Woops, sorry holistics.
To be honest, I’ll pretty much eat any of it cold or leftover. As long as it hasn’t turned to mush, I’m good.
With pizza, I get best results if I leave it out overnight rather than putting it in the fridge. I actually prefer it cold this way over reheated. (Even with Pizza Hut).
French fries were always a challenge, though. A limp fry is a sad thing. Then I learned that you can chop them up and turn them into amazing hashbrowns for breakfast the next morning. You don’t even have to add oil to the pan, since the fries already have that.
Better than eating reheated Arby’s roast beef.
For pizza I throw a slice in the oven for 5 minutes at 400 and it comes out almost as good as fresh from the delivery man.
I recently found Taco Bells Grilled Stuft Nachos are good the next day if you throw them in the microwave for a minute. So the last couple of times I’ve gone I’ve bought a couple of those for lunch the next day.
If we’re including any kind of take out, cold Pizza and Chinese Food is aces with me too.
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McDonald’s fries are good reheated. I also think pizza-type items in general, not to mention most Chinese food, fare well as leftovers.
Trying to wrap my head around this concept. In NYC, gyros (usually called “souvlaki,” because they’re made by Egyptians or Lebanese instead of Greeks. Sometimes you’ll run into a Turkish place, and there they are called doner, which is the gyro of most of Europe) are usually sloppy with tzatziki and meat grease. (You have to specify tzatziki, or they’ll give you the same tahini sauce they use on the felafel sandwiches, even though they KNOW the tzatziki is better on the souvlaki; it is their way of Sticking it to the Man.)
Once in a while, in a fit of greed, I’ll get TWO souvlakis even though it’s physically impossible for me to eat more than one at a time.
The second sandwich will be taken out of the fridge late at night after I’m good and drunk and need a midnight snack. It invariably falls to pieces in my hands, at which point I just put my face directly into the plate to finish it.
Reheating the meat and pita would reduce the bread into a complete mush. “Reassembling” would be completely impossible.
Not sure what to tell ya. I’ve never had a pita go to mush. Are they not putting them on the grill for a minute to heat them up and gently brown the sides for you?
In case it’s a terminology thing:this is the sandwich I’m talking about. If it’s drowning in grease, they’re doing it wrong.
We do have “souvlaki” at some places, but it’s chunks of meat, rather than the unique vertically roasted fine grained meatloaf that is gyro. Still, those shouldn’t swim in grease, either. Blech.
I’ve never seen a McDonalds apple pie allowed to become a leftover.