madmax's thread about looking at stuff and eating other stuf

Now back to the south of the river trip.  I was in the second Cash America pawn shop.

They had a bunch of keyboards.  A few were Casiahas.  They also had 2 Yamaha digital pianos, an Alesis QS8, and a Roland D-50.  If I even did check the prices, I've long forgotten them.  When I was leaving, I noticed the moved the effects stuff.  The BOSS TM-7 was still there.

Next was the crazy pawn shop.  I don't know if I'm repeating myself here, but there were 3 Dean guitars: KKV, Dime, V.  They had 2 Squires.  There was a lefty Ibanez Prestige.  Also, they had an Epi LP in a sparkle finish.  There were no odd guns to post about.

Then was the third Cash America.  I had visited that one about 2 weeks before.  Just about everything was the same, except for the  apparent thinning of the amp herd.  The "custom" Marshall was back though.  There was an interesting guitar this time.  It was a Fender Musicmaster.  This was a smaller-bodied student guitar.  CA wanted $299 for it.  Depending on its condition and age, that may be a goooood deal.

I then went to the library to type up my notes, then went to get some food, which I will post about soon.

The next day, after I got my car fixed, I walked around Walmart, partially to waste some time.  I then went to the Bass Pro Shops store nearby because I was kind of looking for something there.  They have a small aquarium  media.basspro.com/images/outdoorworld/storegalleries/41_2599996_2.jpg There is also a pond-style setup media.basspro.com/images/outdoorworld/storegalleries/41_3565341_24.jpg that besides fish, there were 3 small ducks swimming around.  I went to the 3 thrift stores I skipped the day before.  For reference, the first one I would usually stop at between Guitar Center and the gun shop I've only visited twice, and the other 2 were between the 2nd Cash America and the crazy pawn shop.

At the first thrift store,  there was a Fisher-Price kiddie kb.  There was also a Casio CTK-451 for $14.98.  I don't remember if it was scuzzy and/or had bad keys.  For organs, they had a Lowrey Saturn Deluxe for $34.98 and a Conn for $99.98.  I don't know about the reasoning behind the Conn's price.

At the second place, Salvation Army, the only thing there was an Alesis QX49 for $24.95.  It is only a controller kb, it doesn't make its own sounds.

At the last place, there were 2 kiddie kb.  Behind the counter, the flute was still there.  There was an acoustic guitar.  There was also a glockenspiel.  The mixer was gone

After that, I went to get some food, which I'll post later.  I hope to start posting the food stuff Fri, but I'll have to go ADD again unfortunately.

I'm back. Let's see if I can finish this. When I left off, I was at Sonic asking about the bogo boneless wings.

The other question I asked was how do you tell the difference between each flavor. The lady said they put stickers on them. Later, I went over there and got all 6 flavors in the 6 piece size. When I got home, I took them out of the bags, and only 2 had stickers(Habanero and Asian).  What added insult to injury is that the wrappers had circles where they could have used a marker and indicated what flavor was there.  I wanted to eat them in a certain order.  I especially wanted to eat the 3 spicy flavors in ascending order of hotness.  I could tell which ones were the garlic parmesan by looking.  I opened 1 container and it smelled kind of sweet so I thought it was the BBQ.  It had a bit of spiciness to it.  I then was moving the other containers and opened another up, and the wings also smelled sweet, but more bbq-like;  also these ones were dark brown, so I knew they were the bbq flavor.  I then started eating these and finished the ones I previously started afterwards.

I'll list list them in the order I had them, like I did above with the Arby's sliders, but I'm putting the bbq ones first since I finished the other one after.

Honey BBQ:  I am not a fan of bbq stuff even though I live in one of the bbq capitals of the USA.  That being said, these were actually pretty good.

Island Fire:  These are the middle hotness of the spicy flavors.  Like I said above, they had some sweetness to them, and some heat, and were good.

Asian Sweet Chili:  I don't remember how they tasted except that I'm pretty sure I liked them.  Maybe they tasted like soy or teriyaki sauce.  Even though the name has "chili" in it, I don't recall them being spicy.

Buffalo:  This is the mildest of the 3 spicy flavors.  It didn't seem spicy, but it did have the buffalo wing sauce taste.

Extreme Habanero Heat:  This is they spiciest of the 3.  And yes it was spicy!  When I got to them, they had cooled off, but they were still super spicy.  I had sweating, nose dripping, and maybe even eye watering and excess salivating.

Garlic Parmesan:  They did tasted like their name and were good.  Since these were the last I had, I was getting full when I had them(I'll expound on that in a bit).

Besides the wings, I got 2 sides.  One was the 6 piece mozzarella sticks.  The other was the onion rings.  The mozz sticks were fine.  I had them when they were still warm.  They came with 2 packet thingies of spaghetti sauce, but I only used 1.  I don't remember how much they cost, so no comparison.  Finally the onion rings.  I did not like these!  It tasted like the batter has sugar in it, and that ruined them.  If I remember, I'll do some research and see of they do have sugar in them.  I was also thinking maybe they were cooking some desert items in the same oil.  I see that they have French toast sticks and Cinnisnacks(whatever those are) on the breakfast menu, so maybe those things fucked up the oil.

Due to the lack of labeling, I kind of want to do a redo, but I don't know when I'd be able to get around to it.  If I do, I'll only get the wings, no sides, because that was too much food.

Speaking of redos, I did go back to Little Caesars(Oct 7?) and get the Box Set again.  I was feeling much better this time.  Both the pizza and cheesy bread were good.

I did go to Arby's website on another computer and found out the sliders use Swiss cheese.

I think I might get something to try on Fri.  If so, I will try to post next Wed.

I might open another bottle of booze tonight.  I'll post a review once I'm done.

So, until next time....

It's booze review time. This time it was Bird Dog Chocolate Flavored Whiskey.  There is just a slight hint of chocolate smell when you smell the bottle.  And there maybe was just the slightest taste of chocolate, mostly like you could tell there was a tiny bit of some kind of flavor, but it was mostly alcohol burn.  Putting some in water did not taste good.  Maybe it tasted like if you would put a tiny bit of chocolate milk powder in a glass of water(since I have some at home, I may try this and report back).

I'll sum it up thusly:   this dog needs to be put to sleep.

I may open another bottle tonight, and I'll of course review it once finished.  I am hoping for a better experience, since it seems interesting.

I'm back again! Tuesday I went to the Asian markets and bought some food.  I figured since I didn't have to go to work on Wed(holiday: Veteran's Day), I didn't have to worry about the food giving me the shits. Coincidentally, I didn't take a dump the whole day, but I don't know if it was due to the food.

Remember, when I review these foods, I give the company info first.  Also, I'll list the snacks in the order I ate them, then I'll review the veggie item, and finally the meat items.

 Well' let's get back to business.

The first snack I opened  was Green Peas Snack by Miaow Miaow.  This comes from Malaysia from the Dragonfly company via US Trading Co.  These things are shaped like mini cheese puffs/curls, and they are green. They did kind of taste like cooked peas.  Even though I don't like peas standalone(I like them when in stuff like soups and stews), I thought this snack item was ok.

The next item was Ribbed Cracklings In Old Fashioned Salt & Vinegar from the Beer Match brand of the Oishi company from the Philippines.  The distributor is Liwayway Marketing Corp.  These are supposed to be a substitute for real pork rinds.  The packaging implies that these are good to eat when drinking beer.  They did smell like vinegar.  I recall that only first few had the s&v taste.  I guess I quickly built up a tolerance for the flavoring.  I can't think of anything from the US to compare it to in terms of crunchiness.  It was way more solid than actual pork rinds, and not as brittle as a pretzel nugget.  While this snack wasn't a total suckfest, it wasn't that good either.

The next 2 items were from the Roxy brand and come from Japan.  They are distributed by Roxy Trading Inc in Ponoma CA.

The first was called Squid Cracker.  I didn't read the ingredients list, so I don't know if it had actual squid in it.  It did have a unique flavor, though it wasn't good enough to make me want to buy it again.

The other item was Crab Chips.  I did check the ingredients on these, and there was dried crab in them.  I can't remember if they had a crab taste;  I think I mostly tasted the base ingredients.  To explain what I mean by this, it would be like eating a flavored potato chip and tasting mostly the potato chip instead of the flavoring.  Again, I won't re-buy these.

The last 2 snack items come from a company called Want Want in Taiwan.  I only found this out by the website given in small print on the bottom of the back of the bags.  The website itself seemed to be fucked, so I had to Google about it.

It's time for me to go.  I should be finishing this up on Wed.  Bye!

Today is a rare Sun appearance for me. Let's get going.

On Saturday, I visited the 3 major thrift stores in town. There was nothing at the first one.

The second had a clarinet for $100, but it was missing one of its segments. There was a Yamaha PSR-6 that I spent way too much time playing with. It would have been less, but when I almost got through the sounds I wanted to try, I noticed the volume slider for something like bass accompaniment was up, which made the sounds sound different. The sounds were ok, but some, like the organs, were almost inaudible on the bass side of the keyboard. The sounds are similar to the PSS-280 I had a long time ago. Since I think these sounds were made with FM synthesis, I wonder if I can find them on the factory ROM cards I have for my DX-7, or get them off the internet. The kb was only $19.

The last thrift store had a flute for $59. I don't know, but it looked like it might need repair. There was a kiddie kb. They also had 2 Yamaha keyboards, both for $39, but not equal. First was a PSR-275. I didn't go through a lot of sounds, but concentrated on the organ ones. Mostly I played something that kind of sounded like the into for Child in Time by Deep Purple. One of the presets was actually named something like "Purpl Organ", but it sounded like shit. It sounded like it was an organ run some sort of distortion pedal. For CiT, the better preset was called something like "16-2", which I'm pretty sure is a drawbar reference. The control panel had + and - buttons to go through the sounds, but only the - was working. The 2nd kb was a PSR-248. The thing I noticed right away was that the keys were yellowed, probably from sitting in the sun constantly. It only had a few organ sounds, which I don't recall being good. I didn't mess with this for very long.

Next up is some food!

It's that time again. I'll be quick this time.

I did get something to snack on, but it wasn't what I was hoping for.

Sun night, I got the regular Cheesesticks from Papa John's.  I actually wanted to get the Bruschetta version.  I called on Sat and the girl said they still had them.  When I called to place my order on Sun, the girl who answered didn't know what I was talking about.  She even asked the manager.  She said they didn't know how to make them.  I just ended up getting the basic ones.  You need to see a pic of how they're cut first before I review them:

www.google.com/search?q=papa+johns+cheese+sticks&biw=1440&bih=783&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiXxN7Q3azJAhXC2D4KHTlGCU8QsAQIHA

The small pieces on the ends that were curved were kind of dry because they are mostly the edge.  The inner pieces were nice and soft for the most part.  These were good.  It came with a small container of tomato sauce(spaghetti/pizza/marinara for those outside the US).  This was ok, and is best used for the end pieces.

Yesterday I went to Subway.  I got 2 footlongs.  They both were on white bread with provolone cheese, vegetable oil, oregano, and parmesan cheese.  The first was the Meatball Marinara.  For veggies, I just had a few black olives, a little bit of onion, and a little bit of green pepper.  The other one was the Spicy Italian, and I had tomatoes and spinach on it.  Both were good.  I didn't have the bread toasted because if you don't eat it right away, it gets soft again, but that could also be if you leave it in the bag with other sandwiches, and the combined humidity does that.

I was going to get something else, but I didn't ask, and there were no signs up.  I asked after I got my sandwiches, and the lady said they still had them, but they were out of one of the ingredients for one of them.  Next Tues, I'm going to call to see if they have all the ingredients.  If so, I'll get them and do a review.

If I get the sandwiches, I'll be back on Wed.  I'll be back on Fri for a booze review if I finish the bottle by Thurs.