A sad, constant bid for attention - Page 262

ltl/fb · 10-12-2006, 01:48 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
It's basically an Egg McMuffin (or sausage etc McMuffin) but instead of being on an English Muffin, it is wrapped between two pancake-like things that are somehow infused with maple syrup. It's a sweet/salty combo that doesn't sound that appetizing to me.

Lo, many years ago, when I used to commute on public transportation in a large northern city, when I was switching between the bus and the underground I would frequently stop at a McDonald's and get a sausage biscuit. They always gave me grape jelly to go with it. I never understood this. I think it is the same sweet/salty thing that the McGriddle is going for, so it must be something people like.

notcasesensitive · 10-12-2006, 01:49 PM

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Originally posted by nononono
And country ham/biscuits are good anytime.

I personally can't stand any of those egg sandwich things. Once in my life in Gunnison, CO I had a really, really good bagel/egg/cheese/bacon sandwich from a local place, but that is the only one ever that was remotely yummy.

I have a soft spot for the ham and cheese croissanwich, no egg, coupled with BK's hash browns (and usually OJ). It is one of the four or so fast food items that I will willingly eat. In fact, I happily eat it every time I have a morning flight out of the LAX terminal that has a BK. I sort of look forward to it, even.

Other fast food that I will eat: Taco Bell Mexican Pizza (no meat), Arby's Regular* (smothered in ArbySauce AND Horsey Sauce) with curly fries... hmm... Do Pizza Hut breadsticks with dipping sauce count now that they have those airport Pizza Hut Express things?

I still have Fast Food Nation sitting on my bookshelf at home unread. Perhaps I should pick that up and ditch my once-quarterly fast food consumption for good. I hear they are making it into a movie. Any gossip on that, str8?

*I haven't had this in years, but I remember it fondly.

bold_n_brazen · 10-12-2006, 02:01 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I have a soft spot for the ham and cheese croissanwich, no egg, coupled with BK's hash browns (and usually OJ). It is one of the four or so fast food items that I will willingly eat. In fact, I happily eat it every time I have a morning flight out of the LAX terminal that has a BK. I sort of look forward to it, even.

Other fast food that I will eat: Taco Bell Mexican Pizza (no meat), Arby's Regular* (smothered in ArbySauce AND Horsey Sauce) with curly fries... hmm... Do Pizza Hut breadsticks with dipping sauce count now that they have those airport Pizza Hut Express things?

I still have Fast Food Nation sitting on my bookshelf at home unread. Perhaps I should pick that up and ditch my once-quarterly fast food consumption for good. I hear they are making it into a movie. Any gossip on that, str8?

*I haven't had this in years, but I remember it fondly.

Last time I was in a BK for breakfast, I discovered they had replaced hash browns with tater tots.

Tater tots are goooooood.

patentparanyc · 10-12-2006, 02:02 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I have a soft spot for the ham and cheese croissanwich, no egg, coupled with BK's hash browns (and usually OJ). It is one of the four or so fast food items that I will willingly eat. In fact, I happily eat it every time I have a morning flight out of the LAX terminal that has a BK. I sort of look forward to it, even.

Other fast food that I will eat: Taco Bell Mexican Pizza (no meat), Arby's Regular* (smothered in ArbySauce AND Horsey Sauce) with curly fries... hmm... Do Pizza Hut breadsticks with dipping sauce count now that they have those airport Pizza Hut Express things?

I still have Fast Food Nation sitting on my bookshelf at home unread. Perhaps I should pick that up and ditch my once-quarterly fast food consumption for good. I hear they are making it into a movie. Any gossip on that, str8?

*I haven't had this in years, but I remember it fondly.

You are very fortunate you can eat this type of food and still be svelte. Wow.

greatwhitenorthchick · 10-12-2006, 02:07 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Arby's Regular*

*I haven't had this in years, but I remember it fondly.

My first job (other than paper route) was at an Arby's. It was right beside a McDonald's so we got about 1/10 of the customers that the McDonald's got. It was great because we just hung out and talked to each other all shift and laughed at the suckers working at McDonald's who made the same shit wage as we did and worked 3 times as hard. I am proud to say that ethic has stayed with me throughout my working life.

I didn't eat Arby's food. Once you've seen 100 or so Arby's packaged "roasts", you never ever want to touch the stuff, let alone eat it.

notcasesensitive · 10-12-2006, 02:08 PM

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
You are very fortunate you can eat this type of food and still be svelte. Wow.

I'm not sure I ever claimed to be svelte, but did you miss the part where I said it eat some sort of fast food (at most) once-quarterly. Meaning once a calendar quarter. Every three months or so. Not regularly at all.

You just don't read the posts you are responding to at all?

notcasesensitive · 10-12-2006, 02:10 PM

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Last time I was in a BK for breakfast, I discovered they had replaced hash browns with tater tots.

Tater tots are goooooood.

I called them hash browns, but I meant tater tots. They have had those for as long as I have eaten ham and cheese croissanwiches (no egg). A long time.

They are delicious. Especially when coupled with the croissanwich.

patentparanyc · 10-12-2006, 02:11 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm not sure I ever claimed to be svelte, but did you miss the part where I said it eat some sort of fast food (at most) once-quarterly. Meaning once a calendar quarter. Every three months or so. Not regularly at all.

You just don't read the posts you are responding to at all?

Not to be rude, but your posts are long and windy. I so skim them.

notcasesensitive · 10-12-2006, 02:16 PM

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
Not to be rude, but your posts are long and windy. I so skim them.

You are free to ignore them. I don't care. But you sound a bit daft when replying to a post in which I say I don't eat fast food often with a question about how I can eat fast food so much. Surprising, I know.

Hank Chinaski · 10-12-2006, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No. Not worth it. Hopefully your children were too young to remember, as it sounds like a traumatic experience. C$9,000 and knowledge of where to sit on a train doesn't sound like such a great payoff for that kind of experience.
TM

How you can tell who's damaged is to see us at, say disney world. Wife and I would not consider getting on a roller coaster, the kids want to ride Space Mountain continuously. We want to say "you remember that stuff goes off the rails, don't you?" but then we remember that would reinforce the trauma.

They are fine about it. Me, I figure that I'm golden now. What are the odds I'd be in a second train/plane crash? ZERO. The wife, needs a zanex now and then when flying.

Hank Chinaski · 10-12-2006, 02:19 PM

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Originally posted by nononono
A lot of addicts are high-intensity people, needing greater-than-average physical and other stimulation. I would guess that the running meets at least some of these needs, allowing an opportunity to channel excess energy, focus on a goal that is incompatible with substance abuse, experience the psychological reward of having done something demanding, reorienting the mind to taking care of the body and experiencing how that feels, having a sufficiently intense experience to want to avoid doing other things and to focus on this (both the physical exertion itself and the natural chemical release), and just something both to fill time and to care about instead. Someone in recovery from addiction deals with it as a lifelong proposition, so having proper outlets is key.

Freshman Psych? I run tons, hard, AND I drink far too much. Shit, coltrane makes Boston.

pony_trekker · 10-12-2006, 02:20 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
How you can tell who's damaged is to see us at, say disney world. Wife and I would not consider getting on a roller coaster, the kids want to ride Space Mountain continuously. We want to say "you remember that stuff goes off the rails, don't you?" but then we remember that would reinforce the trauma.

They are fine about it. Me, I figure that I'm golden now. What are the odds I'd be in a second train/plane crash? ZERO. The wife, needs a zanex now and then when flying.

I think you are like Bruce Willis from Unbreakable. My BIL was in two (survived both) one a serious military crash, the other a commercial jet skidding off a runway.

patentparanyc · 10-12-2006, 02:22 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You are free to ignore them. I don't care. But you sound a bit daft when replying to a post in which I say I don't eat fast food often with a question about how I can eat fast food so much. Surprising, I know.

I don't think I'm stupid per se, but I do skim too fast and I reply on the fly. Nothing personal intended.

Replaced_Texan · 10-12-2006, 02:22 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I called them hash browns, but I meant tater tots. They have had those for as long as I have eaten ham and cheese croissanwiches (no egg). A long time.

They are delicious. Especially when coupled with the croissanwich.

Sonic tater tots make me happy. So does the steak finger basket at either Sonic or a Dairy Queen. Outside of Texas, DQ and Sonic don't seem to do them. The hashbrowns at McDonalds are also very good.

Cherry Limeade at Sonic also makes me happy. I haven't had one since I read the nutritional information though. I can't imagine that the new Diet Cherry Limeade even comes close to comparing.

*sigh* It's lunchtime and I'm hungry for stuff that's bad for me. I think I'll get a fish taco and munch on some chips.

Hank Chinaski · 10-12-2006, 02:23 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
What the FUCK is wrong with you people? I do not eat bacon, egg and cheese biscuits. I eat sausage, egg and cheese biscuits. Which are not on the menu, but which they will make for you.

Ty, I highly recommend subbing in sausage, just to try, if you are in the market for a McD's breakfast again any time soon.

Wouldn't you get the bacon on the side? Like order a bacon/egg/cheese biscuit, bacon on the side, with sausage on the biscuit, or do you just not like McDonald's bacon?