This week I reached out for a package of Meat Lovers Stuffed Hash Browns, new from Jimmy Dean, in supermarkets across America.Every so often, I eschew (great word) the drive-thru for a good old-fashioned microwaved prepared meal from Walmart's frozen food aisle, just like Grandma used to make. ...
If a person goes to The Pizza Factory and somehow does not order the restaurant’s famous breadtwists, did the visit actually happen?As far as age-old questions go, that would have to rank up among our favorites — right up there with the ones involving the sound trees make when falling in ...
According to the back of a take-out menu from ZAO Asian Café in Lehi, “Happiness is the highest form of health.”The same menu also points out that “Happiness is living a simple life.”True to those mottos, the restaurant’s menu is pretty straightforward and, well, simple, but ...
In life, and when doing restaurant reviews, it helps to have a good translator.Case in point: My recent visit to El Pollo Royo, a Mexican Restaurant off Canyon Road in Provo. I figured they’d have good chicken — I mean, the word “pollo” is in its name, after all — but that’s the ...
This week I reached out for a Maple Bacon Dijon Burger, one of the new Signature Crafted Recipes sandwiches at America's No. 1 burger buster, McDonald's, with 14,000 restaurants like, everywhere.I'll translate "Signature Crafted Recipes" into drive-thru language: "a buck more." Anytime you hear ...
Walking into the folksy, welcoming setting of Tangie’s Cafe, I, ever the oblivious, smooth-handed city boy, struggled to understand what one of the posted signs said. It had some words, and then a picture of an animal below it. I decided to ask the server to help me decode it.“ ‘Please ...
