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Sounds great...tomorrow's breakfast is taken care of!

Has anyone ever tried using left-over mashed potatoes, mixed with a beaten egg and a few spices, molded into a patty and fried on both sides in butter till crispy on the outside and creamy smooth on the inside? I sometimed stuff the center with cheese! Have no idea what's it's called...my mom used to make them for me. Obviously I'm a potato freak of the first order!

Slightly off-topic and certainly not gourmet, but I grew up on Swanson's frozen Chicken Pot Pies! That was my after school meal....and I loved those things. Tried one for old times sake...they taste just the same, although a bit lighter on the chicken and veggies and heavier on the gravy. Not what you want for your service, but a trip down memory lane.

Pimento Cheeseburger? No thanks. The cheese is too dominant for the burger. Give me cheddar or American anytime.

I started eating at Pizza Hut when I was living in Panama. Yep, we had them there...and they were exceptional. I moved back to the States a year ago and found the Pizza Hut pizzas here to be, in my estimation, terrible. Whereas in Panama they were truly excellent. Por que? Plus, the service here stinks.

Any comments on California Kitchen pizzas? I'mnot a fan, but everyone I know raves about them.

Mayo for cheeseburgers, mustard for regular hamburgers. Ketchup I reserve for meatloaf...I think the flavor is too strong for a good burger, but that is me. And yes, regional has a lot to do with the preferences. I would say I really like Miracle Whip on my cheeseburgers (being from the midwest), but that would probably stir up a storm of protests with the purists, so I won't. :)

Burger club sounds fun, but it's a strictly NYC oriented group. Too bad.

Sorry, but cubed steak is NOT the same as round steak. Not to be argumentative, but to be authentic CFS, you have to buy a big slab of round steak, have the butcher run it through the tenderizer twice, cut the result into pieces, then proceed. Cubed steak is a pre-formed, frozen and, in my opinion, too thin piece of meat, often time formed from chopped up meat. I know this because my mmother used to worl for Wilson & Co. Meat Processing and cube steaks were one of their products.

Sweet Vidalia onions with crisp thick-sliced bacon and American cheese. That's the way God intended.

Southern cooking is possibly the best example of American cuisine. My family are all from the South and I was raised on endless streams of dishes from Savannah (mother), New Orleans (Father) and other relatives in Atlanta, Biloxi and Charlotte. The downside is that I have fought weight problems for my entire life as a result. "If it doesn't move, fry it!", was a favorite refrain. But, oh my...it is good!

I love truck food...LA has the BEST Mexican food trucks. Nothing fancy, just good, solid food for working people...and did I say "delicious"? And now someone has come up with the idea of my favorite food...french fries...and making it the base for a meal! I'll drive in to LA from Palm Springs once I know where and when they'll locate the truck! Gotta try it!

ShawnaAdora had it right...and I guess we're the only ones....

MIRACLE WHIP right from the jar! I eat it sprinkled with black pepper. If I feel fancy, I spread it on crackers!
Cold Chef Boyardee ravioli's from the can ( a childhood vice)
Peanut butter
Eagle Brand milk
Garlic stuffed olives captured with a fork

I've eaten there with the hopes of finding a great burger nearby, but no...my reaction mirrors yours. Will someone please tell chefs in LA that a brioche is NOT a hamburger bun! The remainder of the menu is quite good, however.

I don't like these new malls...they seem too predictable and sterile. Sort of like Disneyland...everything meticulously planned out to the inth degree. The clunky Galleria across is the street doesn't try to be anything other than what it is...a big freaking shopping mall.