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#2701
Should Be More Popular
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Malvern, PA (20 miles West of Philly)
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#2702
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 19,349
Bikes: Litespeed Ultimate, Ultegra; Canyon Endurace, 105; Battaglin MAX, Chorus; Bianchi 928 Veloce; Ritchey Road Logic, Dura Ace; Cannondale R500 RX100; Schwinn Circuit, Sante; Lotus Supreme, Dura Ace
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There's a LOT of Mexican places hereabouts. My favorite place in South City had no tables, because it doubled as a mercado and panaderia. Just a counter with a production line where the first guy took your order and got it started and once the meat and tortillas were put together the next guy put on whatever toppings, and wrapped it, and then passed it to the cashier. Cheap, efficient, and tasty.
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#2703
cowboy, steel horse, etc
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: The hot spot.
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#2704
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 19,349
Bikes: Litespeed Ultimate, Ultegra; Canyon Endurace, 105; Battaglin MAX, Chorus; Bianchi 928 Veloce; Ritchey Road Logic, Dura Ace; Cannondale R500 RX100; Schwinn Circuit, Sante; Lotus Supreme, Dura Ace
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#2705
Habitual User
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Altadena, CA
Posts: 8,624
Bikes: 2023 Niner RLT 9 RDO, 2022 Trek Supercaliber, 2018 Storck Fascenario.3 Platinum, 2003 Time VX Special Pro, 2001 Colnago VIP, 1999 Trek 9900 singlespeed, 1977 Nishiki ONP
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We have some good Mexican food in the area, but finding a good, cheap, hole-in-the-wall kind of place isn't easy, not in my area, at least. We had a Mexican place open up around the corner from us, and they went way too hoity-toity. The fact that they bombed, closed down and then re-opened, at slightly more reasonable prices and with more grounded food options, only reinforces that opinion. There are a couple of neighborhoods in the city that seem like really good candidates for what I'm looking for, but I don't find myself in those areas too often.
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#2706
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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#2707
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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#2708
Habitual User
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Altadena, CA
Posts: 8,624
Bikes: 2023 Niner RLT 9 RDO, 2022 Trek Supercaliber, 2018 Storck Fascenario.3 Platinum, 2003 Time VX Special Pro, 2001 Colnago VIP, 1999 Trek 9900 singlespeed, 1977 Nishiki ONP
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#2709
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
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#2710
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We have some good Mexican food in the area, but finding a good, cheap, hole-in-the-wall kind of place isn't easy, not in my area, at least. We had a Mexican place open up around the corner from us, and they went way too hoity-toity. The fact that they bombed, closed down and then re-opened, at slightly more reasonable prices and with more grounded food options, only reinforces that opinion. There are a couple of neighborhoods in the city that seem like really good candidates for what I'm looking for, but I don't find myself in those areas too often.
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#2711
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
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#2712
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: TC, MN
Posts: 39,521
Bikes: R3 Disc, Haanjo
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Yeah, one in a while. We had a fancy Mexican place in NYC that we liked to go to once every year or two but, other than that, just gimme good and simple. I really don't want a neighborhood joint with a mission statement of providing gastronomical tours of the country, which is what the place around the corner from us originally touted.
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#2713
Habitual User
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Location: Altadena, CA
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#2714
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Location: Altadena, CA
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Yeah, one in a while. We had a fancy Mexican place in NYC that we liked to go to once every year or two but, other than that, just gimme good and simple. I really don't want a neighborhood joint with a mission statement of providing gastronomical tours of the country, which is what the place around the corner from us originally touted.
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#2715
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
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It really should be done regionally, that is, a restaurant should specialize in a region. It's like a restaurant trying to do a culinary tour of the US - you end up half-assing everything.
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"Don't take life so serious-it ain't nohow permanent."
"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
"Don't take life so serious-it ain't nohow permanent."
"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
#2716
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: TC, MN
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#2717
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We have an immigrant couple (documented now) that cleans our house and the office who have worked for us for over 10 years. I still can't understand or converse with them very well, and when I talk to them the response is pretty much "Si" to everything I say. I doubt they understand me much as well. Because of that, we usually communicate through their daughter. I've helped their family with several legal issues, mostly small stuff. They always try to pay, but I can't take their money. I doubt they know what my billing rate is or could afford it.
Their daughter got married about a year ago, and shortly after they were at the house working while I was working from home. They were proudly showing me pictures from the wedding, and I asked Santiago if he cried. He just started tearing up and answered, "Si, si." Told him I'll be doing exactly the same thing when mine gets married.
End of immigrant ramble.
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#2718
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Location: TC, MN
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Just looking through their menu - the ingredients, the descriptions - it came off way too pretentious. The wife and I were turned off enough that we didn't even bother walking through their door until they came back down to earth a bit.
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#2719
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There are some areas in the DFW metroplex that are somewhat segregated on a neighborhood level. Nothing like the old Italian vs. Polish vs. etc. type things in the cities. Here it's more a economic separation. Our town is about 1/3 Hispanic, but our economic differences are not that great. While it's somewhat affluent overall, we don't have the really affluent areas that Fort Worth and Dallas have.
#2720
Habitual User
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Location: Altadena, CA
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For those who enjoy food TV shows and tacos, watch "Taco Chronicles" on Netflix. It'll make you really hungry.
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#2721
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Yucatán. México
Posts: 7,097
Bikes: 2022 Gt Avalanche
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#2722
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Yucatán. México
Posts: 7,097
Bikes: 2022 Gt Avalanche
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#2723
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: 757
Posts: 11,650
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Put the chain back on the cervelo. Shifts well, and look clean. Will test it tomorrow am, if all goes well then I’ll wax my other chains.
Have already been asked by others to wax their chains. I may hang up the ole wings and go into the waxing buisness
Have already been asked by others to wax their chains. I may hang up the ole wings and go into the waxing buisness
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#2725
Super Modest
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Central Illinois
Posts: 23,831
Bikes: Trek Domane+, Trek Emonda, Giant Propel, Colnago V3, ICE VTX WC
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Work rant: a patient of mine with a chronic condition went to a specialist. Apparently the patient wants or needs to use FMLA to cover work time lost for this appointment. The high-paid specialist refused to fill out the FMLA form for the patient and said that the primary care doc has to do it. So I am expected to do the dirty work for the specialist and not get paid a dime for all the hassle.
Phooey. No wonder the specialist is driving a Benz and I am driving a Saturn.
#FirstWorldProblems
Phooey. No wonder the specialist is driving a Benz and I am driving a Saturn.
#FirstWorldProblems
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