[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]
Perhaps someday I will have a $755 cheese steak that will be as good as yours. It will break down as follows:
$650 - round trip airfare to Newark, New Jersey
$100 - car rental and gas, to drive to Princeton, New Jersey
$5 - purchase steak sandwhich at Hoagie Haven
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Typical sucky customer. You spend that much on the food and don’t leave a tip. 
A few years ago I read the memoirs of one of the big-time radio reporters (I can’t remember the name) who was working during World War II. He had been invited to the White House for a one-on-one briefing with Roosevelt about something or other for the war. It was pretty late, about ten or so, and FDR suddenly said, “I’m hungry, you want a bite to eat?” The guy said sure, so the president rang the kitchen and said to send a couple hamburgers.
About a half-hour later two burgers on a plate with potato salad arrived, and the reporter said it was the best damn hamburger he’d had in his life. When the briefing was over, he asked top be taken to the kitchen where he raved to the chef about how delicious his simple hamburger was. The guy just smiled and pointed to the prime rib on the counter, the one that had a chunk sliced off and ground for two presidential burgers.
Stop it, dammit, just stop it. Tobacco/tobasco comments aside, I will always love the steak. Curse the lot of you for having access while I’m stuck eating various forms of pasta and sucky beans. I hate all of you.
(please note that anyone in the Tampa area can easily redeem themselves by offering me a cheesesteak, an actual steak, or anything that remotely resembles either of the other two things). I’m just saying…
[QUOTE=TripleTee]
I have been cooking since I was 10 years old and I have never seen tobacco listed as an ingredient on any recipe. Do you smoke a pipe and you were smoking while you were cooking, and the pipe rolled over and dumped the bowl into the soup? And you figured, “Ah what the hell. I don’t want to waste the lobster.”
I have these images in my head of Popeye and General MacArthur and Hugh Hefner cooking dinner now.
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Actually, this is a little vanguard, but couldn’t one, if one was so inclined, boil a tiny bit of skoal mint with equal parts sugar and water and make a simple syrup… They even have the ‘pinch bags’ available as instant tea bags. It could be put to multidinal uses, the chief of which is “ashtray drinks” for smoking banned bars. Cherry skoal and grenadine would go particularly nice. Mango and tobacco kind of go well together
[QUOTE=devilsknew]
Actually, this is a little vanguard, but couldn’t one, if one was so inclined, boil a tiny bit of skoal mint with equal parts sugar and water and make a simple syrup… They even have the ‘pinch bags’ available as instant tea bags. It could be put to multidinal uses, the chief of which is “ashtray drinks” for smoking banned bars. Cherry skoal and grenadine would go particularly nice. Mango and tobacco kind of go well together
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Don’t even kid about using tobacco to cook. Nicotine poisoning is nasty.