{"id":786,"date":"2009-08-09T09:22:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2009-08-09T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T16:22:56","slug":"claim-jumper-frozen-chicken-fried-steak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Claim Jumper Frozen Chicken Fried Steak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isn’t it amazing how fast food has permeated our lives?\u00a0\u00a0 Not only do we grab a meal on the go in our car, but now we have scads of restaurant-branded food in the grocery stores.\u00a0 Were White Castle Burgers first?\u00a0\u00a0 Now we can get Taco Bell products, TGI Fridays, myriad pizzas, Marie Callender’s, and now, Claim Jumper<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 For those of you not familiar with Claim Jumper, it’s a casual dining concept that started in Southern California, 30+ years ago.\u00a0 and is now nearing 50 outlets in 8 states.<\/p>\n

I’ve had two previous encounters with Claim Jumper;\u00a0 I had a cup of coffee at one years ago.\u00a0\u00a0 And last year we purchased a piece of cake for take-out.\u00a0\u00a0 Their desserts are massive.\u00a0\u00a0 Two of us were never able to finish this single piece of cake over a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

I purchased the Chicken Fried Steak meal on impulse at my grocery early this morning, and it seemed like the perfect choice for a weekend bachelor breakfast.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It came with a small steak, mashed potatoes, a corn cobette, and gravy packed.\u00a0 16.25 ounces, 720 calories, half of those from fat.\u00a0 (Like I care!)<\/p>\n

It was more than OK, less than fantastic.\u00a0 Certainly an improvement over the first TV dinners I remember having decades ago which all tasted (to me) like the foil trays.<\/p>\n

The meat flavor was good in this offering, tho of course the breading wasn’t crisp like it would be in a restaurant.\u00a0\u00a0 Just think, somewhere there is a food scientist with 20 years of journals recording his attempt to have crispy coatings in frozen meals.\u00a0\u00a0 They must read something like ”\u00a0 Test 3,445 – damn.\u00a0 Test 3446 – damn.\u00a0\u00a0 Test 3447 – damn.”\u00a0\u00a0 Or something like that.<\/p>\n

The potatoes were pretty ok, tho not as good as the stand-alone frozen tub products available today, like Country Crock Garlic Mashed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The gravy was fine.\u00a0\u00a0 The corn was excellent (I’m a whore for corn on the cob).<\/p>\n

Picture below is the meal as it came out of the box, followed by a photo of it plated.\u00a0 My additions were 1) butter, 2) pepper, 3) the plastic cob sticker thing.<\/p>\n

I’d try other Claim Jumper meals based on this one.\u00a0 They have a pretty full line, descriptions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t it amazing how fast food has permeated our lives?\u00a0\u00a0 Not only do we grab a meal on the go in our car, but now we have scads of restaurant-branded food in the grocery stores.\u00a0 Were White Castle Burgers first?\u00a0\u00a0 Now we can get Taco Bell products, TGI Fridays, myriad pizzas, Marie Callender’s, and now,… Continue reading Claim Jumper Frozen Chicken Fried Steak<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[975,1022,1023],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}