{"id":3275,"date":"2014-12-14T07:17:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2014-12-14T07:17:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T13:17:15","slug":"2014-best-bite-14-salted-caramel-pretzel-shake-steak-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/14\/2014-best-bite-14-salted-caramel-pretzel-shake-steak-n\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Best Bite #14: Salted caramel pretzel shake, Steak &#8216;n Shake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For the third year in a row, I&#8217;m using each day in December to celebrate the rest of the best bites (and sips) that I didn&#8217;t get to blog about in 2014, posted in chronological order. <a title=\"Best Bites\" href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/category\/best-bites-2\/\">Browse all of this year&#8217;s Best Bites<\/a>, or look back at year-end Best Bites from <a title=\"2012 Best Bites recap\" href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/2012\/12\/31\/recap-30-best-bites-of-2012\/\">2012<\/a> and <a title=2013 Best Bites recap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/recap-30-more-best-bites-of-2013\/\">2013<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3276\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/steaknshakesaltedcaramelpretzelshake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/steaknshakesaltedcaramelpretzelshake.jpg\" alt=\"Salted caramel pretzel shake, Steak &amp; Shake\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/steaknshakesaltedcaramelpretzelshake.jpg 554w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/steaknshakesaltedcaramelpretzelshake-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/steaknshakesaltedcaramelpretzelshake-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salted caramel pretzel milkshake with salted caramel syrup and sweet \u2018n salty caramel pretzel pieces<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Why it&#8217;s another 2014 Best Bite<\/strong>: Steak &#8216;n Shake is one of those places that I&#8217;ll always associate with fond memories from childhood and college alike. On this occasion, when a Indy-native friend and I needed to quell our nostalgic cravings, I went for a newer shake offering that tasted even better than I&#8217;d expected. Rich and salty caramel was swirled in with heaps of pretzel pieces for a treat that made me feel like both a grown-up and a kid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The details<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steaknshake.com\/\" title=\"Steak 'n Shake\">Steak &#8216;n Shake<\/a>, 2209 Oakton St., Evanston.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[googlemaps width=300 height=300]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third year in a row, I&#8217;m using each day in December to celebrate the rest of the best bites (and sips) that I didn&#8217;t get to blog about in 2014, posted in chronological order. Browse all of this year&#8217;s Best Bites, or look back at year-end Best Bites from 2012 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1564,1566,454,1565,1567,1562,1563,1561],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-bites-2","tag-best-millshakes","tag-club-2209","tag-evanston","tag-food-nostalgia","tag-pretzel","tag-salted-caramel","tag-salted-caramel-pretzel-shake","tag-steak-n-shake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}