of the newspaper.
One Wed. it even reported a cockroach in a microwave oven at a fast food chain, which I won't mention.
I recently did a buffet here. It must have been the braised beef in barbecue sauce. I woke up in the middle of the night with a horrid taste in my mouth, I believe from the braised beef. I raced downstairs and tried everything to get it out, a splash of whiskey, milk, wine, a cookie, and finally some citrus.
Finally! I could go back to sleep!
I rarely eat out anymore. You spoil yourself by cooking yourself. Yes, it can be really messy and take up a lot of your time and energies, but in the end, you're always glad you expended the effort to do it.
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. I just did a trial run on this dip before this party on the 3rd. 
Restaurant demerits
