Morning Metro: Frost, Las Brasas and Thought Experiments
Decatur Metro | October 20, 2011- Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn movie filming in May-retta today [AJC]
- Frost Advisory? Seriously? [AJC]
- Las Brasas gets the AJC treatment [AJC]
- Saxby Chambliss: “So goes Atlanta, so goes this part of the country.” [Gwinnett Daily]
- The ONLY solution to reduce traffic congestion? Congestion Pricing. [Atlantic Cities]
- Six Famous Thought Experiments. Animated! [Brain Pickings]
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We love Las Brasas! Incredibly good chicken plus we like the sweet potato fries, pinto beans, rice, roasted corn, and chips with guacamole. We used to fight over the pico de gallo so now we order plenty of extra to share. And the flan is wonderful. I buy it for myself and don’t mention it to the rest of the family. The people running Las Brasas are wonderful. The only thing that could be improved would be if it were open on Sunday too! (But completely understand why a family business would be closed then.)
and they deliver! Just might be calling them tonight. Yum.
I keep forgetting that. Their materials say that they deliver if they have drivers available. Do you find that they usually do? I’m often on the carpool circuit anyway when I get the urge for Las Brasas and it’s easy to stop by their location by the tracks. But occasionally home delivery might really hit the spot!
I live on Adair St and often use their home delivery. They are fast and friendly. Wow, the pictures in the article by Gene Lee make we need some roasted chicken by Las Brasas right now.
I’ve heard great things about their chicken as well – but when I asked if it had added MSG they said YES. We try to avoid MSG (Chick-Fil-A is another sad case) so haven’t been to Las Brasas. MSG may be why their chicken tastes better than home-made.
If you have more current info about their MSG usage, please let me know.
“He puts a chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly!” (props to whomever can make the ID)
That would be Dad from “So I Married an Axe Murderer,” the only Mike Myers movie that has stood the test of time (and honestly the only one at this point that doesn’t make me want to gouge my eyes out). So many great throw-away lines and cameos in that flick. The Anthony Lapaglia/Allan Arkin relationship alone is worth the price of admission, not to mention Phil Hartman and Steven Wright.
Why do you avoid MSG? I know a lot of people do, but I just realized I don’t really know why.
A lot of people have an MSG sensitivity (I hesitate to call it an allergy) that can result in nausea, headaches, or just plain “feeling logy” when they consume it. My mom is one of them.
Oh. I’ve experienced that before. I thought it was caused by M,SG (martinis, such a glutton for).
I love that place and so do my kids. The sauce makes it so unique but we could not figure out the ingredients. Brought home a chicken last night and then stopped at the farmers market for fresh veggies and a tart. I felt french buying my ingredients in different locations. Decatur Rocks.
re congestion pricing
That could be: congestion pricing and transportation alternatives are current best practice for managing traffic congestion.
So goes Atlanta, so goes this part of the country? Huh? We are an island of Blue in an ocean of red and MARTA is the only public transportation system in the country that doesn’t get state support. In general, it’s Atlanta vs. the rest of Georgia because the rest of Georgia doesn’t value you us as an economic engine. While I would never vote for Mr. Chambliss, I do admire his Gang of Six attempts at cross-party mediation.
Yeah, Chambliss is someone I just loathed by default for years and years (largely for the despicable way in which Max Cleland was ousted), but then he actually said all this stuff as part of the Gang of Six that actually sounded considered, intelligent, and genuinely conciliatory (and this was when the Tea Party rhetoric was possibly at its height), and I was forced to take a step back and reappraise him. Obviously I’m not got gonna agree with the guy’s politics most of the time, but I at least respect him now and feel like he’ll actually listen to and consider opinions contrary to his own and possibly even try to find a middle ground. And that’s more than you can say about most politicians these days.
ditto.
If put in the driver’s seat of an impending head on collision, I’d tack towards collision avoidance too. It looked like the kind of wreck that people would still remember after 4 years.
My judgement focuses on what Saxby was saying before that, when he felt safe to mouth off, and on his debt-ceiling voting record.
“If put in the driver’s seat of an impending head on collision, I’d tack towards collision avoidance too.”
I would, too. But a buncha folks in DC didn’t. the few who showed signs of even thinking about it stood out.
Ditto.
Chambliss just admitted that Atlanta is important to Georgia? Tea Party primary time!
I just read the comment following the article. Weird, what I call the “rabid right” is attacking Saxby Chambliss, with passion, in their usual over-the-top way. Who would have ever thought that would happen.
I’m no fan of Chambliss, but would like to direct some special ire at Johnny Isakson, who today inserted a rider into an appropriations bill that keeps the Fannie/Freddie confirming mortgage loan limit at about $750,000. (Prior to the housing bubble bursting it was $417k, and back then Fannie and Freddie weren’t in receivership.) Left/right aside, this is the sort of abysmal judgment and upper-class welfare that has given Congress its well-deserved reputation for complete idiocy.
The potatoes with huancaina sauce is out of this world. Careful, it’s not gluten free – they grind up saltines to make it thick. But it is amazing.