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Biscuits (no, not the kind you might be thinking, the bread kind ) and sausage gravy is a very Southern breakfast. It's incredibly unhealthy, warming, filling, and delicious...

Provided the sausage is actual sausage, anyway.

 Spinner wrote:
Biscuits (no, not the kind you might be thinking, the bread kind ) and sausage gravy is a very Southern breakfast. It's incredibly unhealthy, warming, filling, and delicious...

Provided the sausage is actual sausage, anyway.

Like most things, done right with good ingredients, it’s awesome. Done poorly, like being reconstituted from a mix, the best you can hope for is mediocre. I don’t know if McD’s still serves biscuits and gravy, but they were awful. Dirt cheep, and frequently consumed, but just bad. I ate of lot of those to start my days in high school.

I’ve been living in the north for a while now, and still the call of southern comfort food is strong... Good stuff. Everyone should track down a decent place and try it at least once in their lives.

 Nevelon wrote:

 Spinner wrote:
Biscuits (no, not the kind you might be thinking, the bread kind ) and sausage gravy is a very Southern breakfast. It's incredibly unhealthy, warming, filling, and delicious...

Provided the sausage is actual sausage, anyway.

Like most things, done right with good ingredients, it’s awesome. Done poorly, like being reconstituted from a mix, the best you can hope for is mediocre. I don’t know if McD’s still serves biscuits and gravy, but they were awful. Dirt cheep, and frequently consumed, but just bad. I ate of lot of those to start my days in high school.

I’ve been living in the north for a while now, and still the call of southern comfort food is strong... Good stuff. Everyone should track down a decent place and try it at least once in their lives.

This isn't the reconstituted anything. The gravy is canned, but very good (and has real sausage); and the biscuits are the made frozen kind. You have to microwave the biscuits but they taste about as close to homemade as you can get without them being homemade. The gravy is usually the same, though there has been a gravy shortage with our usual supplier and we have had to use some gravies that while not as good are still pretty good. Can't say I like them as biscuits and gravy for breakfast is not for me. But many like it. Usually the only people who complain about breakfast are the guests who you can never please or vegans/vegitarians as they aren't a big enough segment for us to cater to.

 CURNOW wrote:
Wait ...you guys have gravy for breakfast ?

Wait, you don't?

Now, actual answer. This is white gravy, essentially a mix of flower, milk, and sausage (although it's way better with bacon/bacon grease instead) Usually you put it on biscuits, and it's delicious.

That said, its absolutely horrible for you health wise, but man is it tastes and filling.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 CURNOW wrote:
Wait ...you guys have gravy for breakfast ?

Wait, you don't?

Now, actual answer. This is white gravy, essentially a mix of flower, milk, and sausage (although it's way better with bacon/bacon grease instead) Usually you put it on biscuits, and it's delicious.

That said, its absolutely horrible for you health wise, but man is it tastes and filling.

This same gravy (with bacon/bacon grease) is even better over country fried pork chops and mashed potatoes (taters with lots of REAL butter in them). THAT is the ONLY time I really enjoyed gravy for breakfast. especially since I got to eat a bunch of bacon on the side. Miss my grandmother's and great aunt's cooking. Miss the fresh made from scratch 6 am cinnamon rolls too.

I hate to post in a slightly dead thread, but I had a doozy today. One of my managers purchased a home. It was a modest three bedroom home with the basement set up to be an apartment (has a lockable main door, private bathroom, bedroom, and kitchenette). Since he didn't use the apartment area anyway, and wanted to pay the house off extra-fast, he started to rent it out to an acquaintance for a small sum. This acquaintance later became one of my employees.

Well, today he calls into work asking if I can cover him. State police busted down the door (literally knocked off the wall) with a warrant. They tossed every drawer and closet in the home and confiscated every cell phone, tablet, and computer.

Was it drugs? Nope, the tenant was using their Wifi to look at underage kids in dirty pictures. However, since it was my manager's home and his internet connection, they thought it was him.

 cuda1179 wrote:
Was it drugs? Nope, the tenant was using their Wifi to look at underage kids in dirty pictures. However, since it was my manager's home and his internet connection, they thought it was him.

Ha! I pointed out to my neighbor I could see his open Wifi and he should lock it down.
He said what is the problem?
I pointed out that anyone with hobbies in underage children would like to use his connection.
He locked it down.
So what you say is a fine example of why security is needed.
I kept seeing this teenager hang out at our corner a lot and I wondered why: turns out some 3-4 open Wifi connections you can get there.

Recent "horror story", guy brought an army to the FLGS for 40k night and was openly trying to sell it to the guys.
Meanwhile, the store had GW product marked down 15% trying to sell the stuff... the owner needed to have a word with the guy.
Do stores need to put up signs "We reserve the right to be the only one to sell product here."?
If the MTG guys started selling their cards to each other in the store they would have to close their doors...

I've sold plenty of stuff in my flgs, but I generally have the buyer pay me in store credit. I doubt that's what the guy was doing, though.

I've never done a sale in a FLGS. Done a few sales in the parking lot...

I mean, come on...

Same here. Maybe some stores are cool with it?

I conduct trades in my FLGS and GW from time to time. Any time money is exchanged in person though, it is in the form of store credit or gift cards. Or things where it is like "I'll buy you this Hive Tyrant if you give me this thing".

I recently had a individual in a wheelchair come in looking for a handicap room. We didn't have one open, but I offered him one of our sweets for the price of a regular room (with the manager's blessing). Just as I finished checking him in, one of the people who booked a handicap room online came in. In the process of checking him in, it comes up that he doesn't need a handicap room; so I asked him if he would be willing to exchange rooms with the previous guest or even one of our other suites at his online price. He looked right at the person in the wheelchair, smiled, and said, "No". What an a-hole. The only good news is after I told my manager this he put the guy in the accesible room on our blacklist and personally paid for the diabled person's room.

What a dick.

Due to not reading all of the description of the hotel room in my companies god-awful travel program, I accidentally selected a handicapped room during a trip. I asked to switch to a normal room, but they were otherwise booked.

Using the shower was a pain in the ass. The nozzle was very low and there was a damn chair in the way that I kept banging my knee on.

There is no way I would take one on purpose when I could have swapped for a regular room. Especially if there was someone that actually needed it. I don't understand that guy.

I once had to stay in a Handcapped room with my grandpa.
It was GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! big bathroom, room to walk, I loved it.

 kronk wrote:
What a dick.

Due to not reading all of the description of the hotel room in my companies god-awful travel program, I accidentally selected a handicapped room during a trip. I asked to switch to a normal room, but they were otherwise booked.

Using the shower was a pain in the ass. The nozzle was very low and there was a damn chair in the way that I kept banging my knee on.

There is no way I would take one on purpose when I could have swapped for a regular room. Especially if there was someone that actually needed it. I don't understand that guy.

It is easy to do. It happens a lot. The online booking sites are not very user friendly and aren't the favorite way of hotels to do business as they take roughly 25% off the top of what you pay. Often you can save more (especially during a slow time of the year) by calling ahead. Often the person taking a reservation are willing to match or beat the price offered online so long as it doesn't exceed what they are able to do. The trick is you have to inquire and dicker a bit. So long as you are polite and reasonable, often they will try to do their best to meet you. We don't like empty rooms, but there is also a point where we aren't making money and there needs to be a certain profit margin. Which I am sure is all stuff you already know.

Anymore most HDC rooms are set up to be usable by ordinary individuals as well as not everyone with a disability and a need for that type of room is wheelchair bound.