Whatis Your Favorite Salad Dressing?

[colchar]

When at home, I only use French or Thousand Island. If I am at my favourite restaurant, The Olde Spaghetti Factory, I get their French which is somewhere between normal French and Thousand Island but is completely smooth (ie. no bits in it). That dressing is a gift from God. Seriously.

When in Britain I only eat Thousand Island as their French is really weird compared to the North American version. But their Thousand Island is way better than ours - it is actually quite spicy and, surprisingly, the supermarket's own version is better than any others (at least the Tescos stuff is).

Is it ironic that Colchar likes French dressing? Is that French dressing Canadian, or Canadien?

Neither, it is a British and North American take on a French (from France) dressing. If it was a Quebec thing I wouldn't eat it - the only thing I eat that originated in Quebec is tourtiere. With the exception of tourtiere, Quebec can kiss my Anglo arse.

[Ima Facultiwyfe]

I guess I'm sort of a salad dressing snob. Can't find a bottled one that tastes good. I have two or three I just whip up. One with some orange juice and maple syrup included in the ingredients that has become a family fave and then there's one with the garlic and and grainy mustard and honey, etc. Blue cheese crumbled in there never hurts, either.

I do have a simple Thousand Island I've made for years that is really good on a cold iceberg wedge. But, I think that one could just as well be applied directly to the carotids.

Love, Ima

[devildeac]

I guess I'm sort of a salad dressing snob. Can't find a bottled one that tastes good. I have two or three I just whip up. One with some orange juice and maple syrup included in the ingredients that has become a family fave and then there's one with the garlic and and grainy mustard and honey, etc. Blue cheese crumbled in there never hurts, either.

I do have a simple Thousand Island I've made for years that is really good on a cold iceberg wedge. But, I think that one could just as well be applied directly to the carotids.

Love, Ima

[Lavabe]

When at home, I only use French or Thousand Island. If I am at my favourite restaurant, The Olde Spaghetti Factory, I get their French which is somewhere between normal French and Thousand Island but is completely smooth (ie. no bits in it). That dressing is a gift from God. Seriously.

When in Britain I only eat Thousand Island as their French is really weird compared to the North American version. But their Thousand Island is way better than ours - it is actually quite spicy and, surprisingly, the supermarket's own version is better than any others (at least the Tescos stuff is).

Is it ironic that Colchar likes French dressing? Is that French dressing Canadian, or Canadien?

Neither, it is a British and North American take on a French (from France) dressing. If it was a Quebec thing I wouldn't eat it - the only thing I eat that originated in Quebec is tourtiere. With the exception of tourtiere, Quebec can kiss my Anglo arse.

Isn't most Canadian maple syrup from Quebec?


OH Great!! Wrong thread!!

[colchar]

Isn't most Canadian maple syrup from Quebec?

Nah, every province makes maple syrup. All you need are maple trees and we've got an abundance of those!

[Devil in the Blue Dress]

Catalina makes me think of the Rathskeller. Mmmmmmmmmmm

Good stuff. But my favorite is to MIX thousand island (or Russian, if you're from up north) and french (or catalina). Ymm! I do it all the time. I saw my mother do it circa 1977 when she and my dad visited me in Winston Salem for the first time and we went out to dinner at (dang, I can't remember the name of the restaurant, it was a really nice steak house on Reynolda Road, owned by the same guy that owned Sam's on Stratford Rd, and there is also a steak house in Charlotte that he owned). Anyway, I thought she was crazy and told her so. Next time I ate out (when not in her eyesight ;) ) I tried it. Been eating it that way ever since! My momma wasn't so dumb after all!

Staley's was the steak house on Reynolda Rd. for years. There was also a Staley's Drive In a little farther out on Reynolda Rd. where a Shell Station now sits.

I thought Sam's Gourmet was owned by someone else. It, too, was a local landmark for many, many years. Well known for their amazing salad bar when few restaurants featured such a way to make your own salad.

[OZZIE4DUKE]

Catalina makes me think of the Rathskeller. Mmmmmmmmmmm

Good stuff. But my favorite is to MIX thousand island (or Russian, if you're from up north) and french (or catalina). Ymm! I do it all the time. I saw my mother do it circa 1977 when she and my dad visited me in Winston Salem for the first time and we went out to dinner at (dang, I can't remember the name of the restaurant, it was a really nice steak house on Reynolda Road, owned by the same guy that owned Sam's on Stratford Rd, and there is also a steak house in Charlotte that he owned). Anyway, I thought she was crazy and told her so. Next time I ate out (when not in her eyesight ;) ) I tried it. Been eating it that way ever since! My momma wasn't so dumb after all!

Staley's was the steak house on Reynolda Rd. for years. There was also a Staley's Drive In a little farther out on Reynolda Rd. where a Shell Station now sits.

I thought Sam's Gourmet was owned by someone else. It, too, was a local landmark for many, many years. Well known for their amazing salad bar when few restaurants featured such a way to make your own salad.

Yes! Staley's! The owner was killed on Reynolda Road during the great ice storm of 1978, when a tree fell on his car while he was driving. Sad, and bad timing for sure.

[CathyCA]

Didn't Staley's have the big cow out front?

[captmojo]

Good stuff. But my favorite is to MIX thousand island (or Russian, if you're from up north) and french (or catalina). Ymm! I do it all the time.

I mix creamy French and ranch. I too enjoy pineapple chunks to be involved.

Didn't Staley's have the big cow out front?

This sounds familiar.

[Devil in the Blue Dress]

Didn't Staley's have the big cow out front?

It was a large bull.

[CathyCA]

Didn't Staley's have the big cow out front?

It was a large bull.

YES! I never ate there, but I rode by there occasionally. (Poor law student. . . )

[devildeac]

Didn't Staley's have the big cow out front?

It was a large bull.

YES! I never ate there, but I rode by there occasionally. (Poor law student. . . )

I'm not sure we ever ate there either (poor med student...)

[OZZIE4DUKE]

Didn't Staley's have the big cow out front?

It was a large bull.

YES! I never ate there, but I rode by there occasionally. (Poor law student. . . )

I'm not sure we ever ate there either (poor med student...)

Food was very good. Not quite Angus Barn good, but close.

I think the restaurants he owned in Charlotte were the Slug's chain. There are, or were, also Slug's in Pinehurst and chapel hell.

[CathyCA]

YES! I never ate there, but I rode by there occasionally. (Poor law student. . . )

I'm not sure we ever ate there either (poor med student...)

Food was very good. Not quite Angus Barn good, but close.

I think the restaurants he owned in Charlotte were the Slug's chain. There are, or were, also Slug's in Pinehurst and chapel hell.

There was also a Slug's Restaurant at the northwest corner of Capital Boulevard and the Beltline in Raleigh in the late 1980s. I ate there several times. It was very dark inside. They had good steaks--not quite Angus Barn, but they were good.