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[andyfox]

Great post. Except for the spelling.

Sorry to give you such greif.

[Acesover8s]

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Foo foo joints? Look, I just love paying $8.50 for a sandwich and $3 for an 8-ounce soda in a plastic cup at "Snacks" in the Bellagio! Nothing wrong with handing the girl a $20 and getting $6 back.


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$8.50? You cheapskate. . . I just paid 19.50$ for a corned beef and turkey sandwich at the Mirage. . .

[Phat Mack]

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Look, I just love paying $8.50 for a sandwich and $3 for an 8-ounce soda in a plastic cup at "Snacks" in the Bellagio! Nothing wrong with handing the girl a $20 and getting $6 back.

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LOL. Note that "Snacks" has a menu posted outside its door, a menu without any prices on it!

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(I actually stayed at the Gold Coast this last trip and, I, well...........I, actually bought two hot dogs in the sports book for 75-cents each I'm so ashamed)

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I've walked through the sports book at the Gold Coast a hundred times, but have never seen any hot dogs--where do they hide them. I am a big fan of the Gold Coast Graveyard Special: 2 eggs, 3 links of sausage, hash browns and toast = $1.85. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Avail after 11PM.

[Phat Mack]

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Foo foo joints? Look, I just love paying $8.50 for a sandwich and $3 for an 8-ounce soda in a plastic cup at "Snacks" in the Bellagio! Nothing wrong with handing the girl a $20 and getting $6 back.


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$8.50? You cheapskate. . . I just paid 19.50$ for a corned beef and turkey sandwich at the Mirage. . .

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At least you got the sandwich. I sat at a table in Carnagie's (sp) for twenty minutes waiting to order, then gave up and left. This is just part of the story but no exageration; I timed it with the stopwatch on my cell phone. I tried the take-out side a few days later (with a bad attitude) and left when they wouldn't let me order half of one.

[Phat Mack]

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Where was the awful place downtown with the rancid miniature hamburgers? Was it the California?

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Heh, I know the one you mean but can't remember the name. I think it had "Golden" in the name, as in "Golden Californian" or "Golden Corral." I was also telling my wife about the downtown poker room that had spitoons at each table, but couldn't remember that name either.

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Golden Gate?

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I think the Golden Gate is still in business. The place I'm thinking of has been defunct for several years. Might have been it, though.

[Phat Mack]

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Great post. Except for the spelling.

Sorry to give you such greif.

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Always willing to try something new spelling-wise...I'm not known for my conservative beleifs.

[KJS]

Most notable absence of that type of eatery is the Mirage Snack Bar, IMO. Used to be you could get a killer chicken sammie and miss one round of blinds. Now you have to order a gross sammie the size of your head at the fancy deli they put in and you miss way more than one round.

Downgrade.

KJS

[Zeno]

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....Poker rooms have staged a comeback, but another institution has not: the the casino cafe/lunch counter/snack bar.

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I agree. The old Binion's had a sloppy deli near the poker room for years that served wonderfully rancid and unappetizing food. A few of the downtown casinos still have these gut bars for the steel stomached. Why not start a business by wheeling about a hotdog/sandwich cart through all the casino poker rooms? Probably make more doing that than by playing poker. And let that remark be a lesson to us all.

You are still alive. I assume this is good news to you?

-Zeno

[beerbandit]

good call -


i would have prefered that sandwich at 4am from a little deli in the mirage. instead i opted to walk down to the noodle bar, selected what sounded the best and was told it was closed. so from there i went in and sat in that crapibe cafe, ordered a breakfast to go --- paid 13 bucks for it and get it back to the room and it didnt come with a fork. wtf, i was pissed -- those eggs over easy were some good eatin using my hands.


cheers

[beerbandit]

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I just paid 19.50$ for a corned beef and turkey sandwich at the Mirage. . .

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was that huge sandwich i saw on the mirage channel --- i was thinking about strolling there and picking one up, but my laziness took over --- im not sure if i would have wanted one for 20 bucks either



cheers