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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions

« on: Today at 11:29:29 AM »

also, ponaks was the very first establishment to put boulevard beer on tap.  it was and still is, their pale ale.

Pale ale isn't an IPA but yeah they were first

lol what does this even mean?

I have no idea how I read IPA anywhere in that post. Long weekend I guess.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions

« on: April 22, 2024, 11:09:17 AM »

Fox and pearl brunch is back and it's magnificent

Had this again yesterday and every body at the table loved it. They do annoying things there though. Someone wanted ketchup for their breakfast potatoes and they said they don't have ketchup. Like wtf have ketchup dorks. They serve fries.

Second we split their potted cheese which didn't come with enough bread, so got more and charged 5 bucks for a side of bread. I mean come on, that's a third of the dish price.

Still great place I'll recommend to everybody and will go back just dumb restaurant things imo

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions

« on: April 22, 2024, 10:49:14 AM »

A lot of you owe Ponaks an apology

I'll be happy to sit with these dissenters and walk them through proper ponaks ordering and change their lives.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions

« on: April 22, 2024, 10:35:58 AM »

also, ponaks was the very first establishment to put boulevard beer on tap.  it was and still is, their pale ale.

Pale ale isn't an IPA but yeah they were first

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions

« on: April 22, 2024, 09:59:37 AM »

Ponaks is what all the boomers remember going to the boulevard to have margs and tacos in the 70's and 80's and it was THE GOOD STUFF.

Manny's is kind of the same.

Yeah it has no resemblance to actual Mexican food but it has its place in tex mex genre. Their salsa is disgusting for example. I've got my rotation of 10 ala carte items I bounce between as I suck down marg pitchers

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions

« on: April 20, 2024, 11:33:38 AM »

I'm going to try Ponaks today for lunch 

One of my first times at Ponaks was a work lunch. I had just graduated. I had never and will never be more pak'd at work. If it was a real company like 5 of us would have been canned that day.

I'm there about every 10 days if someone is looking to kill me, that would be the place to start.

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Wacky's World / Re: Tayvis / Traylor / Swecle

« on: April 19, 2024, 10:44:51 AM »

Travis got a song in the new album I hear

Two songs! High school is def a Travis song too

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tipping

« on: April 19, 2024, 10:07:29 AM »

all you just hit the tip button!

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Wacky's World / Re: Tayvis / Traylor / Swecle

« on: April 19, 2024, 08:49:20 AM »

Travis got a song in the new album I hear

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: April 18, 2024, 01:40:22 PM »

I'm going to Portland, Maine and Boston over Memorial Day. Taking Amtrak between the two.

Do this in ME. https://www.luckycatch.com/

Buy a lobster from them and you walk it to it's death to a restaurant on the dock and eat it.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: vegas

« on: April 18, 2024, 09:16:07 AM »

I’m going next weekend for the 4th time since June.

all work, all fun? i scrapped March Maddness after the cats failed to make it into the dance. Going in a month for work, excited to see Fountainbleau finally open

All fun. I found a betting slip I put on the Chiefs from last June for $750 that I completely forgot about, so have fun money waiting for me when I get there. 

love the come back ticket cash

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: vegas

« on: April 18, 2024, 08:14:26 AM »

I’m going next weekend for the 4th time since June.

all work, all fun? i scrapped March Maddness after the cats failed to make it into the dance. Going in a month for work, excited to see Fountainbleau finally open

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: April 14, 2024, 10:41:48 AM »

I really want to make it to Rome but I think it will be too rushed. I'm leaning towards adding another day or two in Paris (very much enjoying the vibe here) and a stop or two in a smaller French or Spanish city.

I'd steer away from Avignon if looking for a french city. It would probably be fine for a day trip but we spent entirely too much time there and it wasn't anything that great. Nice was cool especially day trip over to Monte Carlo.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: April 12, 2024, 07:02:28 AM »

Train over to Portugal from Madrid.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions

« on: April 11, 2024, 11:17:41 AM »

Fox and pearl brunch is back and it's magnificent

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Post Your IRL Crimes ITT So The Feds Can Come Bust You

« on: April 10, 2024, 09:25:58 AM »

Red hand up, I still walk across the street!

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Total Solar Eclipse 2017

« on: April 08, 2024, 06:47:48 PM »

90% eclipse was like 5000% dumber than 100%.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Total Solar Eclipse 2017

« on: April 08, 2024, 01:47:32 PM »

I must be dead inside. I visited the Grand Canyon with my wife during our Fiesta Bowl trip of 2013, and I thought it was neat, but didn’t exactly have a spiritual moment. I’m in the path today and will be jacked up for my son, but not overly excited in all honesty. Should I look into prozac?

Oh man, you and I are similar. We have friends that love to road trip and go see all of this stuff. Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, etc. All I ever think about is being in a car for like 12 hours and pulling up to Mount Rushmore, getting out, looking at it for like 30 seconds, and then getting back in the car going "well that was pretty neat". Same with a giant hole in the ground. Not my jam.

rushmore actually impressed me more than I thought it would as I'm generally the exact same. Don't really get it. Of course I did rushmore in fall of 2020 so maybe I was just wanting some sort of stimulation/travel.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Total Solar Eclipse 2017

« on: April 08, 2024, 12:39:08 PM »

The skies have cleared up for me. Will be heading up to the deck to enjoy mimosas and tacos soon.

is this traditional eclipse fare I'm not aware of?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Current trends 101--- Help me Understand.

« on: April 08, 2024, 10:30:18 AM »

I wanted those planes to go all guns and pop the girl balloons.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Total Solar Eclipse 2017

« on: April 08, 2024, 10:25:37 AM »

Maybe they shouldn't tell us when/where it's happening next time, then it would be cool again.

Enjoy it getting dark though everyone who celebrates.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Total Solar Eclipse 2017

« on: April 08, 2024, 09:00:18 AM »

Am I weird that I couldn't care less? I saw it in 2017, fine neat, no desire to worry about "seeing" it today. 

Having this attitude makes me think you really didn’t “see” it. Because anyone who has actually witnessed totality would 100% want to see it again, especially twice the duration.

I had just landed at KCI and rushed downtown as I think that was the northern edge in KC. it was cool to see to go black and hear the crickets, etc. start up but can't image traveling somewhere in the middle of nowhere to 'experience' that again.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Total Solar Eclipse 2017

« on: April 08, 2024, 08:30:20 AM »

Am I weird that I couldn't care less? I saw it in 2017, fine neat, no desire to worry about "seeing" it today. 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: biscuits & gravy

« on: April 07, 2024, 04:53:03 PM »

Fox & Peal's B&G are legit

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions

« on: April 06, 2024, 09:14:43 AM »

anyone else lombardiing?

that looks amazing BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS