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WOW- now that I remember this thread (cf the Chicken and Waffles Thread from March 2018) it’s difficult to believe I posted it 3-1/2 years ago. I would have thought it was much more recent. I also can’t believe no one alerted me to the misspelling I made in the title “A Defining Question For Our Era-Crunchy Or Smootth?.” Well I’ve corrected the mistake. Now this thread will be able live on into the future and can hold its title high among the best of Forum Thread Titles!!! Gman

Here’s a machaca with eggs recipe. I doubt I have ever had the ‘authentic’ version with dried beef. I’m sure mine has normally been brisket or pot roast. Oh and don’t listen if the recipes say always use flour tortillas. Corn tortillas are excellent with it. Also most of the times I’ve had it they add tortilla chips to it while it’s cooking. It makes a nice crunch in the dish. http://muybuenocookbook.com/2013/09/machaca-con-huevo-machaca-with-eggs/ Gman

Oh yes, thank you @MikeBiDude!! Much like with Celine Dion, “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now!!” When @marylander1940 mentioned peanut butter, I was thinking of cooking with peanut butter not an opinion survey. Thanks for reminding me. Gman

Can you post a link to that thread? I can remember threads on brisket, apricot chicken, and chili. But if I really waxed poetic on peanut butter, it has totally fled from my mind. Gman

Thank you. Once I realized he hadn’t been around for a while, and especially with him having had some heart problems lately, I was concerned. Gman

PS-I just wanted to mention that I love our food threads. But it made me think. I probably should have picked up on this earlier. But things have been a bit stressful lately. @jjkrkwood usually has great food thread contributions. Wondering what he might say to this thread, I realized I might not have seen a post from him for a while. On checking I see he hasn’t posted in close to a month. I hope he’s ok since we know he had posted about his own health issues. Does anyone know anything? Gman

I saw @MikeBiDude’s post with the reference from PBS about the origins of the dish after I posted mine. I edited and added an acknowledgment to him at the bottom Thanks for the info on Roscoe’s. But I do think the increasing popularity of Southern Diner Cuisine has helped the dish spread even further in the last 10 years. I’m not sure where you live, @Kenny. But in my neck of the woods in Texas, one of the places I can usually count on finding machaca is at IHOP, and it’s actually pretty good-although their salsa is only ok. I’ve had it at California IHOPs too. In fact IHOP may be the place I first experienced the deliciousness of machaca. You don’t know how upsetting it was when I moved to Washington state and found out it wasn’t on the menu at the local IHOPs. They have had it occasionally at the local IHOP in the city of Seatac. But it never stayed for long. Crepes are very pretty. But I’ve never been that fond of them. Don’t get me wrong. I’ll eat them depending on the filling. But they aren’t my favorite. I’m a waffle lover over pancakes too. Gman

When I saw the the title to this thread, I said to myself, “How interesting for this to come up now. Masterchef Junior just had a chicken and waffle on the last episode that I saw.” I have to admit to feeling very much the same as you, @Avalon although I’ve ordered it a few times-more for the chicken than the waffle. Now in the interests of full disclosure, I’m one of those odd ducks (I’ll bet none of you would ever have guessed this from my posts here over the years. ) who doesn’t usually like breakfast foods for my evening meal. I’m not as against it as I used to be. Plus I can eat a breakfast burrito at just about anytime of the day, and I love the Tex-Mex dish of machaca (pot roast beef with scrambled eggs, mixed with fried tortilla chips, onions-but hold the cheese, sour cream, and jalapeños. I don’t like them. ) But traditionally I much prefer dinner food for breakfast. I grew up in Texas, and I have had ancestors in Texas since at least the Civil War if not before. my mother never fixed this for me growing up. I don’t know if this was a staple in other Texas families, or whether it was imported from the Deep South. We were mainly ‘city folk’ though. But It seems to me it started showing up on menus about 10 years ago. While some families may have always served it, I almost get the feeling it became popular with the rising popularity of Southern diner cooking over the past 10 to 15 years. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone said, “Let’s combine these two southern favorites and see how they taste.” I think the dish itself probably belongs in the category of Americans liking savory and sweet things mixed together-such as the syrup mixing with sausage when when you are having pancakes or waffles. While not authoritative, it seems to me I’ve read several human interest pieces by Bristish expats-who’ve said they were always interested in experiencing American food. They tried the syrup/savory combination and didn’t like it at all. Gman PS Sorry @MikeBiDude -I hadn’t seen your post when I expounded on what I thought might be the possible origination of the dish. Gman

Thank you all again. DANGER !!!DANGER!!! Will Robinson !! Frivolous Post Ahead!! Now that I’m back in Texas from Washington state, I’m 1600 miles closer to y’all. Mississippi is only about 575 miles away. SIGH-just my luck to be in a non-hiring mode. Gman

A minor update- I was exhausted due to the week and a half of cleaning out my house. When I was at the airport on Thursday, I was handling two bags so heavy I would have had trouble dealing with them even without the myasthenia. With the exhaustion and the heaviness of the bags, I was having trouble straightening up. I was walking bent over like jackknife. It was particularly difficult to hold my head upright and had been for the past week. Also for about a week or so I was having big problems with my grip strength. As an example I had had to use two hands to pull out a knob on the washer because my fingers would just slip off and turning the knob on a door was incredibly difficult. Well I had some incredible sleep Thursday night/Friday morning (didn’t get to bed until 2 AM). And on Friday I felt the best I had felt in about 10 days. Even better my grip strength feels as if it’s back to normal. So while I don’t want to make this thread a running commentary of my symptoms, but after having complained I did want to let y’all know that I do have good days. Thank you again for all the nice comments and thoughts. Gman

Great minds think alike. I almost added something along those lines. Gman

I hope you dreamed that the burger was my treat. Gman

Actually I’m kvetching an awful lot. There have been copious tears-however I’m going to blame the prednisone for affecting my emotions. As proof of this, I offer the fact that I was watching the situation comedy ‘2 Broke Girls’ on the American Airlines plane yesterday and was finding it hysterical. Gman

I was too exhausted yesterday to read all these responses . What with everything I didn’t get to sleep until around 2 AM-didn’t arrive at my Mom’s until around 11 PM. (She made me tuna salad-the only seafood I eat. ). I’m still tired now. I think this is only a momentary awakening. I hesitated for a bit about posting this yesterday. But for one thing I’ve always been honest on here about what’s going on with me whether it’s been my difficulty accepting being gay-still there but this Forum over the years has helped me overcome so much of my phobia over this (I’m not exactly open open but I’m definitely not closeted-multiple people in my family know I’m gay as well as multiple old friends), to my thyroid cancer diagnosis, and this new myasthenia gravis diagnosis. Also I was going to mention not being in the PNW anymore at some point in a post. So why hide the move? @mike carey, there was a movie by that name years ago. I had forgotten what the reference meant until I looked it up just now. In case you decide to visit us (Texans) out here on the frontier in the future, be a bit careful about slinging this term around. It might be difficult to explain to a non-Texan. While as I said, I don’t really have an innate sense for this phrase as I think the first and only time I’ve ever heard it was in reference to the movie, as a Texas native, my gut feeling is that it’s a phrase better uttered in the breach rather than actually out loud. I want to thank all y’all for your kind thoughts. I don’t know what I would have done all these years without the Forum-and all of you are the Forum!! Gman

Myasthenia Gravis is classified as a rare disease. There are estimated to be only 60,000 to 100,000 people with it in the United States. I always knew I was special. I just didn’t know I was a 1 out of 60,000 to 100,000 special. When I was diagnosed in October, it seemed like it was just going to be an annoyance that I would get used to. That’s still true, but the symptoms have become more onerous starting in December . I was hospitalized three weeks ago for five days of intravenous gamma globulin due to moderate problems eating. It was taking me three hours to finish a hamburger because my jaws were too weak to chew. And at least 50% of the time food would lodge at the back of my throat. I’d have to cough to try to get it so I could attempt chewing it again. And then there’s been loss of hand strength, trouble talking, difficulty holding my head up, and multiple other symptoms that can change from day to day. All isn’t hopeless. Before I was on therapy that was only directed at symptoms. The fact that the medication isn’t cutting it anymore means the myasthenia has progressed to the point that I need therapy that attacks the disease and doesn’t just try to ameliorate the symptoms while allowing the underlying disease to progress. Those are medications that decrease the immune system much like someone who has received an organ transplant. The first medication they usually try is high dose prednisone for at least 6 to 8 weeks-or longer if it continues causing further improvement after that. I’m on about day 12 of taking 60 mg of Prednisone. I’m not sure if it’s really done anything yet except give me two forehead zits (sorry if that was too TMI). In any case I wasn’t working a lot before my diagnosis, these new symptoms combined with the hospitalization have made it pretty much impossible to work at all. Hopefully in 6 to 8 weeks I’ll be much better from the prednisone. But whether I am or not, the time has come, as the Walrus is wont to say, to go back home to be with family in Texas. On one hand I’m sorry to leave the PNW. On the other hand my Mom is 83. She’s in pretty good health. But still, she’s 83. It used to really upset me to leave her after a visit. I also have 4-greats (great nieces and nephews) all under 6 years of age. One just turned two, and I’ve only seen her about three times. As Erma Bombeck once wrote, “Families, The Ties That Bind- And Gag. But in spite of the gagging to come, it is time for the prodigal Gman to return to the fold. Sayonara PNW. I’ll miss you. Dallas, place of my birth, I’m coming home. Gman

You have good taste,@poolboy48220. I did notice him. But I do have to admit that I was more attracted to this guy who appears to be new. https://rent.men/Mason_Andrews Gman

Beau doesn’t seem to be advertising in Seattle anymore. Gman

I know who Scott Sloan is. Does anyone remember if at one time he advertise something like a ‘live with Scott Sloan fitness camp.’ Where you would stay with him-possibly at a beach setting. He’d guide your workouts. You’d meet his other workout buds-be one of the guys, etc, etc, & etc. If it wasn’t Scott, I wish I could remember who it was. Gman

Assuming ‘he’ refers to Kurtis, his Rentmen ad states ‘top’ and he’s mentioned on here before that client-wise he is only a top. However things like that never particularly stopped me from asking when someone really interested in me. The usual answer they gave was still ‘top’. One of the main times it did change, a popular guy at the time from Spain named David if I’m remembering correctly, it was expensive, didn’t go well, and not worth it at all. Gman

You had trouble with an iPhone. I don’t really understand the difference between the words ‘fewer’ and ‘less.’ We all have our bete noires. Gman

Aren’t there some really cheap smart phones out there? Of course they are probably as slow as Christmas, and then there’d be the outlay for the data each month. And of course if he already has a phone then whatever he gets -a new flip phone or new smartphone would be an outlay. Gman

I’m glad it worked you. I don’t think I could do that. As it is I’m going to be on a fairly high dose of prednisone for months. I’m dreading what it’s going to cause. Gman

I never met him. But Willy, I believe, had good reviews when he lived in Seattle. Gman

My next door neighbor, a married woman who is just a little older than I am, just got her 1st smart phone. One of her sons, the straight one I believe (she was recently on that outs with her gay son because she thinks everybody needs to quit holding a grudge against Trump and come together, and the gay son became upset-imagine). She’s not too sure about it yet. She says she sees how they can become addicting. Then there’s my 91 year old Uncle. He’s totally with it. You’d probably think he was in his 70’s if you saw him. He’s been emailing for years and loves web surfing on his iPad. But he seems to take some kind of pride in his non-smart flip phone, not texting, and not belonging to Facebook. Gman

I thought I had heard that. But I’m fairly sure that I remember him stating he was a total top when meeting fans. Gman