Subj : Chicken Salad [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Mon Jun 12 2023 12:31:18
Hi Dave,
RH> Yesterday Steve made some chicken salad (mayo and Mrs. Dash) sandwich
RH> fill with some of the chicken. Tonight we'll have chicken with leftover
RH> fried rice (from chinese take out) and a bagged salad. We're still not
RH> doing a lot of cooking but more than we were last week.
DD> Maybe it's just me but I like something with a bit of "tooth" or
DD> crunch in my chicken/tuna salad. That's why I usually add celery diced
DD> small.
We do too, but I'd not picked up any celery when we did some grocery
shopping earlier in the week. Just got basics, figured celery would wait
until we do a full trip (yet to come).
RH> I've seen it on the menu quite often when we've gone in but usually
RH> ordered roast beef. They've made a decent Rueben sandwich in the past
RH> but their gyros are nothing like the ones we had over in Germany.
DD> I like their roast beef ... especially the "French" dips. I get the
DD> twofer deal and use one of the tubs of "au jus" for bothandwiches then
DD> drink the second one like a soup or beverage. Bv)= Gyros is a Greek
RH> We usually get the 2/for and a side of fries. We each have a sandwich
RH> and I have a few fries. Steve will have probably 90% or more of them.
DD> I like the Arby's curly fries. Their chicken-bacon-ranch fries can be
DD> a meal by itself. Bv)=
Ranch isn't a flavor either of us care for. The other day Steve picked
up some chicken strips at PDQ; the only sauce they put in was a ranch
dill. It got binned when he got home and I unpacked the bag.
DD> thing. I'd not expect a place whose name means "America's Roast Beef!
DD> Yes Sir!" to doa good job on it. Besides I have a family run place
DD> called Gyros Stop which is nearer my home, lower priced and run by a
DD> Greek family. Their souvlaki is killer, too.
RH> We tried the gyro one time with a coupon, and agree, Arby's is not the
RH> place for a gyro. We've got other places locally that do a much better
RH> job of making them; we'll stop in every so often to get a couple to go.
DD> So, I went out and found this copycat recipe which I *will* use.
RH> Looks good to me. I'd probably grab some mischbrot (from Wegman's or,
RH> surprisingly, Lidl) to put it on.
DD> That should work, even if a more flavourful bread that the Arbys
DD> version. LIDL shouldn't surprise you. They are, after all based in
DD> Neckarsulm,
DD> Baden-Wurttemberg. Its cousin ALDI is really two companies - ALDI
DD> Nord and ALDI Sud (which operates my nearby stores). ALDI Nord also
DD> operates their Trader Joe stores. Based in Essen.
RH> We've got both Aldi and Lidl in town, the latter a block or so from us
RH> and just up the road from Wegman's. Don't hardly ever go to Aldi any
RH> more, Lidl--a bit more often but mostly for German Christmas specials.
RH> (G)
DD> It's easy enough to find an ALDI. Jusst head for Wal-Mart and look
DD> across the street/road. Aldi has a store adjacent to all three of our
DD> Wally-Worlds. They even relocated a very busy store from the inner
DD> city to the outskirts to be across the road from the newest WM "super
DD> centre"
Yes, when the Aldi was put in here in WF, they located it within eyeshot
of W-M.
DD> That called much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth as many
DD> without cars in their former area complained that their last
DD> "accessible" source of groceries had abandoned them. Many were seniors
DD> or lower income folks who depended on that store. So County Msrket
Only grocery store in the town I grew up in was taken out by Hurricane
Irene in 2011. It's in a floodplain, at the headwaters of a NYC
reservoir, serves several smaller towns in the area. NYC was a real bear
about them rebuilding so the local Dollar General and mini mart/gas
station started carrying more basics. It took quite a while but the
grocery store was finally rebuilt--in the same location. At the time, my
folks were still able to get out on their own so would shop when they
had medical appointments elsewhere. My brother worked out of town (lived
accros the street from mom & dad) so he'd shop elsewhere also but a lot
of people were hurting for decent grocery shopping.
DD> (Niemann Foods) put an new stupormarkup in that inner city area
.... DD> it's busy all the time as it's near two senior high-rise
apartment DD> buildings and much "affordable" DD> housing. And on two
different bus routes.
Good for them for meeting a need!
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Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28
... Get shopping while the gettin' is good!!!
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