Austin Club Salad: Smoked chicken, bacon, avocado. Carrot shreds, hard boiled eggs, cucumber, cheese, tomato, peppers and red onions.
The salad saga continues… I’m always looking for low-cal alternatives for lunch. Hot Tip: Try front loading your meals with more calories in the daytime and less at night- probably more realistic way (with cardio & no donuts) to lose weight while you are pumping away at the office.
Austin Club Salad is pretty good. Hearty and healthy, bacon and smoked chicken make for a nice combination especially with avocado. I always get the Thundersauce- vinegar & oil with paprika (or cayenne- not sure but it’s got some kick), extra pickle wedges and a few jalapenos or banana peppers. They actually charge extra for each individual pepper which I think is extremely silly. After a bag of chips and tax you’re lookin at $8 or $9. I was feeling obligated to tip- especially for the things I’m about to say.
I’ve been frequenting Thundercloud for a few years now. It has cool atmosphere, weird stuff on the walls, and, of course, the staff is a hoot- their music always kicks me into an acid flashback panic attack- usually there’s a Grateful Dead roadie making my sub.
The ingredients are decent – BUT really hit & miss. One time around the Holidays, I think I got some tainted lettuce and literally was so sick that I browned my bed mattress…I’d like to thank ATX Furniture for the replacement. If you need a good mattress go see Borelli.
At Thundercloud you are often victim of the person making your sub. If too stoned or too angry, they will screw up just like Subway or any other “hands-on” pube-dispensing lunch facility. You must be very descriptive and monitor their every move. When you walk up and you say, “SALAD”, and they go for the bread, you are already in trouble- Terry Schiavo could toss a better looking salad than what you are about to get.
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The Bacon is real, thick, smoky and fresh. The avocado is very good and consistent. The salad is typical iceberg shreds. The red onions are great for bad breath and no taste- virtually useless in my opinion.
They do take the time to give you ½ of a hard boiled egg- I kind of like this, but then again this could also be the reason I got sick & my body went into toxic shock a few years ago.
Again, I’m not pointing my finger at Thundercloud…but…Let me revisit this really quick…You see on that fine day, Casey Jones was BLASTING- the dude making my sub was sweating and he wiped of his cutting knife on his bib (had a Jiffy Lube logo on it) almost like he was wiping blood off his sword in battle…
Employee of The Month: December
It just did NOT look sanitary. Not to mention his cigarette-crusted fingernails and bong resin on his forefinger made me think that the food inspector was literally “out to lunch”. So, I GOT SICK, and NO, I don’t think it was the 6,000 beers I drank that night…IT HAD TO BE THEIR FAULT!
Anyway, Thundercloud has been making Austin happy for years. For all of us, whether we’re eating at Buffet Palace and we see some kid launch snot all over the serving spoons or we see a meth head sweat onto our tomatoes, it’s just the chances we take when served food by our fellow human beings.
Side note:
The Nada Chicken Salad (made with Panda meat) is also good, get those on the salad. The “nada” is weird- they microwave these Good Year tire patties…It’s fun to see them burn their fingers while trying to cut them. Makes me want to say “so how much do you make an hour again?”…That’s high risk pay in some jobs!
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