Check out the (bad) reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/Telebrands-Orgr...

Roy Rogers used to make the best roast chicken.

Papaya King and Grey's Papaya in Manhattan. I do not know where else I can get papaya juice like they make it there. What's the secret?

Nathan's is the only place I know that still knows how to make great french fries, infinitely superior to the trash in all the other chains. But where is Nathans these days? Is it still a chain? The only place I can find them in on Long Island, NY, and even there they are much diminished. And Coney island too no doubt.

I remember the day Nathans opened up a new store on West 34th Street in Manhattan. That was back in the 70's when they were rapidly expanding. they gave away two free hot dogs to every customer. And their hot dogs are good too, and what i used to like best was their sauerkraut, and way back then I used to stop off at Nathans in Hicksville, NY after a day at Jones Beach, and they let you scoop out all the saurkraut you want on your frank, and I'm a sauerkraut lover. Nathans french fries with hot dogs piled high with sauerkraut - great gourmet food for me!

"I found some smoked salmon that's pretty good, and cheaper than TJ's too: Costco's Kirkland imported from Norway."

Not "pretty good", but very good...and I just noticed it's the same I tried in June 2010 as per Bagel Man's rec, but I didn't care for it then. Perhaps I just got a bad package that time.

Flagstaff only has Sams Club.

Years ago Outback was great. Now it sucks.

Costco's Kirkland smoked salmon imported from Norway. It comes as two attached 12 ounce packages = 24 oz. It is quite good.

Where is there a Costco in northern Arizona?

I found some smoked salmon that's pretty good, and cheaper than TJ's too: Costco's Kirkland imported from Norway.

"Best I've had since Zabar's in NYC."

I should have said Zabar's and Russ & Daughters in NY, NY - and also in Scotland itself when I was there ten years ago.

They have all the freeze dried fruit here near Seattle.

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Freeze dried strawberries?

All their other brands of smoked salmon are there all year long, and the smoked salmon stores in NYC, like Russ & Daughters and Zabars, sold it all year long.

I still miss freeze dried strawberries and the pineapple juice in the yellow bottle.

"Here is a secret (ok, not a real secret, but ..). Sometime it is easier to search CHOWHOUND posts using google than using the CHOWHOUND search function."
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Not just here but many places.

TJ Organic Cherry Tomatoes yea; TJ sugar plum tomatoes nea. Has anyone tried the expensive TJ "high lysine" tomatoes from Holland

Ask that question here:

http://knifeforums.com/forums/showfor...

They'll answer all your questions and tell you more about sharpening than you ever wanted to know. There are other forums for knife phreakes too.

I think that oven proof glass bowls are the same material as expensive boron silicate rods, and you can use the bottom of those for the same purpose. Mostly I just use a diamond sharpening stone and then lightly hone on a ceramic or fine diamond rod.

Pacific smoked salmon, something like that, it's OK sometimes, but not like that Scottish smoked salmon. That was the real thing, like the smoked salmon I had in Scotland, or the best in NYC. Maybe if enough people ask about it they might bring it back. Why should smoked salmon be seasonal? All of their inferior kinds aren't.

Scottish smoked salmon (the best). See this thread:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/710305

I found some very excellent smoked salmon at Trader Joe. It was marked Scottish Smoke Salmon. $19 a pound, something like that. Best I've had since Zabar's in NYC. Far better than any other kind I've tried at Trader Joe, or at Costco. So naturally they discontinued it. I was told it was only seasonal. That's part of Murphy's Law, you know. If they make something that you really love they will promptly discontinue it.

Thanks, BM!

Hi, Mister Bagle Man! I know you are the smoked salmon expert, so here is what I can't get anymore since I moved away from NYC: nova smoked salmon trimmings, the nice fatty pieces (better than the expensive slices!) with no salt.

Years ago, when i still lived in NYC I used to get it at Zabar's, but then they stopped selling it. I was told that Japanese sushi places were buying it all up. But then I was still able to get it at Russ & Daughters. That's the kind of smoked salmon with no salt taste at all, zero salt.

Well, today I was at the big Todai Japanese buffet in Westminster, CA, and next to the prepared sushi they had that good old smoked salmon trimmings and people were eating it up! So then, my question: Do you know where I can I buy that? There's probably some place here in SoCal where I am visiting - but maybe Todai and other Japanese restaurants buy it all up. Any place online that you might know about?

I stay away from the frozen/prepared foods at TJ's I think the real gems are the basic ingredients...
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I agree. Tried some TJ packaged Thai rice stuff. Ugh.

I remember that too - "Thinny Thin for you fatty fats"!

OK, Mister Bagleman, I joined Costco just so I could try their smoked salmon. I got their Kirkland Signature smoked salmon from Norway. It's pretty good for packaged and pre-sliced, and it's inexpensive. It's a little salty for me, but better than TJ's I think. Next time I'll try their Scottish style smoked salmon, and I think I saw something somewhere about their frozen smoked salmon being the best, so I'll look in their freezer section.

I just noticed there's a thread on Costco smoked salmon here:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/583703

Thank you, Mister Bagel Man.

Yes, they used to practically give the wings away. I remember the counterman at Zabar's once saying about the same thing you said - that his father liked them - or maybe that was you?

A&J's Fine Foods, here in Tucson, has fresh unpackaged smoked salmon, Nova and Scottish, ~ $32 a pound. It's good. When I was in Scotland I bought packaged salmon at the supermarket. It was very good and much cheaper than it is here.

I remember once scouting around Costco and being impressed with their smoked salmon. Maybe I will join.

You're the expert, Bagelman! By the way, how did you sharpen that knife? And why don't you eat salmon? Do you know something about it that we don't, or did you just get sick of it?

When i lived in NYC I used to get nova at Zabar's and at Russ & Daughters. I especially liked the nova trimmings which were much cheaper and very nice and fatty, just the way I like it. Zabar's eventually stopped selling the trimmings. I think that Japanese sushi places were buying it all up. But I was still able to get it at Russ, but that was years ago now. Can you recommend an online source for good cold smoked salmon, or maybe even the trimmings?

Trader Joe's smoked salmon can be quite decent and a good buy. I liked the kind that said Pacific on the package. It's not the real prime stuff though, like I used to get at Russ & Daughters and Zabar's in NY. There's one place here in Tucson that does bring in the prime stuff - not pre-packaged like at TJ's - nova and Scottish smoked salmon, A & J's Fine Foods, but it's a lot more expensive than TJ's. Lox is very salty; nova and Scottish smoked salmon is not salty.

Fried chicken, like from Church's or Popeyes or maybe even KFC.

Those darned orange sticks are too addictive, though. Is the Dark Sumatra an instant coffee?