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Meanies: Your piece on Kristen2go's "vlog" was mean ["Almost MySpace," Hair Balls, by Richard Connelly, June 21]. What have y'all done to be so smug and cooler-than-thou? Ordered a Pabst Blue Ribbon? Whatever it is, I'm sure it's impressive. I mean, it would have to be, I guess, if your cover story is about the wonders of chicken-fried steak. You're sure to scoop your competitors with that one. Notwithstanding your editorial expertise, my suggestion is that you put in a couple of more ads for bars and prostitutes. I'm not sure if you have enough.

Scott Sweeney
Houston

CFS Time

Bob's comin': Finally, an article a portly, bespectacled comedian can sink his teeth into ["I Love CFS," by Robb Walsh, June 21]. As a man who has a special pair of pants to wear when going to eat CFS, I appreciate Walsh's article. Unfortunately, now I must spend the next few weeks driving around the state visiting all these restaurants and trying said CFS. I can't wait to put on another 30 pounds (of muscle). Tell all the establishments in the article that "Bob's comin', and hell's comin' with me!"

Bob Biggerstaff
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Houston

Holy crap! I had to run to the toilet and reach for the antacid just from reading the Press's eight-page spread on chicken-fried steak. Any meat that has to be pounded with a hammer, deep fried in grease, then smothered in white pasty gravy before being eaten should be banned by the Food and Drug Administration!

Steve Gibson
Houston

Don't be shy: Chicken-fried steak was my favorite food growing up, but I have shied away from fried foods lately. Your article has renewed my interest in this dish, and I'll be making the circuit of the restaurants you highlighted in Houston.

Bingiee Shiu
Houston

Delish: I just finished reading your delicious article about the best CFS in Texas. My husband and I are relocating to San Antonio in August, and after reading all about my favorite food, I'm more excited than ever.

Maggie Scarborough
Lakewood, CO

Gravy first? Your column is a treat, and the CFS topic is a winner. Thanks for presenting this.

When I was a kid in the '50s and '60s, some cafes in North Texas would serve the gravy on the plate and set the steak in the puddle of gravy. Ever heard of that?

John Roberts
Houston

Jax flash: You shouldn't forget about Jax Grill. There is one in the Bellaire triangle, and also on Shepherd. I have only been to the Bellaire location, but they are hand-breaded, very tender and large. The gravy is wonderful — it's homemade, not some powdered gravy mix. You guys should go over there and try one. I think you'd be pleasantly surprised.

P.S. I don't work for Jax, just in case you were thinking it.

Scott Floyd
Bellaire

What about Bob's

Running on empty: My significant other and I have read Robb Walsh's restaurant reviews for years. He has great diversity and depth of food knowledge, and his columns have been guides to good eating...until lately. It appears that orders from above may have caused Walsh to dull his knife.

Last Friday we dined at Bob's Steak & Chop House on Post Oak Boulevard after reading Walsh's review the previous week ["Separation of Church and Steak," June 14]. He correctly described a good and plentiful porterhouse. The chopped salad and carrot cake were equally enjoyable, as was the wine list. Other than that, the kitchen ran on empty.

We had a premonition of disappointment when the kosher-style pickles on the table turned out to be as tasteful as silicone or some other ersatz plastic. Having lived in New York, I know a bum kosher pickle at first bite. And the table bread was an overblown hamburger bun on the lam from Burger King.

The lobster bisque was almost as thin as consommé, with only a vague hint of the rumored crustacean. The side that came with the porterhouse was the predicted glazed carrot, but a candied version better suited to holiday fare. The "skillet fried potatoes" were aptly described as "plenty for the two of us" since their slimy texture and poor taste prevented us from finishing them.

Walsh's omissions indicate he is holding back in his reviews, to the detriment of his readers. If Walsh's subjects deserve a roasting, give it to us well done.

Dick Schey
Houston

Editor's note: Writing his reviews, Robb Walsh takes "orders" from no one.

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  1. Dear fellow citizens of the United States of America,

    There is a grave injustice in this great nation that I believe every tax payer needs to be notified of. For those who support our troops whether at home or abroad I am asking you to please bear with me as I tell you the story of our Sailor who left on March sixth of this year as one hopeful to serve His country as He gained his education. Due to the abuse He suffered while in the Recruit Training Command at the hands of his leadership he is now in a Psychiatric Hospital in Pensacola, Florida. He suffers now from depression, panic attacks and anxiety to say the least. Every time He is confronted by someone in uniform he shakes uncontrollably and many times is left unable to speak due to the deep seeded fears he lives with daily. I am not asking for a healer but rather someone who will step forward and demand that the rights he once wanted to fight for are given to him. The Navy continues to find reasons to which the paperwork they have promised will be completed is always never done. He has been in the psychiatric hospital for over a month and we are looking at more weeks of the same to follow. We have contacted our local State Senators, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and even the Vice President seeking someone who will help us in this fight to bring our Sailor home. We have been through the proper channels and only receive one rejection letter after another. Now we lay his life before you and ask that someone will please help us heal our child with the right medicine, therapy and love that He so desperately needs. His boot camp experience was unlike any other and the way this division was run was as Allen’s Navy Recruiter has stated, “was beyond cruel and inhuman.” They were cussed out daily, nicknamed by the other divisions as the F.E.D, f’d every day. As Religious Petty Officer he was singled out and threatened because of His religion, commitment to excellence and devotion to the God he followed. One Petty Officer even spoke the words during one of His yelling sessions, that he would, “show him that He was bigger than the God Allen served.” We sent to the World’s Greatest Navy a happy, well rounded, faithful Christian who had preached since he was fourteen years old and even baptized someone two weeks before he was shipped out. What we got back was a scared and abused shell of the person he used to be. After much deliberation he has stayed at a hospital costing over a thousand dollars a day for over a month and they are now going to transfer him to a longer care facility for the deliberation of this time. All we want is for our broken Sailor to come home that through therapy and God’s hand alone we may after great time have back a whole child. The horrors he has lived through are to great to mention and the abuse he suffered brings nothing but tears to our eyes and shame to his heart. Please isn’t there someone who will stand up and fight for His right to come home. Can’t the Commander and Chief pardon this Sailor as He pardoned Libby, this Sailor who did nothing more than signed up to serve His country and in the end has signed His death warrant to the life and person he used to be. Won’t you please send your prayers as you send your letters to your local representatives all the way up to the President himself, on behalf of seaman apprentice Allen Hall Webb Jr, stationed at Pensacola, Florida. Please help us fight for the rights of the one who has given up his rights that he may try and fight for yours. Your taxes should not be spent on things such as these when this Sailor wants nothing more than to try and find his way back home again. We are grateful for your help and your letters, together we can change the course of his life. He is of no use to the Navy and has been deemed unfit for active duty, he is not some one who only wants out of a military life but rather someone whose circumstances and now medications have decided this for him. With your help we can make a difference, with your support we can bring him home.

    The Allen Webb Family

    Comment by Brianna Webb — July 9, 2007 @ 02:39PM

  2. I'm from Oregon. Nuff said. Have lots of opinions about Texas. Won't vent right now. I have a question. When one from out of state hears from many that the parole board in Texas has "broad discretion" it raises alot of questions. Has your paper ever done an in-depth investigation on the parole board, or are you just as nervous about them as every attorney seems to be??? Yeah, I guess you could consider this a challenge. Thank you Houston Press for coming as close to my beloved Willamette Week as possible in Texas.

    Comment by Julie — July 11, 2007 @ 07:24AM

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