The Lounge on the Train

[Spider-Aziz]

When you watch Luck Cage then you move to a supposedly more grounded James Bond movie, and find that the show about a superhero is easily more realistic than a movie about characters with zero super powers, you feel that something is funny.

Man, the first 20 something minutes of Skyfall are ideal as a super villain origin.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Ever thought of dropping the smokes and energy drinks?

I already cut my smokes from $160 a month down to $60 a month. Energy drinks are a requirement for me to make money at my job so no way those can be cut. I've quit a lot of stuff in the last few years and I'll be damned if I give up smoking and energy drinks.

Join the military.

Is he qualified?

Been there and done that good sir, was a Boatswain's Mate in the Navy from 2004-2006. I make a lot more money in the sales world doing a lot less work.

I did just talk to my boss about a raise and possibly implementing a bonus structure once a year for accounts that have been brought in. He agreed with me and went to talk with the owner of the company about it right after our conversation. He said I've greatly exceeded everyone's expectations with building the sales team here so that's cool.

 

[Greens]

Energy drinks are a requirement for me to make money at my job so no way those can be cut. I've quit a lot of stuff in the last few years and I'll be damned if I give up smoking and energy drinks.

You can't do any work without energy drinks? Your decision, but make sure you have your doctor check your blood pressure every once in a while. lol

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

You can't do any work without energy drinks? Your decision, but make sure you have your doctor check your blood pressure every once in a while. lol

I'm not a morning person haha. My "breakfast" consist of a Monster and cigarettes. Then usually around this time of day after lunch, I'll start to feel tired so I pop a 5-hour energy and I'm good. If I could come into this job around noon or one and get off around 7 it would be perfect but that's not the case. I'm throwing all my extra money into saving up for a car so after all the stuff I mentioned and the basics like food and whatnot I should have about $200 to throw to the car fund.

 

[Erzengel]

Wife's a nurse and you just got to be careful about those energy drinks. I think 4 cups of coffee is equivalent to 2 energy drinks. Think that's the maximum one should do.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Wife's a nurse and you just got to be careful about those energy drinks. I think 4 cups of coffee is equivalent to 2 energy drinks. Think that's the maximum one should do.

You can actually OD on as little as 500 mg of caffeine which is not that much. I've been drinking tons of energy drinks for almost 2 decades now so my body is used to it. It's not uncommon for me to pop a 5-hour energy and then sip on a cup of tea or have a soda.

 

[Erzengel]

Well I think the maximum recommended is 400 mg.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Well I think the maximum recommended is 400 mg.

Just Googled it, Monster has 86 mg of caffeine per serving. I know a 5-hour energy only has like 25 mg so I'm well below that on most days. There have been several weekends where I would drink 5-6 Monsters a day though.

 

[Erzengel]

http://5hourenergy.com/how-much-caffeine/

Their website says 200 mg.

 

[Warhammer]

I already cut my smokes from $160 a month down to $60 a month. Energy drinks are a requirement for me to make money at my job so no way those can be cut. I've quit a lot of stuff in the last few years and I'll be damned if I give up smoking and energy drinks.

Been there and done that good sir, was a Boatswain's Mate in the Navy from 2004-2006. I make a lot more money in the sales world doing a lot less work.

I did just talk to my boss about a raise and possibly implementing a bonus structure once a year for accounts that have been brought in. He agreed with me and went to talk with the owner of the company about it right after our conversation. He said I've greatly exceeded everyone's expectations with building the sales team here so that's cool.

Oh, gotcha. And nice. Cut out the death sticks, my man. For the sake of your future medical bills and grandchildren. And you must work your way off the dependence on energy drinks. They weren't designed to drink on a consistent basis let alone 5 or 6 a day.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

You can actually OD on as little as 500 mg of caffeine which is not that much. I've been drinking tons of energy drinks for almost 2 decades now so my body is used to it. It's not uncommon for me to pop a 5-hour energy and then sip on a cup of tea or have a soda.

Can I imagine it gave you diarrhea in the first few weeks?

 

[Guts]

I bought a scorpion sucker today. My first experience eating an arachnid will be covered in sugar.

 

[Victarion]

I bought a scorpion sucker today. My first experience eating an arachnid will be covered in sugar.

Been meaning to ask, how do they test ya'll in culinary school?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I bought a scorpion sucker today. My first experience eating an arachnid will be covered in sugar.

Welcome to Hogwarts?

 

[Guts]

Been meaning to ask, how do they test ya'll in culinary school?

Students work in a restaurant at the school. Beginging students due prep work and make basic baked goods. In the next semester which is where I'm at students work the line in the restaurant and for the final I have to make a full menu including prices and I will record a 10 minute video in class making one of the dishes on the menu that I created. Every week the menu in the Restaurant changes.

1. Southern Italian
2. Premium Steakhouse
3. Cuisine of the Deep South
4. Midwest
5. Country French
6. Imperial Gastropub
7. Central European
8. Northern Italian
9. Contemporary French
10. Greek Cafe
11. Cuisine of the Pacific Northwest

This week we did Country French and the items on the menu are

Spoiler

• Coq au Vin: Red wine braised boneless chicken with cipollini and bacon, served over pommes puree
• Pork aux Moutarde: Sauteed medallions of pork tenderloin flambeed with brandy, served with pommes puree, sauteed spinach and poached pear
• Filet Mignon Madagascar: Grilled tenderloin served with pommes frites, aioli and sauce madagascar
• Ratatouile Gratin: Roasted eggplant, zucchini, squash and bell peppers tossed with tomatoes, thyme and served with pomme puree
• Whitefish Provencal: Pan roasted with plumped tomatoes, garlic & herb de Provence, served with rataouille
• Sole Veronique: Steamed sole roulades, served with roasted grapes, peas and a tarragon beurre blanc

 

[Erzengel]

I bought a scorpion sucker today. My first experience eating an arachnid will be covered in sugar.

You should know the allowable limits the FDA has on insect or insect parts in probably everything you eat. Long story short, it'd probably wouldn't be the first bug you ever ate.

 

[Guts]

My baking teacher from last semester said he hasn't eaten hot dogs in ten years because he visited a factory and saw a rat fall in the meat grinder.

 

[Guts]

Why do the British refer to sausages as bangers?

 

[Victarion]

Cool. Is the first semester a lot of memorizing the terminology?

 

[Guts]

The first semester is definitely more textbook work. Our teacher does like to tell us past stories of when students have ****ed up in the kitchen to make sure we don't do the same. He told us to yell behind when we are walking by someone who can't see us and to yell hot if we are holding something hot and he told us that one time a beginning student was holding a bain marie full of hot soup and did not say behind or hot and our teacher turned around and got some soup splashed on his arm. Also there was a day when he wasn't teaching so he came into the restaurant for a meal and heard a student scream. A customer ordered french onion soup to go and the usual procedure for french onion soup is to put it in a bowl, put in a crouton, cheese on top, and melt the cheese in the broiler. The student put the soup in a to go cup and did the usual thing with the crouton and cheese, the problem though is that the student still put the it in the broiler and the cup of soup caught on fire.

 

[Victarion]

Yikes at that french onion soup story.

 

[Guts]

He did tell us a story explaining to us why the ticket a line cook sees for a steak will print out burnt sacrifice whenever a customer orders a well done steak. Back in 2008 a restaurant he worked at got kobe beef and one of the customers who came into the restaurant was Amir Johnson and he ordered the kobe beef well done. Kobe beef is perfectly marbled and cooking it well done is going to take out a lot of the fat. So he got his well done kobe, complained that he was served a tiny piece of meat and demanded that they give him something else on the menu for free even though he ate the whole thing.

 

[Victarion]

How do you figure out price for your menu?

 

[Guts]

These are the formulas we are using.
Total Cost: As Purchased Weight * As Purchased Cost/LB
Net Weight: As Purchased Weight – Weight of the Waste
New Cost/LB: Total Cost ÷ Net Weight
Portions: Net Weight ÷ Weight of 1 Portion
Cost per Portion: Total Cost÷ Number of Portions
Menu Price: Portion Cost ÷ Desired Food Cost % (25%)

 

[Reek]

So for my victory party, tacit is catering...

I, of course, will be in charge of drugs and alcohol.