Uniquely Tulsa - Giving Thanks

[TulsaDavid]

It's Friday. We were going to have turkey yesterday, but for some reason we simply could not find that turkey.  [8D]

[snopes]

quote:Originally posted by jdb

Am thankfull for:

The New Hong Kong on 11th
(also all the happier ho's on 11th)

A completely deserted DT on Thanksgiving Day so I can slowly putt around with my cat on the gas tank. (he gets nerveous in even lite traffic)

The perfect weather day for napping on the roof after stuffing my face.

And that a certain dickbump, with a grudge against Petty's, no longer lives in Tulsa.

Yeah, jdb

Priceless...

[Porky]

Mayor Kathy! []

[papaspot]

quote:Originally posted by Cubs

I would like to make a subtraction:
-"A kick donkey Mayor"

quote:Originally posted by tulitlikeitis


Pettys is a joke.

Go to Central Market in Dallas or Houston ... or Whole Foods in Houston or Austin ... or Trader Joes in Phoenix or LA and you will see what a joke it is.

Leave it to the village trolls to try to hijack what started out to be a nice thread. What a coupla losers you two are.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by Cubs

I would like to make a subtraction:
-"A kick donkey Mayor"

Hey, we could have Richard "I'll tear up the airport because I can" Daly...

[patric]

quote:Originally posted by PonderInc

The owl I sometimes see in Maple Ridge

Wonder if it's the same owl(s) that come through our neighborhood southeast of Monte Casino.
You can usually hear them, but I rarely see them except in sihlouette at night when they fly over.  They come to hunt mice and rats, but when the neighbors have light shining up in the trees they cant and move on.[V]  Quite a wingspan on these guys when they come to look you over.

Adding to the list:

Cains Ballroom
The Old Lady on Brady
Those who help direct holliday traffic
The zoo next to the international airport
The yellow 900' Jesus X-ing road caution signs that someone put up on Lewis near ORU a while back.

[papaspot]

quote:Originally posted by patric

Cains Ballroom

Now THAT takes me back! [^]

[tulitlikeitis]

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

Originally posted by tulitlikeitis

Originally posted by pmcalk




You kinda missed the point, didn\'t you?  Are you really that dense, or do you just like plugging Texas, whether its on topic or not?  I was talking about locally owned grocery stores.  You listed chains.  If you are into whatever is the latest trendy mass marketed chain, Texas definitely is the place for you.

Local, schmocal ... I did not miss the point at all. What we are talking about here is great food not whether it is locally owned. Pettys only seems OK because the rest of the Tulsa food scene is so bad by comparison.

Ask someone who has lived in Dallas, Houston, Austin, Scottsdale or LA what they think of Trader Joes and Central Market vs Pettys. It is like comparing something to nothing.

Usual situation ... defending a second rate product in Tulsa just because it is local. This one will not wash.

[tulitlikeitis]

quote:Originally posted by patric

quote:Originally posted by PonderInc

The owl I sometimes see in Maple Ridge

The zoo next to the international airport

International airport ... international flights to where?

[pmcalk]

quote:Originally posted by tulitlikeitis

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk

Originally posted by tulitlikeitis

Originally posted by pmcalk




You kinda missed the point, didn\'t you?  Are you really that dense, or do you just like plugging Texas, whether its on topic or not?  I was talking about locally owned grocery stores.  You listed chains.  If you are into whatever is the latest trendy mass marketed chain, Texas definitely is the place for you.

Local, schmocal ... I did not miss the point at all. What we are talking about here is great food not whether it is locally owned. Pettys only seems OK because the rest of the Tulsa food scene is so bad by comparison.

Ask someone who has lived in Dallas, Houston, Austin, Scottsdale or LA what they think of Trader Joes and Central Market vs Pettys. It is like comparing something to nothing.

Usual situation ... defending a second rate product in Tulsa just because it is local. This one will not wash.

Hmmm, guess the whole "buy local, buy fresh" campaign has passed you over, Davas.  Some of us like to look at the big picture.  Do Super-Walmarts impress you as well?

I have lived in Dallas, as well as New York, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and Tulsa.  Dallas, by far, was the absolute worst city I have ever spent any time in.  Big box chain stores are about the best thing it's got going for it.

I have done quite a bit of cooking in my time, and have spent much time in grocery stores.  Balducci's is much better than Whole Foods, but neither beat the wonderful small stores you find in Greenwich Village--local fishmongers, bakers, cheese merchants, etc....  Still, in all my years of cooking in Tulsa, I have never been unable to find an ingredient, save fresh truffles, which I don't really like anyway.

[DM]

My house. I am thankful that it is here and not anywhere in Texas. []

[USRufnex]

quote:Originally posted by tulitlikeitis



International airport ... international flights to where?

...mustn't feed the trolls... mustn't feed the trolls... but the cheese looks so good... and I like cheese! []

"There's been a little problem in the cockpit, and I was . . ."
"The cockpit--what is it?"
"It's the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now."

Yeah, I always wondered why we still call it Tulsa International Airport... and wonder why OKC is home of the Will Rogers World Airport?... and while we're at it, why do we call it the World Series?  

And I love Trader Joe's... shopped at stores in Brookline, MA and Chicago.  But TJ's is a discount chain... owned by... drumroll please...

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_17/b3880010.htm

quote:Aldi now shows signs of stepping up the pace of its expansion on Wal-Mart's turf. Aldi opened its first U.S. store in Iowa in 1976 and has sales of $4.8 billion in North America, according to M+M. And Trader Joe's Co., a specialty grocer owned by a family trust that Aldi co-founder Theo Albrecht created for his sons, has become the hottest thing in U.S. retailing by extending the Aldi concept to upscale products like wine and cashew butter.

I think Trader Joe's could do very, very well in Tulsa... disappointed there are such massive aisles for 3.2 beer at Reasor's yet bottles of wine must be purchased at a liquor store.  Also shopped alot at Aldi's... Aldi and Trader Joe's are very similar... very few name brands and TJ's is great for those of us who sometimes need to satisfy champaigne tastes on a beer budget...  

Petty's goes back decades... nice to hear it's still in business.  Also, good to see Reasor's.  Funny that back when I was a kid, Reasor's was perceived as country-bumpkin and rural while McCartney's was the upscale supermarket.  Come to think of it, upscale supermarket probably qualifies as an oxymoron these days.  The two big local grocers in Chicago, Jewel and Dominic's haven't been locally owned in years (bought out by Albertson's and Safeway, respectively).

[USRufnex]

Just moved to Tulsa end of October.
Thankful for...

1. Affordable housing...

2. Having this new thing in my kitchen... it has plenty of room to store dishes and then there's even a place to put in soap... and when you close the door really tight, there's this knob you can turn and it starts washing your dishes..................................................................... fascinating.

3. The minor leak in the shower and problem with the toilet running for 5 mins after every flush was fixed. I got a handwritten note from the guy doing maintenance personally apologizing that he'd been so busy and for how long it took him to fix the problem-- he listed exactly what he did and what parts had been replaced. Completely contrasted my multiple calls to my apt. landlord 2 years ago in Illinois begging him to have somebody fix my radiator-heat in the middle of winter forcing me to buy space heaters to compensate... no apologies, and when the landlord (after over a week) came into my apt. and said "wow, it really IS cold in here" I wanted to friggin' deck him...

4. Had an electrical problem that was draining my car battery. My twenty-something neighbor not only tried to help me jumpstart the car, but after the battery wouldn't charge, he called family/friends to tell them the year/make/model of my car to get advise on what the problem was... even offered to drive me to get a battery if that would fix the problem....

So, in the immortal words of The Who, "The (Tulsa) kids are alright."

[papaspot]

I've lived in a lotta different places in my travels in the military and otherwise and I can say that Tulsa is a nice place to live. Anyone who can't find good food in Tulsa is either too stupid to find it or has never lived here. There's a lot of tradition here and the people are good people. You won't find that local snobbery toward newcomers that you sometimes find elsewhere. (I've never seen a bumper sticker that says "Native Oklahoman" and, as far as I can tell, even "yankees" are welcome to move here.) But the bottom line is that anywhere you live is no more and no less than what you make it.

[PonderInc]

I'm thankful for all the folks on this forum who took the time to make their own positive contributions to this thread.  

I feel sort of sorry for the curmudgeons, who only know how to bite and stab...but that's their problem, not mine.  (Note to the grumpy folks: When I started this thread, I was feeling sort of down and cranky.  After thinking about things that make me happy and appreciative, my mood changed completely.  Funny how that works.)

Cheers to all!  And thanks!