More Arby's

On Monday, the 6th, I'm not sure what I had for lunch. I don't think anything, but maybe some chips. For dinner, I stopped in at the old Arby's and went with the #2 combo with 2 potato cakes. I didn't get a picture of it, but sheesh after all the Arby's I've had lately, you should know what it looks like at least as well as I do. As is usual (and the reason I keep going there so much) the sandwich was hot, juicy and filling and the potato cakes were the perfect compliment of flavor and crunchiness to the sandwich.

Cracker Barrel & Arby's

On the 27th of July, a Friday, I took the day off. I hit up Cracker Barrel for brunch:

I went with Grandpa's Country Fried Breakfast. I chose chicken fried chicken (big surprise), went with scrambled eggs, regular hash browns, biscuits and gravy and added a pancake (as I was still having a pancake craving).

The chicken was really good. It was cooked just right, still very juicy and hot. The eggs were nice and fully cooked, no runniness to them at all. The hashbrowns were just ok, they're never as good as Waffle House's. The pancake was good (for Cracker Barrel's, they're one of my least favorites). The gravy and biscuits were about as perfect as they can get.

For dinner, I had another Arby's craving, so I went with the usual #2 combo:

The potato cakes were good, and the roast beef was outstanding. Hot, juicy and flavorful, it was everything you'd want in a roast beef sandwich.

Beef, it's what's for food

On Wednesday, the cafeteria did us the great honor of providing country fried steak and mashed potatoes, so I did my part by eating it:

The potatoes were fairly weak, flavor wise, but had great texture, the steak was good, but the breading was a bit tough to get through. The gravy was its usually great self.

For dinner, I was having an honest to <deity> Arby's craving, not just a "Well, it's usually good and it's not too expensive and it's so CLOSE to home" settle for Arby's craving. After the good and filling lunch, but really wanting the food, I settled on a medium combo:

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The sandwich was everything I'd hoping it would be. The potato cakes were great. A meal that lived up to the craving is a wonderful (and rare) thing of beauty.

Friday Night Arby's

On Friday night, I went with Arby's for dinner, as it was easy to get on the way home.

I didn't eat lunch, so I went with the #2, but medium sized (3 potato cakes instead of 2) and the tasty cheese sticks. Everything was outstanding, and I assure it you tasted a lot better than it looks in that picture.

Meaty Monday

For lunch on Monday, I was fairly hungry. And the cafeteria was gracious enough to have a roasted pork loin and mashed potatoes with gravy. I went with that:

The pork loin was ok, still no where near as good as mine. The meat was fairly tender, but there was not that much flavor that managed to get into it. Near the edges, it had some, but just not in the interior. Their gravy helped with that though. The mashed potatoes were pretty horrible, and made me regret getting 2 servings of them. They had pretty much no flavor, almost as if they were instant and made with only the flakes and water, no milk, butter, or seasonings of any kind.

I had intended on cooking some chicken for dinner, but I stayed at work later than I had anticipated. So I hit up the old Arby's on the way home, and got my usual #2 combo:

The meal was good as usual. The potato cakes were good and the sandwich was really good, nice hot and juicy.

Fast Food

For lunch on Friday (no movie thanks to Paramount's boneheaded move in delaying G.I. Joe: Retaliation), I had a craving for a corn dog, so I picked one up from the cafeteria. As you may guess from the angle of pic, I forgot to grab the shot before digging in. The corn dog was good, the fries were pretty good, but they do have problems with salt sticking to them:

For dinner that night, I stopped in a the old Arby's. Unlike normal, I was fairly hungry (that corn dog up there was only missing about 2 bites, so not very big) so I went with the #3 combo (max sized roast beef sandwich) and potato cakes:

The sandwich was great, the meat was nice and hot and very juicy. The potato cakes were cooked well and not very greasy.

A light Saturday

On Saturday, I had my first full day off in a while. And by full day, I mean I did nothing, not even any "chores" or house keeping stuff. As such, I had some chips and Pancho's nacho cheese dip for lunch, and for dinner I hit up Arby's. As I hadn't had much to eat, I went with the usual #2 (medium roast beef sandwich and potato cakes) and added a small cheese sticks to the order:

The potato cakes were cooked well and drained well too, so they weren't very greasy. The cheese sticks were nice and gooey inside and crunchy on the outside. The beef was warm and very juicy.

Mother's Day

Well, it was a pretty laid back Mother's Day. Since I had taken her out on Friday, she spent most of the day with Dad down at Tunica playing on some free money and such. I spent the afternoon hanging with them. While waiting on them to get home, I treated myself to a chicken and ham sandwich, which I didn't get a pic of. Since they weren't going to do anything for dinner, and what I wanted would've taken me WAY to long to cook (didn't have any of the meat thawed out) I stopped at the old standby, Arby's. I went with a medium sandwich, some potato wedges and cheese sticks:

The sandwich was just ok, I think the meat was a tad dry, the potato cakes and cheese sticks were good and the tea was pretty great as usual.

Beef

Beef, it's what's for dinner. Or at least, mine. I stopped by Arby's on the way home, and after the last time, I knew better than to get the onion rings, so I went with my usual potato cakes.

The sandwich was good, much better than the pic gives makes it look. The potato cakes were pretty good too, and their sweet tea, as usual, was good also.

Lazy Sunday

I had intended on roasting or baking some chicken breasts, and then using some of them as a base for another round of chicken dumpling soup for tomorrow, and the other breasts for dinner tonight.

BUT

I forgot to stop by the store on the way home from church this morning afternoon. And since that left me with pretty much only the chicken and no fixings (save for some type of bread), I scrapped that idea.

So, I finally went and grabbed some Arby's for dinner. I hadn't tried their onion rings out, so I opted for those instead of the usual potato cakes, and went with the usual #2 (Medium roast beef sammich) option:

Doesn't look that appetizing, but that sammich was outstanding. The onion rings were ok. They don't use sweet onions like Sonic or The Dip or other places, so I really should've gone downstairs and gotten some ketchup to go with it, but, well look a the name of this post.