Gravy Brain

You know how you like certain things at certain restaurants, but not everything at each restaurant? Is it a coincidence, or a conspiracy?

I love the Breakfast Horseshoe at D&J's but I think I will stick with the cheese sauce instead of the gravy option. The gravy's not nearly as thick as Bob Evan's

If you want monster gravy. Just ask for some gravy and biscuits at Bob Evan's. Be prepared. You may want to ask for extra biscuits. The gravy is thick with meat.

The more I think about it, the more I just want to get carry out gravy from Bob Evan's and put it on Nachos!

According to NutritionData.com one cup of Gravy, beef, canned, ready-to-serve has only 123 calories. I was expecting more than 500 calories, but there is a huge trade-off.

The gravy described at NutritionData.com has a sodium content of 1,305 milligram. Over half of a whole day's recommended dose of salt (based on a 2000 calorie diet.)

Only Sake!?

I like Sake, it's an alcoholic beverage made with rice and it has a nice bite. The website www.nutritiondata.com has an affinity for it as well, even though sake has very few traces of nutritional value, it is lower in calories per ounce than any other alcoholic beverage, by about half.

NutritionData.com has a nice function called a pantry, where you can keep your own recipes and ingredients. You can create your own recipes and then look at the total nutritional value of what you created. Very cool.

Another good thing is that you don't get spammed by them if you sign up. I almost forgot about it for the fact that I had to go to the store and wanted to check if I should add more rice to my diet. So,

NutritionData.com, here I come to see what nutrition data you have on rice. What? Sake? That can't be the only reference to rice you have in your database!

FAIL!

StyroGyra

You stop at a McDonalds and order a coffee with your food. The server puts the lid on your cup and puts the cup on your tray. You notice something is wrong because there seems to be a lot of leakage.

I totally understand that in the blur of trying to serve customers in a timely manner, that something this small could easily be overlooked. It's no big deal really, except that I could not take my coffee with me, nor could I drink it because I was out of time.

I didn't say anything about it because it wasn't that important. I should have said something about it, for the benefit of servers in the future, being more aware of damaged coffee cups.

So now, instead of me making an issue out of a damaged coffee cup, someone else in the future, perhaps less in control of his or her temper, will become the Jerk.