We think you should take Club Sandwich's advice.
We think you should take it even if there wasn't extra incentive. Why? Because the more you review restaurants, especially local restaurants, the better our website can serve our community inasmuch as we can offer a credible and extensive view of Waco's dining out experience.
And we want to thank Club Sandwich for making this point with their advertising graphic (as seen in the photo with this blog; that's us just between yelp and urbanspoon).
But there is extra incentive.
Just so everyone knows, I didn't claim to be interested in eating healthy simply as a way of introducing the Eat Well Waco blog on Monday.
Perhaps if you saw me walking down the street, you might say under your breath "That eating healthy mularky must have been mere lip service." And it certainly felt that way when I made the bad decision of scarfing a burger when I arrived home from Dallas late Monday night. Fries too. Bad.
I'm trying to make up for it today, so I went to D's Mediterranean Grill and ordered from the Eat Well Waco menu suggestions that can be found on the wall there.
I want to eat healthy. I really do.
Actually I try to do it, though it seems whenever I try the hardest to eat healthily, I end up failing the most miserably. I'll out-smart myself and my "healthy choice" ends up being terrible for me.
It was a splendid and nostalgic evening at my old stomping grounds, Panther Stadium at Midway, right up until the moment when the actual football game took a turn for the unexpected.
For one thing, it was just the right kind of September evening. Not exactly sweatshirt weather just yet, obviously. But not oppressively hot either. Really nice weather actually. That was the splendid part.
I arrived on the old campus about an hour before kickoff on Friday, in time to catch the end of a tailgate party just outside the stadium. That was the nostalgic part.
(Disclaimer: In the following blog, the devil is metaphorical for spicy food. WacoFork does not support the devil or any of his friends).
According to the Charlie Daniels Band, the devil went down to Georgia looking for a soul to steal. Conversely, a band of WacoFork folks went to downtown Waco looking to show that old devil who was boss.
It was meant to be WacoFork's deal with the devil as two of our most brave food challengers — Toph Whisnant and Cameron Weed — fully intended to savor Hell's Kitchen Wings at Metro followed by the El Diablo tacos at Taqueria Mexican Taco.
There was a time when I would have been self-conscious about walking into the Bill Daniel Student Center at Baylor to eat lunch.
That time, perhaps, was as recently as earlier this year before a friend who worked at Baylor insisted we eat in one of the dining halls. I suppose that helped me to discover that no one really sticks out like a sore thumb in those places simply because everyone sticks out like a sore thumb in those places.
Seriously, is there a better place in the world to people watch than a college campus? Particularly Baylor?
At any rate, I ventured into the Baylor student center again today to grab some lunch from Mooyah.
Can anyone tell me how the Baylor-TCU game came out?
Just kidding.
I carried our WacoFork banner out to tailgate on Friday afternoon and had a fantastic time pre-gaming with everyone. We had hot dogs and burgers and beverages. You should really come by and see us next time. Sadly, though, I didn't get to go into the Floyd Casey stadium as I had a game of my own to cover in McGregor.
Right now, I'm sitting on a blue park bench at Katie's Frozen Custard eating hot dogs and washing them down with cold Coca-Cola and a creamy strawberry cyclone.
This is me reading summer its Last Rites for this year.
At the end of every month, I comb through all of the fantastic WacoFork reviews and pull out what I find to be some of the best individual lines.
I try to leave it pretty ambiguous by, where possible, extracting both the user's identity and the restaurant in question. However, one reviewer has risen to the top of the heap and must be named. It would be silly to act like mghamma isn't coming up with a bunch of the lines that I'm using in "Month in Reviews."
But … as of this week, mghamma has a challenger to her status as the witty, slashing swordswoman of the WacoFork reviews. And that challenger comes correct with with a ninja blade.
What makes a great salsa?
You have an opinion. I know you do. So share it by commenting on this blog. But in case you're too shy, I'll give you some options to choose from. Is the thicker the better with salsa? Or does it need to be a little runny, and perhaps even slightly creamy in order to be dipped better? Does it need to be very spicy? Does it even need to be tomato based? Dictionary.com doesn't mention tomatoes, though it does suggest "especially a hot sauce containing chilies."
I can think of one ingredient that separates proper salsa from glorified tomato sauce. Cilantro.
Someone — I'm not sure who other than KCEN's Nick Piesco — judged Waco's margarita and salsa offerings during the Margarita & Salsa Festival on Saturday. I didn't attend, but I was interested to find out who won the contests.
