Egg rolls for sale on the drag? (Austin: salon, restaurant)

[centralaustinite]

Originally Posted by Austinite76

The carts were owned and run by the same restaurant. One of which would be staffed by their daughter from time to time... yeah. Memories.

i remember those carts too! So many cheap lunches! Egg rolls from the cart, black beans and rice at Quack's for less than $3, and grilled cheese at Les Amis! Those were the days.

The carts are long gone however.

[df175]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

I was not referring to a restaurant. The egg rolls I remember were sold out of carts on the sidewalk. Very low overhead.

Yes, they were VERY low overhead because they made all their money buying and reselling stolen property. The police raided the owner's home and it was packed to the gills with stolen electronics.
Property crime went way down in West Campus after the place was shut down.

It did reopen under a new owner but didn't last more than a few months.
This was around 1999-2000 maybe.

As shocking this was, the drug money laundering at all the arcades was more obscene.

[madrone2k]

Drifting a bit from the OP's topic, but I remember Les Amis from the early 70s ... but unfortunately I don't remember what I ate there. I do remember enjoying Hamburgers By Gourmet in the basement of what has been since then (for so many years) the Church of Scientology. I have "fond" memories (not really) of being harassed by their acolytes while walking to classes at UT from my apartment west of campus.

[madrone2k]

Thinking back some more: does anyone remember Night Hawk. I used to enjoy hamburgers at their location on Guadalupe just south of Dobie Center. There was also a Mr. Gatti's pizza place nearby, back when they were actually pretty good. Times have changed, I guess.

[m1a1mg]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

Unfortunately, probably a lot of MSG as well!

MSG isn't actually bad for you. Just got a bad rap from someone who made the whole allergy thing up. No science.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-l...e/faq-20058196

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by m1a1mg

MSG isn't actually bad for you. Just got a bad rap from someone who made the whole allergy thing up. No science.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-l...e/faq-20058196

I have at least two relatives who can tell you within 3 minutes if they ate something with MSG...their physical reactions are not made up.

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

I have at least two relatives who can tell you within 3 minutes if they ate something with MSG...their physical reactions are not made up.

People can react to MSG, obviously, but that in of itself does not make MSG the monster the advertisers would have you believe. If it doesn't affect you, it is really no different than a million other ingredients. It became the target du jour a while back. Go ask corn syrup about life in the spotlight .

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

People can react to MSG, obviously, but that in of itself does not make MSG the monster the advertisers would have you believe. If it doesn't affect you, it is really no different than a million other ingredients. It became the target du jour a while back. Go ask corn syrup about life in the spotlight .

Pretty sure all of us could do better without MSG and High Fructose Corn Syrup in our lives...you can have mine.

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

Pretty sure all of us could do better without MSG and High Fructose Corn Syrup in our lives...you can have mine.

HFCS is sugar. Concentrated, but sugar.

MSG occurs naturally in many foods - most notably tomatoes and cheese. Not as concentrated as the drag eggrolls, but same thing.

Nothing inherently bad about either, except the quantity we consume....

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

HFCS is sugar. Concentrated, but sugar.

MSG occurs naturally in many foods - most notably tomatoes and cheese. Not as concentrated as the drag eggrolls, but same thing.

Nothing inherently bad about either, except the quantity we consume....

Exactly. I had a young girl tell me once that she was allergic to MSG - AFTER she was eating her third serving of a dish I'd made that absolutely contained it. (I would not have let her eat it if I'd known beforehand.) I didn't tell her, she didn't know, and she had absolutely no symptoms whatsoever, though she certainly would have if she had known she'd consumed it. There was an MSG bandwagon that was part of the whole allergy bandwagon that was going strong back then (for some reason some people think it's "cool" to have the condition du jour, and others realize that they can manipulate everyone else if they claim to have it). My daughter went to a school where fully half the kids had "food allergies" that could not be diagnosed by actual allergy doctors but their parents just knew they had them and that the allergies were the cause of their misbehavior. Whenever her friends came to visit I would dutifully get a list of their allergies from their parents. I noticed, however, that whenever I would offer something not on the list, the kids would declare they were allergic. This continued until I said, in so many words, "In this house, you can not like something; just say so. You do not have to be allergic to it." The kids had been taught by their parents to claim allergy whenever they didn't want to eat/do something. It was pathetic.