Food thread/what are you eating?
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We took a trip to Oregon to visit family and a great burger spot is Yaks on the 5 (in Dunsmuir, CA - looks like they added one in Mt. Shasta City as well). If you get the chance, go. You won't be disappointed in the food (burgers were great and my wife was complaining about my garlic fries all afternoon 
); the staff were very friendly and engaging and also funny. It looks like a dump on the outside but is homey and inviting once you go in.
Yaks
); the staff were very friendly and engaging and also funny. It looks like a dump on the outside but is homey and inviting once you go in.Yaks
We took a trip to Oregon to visit family and a great burger spot is Yaks on the 5 (in Dunsmuir, CA - looks like they added one in Mt. Shasta City as well). If you get the chance, go. You won't be disappointed in the food (burgers were great and my wife was complaining about my garlic fries all afternoon ); the staff were very friendly and engaging and also funny. It looks like a dump on the outside but is homey and inviting once you go in.
Yaks
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); the staff were very friendly and engaging and also funny. It looks like a dump on the outside but is homey and inviting once you go in.Yaks
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I know that the original Aldi was founded somewhere "over there," and I don't know when or where the first Aldi store in the US was located, but I know that Aldi has been a thing in the States since at least the early 80s, and I've never lived on the west coast.
I remember it being a source of embarrassment if the other kids in school knew that your parents shopped at Aldi. I don't know whether that's still the case, and there weren't any Aldi stores in Hampton Roads when my son was growing up, so it wouldn't have mattered for him, either way. What I can say is that my opinion of Aldi changed dramatically when I reached the age where I became responsible for buying the groceries. I'll also say, and I don't know if this is my memory ****ing with me or not, but the quality of the food at Aldi has leveled up since the eighties.
I remember it being a source of embarrassment if the other kids in school knew that your parents shopped at Aldi. I don't know whether that's still the case, and there weren't any Aldi stores in Hampton Roads when my son was growing up, so it wouldn't have mattered for him, either way. What I can say is that my opinion of Aldi changed dramatically when I reached the age where I became responsible for buying the groceries. I'll also say, and I don't know if this is my memory ****ing with me or not, but the quality of the food at Aldi has leveled up since the eighties.
Um, I've lived on the west coast and have traveled fairly extensively and have seen, to my recollection, exactly one Aldi store. I think it was when my wife and I went to SoCal for a concert over Memorial Day weekend this year.
In looking at the store locations, they are concentrated in SoCal with nothing (at first glance) north of Fresno or so.
Which makes sense, as we actively avoid all things LA basin-ish as much as possible (traffic, smog, crush of people, it being LA and all, etc.), so it appears that they have been popping up down there since we stopped going to that area somewhat routinely about a decade ago (we used to go visit with my wife's family in Huntington Beach every year around Thanksgiving and take our son to Disneyland, back when he was young and it was much more affordable). Looks like the first one in CA opened in 2016.
In fact, there are also no stores in Oregon or Washington. So "west coast" is a bit of an overstatement, unless you think LA is the only thing between Mexico and Canada along Highway 1.
In looking at the store locations, they are concentrated in SoCal with nothing (at first glance) north of Fresno or so.
Which makes sense, as we actively avoid all things LA basin-ish as much as possible (traffic, smog, crush of people, it being LA and all, etc.), so it appears that they have been popping up down there since we stopped going to that area somewhat routinely about a decade ago (we used to go visit with my wife's family in Huntington Beach every year around Thanksgiving and take our son to Disneyland, back when he was young and it was much more affordable). Looks like the first one in CA opened in 2016.
In fact, there are also no stores in Oregon or Washington. So "west coast" is a bit of an overstatement, unless you think LA is the only thing between Mexico and Canada along Highway 1.