New Wendy's Natural Fries

They look good, they taste good, but are they as "natural" as they claim?   A blogger has poked a hole in Wendy's claims of the fries being "natural". A report shows the fries use a stew of exotic laboratory chemicals to improve the fries' appearance, flavor, and ease of cooking.

The fries do away with the steam skinning -- ironically, one of the most "natural" parts of the average fast food company's fry manufacturing process.  

Chopped, the fries begin their chemical journey with a dip in sodium acid pyrophosphate.  They're also powdered with slightly more natural D-glucose (crystallized from corn).  Together the two components prevent the fries from browning during their first fry at the factory and their second fry at the restaurant.

What do you think?

Blanc Burgers and Bottles

On our way home from Chad's funeral, I decided to stop at McFosters for Carissa.  We drove right by Blanc, and remembered they had a vega burger, so I got lucky and was able to eat here.  The burger of the day, Brunch Burger which is a beef patty, crusted in coffee, yes, coffee, along with bacon and a fried egg on top.  This is probably the best burger I have had in Omaha.  I consider myself a burger connoisseur, so when you ask me about burgers, I know.  It was perfectly cooked medium and sprinkled with some green onions on the egg.  ($10)  My wife ordered the vegan burger, which is a lentil burger, had arugula and she opted out of the yogurt sauce since she is vegan and not a vegetarian.  We then ordered the onion rings ($5).  Pretty spendy since I think we only got 5 rings.  They had lots of different bottles of soda, as well as beers and beer on tap.  We didn't try any of the different bottles, but did have a good eating experience even though we both wanted more onion rings.  We will definitely be back, maybe with a bit more money to try the truffle fries, and a couple of different bottles.
Check them out.  More than I want to spend on a burger, but after the first bite, you don't mind.

Blanc Burgers+Bottles
3157 Farnam St.
Omaha, NE 68131
402.502.3686
http://www.blancburgers.com

Coffee crusted with fried egg

Perfectly cooked, medium with bacon, fried egg and green onions.

Onion Rings

Carlos O'Kelly-Maple

This place sucked. I go out to eat for the experience. The waitress got my wife's order wrong, didn't even put the correct thing into the kitchen. My wife ordered a Navaho flat bread with beans, tomatoes, lettuce, instead got a taco salad (a salad shell) with beans and lettuce. I wanted a different dessert than what came with my meal-deal, and was told, "I can't". Didn't even try to ask if I could sub something, even when I said I would pay the difference. Waitress never came by to see how things were, and when we asked for hot sauce, took her a good 5 mins, just to bring it out.

Avoid this place... Plenty other "mexican" food out there.

Not going to even post the info.

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