Comments on: Turning Gross into Dip

By: Super Bowl Party Dip Recipes

Super Bowl Party Dip Recipes — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:37:52 +0000

[...] 3.Cole Slaw Dip Highlight: Take the leftover carrots and celery from your buffalo wings and turn them into a dip. [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:10:02 +0000

Ohh, geez, I think my comment sounds way too harsh! I didn’t mean it that way. Love you both!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:50:05 +0000

Gotta agree with Plethora, although he/she was a bit rude about it. And Maids, please relax, not everyone from Virginia is racist. I promise. Please, please, please stop stereotyping and insulting my home. It isn’t perfect, but if you focus on the food, it’s hard to not be excited about it. <3

By: Maids

Maids — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:11:44 +0000

@Plethora – I have at best luke warm feelings toward VA, and I’m a local gal. I do have to say the silver diner is not the best VA has to offer, but surely you recognize that from an urban planning stand point NoVa is a damned mess of strip malls and poorly planned roads. NoVa is indeed benefiting from a culinary renaissance due to growing immigrant communities, and yet the old Dixie guard is busily stigmatizing and isolating these communities, passing crazy anti-immigrant ordinances by referendum, because they’d rather keep VA bland, uninteresting, mediocre diner country.

@gansie – can’t believe you linked to David Brooks’ piece on Hanukkah!

By: dad gansie

dad gansie — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:57:47 +0000

interesting do keep an open mind about all dinner, drive-ins and dives oh that’s guy F show

and make sure you thank 80p for sharing

By: PlethoraOfPinatas

PlethoraOfPinatas — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:24:53 +0000

I’ve been reading your blog for a while and I must say I’m disappointed at the criticism of NoVA as “chain-filled”. It’s very typical of DC-elitists and transplants and is so unoriginal. NoVA inside the Beltway has some of the best ethnic and excellent non-chain American restaurants in the DC area. And yes, there are lots of chains, but I’ve never seen so many elitist/yuppie/hipsters line up to get all materialistic as when I visited the chain-filled DC-USA shopping center. Turns out all those hill staffers and bearded fixie riders like to buy their TP in bulk, just like us!

Silver Diner? You just happened to choose one of the worst over-priced chains in ALL of DC. Let’s see what you could have had if you had only expanded your hung-over mind:

Silver Diner Merrifield – right across the street from this joint is Four Sisters, one of the best Vietnamese restaurants in the whole metro area, just ask NPR, WaPo, and the City Paper. Craving greasy food? Grevey’s a few blocks south is a Fairfax institution and is cheaper with comparable food quality than Silver Diner.

Silver Diner Clarendon – within a few blocks you could have eaten at Liberty Tavern, Mexicali Blues, Hunan One, Eventide, etc. etc. etc. All are locally owned, all have amazing food, all are about as expensive as that overpriced diner you suffered through.

Silver Diner Tysons – well, you got me here, because this area is rife with chains. BUT! you’re less than 10 miles from DC, so suck it up and wait until you get back to your side of the river.

By: Jason Sandeman

Jason Sandeman — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:44:16 +0000

LOL. I love the idea of this dip. Coleslaw isn’t so bad, once you get away from the thousands of interpretations on it.