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1·1 day agoSounds like Twice Baked Potatoes.
My mom used to make them. My wife does too.
To be extra fancy, use a piping bag with a star tip when you fill them.
Never got it. I never did much drinking there.
Back in the olden days, my order was:
Potato skins Salad Filet mignon Deep Dish Apple Pie
It broke my damn heart when they stopped offering that dessert.
2·1 day agoThey’re fishing for answers in the answer pond,
Except, they’ve actually dropped their lines in the stupidity toilet.
Yep.
Sometimes the answer you need is to the question you didn’t ask.
Edit: I’ll add that I’ve tried buying restaurant branded potato skins from the grocery store, and they were absolute crap, worse even than the frozen ones that the restaurant was microwaving.
I don’t think there’s going to be any way to buy what the restaurants purchases, unless you’re able to buy in bulk, or find someone who’s willing to sell you some that “fell off the truck”
My wife would kill me if we wasted any part of the potatoes.
We’ve done a couple things with the insides. Sometimes we pan fry the bits in butter with some sauteed onions to have at breakfast the next day.
Last time was the first time I used a melon baller.
When we saw the almost perfect potato balls, it was almost automatic to deep fry them, add a little salt, and just eat them like that.
You mentioned TGI Fridays.
When I was in college, we’d go to Fridays all the time, and the food was incredible.
Then, over the years, it turned to shit. We stopped going.
One day, we were craving the memory of what it was and decided to give it anorher chance.
When we sat down, the manager stopped by our table to thank us for coming in and informed us that they had changed their process. She said that in recent years all their food was being prepared off-site, frozen, and just microwaved to order at the restaurant. However, they recently went back to doing all the prep from scratch in their kitchen.
The food was incredible! Exactly what we remembered. We started going back.
Then COVID hit. The Fridays that we would go to shut down.
The last time we went to a Fridays, the restaurant was empty, the staff was disinterested, and the food was shit.
Where does Applebee’s get their potato skins?
I’ll give you instructions for making potato skins.
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Since you referenced food from Applebee’s, first you’re going to need to wean yourself off whatever drugs you’re on so you can tell the difference between food and what Applebee’s sells.
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wash and dry some potatoes.
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pierce the potatoes several times, all around the outside with a fork.
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bake the potatoes in a preheated 400° F. oven until you can easily insert your poking fork all the way to the center of the potato (probably about an hour, depending on the potatoes).
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take the potatoes out of the oven and let them cool down.
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slice each potato in half
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scoop out the insides of each potato, leaving about a quarter inch thickness for the skins. Last time I did this, I used a melon baller and deep-fried all the potato balls.
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deep fry the scooped out skins at about 375°. I prefer beef tallow for frying.
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when they are golden brown, take them out and set them aside to drain.
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cook bacon until crispy, then brake it up into small pieces.
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arrange all the fried potato skins on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
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season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
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fill each potato skin with shredded cheddar cheese, and sprinkle bacon pieces on top.
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bake in the oven at 350° until the cheese melts.
Serve with sour cream and chopped scallions.
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1·2 days agoScribbled on the whiteboard in the office.
jk
Scissors are the ideal utensil for correcting unseparated pizza slices.
1·2 days agoYeah, I disinterested, “Who? Ronald Dump? Is this someone who matters?” Wouldn’t be bad either.
Just want to say, you absolutely should hate a large percentage of the American public.
You shouldn’t hate all of us, but there are plenty worthy of hate.
As a US citizen, I really wish the official reaction was just:
Fuck off.
I believe that computer just attracts people who are outcasts
I think you’re right, but I’ve also read that there might be some correlation between being trans and being on the autism spectrum. If that’s true, then it is reasonable to expect a higher than average percentage of IT people would be trans.
They also happen to be linked up to a rapid and highly efficient super computer far outclassing anything that humanity has ever devised
A neural network that has been in development for 650 million years.
1·4 days ago“You don’t come here for the hunting, do you?”
I’d argue that the last two months have been the culmination of the last ~50 years of US fascism.
1·4 days agoI will say a proud (if dismayed) moment for me as a parent was being forced to see the text’s between my daughter and the boy she was interested in.
Context: they were both 15, and the boy’s parents were religious wack-jobs. The father specifically said that 15 was too young to have a relationship. I had to respectfully disagree, since my wife was 15 when we started dating (I was 16).
Of course, the parents monitored all the boys communications, and would send me crap i didn’t want to see.
In the texts the boy suggested that he and my daughter should lie to the parents. My daughter pointed out that there’s no way we wouldn’t know.
She knew that we considered lying to be the one unforgivable sin. So she wouldn’t waste it ;-)
Thankfully, that relationship died. It would have been a whole lot easier to let it alone, but his parents couldn’t.
I’ve heard that when the boy went to college he couldn’t handle the freedom and ended up dropping out and returning home.
That depends on the situation. If you don’t know them, then yeah, you’d need to confirm you’re taking to the right person.
I ended up meeting all the parents of my kids’ friends, so it would have been beyond difficult to fake that.
I was doing IT 30 years ago.
Back then you’d post a question on USENET and get an answer back from the guy who wrote the program you were asking about.