funky fries fizzle
 

Mmmmm, vinegar and fries. First had it as a kid on the boardwalk in Rehobeth Beach Delaware. They used white vinegar. These days it's malt when I pop down to the pub for a pint and some fries.

Fightin' Words
 

Originally posted by coup_d'skek
Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

He can also be good as somewhat of an anti-here, as in Devil in a Blue Dress.

Nu Bra
 

If there is a store in DC , it must be brand spanking new. SUrely you arent speaking of that little men's only outpost in Friendship Heights/ Chevy Chase?

And no, I dont go to Pentagon City or wherever in VA the store would be. I dont do malls in the burbs. Period.

Take That, Penske!
 

About six percent of the posts are paigow, thank you. Not including my Just For FUn series. Seems like so much more doesnt it? Like maybe thirty percent?

Dining Hall?
 

Chipotle, that lame chain that is every five feet, has huge lines? Not the one in Woodley, or on CT in Dupont. That place sucks, and is a ripoff incomparison to Baja. How are their burritos 1200 calories when they are half the size of Bajas which are lower in calories (bc I still remember the calories that I think you posted, fuck you very much- I am on a need to know basis with that kinda thing, and that, I did not need to know)? THey dont ahve the great salsa or salsa bar; they call pico de gallo "mild salsa"(!) and dont have free chips. Their chichen isnt white meat. I hate everything about that place.

But I told you that DC was behind the curve. Burritos finally came here and became popular (and I dont mean that shit from Burrito Brothers with the white rice). I am so ahead of the curve. I predict Jamba Juices will finally start to pop up here. Eventually. And Noah's bagels. This place is like LA in the early nineties, almost.

Nu Bra
 

There's one in Friendship Heights. Is it men's only? Doesn't much matter to me if it is.

And Tyson's has one. If you can't go ten miles for a store, quitcher bitchin' It's not like going to Mexico.

Nu Bra
 

Right, bc going to Mexico would be pleasant. A mall in the burbs is full of middle americans with follow the trends, materialistic taste who shop exclusively at chain stores and buy brand names and drive gigantic SUVs and park in eight story parking complexes and live in McMansions and probably never did an interesting thing in their safe little lives. I dont want to be standing on a line in a huge building with recycled oxygen with them. My materialism is not so strong that this would be my idea of a good way of spending my precious free time.

One Halloween I drove out to Ballston(?) or someplace with threelane highways and every horrid mega chain store that stretched for miles, intersperced with the most depressing condos I have ever seen, to go to a Target. It freaked me out like I accidentally stumbled into some Pynchonian nightmare. Its like America got nuked and the only thing left were those cockrochian Home Depots and OfficeMaxes that probalby could withstand anything thrown at them. It was hell off a highway.

Clay v. Ruben
 

http://www.msnbc.com/news/928500.asp?0cv=CB20

It looks like Clay outsold Ruben by 100K singles in the first week. I may have to pick up the Rolling Stone with Clay's interview. I can put the cover picture up in my bedroom with all of the other ones from Tiger Beat.

Edited to add that I have Clay's single, but not Ruben's

Malls
 

Weren't you the one lamenting the absence of a Saks in DC?
The Hecht's in downtown DC is remarkably similar to the one in Tyson's. Except that the staff in DC is even more surly.

That's the karma you get for shopping at Targé.

I'm amazed you could survive LA. Or suburban Conn.

Clay v. Ruben
 

Yeah, but when the final figures come out, will it be by 100 singles or 10 meelyun?

Dining Hall?
 

The one I went by yesterday, next to the McDonalds? Yes. Although I've never seen long lines at the Woodley one.

The burritos seem bigger to me than Baja. Quantity not quality, of course. So I'm assuming that the calories are even greater than baja's. Like Cosi, they don't make calorie figures available on their website. So maybe the lawsuit against them for making people fat will go somewhere.

The fact that they charge for chips is outrageous. They're not fries, folks.

funky fries fizzle
 

mmm salt and vinegar chips. They just started carrying Charles Chips down here and I bought a bag of salt and vinegar to savor. Can you believe that they don't even offer you vinegar for your fries down here south of the Mason-Dixon Line??? It's a fucking travesty to eat fries without vinegar.

funky fries fizzle
 

ahem, you forgot Coffee Crisp, the ONLY candy bar that touches these lips. I normally don't eat candy but when I get back around the old hometown I go over to duty-free and buy bags of Coffee Crisp (or better yet get a case at that cute little candy store up in NF).

Malls
 

Suburban CT is nothing like Ballston or whatever the name of that slice of hell is. It may not have been Ballston- but you must know the area I am speaking of.

LA was all about Santa Monica, Venice, WeHo, BH and Malibu and points south. Despite what you may read, if you avoid the Valley, West LA and Century City,. you can avoid that whole mall/strip mall thing.

Dining Hall?
 

A chipotle burrito is half the length but probably a little bigger in girth. The girth doesnt make up for the difference in length. I can barely finish a Baja burrito and am food comaed when I do. I can easily finish a Chipotle burrito and have room for dessert. Trust me on the size thing- I am an expert on burritos (not the Lorenzo Lamas burrito as euphemism but burrito=burritos).

WHat is with you and checking websites for calories? Are you motherjumpin huge? For some reason, hearing a guy count calories really turns me off. Though its totally annoying in a chick as well, when a guy does it, its sort of the equivalent of him highlighting his hair.