# What's for supper?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 23, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549 "2016-10-23T23:34:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/61 "2016-10-28T03:40:21Z")
Egg foo yung with scallions and peas and soy-ginger rice, both homemade
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/62 "2016-10-28T12:48:58Z")
Last night was ham, cabbage, and potatoes. It never sounds very appetizing but then everyone scarfs it down!
Tonight, chicken pineapple tacos.
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### Author:  [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/63 "2016-10-28T17:00:30Z")
I am having some fellow Chicago expatriates over tonight to watch the Series. In keeping with the theme of the event I am offering all the fixings for Chicago dogs, a couple of deep dish pizzas, and ice cold Heileman’s Old Style in the can.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/64 "2016-10-28T17:37:21Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Last night was ham, cabbage, and potatoes. It never sounds very appetizing but then everyone scarfs it down!
I was in Barcelona last week on one of those dream vacations where the restaurants seem to get better from one night to the next.
On the last night, I ordered a “Typical Catalonian Dish” which turned out to be:
Chopped cooked cabbage and potatoes in the center of the platter, ringed by:
A LOT of sauteed chanterelle mushrooms, and crisply-fried slices of bacon, with:
A barely-poached egg yolk resting on on the cabbage-potato mixture.
I chopped into the yolk and let it run down into the cabbage, and then we all helped ourselves.
I have NO IDEA why this would be typical of Catalonia (never thought of it as a big cabbage-land), but it was fantastic.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/65 "2016-10-28T21:34:08Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#):
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> a couple of deep dish pizzas,
Giordano’s does mail order! When is Christmas again?
Tonight? I had Chinese for lunch so I am stuffed. “Dinner” will probably be ice cream sundaes while playing Scrabble.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/66 "2016-10-28T23:37:31Z")
Last night was dinner at our favorite Mexican place. Tonight’s menu is skillet-cooked BBQ chicken filets, mashed potatoes with brown gravy and fire-roasted niblet corn. Tomorrow is a tournament day, so dinner will probably be Subway on the way home.
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/67 "2016-10-28T23:41:57Z")
Leftover pot-roast from the other night. Beef heart, potatoes, carrots, onions, poblano peppers.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/68 "2016-10-28T23:45:05Z")
Pan-fried chicken breasts (flour and spice coating, butter in the pan), some potato smily faces to entice the Cub to the table, and a salad. Lute music playing on the iPod, and a bottle of IPA Tankentstein for the Halloween season.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/69 "2016-10-29T01:25:57Z")
Leftover buffalo wings with the same fixings.
I turned a corner today. I woke up feeling happy. I’m not repulsed by the idea of eating. It’s day 8 on Atkins. 4.2 pounds down.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/70 "2016-10-29T01:34:53Z")
Veal scallops sauteed in butter and olive oil with a vermouth-caper-lemon pan sauce. (Delicious but terribly expensive. Why don’t I do this with chicken or turkey cutlets?)
Gratin Savoyard made with Irish cheddar because I had nothing like a Gruyere in the house. (Not so good. I will go out for Gruyere next time).
Belgian endive braised in chicken stock. (too bitter, buy smaller endives next time)
Several glasses of red Bordeaux. Ukulele Lady drank a chilled Greuner Veltliner instead; she prefers white wine.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/71 "2016-10-29T01:44:27Z")
I’m still getting over the cold I had last week. I was wondering what to have for dinner, and I thought, ‘Baked potatoes. Two baked potatoes with butter and salt and pepper.’
So I made chili.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/72 "2016-10-29T01:56:13Z")
Beef stew. I love the first chill of the year because it mean stew season is here.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/73 "2016-10-29T01:59:30Z")
> [@wolfman](#):
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> Beef stew. I love the first chill of the year because it mean stew season is here.
I misread that as “I love the first **chili** of the year.” 🙂
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/74 "2016-10-31T14:19:01Z")
> [@Sattua](#):
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> I turned a corner today. I woke up feeling happy. I’m not repulsed by the idea of eating. It’s day 8 on Atkins. 4.2 pounds down.
Did you think it was going to be a very difficult diet to stick to before you started it? Because it sounds kind of good…
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/75 "2016-10-31T14:22:37Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Did you think it was going to be a very difficult diet to stick to before you started it? Because it sounds kind of good…
I thought it would be fairly easy for me. I have PCOS with hypoglycemia, and it’s supposed to be particularly good for that. Also, if you do traditional Atkins, you’re encouraged to eat whenever you’re hungry.
But I am came in here to cap off my entries: this morning was the third day in a row with no weight loss. During induction, the strictest, and supposedly fastest-losing, part. I have been hungry, grumpy, anxious, and sad ever since I began. Last night I had a hot-mess, can’t-stop-sobbing breakdown at bedtime–I mean, postpartum level can’t-control-my-emotions.
So I am now off Atkins. I stuck to it for ten days. If I’m not dropping weight daily, though, there’s no point. I can break my heart and suffer less. I’m now drinking a latte.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/76 "2016-10-31T14:54:19Z")
Wow. Well, I hope you feel better!
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/77 "2016-10-31T19:34:15Z")
My own Chicken curry with yogurt and basmati rice. (Chicken, onion, poblano pepper, coconut, raisins, guava paste)
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/78 "2016-10-31T20:02:13Z")
Lebanese:
Kibbeh, humus, stuffed grape leaves, shawarma…
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### Author:  [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/79 "2016-10-31T20:02:26Z")
Saturday: grab some KFC takeout…or at least that was the plan before I discover the empty building (complete with windows covered with newspaper and all of the signage gone) where the KFC used to be. Quick detour to McDonald’s…
Sunday: leftover lasagne from Friday
Monday: if it’s Monday, then it’s leftover pizza night, just as Tuesday is meatball sub & mac & cheese night
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### Author:  [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-supper/769549/80 "2016-10-31T20:07:04Z")
Since I was too busy (lazy) to make it to the grocery store, I’m stopping by my local pub and picking up a fish slider and fries. Not terribly exciting I know, but they make excellent sliders and they are only a buck.
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