At the request of Muteointe, who seems to be offended enough at my cooking posts to go out of his way to make fun of me, I bring to you a picture of this morning’s breakfast. Shown is a Jack in the Box Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich, partially eaten, and a fried hashbrown–not shown is the side of orange juice or the ketchup I eventually put on the hash brown.
There ya go, bud. I hope that helps smooth over whatever I did that put such a burr in your saddle.
No,no…I think Mute is just jealous of the deliciosity. Maybe if you send him a homemade cheesecake he’ll feel better.
If I make a make a homemade cheesecake, it’s gonna be for my wife. She loves them 
Now, these partially eaten Jack-in-the-Box sandwiches, do these cost more than an uneaten sandwich? I mean, is this a special feature of this Jack-in-the-Box enterprise, or is it common practise amongst all American purveyors of fine breakfast cuisine to offer their fare as either whole or partially eaten? 
Curious minds want to know.
djm
Prechewed for your convenience. Especially popular in Florida.
occasionally the food I make is so delicious, I’ll have to have a bite before I take the picture. I just wanted mutepointe to get the “whole experience” as it were, and not feel ripped off.
“Ultimate Breakfast”? So, I mean, like, once you buy one, that’s it? Done? Finito?
The unmitigated gall of the corporate arrogance.
It doesn’t look that astounding…
Near as I can tell, Jack in the box calls all of their “two-patty” sandwiches “Ultimate”..the Ultimate Cheeseburger, for instance, has two patties.
They may be using “ultimate” in this sense: “not to be improved upon or surpassed”.
But that makes me wonder what you would call a three-patty burger…
Maybe “The Apocalyptic Burger”.
You want some grease with that grease?
I like cooking posts, keep them coming.
This weekend I made a pot of chicken and sausage gumbo. I was pretty darn happy with it but I’ll do two things different next time. I used left over sausage from the freezer, while good, it wasn’t as good as using Andouille. Also, I forgot to chop the okra and put them in whole, next time I’ll chop them up.
I broke down and bought a nice enameled cast iron dutch oven two weeks ago. So far I’ve made chili and gumbo with it and this it’s going to work out well!
Yes indeed! The Half-Eaten sandwich is quite a popular security measure in the fast food world. Who would steal a half-eaten sandwich? Then again, you end up paying extra to support the medical bill of the employee who has to eat all those halves…
Okey-dokey. When my neighbor moved he gave me his Brinkmanns smoker. So every couple of weeks, when I know I’ll be home, I smoke several things so I’ll have leftovers for all the trouble.
So I smoked some beef short ribs and a whole chicken. I also threw on four links of Italian sausage for appetizers. I use applewood from my winter pruning. I took the short ribs off the smoker after about five hours, cut the meat into strips, put em in a tray and smothered 'em in barbecue sauce and put in the oven under foil for the rest of the time because I felt the meat was getting too dry. Pork is better than beef for smoking I think but beef is a challenge and since my family raises cattle, I have an endless supply of the tougher cuts (steaks and prime rib get gobbled quickly as you can imagine).
For dinner we had the choice of the beef or chicken. The other Weekender also made potato salad with bacon bits. When you smoke meats, you really can’t eat as much as if they were roasted because the flavor is so strong. So you have a lot of leftovers. The next day, I got some ciabatta rolls from Costco for the leftover beef and have been eatin’ on that.
Then, last night, the other Weekender took the leftover smoked chicken, mostly breast meat, combined it with stewed tomatoes with jalapenos and jarred verde sauce and made enchiladas. Smoked chicken enchiladas. That’s what I’m talkin about…
That’s the only thing about smoking fowl: you have to forget about the skin. Oven-roast a chicken, turkey, goose, what have you, and you darn well better leave some of that crispy skin for me or else. Had some smoked turkey a while back, and the meat was splendid, but I tried the skin, and that was just rubbery-smoky-in-a-bad-way-shoeleather-awful. Sigh.
You know it, man! Ve haff vays to mek you kip der kotten-pickin hands off der krispy skin.
djm
Yeah, skin and fat deposits concentrate smoke flavor, so you discard. Once you are forewarned, it’s not a biggie. What’s amazing to me about smoking chicken though, is how much liquid the bird retains. As leftovers, the breast meat dries a bit, but man, it’s moist off the bone.
I had Sonic for lunch, but forgot to take a picture. If y’all want, I can take a picture of the cardboard serving bowl that the chili-cheese tater tots came in…
Sonic chili-cheese tater tots – one of nature’s perfect foods. Throw in a foot-long chili-cheese coney, and you have a lunch to die for.
Or die of, but one has to die of something, does one not, and succumbing to a surfeit of Sonic is certainly better than having an airplane fall on you.
(And I like Wanderer’s food pictures. They are inspirational.)
Damn. And I just changed my siggy quote.