Another American Fat (Fast) Food Joint!!!

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Aceleron said:
I don't necessarily agree with you on many points, I've had great breakfast here in Santiago, and in some places in SDQ as well. Could it be that your housekeeper being of a poor background is or was unfamiliar with your type of breakfast?

Chances are if you have someone acting as housekeeper and all this poor person knows is how to cook without seasoning, the best you could expect from her is mediocre food each and every time. This however, does not mean everyone cooks in such a way. It just means that this poor person (your housekeeper) was taught this way.

My wife (although Dominican) makes great pancakes and omlets!!! Finger licking good even!!!
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Feel free to disagree.

My comments are my experiences in DR over the past 37 years. NOT just one housekeeper. And the "poor person" in question is one of the best cooks we know - except for eggs, haha. A couple of sunny-side-up eggs shouldn't be so difficult.

Over all those decades, the only good breakfast eggs I've had were at the Hispaniola and Hotel Santo Domingo breakfast buffets. I've never had a decent soft-boiled egg or fried egg anywhere else - hotels, restaurants and private homes included.

Like the_gorgon said, they like to deep fry everything in DR. Don't know why either.

That's NOT to say that good "American style" breakfasts don't exist in hotels or restaurants or homes in DR

I just haven't found them.

I've NEVER eaten in any American restaurant in DR, not ever. But I'd definitely make an exception for Denny's once in awhile.
 
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AlterEgo said:
Feel free to disagree.

My comments are my experiences in DR over the past 37 years. NOT just one housekeeper. And the "poor person" in question is one of the best cooks we know - except for eggs, haha. A couple of sunny-side-up eggs shouldn't be so difficult.

Over all those decades, the only good breakfast eggs I've had were at the Hispaniola and Hotel Santo Domingo breakfast buffets. I've never had a decent soft-boiled egg or fried egg anywhere else - hotels, restaurants and private homes included.

Like the_gorgon said, they like to deep fry everything in DR. Don't know why either.

That's NOT to say that good "American style" breakfasts don't exist in hotels or restaurants or homes in DR

I just haven't found them.

I've NEVER eaten in any American restaurant in DR, not ever. But I'd definitely make an exception for Denny's once in awhile.
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37 years in the country and you've yet to eat in an American style restaurant? Now that's a feat if I ever heard one. You've never been curious as to whether these restaurants cook things like back home?

Believe it or not, my wife also makes one hell of a great eggs-benedict, probably has to do with her extensive travels to Europe.
 
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Aceleron said:
37 years in the country and you've yet to eat in an American style restaurant? Now that's a feat if I ever heard one. You've never been curious as to whether these restaurants cook things like back home?

Believe it or not, my wife also makes one hell of a great eggs-benedict, probably has to do with her extensive travels to Europe.
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What is this here, "a my wife is a better cook than your housekeeper thread?"
 
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I love it,

Denny's in the DR, great breakfast......


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Now if we could only get a Waffle House.....
 
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Good news.
If they can serve decent breakfast like I used to get in US, I am all in about bringing in more fast food joints.

And as for American Style Breakfast. Did anybody had a Americna Style Breakfast in Barcelo Purto Plata? When I saw the menus I couldn't resist so I ordered room service for American Style Breakfast. they served me Dominican Breakfast(all the stuff in Buffet) and added couple of Domincan fried eggs, four Dominican thin sausages with couple slices of untoasted bread. Made me and mrs laugh.
 
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I never thought I would see people excited about such crappola food as Dennys, Ihop and god forbid the worst of them all Waffle House. I know you guys want it to be "just like back home" so I hope it comes with the greasy looking cooks and waitresses who apparently have yet to realize toothbrushes were invented.

I'll take this any day of the week.
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suarezn said:
I never thought I would see people excited about such crappola food as Dennys, Ihop and god forbid the worst of them all Waffle House. I know you guys want it to be "just like back home" so I hope it comes with the greasy looking cooks and waitresses who apparently have yet to realize toothbrushes were invented.

I'll take this any day of the week.
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The problem with this, although good, is that it's saturated with grease. And the fact that I miss good old home style cooking every now and then.
 
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suarezn said:
I never thought I would see people excited about such crappola food as Dennys, Ihop and god forbid the worst of them all Waffle House. I know you guys want it to be "just like back home" so I hope it comes with the greasy looking cooks and waitresses who apparently have yet to realize toothbrushes were invented.

I'll take this any day of the week.
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Here ya go,

Enjoy!!!

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Doesn't it get a little boring....living in that perfect "politically correct world of yours"

Just curious......


And by the way, that picture you posted. I would be willing to bet that most homeless people around the Globe would look at you and laugh if you tried to feed them that CRAP.....
 
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Aceleron said:
The problem with this, although good, is that it's saturated with grease. And the fact that I miss good old home style cooking every now and then.
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Oh and the meals from those restaurants are not? Seriously?

I can understand the part about missing what you grew up with though...I myself miss me some good old fried Salami with Yuca every now and then.

Derfish: Maybe you just don't know how to ask for over easy. Next time tell them to leave them "blanditos" or "con la yema blandita".

Rice: Fortunately my life is neither politically correct nor boring...remember I'm Dominican. One man's "crap" is another's favorite meal and viceversa.
 
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Mom CB brought 3 pounds of Jimmy Dean sausage. Pound one was breakfast this morning.

Mmmmm mmmmm mmmm
 
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rice&beans said:
I love it,

Denny's in the DR, great breakfast......


<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51418611@N05/7362943506/" title="ad_den2_t670 by bocachica64, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7245/7362943506_9a1e0a067f.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="ad_den2_t670"></a>


Now if we could only get a Waffle House.....
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hhahahah now if we can only get them to charge the same as the US!!
 
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CHEF makes an breakfast sausage that is as close as you will get to the American type on this island, I buy them when they are in stock but they sell out quick.
 
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I?ve come to the conclusion that the egg shells of Dominican are thinner and less strong than those of many other places that why they are so difficult to open without touching the yellow yolk.

What we really need is a decent Fish & Chip shop, preferably in Las Terrenas.
 
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