What size should a side of slaw be?
Aug 14, 2009 | 8:18 pm
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What size should a side of slaw be?
This has happened before and I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
I picked up an order of steamed clams and a cheeseburger to go. I get home and open the styrofoam boxes. Inside one, as promised, are 30 littlenecks and a small container of garlic butter (maybe 3 ounces - sufficient for our purposes). Inside the other is a 1/2 pound burger, a good portion of fries and a small container of slaw about 1/3 the size of the butter container! Maybe an ounce. Might hold 2 coffee creamers or six quarters. Appropriate for tartar sauce maybe. A Reagan era serving of vegetables, maybe. A forkful. I'd be embarrassed to put this in front of a customer.
So what's the correct size for a side of slaw? I like at least an ice cream scoopful, if not two. I want a side, not a condiment.
Your thoughts?
I picked up an order of steamed clams and a cheeseburger to go. I get home and open the styrofoam boxes. Inside one, as promised, are 30 littlenecks and a small container of garlic butter (maybe 3 ounces - sufficient for our purposes). Inside the other is a 1/2 pound burger, a good portion of fries and a small container of slaw about 1/3 the size of the butter container! Maybe an ounce. Might hold 2 coffee creamers or six quarters. Appropriate for tartar sauce maybe. A Reagan era serving of vegetables, maybe. A forkful. I'd be embarrassed to put this in front of a customer.
So what's the correct size for a side of slaw? I like at least an ice cream scoopful, if not two. I want a side, not a condiment.
Your thoughts?
Aug 14, 2009 | 10:46 pm
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Aug 14, 2009 | 11:26 pm
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Thinking of the "Foods you hate" thread and the huge number of mayonnaise haters there I guess it's not surprising. I love the stuff and would say that KFC's serving is about right. I'm guessing it's about 4-5 ounces. I'm seriously jonesing for some No. Carolina pulled pork w/coleslaw now. A combination made in heaven.
Aug 15, 2009 | 12:11 am
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Originally Posted by UALfromMSN
I would say a cup of slaw is about right.
Aug 15, 2009 | 12:27 am
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Aug 15, 2009 | 7:37 am
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This has happened before and I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
I picked up an order of steamed clams and a cheeseburger to go. I get home and open the styrofoam boxes. Inside one, as promised, are 30 littlenecks and a small container of garlic butter (maybe 3 ounces - sufficient for our purposes). Inside the other is a 1/2 pound burger, a good portion of fries and a small container of slaw about 1/3 the size of the butter container! Maybe an ounce. Might hold 2 coffee creamers or six quarters. Appropriate for tartar sauce maybe. A Reagan era serving of vegetables, maybe. A forkful. I'd be embarrassed to put this in front of a customer.
So what's the correct size for a side of slaw? I like at least an ice cream scoopful, if not two. I want a side, not a condiment.
Your thoughts?
I picked up an order of steamed clams and a cheeseburger to go. I get home and open the styrofoam boxes. Inside one, as promised, are 30 littlenecks and a small container of garlic butter (maybe 3 ounces - sufficient for our purposes). Inside the other is a 1/2 pound burger, a good portion of fries and a small container of slaw about 1/3 the size of the butter container! Maybe an ounce. Might hold 2 coffee creamers or six quarters. Appropriate for tartar sauce maybe. A Reagan era serving of vegetables, maybe. A forkful. I'd be embarrassed to put this in front of a customer.
So what's the correct size for a side of slaw? I like at least an ice cream scoopful, if not two. I want a side, not a condiment.
Your thoughts?
Aug 15, 2009 | 9:44 am
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Aug 15, 2009 | 9:51 am
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I'm admiring the rest of your lunch (supper?). After I've downed a 1/2 lb burger, a "good portion of fries", and 30 littlenecks with garlic butter, I'll usually want a healthy portion of slaw to soothe that small little voice in the back of my mind that keeps saying, "you should have some vegetables with that". A large ice cream scoop seems about right.
And slaw (mayo) haters....eat it with greek yogurt and cumin...you'll never scoff again. ^
Aug 15, 2009 | 2:49 pm
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