Chipotle should be lower, simply because it's way too overpriced here in the city. I don't know how much a burrito costs for you guys, but it's damn near 9 dollars here.

Chilis, I feel, should also be lower. They were a favorite in my childhood, but this past summer I ate at one in Michigan and was dissatisfied. idk, maybe a shitty location?

I consider Taco Bell below shit tier, and while Quiznos is better than shit, but it's too goddamn expensive for what you get to be anything above middle, but other than that I'd consider the list pretty accurate.

>>2342
Yeah, Taco Bell is...really not that good.

Depends on the mood, but one creamer dealy and a couple sugars'll suffice more often than not.

>>2308
Sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet. Maybe it's the brand?

With so much milk and sugar that it's unrecognizable.

>>2313
If Moe's like me, it's the caffeine that does it. I can't drink coffee on the road, for example...

>>2308>>2340
Caffeine triggers colon peristalsis. Sometimes it seems like eating something along with coffee instead of drinking it on an empty stomach helps avoid this.

>>2304
Tea made and left in the sun. I don't like it, so that's as far as my knowledge goes.

Eggs and Ham with green food coloring.

eggnog of course. What is snow cream?

It doesn't concern me at all. Don't think of an organism's genome as a box that contains every piece necessary to build that organism. Think of it instead as a box of standardized tools and a couple sheets of instructions about when to use those tools.

When we insert a gene into another organism, odds are that organism already possessed a gene that was either functionally equivalent or demonstrably analogous. Much of the variation in life comes from differences in when genes are activated or how strongly they're expressed. For instance, there's a group trying to recreate features of a species of dinosaur by changing how genes are regulated in chicken embryos. They're not messing with the protein-encoding genes at all, just with how they're expressed.

Inserting a human gene into an animal doesn't make that animal human any more than lending your neighbor a screwdriver makes whatever he builds your property.

Also, most of the times when we DO insert a gene that's human-specific, it's because it's needed for medicinal purposes, not for food. And that's only necessary because biological systems can be hideously specific when it comes to medicine.

>Also, isn't Mad Cow initially caused by animals eating things that contain genes of their own species?
No, not at all. Prions, the things that cause mad cow, are bits of protein that aren't folded correctly. What makes them dangerous is that their folding provides a sort of platform that allows correctly folded to bind and irreversibly convert to the incorrect conformation. The misfolded proteins build up and interfere with cellular function.

>>2326
And why is that way of looking at it any more valid than others?

>>2327
How do you mean? Do you mean the different metaphors? If that's what you mean, it's more valid because it's more accurate. There's not enough information to directly specify every aspect of complex organisms.

Take arabidopsis. These plants have about twenty thousand genes, and between forty and sixty percent (depending on the type) of the protein encoding genes are homologous to human genes. However, the percentage of regulatory genes that are similar is less than fifteen percent. That's why I brought up the toolbox metaphor; the genes an organism has makes less of a difference than you'd think, because organisms generally use very similar sets of genes. The real difference is in how those genes are used.

If you want to say that inserting a human gene into an animal makes that animal a little more human, then any animal or plant you eat is partially human. About 45% of the pig genome is a match for the human genome.

If you really wanted to make another organism more human, you'd have to insert entire suites of genes. I don't think that's likely. It's difficult to get even a handful into the easy models like arabidopsis, which has a six week generation time and can still take almost a year to get even five mutations into the same line.

http://foodgawker.com/
Have to say this is my favorite site; it shows you pictures of foods and then links to different blogs.

Chef John is the shiznite.

http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/

http://www.epicportions.com/

The only one I'm really familiar with. Pretty good, though you probably get more out of it if you live in Ann Arbor, where it's apparently based, since they go on about local restaurants alot.

Probably moose jerky and caribou sausage or something like that. One of those things you can't buy, you just have to know people to get it.

Kansas has nothing unique

are hot dogs wrapped in bacon with mayo and other fixins a local specialty as far a SoCal.

The mental image is making me crack up.

I keep a monocular in my bookbag at all times for similar reasons. Sometimes you gotta see shit and can't get closer.

>>2315
Now I am too. :D

Crunchy. Gives it a nice texture with Nutella.

Smooooooth. It's great to have on toast.

Smooth on sammiches only. Crunchy for everything else.

I'd say.

My life is rife with fun free food experiences. The animation students used to hang around the business wing when they were having socials to show off the students and wait for them to stop guarding their sandwich trays so we could sneak them back to the studio for our other animation brethren. The people in the studio who worked at the pizza place used to be able to get whole unsold, day-old pizzas for us, and since we were usually the only people left in the school when the Tim Hortons closed at like, 10PM, we'd get tons of free cookies and donuts and stuff all the time.

I can't think of any bad experiences with stuff like this, to be honest.

awesome: During exams one year in high school I went to the afternoon study group for the English exam the next day. The fire alarm went off near the beginning of it so my teacher took me and the other two students there out for lunch at the Wendy's across the street.

not so awesome: funeral sandwiches. they taste like cheap sadness.

awesome: one of my friend's dad is a highpowered business man, hes like a named partner in a internationally recognized firm and they used to do lots of business with Japan. because my friends family lived in a big house, every summer/early fall, they would hold a huge business party, really professional affair with hired staff and everything. And because of the Japan angle and visiting Japanese businessmen they would have huge tubs of delicious sushi. After the party was over my friends family would usually take some of the leftover tubs literally full of sushi, which of course had to be eaten ASAP, so the day after it was just a feast of sushi and Japanese themed party appetizers. first time i got drunk was on the dozens of bottles of saki they had left over as well.

not so awesome: the Japanese company they worked with shorted them on a bunch of business deals and my friends dad's company pulled out, no more parties.

God tier pizza.
Utter.
Fucking.
God Tier.

>>2288

>>2298

This one time I took some french fries and put them in a bowl.

Then I put some bacon on top of the fries.

Then I put that into the microwave, and the drippings from the bacon pooled in the bottom and cooked the fries in them.

Add salt.

>>2245
Say "It worked! I've lured him into cooking for us."

>>2245
I grin, waggle the spatula and say to him, "I guess I'm really in for it, huh?"

>>2245
...Offer him my body? Idon'tknow.

Ballantine's, neat. Only thing I drink. Needless to say, I only drink when I have money, and I almost never have any money.

Me and Jack go a long way back. Wish I could afford to hang out with him again, but that'll come soon.

Michael Collins.
I like sticking to my stereotype.