defend the indefensible: SBARRO

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Seriously, people, CUT INTO SQUARES. SQUARES!

Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

mmm barnaby's

gear (gear), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

anyway you should make the drive to giordano's or something! no need to settle on sbarro.

gear (gear), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Giordano's is always burnt, and is still Chicago-style.

Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like you're talking about Rocky Roccocco's to me.

Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

(or is that just a midwest joint?)

Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

wtf giordano's is great!

gear (gear), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i hate giordano's.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

I just ate at Bravo! Lord how I wish it was Sbarro.

the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sbarro is only marginally worse than your typical Ray's/Original Ray's

a regal trolley (aaron a), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

actually i have ok memories of sbarro. it reminds me of the early '90s and failed attempts at meeting mallrat girls.

gear (gear), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

The Sbarro's in Garden State Plaza (an "upscale" mall) is really funny - they try to match the clientele by having shelves of fancy-looking bottles of mineral water and olive oil (none of which makes it into the food)

A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

MORE REVIVING PLZ!

sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Saturday, 21 October 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

you can't get diarrhoea from things you just ate so your shit can't be sbarro's fault

NOT TRUE

jergins (jergins), Saturday, 21 October 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

I once saw an employee at the WTC Sbarro pouring orange juice over chicken cutlets, apparently because he thought the juice would make them more tender.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

Also: those motherfuckers there NEVER ONCE could fill a dish without getting tomato sauce and runny cheese all over it, thereby ensuring that I'd always be holding a leaky bag next to my work shirts. (Though to be fair, yeah, it is kinda impossible to dish out Italian food quickly AND neatly.)

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

oj and chicken cutlets are as perfect as meatballs made with grape jelly. Don't knock til you try!

Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

I once saw an employee at the WTC Sbarro pouring orange juice over chicken cutlets, apparently because he thought the juice would make them more tender.

there's some truth to this -- all marinades are acidic, and they make meat tender as well as add flavor. but there has to be more than just orange juice in the marinade. also it does have to sit for a few hours.

cocksure triumphalism at its most vacant (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

The OJ idea sounds like something I'd come up with in one of my weirder food-crave moments, but the cutlets, IIRC, were already soaked in tomato sauce and cheese, and the OJ was that nasty reconstituted stuff that comes from the fountains, so I imagined they'd probably taste both cloying and corrosively acidic.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

sbarro meets dr. strongo's neuvo cuisine thread?!?

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

My mom used to use orange juice in chicken marinades - but yeah, combined with tomato that sounds foul.

A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

there's some truth to this -- all marinades are acidic, and they make meat tender as well as add flavor. but there has to be more than just orange juice in the marinade. also it does have to sit for a few hours.

was he pouring it over the cutlets that were already cooked and sitting in the serving trays? that sounds like something a sbarro employee might do. i have used orange juice in fish marinade before - pretty good, but somehow i have the feeling that whatever this dude was doing probably didn't fall under the acceptable usages of orange juice in meat preparation. i'd think they get the cutlets pre-cooked and just reheat them or something since it is fast food and all.

sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

we should do a headcount as to how many NYC ILXors ate at the WTC sbarro's -- there's me, mike, o_nate, and laurel. who else?!?

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 October 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

i may have eaten there once, but i have no vivid memory of it. i know i ate at the times square location.

cocksure triumphalism at its most vacant (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

airport headcount next plz

jergins (jergins), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

shit goddamn

Welsh's OJ over stale fried cutlets?

SBLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHRRO

OK, fuck the garlic knots. I'm not going back ever.

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'll have the dark burgandy "pizza sauce" at Round Table instead.. which is saying a lot.

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

i'll see u at the airport soon enough and there will be no way to deny it

sbarro guy (jergins), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

$5 for the stale fried pasta bake in tomato water please?

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think the Westlake Center Mall Sbarro's is probably the worst food on the planet where money is exchanged.

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

Welsh's OJ over stale fried cutlets?

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Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

there was a certain heaviness in the teenage gut tho that made that place make sense

jergins (jergins), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's the big bright Italian colors over the heated objects that's supposed to the food. Sbarro has a good outer frame.

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

I met a friend in Brussels once, who took us out for a slap up feed. In a Sbarro under a train station. We drank beer from a vending machine.

DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

we should do a headcount as to how many NYC ILXors ate at the WTC sbarro's -- there's me, mike, o_nate, and laurel. who else?!?

i don't remember doing so, but it's possible - i spent a summer commuting through there. i ate sbarro LAST NIGHT tho. broccoli/spinach/tomato pizza, and it wasn't terrible.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

I remember eating in some place near the Northeast corner of the mall?

gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

never went to Menchanko-Tei

gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to avoid the much better cafeteria pizza at work just for health reasons, and this thread being alive is honestly helping me from eating pizza bigtime. Please keep it up! :D

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

i like how this is recently the late-night top of the board thread for me

jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

btw, chicken marinated in orange juice isn't all that out of the ordinary

gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, just imagine the suction sound of that Minute Maid orange juice concentrate leaving its frosty paper container, hittin' that ravine of soggy Swanson's flash thawed fried chicken cutlets in that pool of dilute tomato water.

*Sbarropr0n*

gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

btw, chicken marinated in orange juice isn't all that out of the ordinary

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/stckhlmcnd/tomrapp.jpg

cocksure triumphalism at its most vacant (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

NO SBARRO FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUU, DONUT BITCH!

Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

no vegemite at sbarros!

Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...
SPADGETTY

Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 January 2007 07:23 (nineteen years ago)

spagehtti

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 January 2007 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

happy anniversary, SBARRO thread. let's all dance around the nabkin dispender!!

Eisbaer, Saturday, 20 October 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/1742/300sbarroos8.jpg

abanana, Saturday, 20 October 2007 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

finally, a picture of t✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧!!!

Eisbaer, Saturday, 20 October 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

man i'd kill for a big greasy heartburn inducing shirt staining slice of sbarro right now.

chicago kevin, Saturday, 20 October 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)


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