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Diet Stuff
Aug. 26th, 2013 01:36 pmUnlike my normal posts about my diet, I'll just be trying to recount everything I ate this weekend because there was no schedule at all.
SUPERMAN VICTORY - I ate one chocolate chip cookie, and then didn't eat any more of them even though I had SIX BAGS of them and several gazillion broken cookies (which, as we all know, don't actually count when dieting). I reflexively put a broken one in my mouth, ate it, and then actively said "I'm not going to eat any more of those". And I didn't, not even a single crumb! THat was pretty cool :)
DIET KARMA - Had three hours to kill so I went to a "Sports Bar" (two of my least favorite things combined in to one - *shudder*) and looked over the menu for something low-carb - NO LUCK. The lowest-carb thing on the menu seemed to be the Buffalo Hot Wings, which the description claimed were "Classic BREADED wings in hot sauce, served with blue cheese dressing and celery sticks". I'm a Hot Wing Purist (as I have detailed here before), and have had wings in pretty much every restaurant that I've ever been to more than once. Breading on the wing usually indicates a lazy menu created for a highschool kid to be able to warm-up and serve to the public without any knowledge of how to use a frying pan or oven. Breaded wings are simple - deep-fry the frozen breaded wings, dip them in sauce, sauce sticks to the breading, high school kid gets a gold star for not burning himself too badly. I figured that as far as carby-options were concerned, this one sounded the best.
I was wrong.
What they brought me was a plate of three breaded Chicken Strips, with a side of Frank's Red Hot Sauce.
BUFFALO HOT WINGS... proper, simple, only-an-idiot-could-screw-this-up BUFFALO HOT WINGS... only require three ingredients - Chicken Wings, Frank's Red Hot Sauce and a stick of butter. Cook the wings, melt the butter, whisk the melted butter and the Frank's Red Hot together to form an emulsion that is neon orange, pour it over the cooked wings. DONE.
I have complained in the past about variations such as "Sweet Honey BBQ Buffalo Hot Wings" (that's not HOT nor BUFFALO) and "Boneless Wings" (That's not a WING), but THIS?!?!? This was an INSULT. At least when they try to sell me Boneless Sweet Honey BBQ Buffalo Hot Wings, they have the decency to put the sauce on the meat and try to make the meat look like the shape of a wing! THIS MONSTROSITY should have been called "Chicken Strips With Hot Dipping Sauce".
*sigh*.
SUPERMAN VICTORY - I ate one chocolate chip cookie, and then didn't eat any more of them even though I had SIX BAGS of them and several gazillion broken cookies (which, as we all know, don't actually count when dieting). I reflexively put a broken one in my mouth, ate it, and then actively said "I'm not going to eat any more of those". And I didn't, not even a single crumb! THat was pretty cool :)
DIET KARMA - Had three hours to kill so I went to a "Sports Bar" (two of my least favorite things combined in to one - *shudder*) and looked over the menu for something low-carb - NO LUCK. The lowest-carb thing on the menu seemed to be the Buffalo Hot Wings, which the description claimed were "Classic BREADED wings in hot sauce, served with blue cheese dressing and celery sticks". I'm a Hot Wing Purist (as I have detailed here before), and have had wings in pretty much every restaurant that I've ever been to more than once. Breading on the wing usually indicates a lazy menu created for a highschool kid to be able to warm-up and serve to the public without any knowledge of how to use a frying pan or oven. Breaded wings are simple - deep-fry the frozen breaded wings, dip them in sauce, sauce sticks to the breading, high school kid gets a gold star for not burning himself too badly. I figured that as far as carby-options were concerned, this one sounded the best.
I was wrong.
What they brought me was a plate of three breaded Chicken Strips, with a side of Frank's Red Hot Sauce.
BUFFALO HOT WINGS... proper, simple, only-an-idiot-could-screw-this-up BUFFALO HOT WINGS... only require three ingredients - Chicken Wings, Frank's Red Hot Sauce and a stick of butter. Cook the wings, melt the butter, whisk the melted butter and the Frank's Red Hot together to form an emulsion that is neon orange, pour it over the cooked wings. DONE.
I have complained in the past about variations such as "Sweet Honey BBQ Buffalo Hot Wings" (that's not HOT nor BUFFALO) and "Boneless Wings" (That's not a WING), but THIS?!?!? This was an INSULT. At least when they try to sell me Boneless Sweet Honey BBQ Buffalo Hot Wings, they have the decency to put the sauce on the meat and try to make the meat look like the shape of a wing! THIS MONSTROSITY should have been called "Chicken Strips With Hot Dipping Sauce".
*sigh*.
