Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Irish restaurants usually supply vinegar for the fries (if you couldn't tell, I love the vinegar). Another alternative is to use mustard (vinegar based) on your fries. Much yummier than ketchup I think. My favorite fry condiment is Grey Poupon (may be wine based, but still quite yummy), runner up would be any kind of horseradish sauce.

Stupid Americans with your bland ketchup. Oh, wait, I'm one of them.

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.

Originally posted by coup_d'skek
Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Denzel Washington should play more villians. The cat he played in Training Day was the most evil character I've seen on screen in a long time.

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

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
And a store in DC and close by in Virginia. I think "town" means "only within two miles of where I am now"

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.

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
10K in less than 3 months. By contrast, the infirm real GAs board took over 4 months (LP snags the big K), while the infirm FB took just over 3 months (10K going to It's Just Me Mom).

Obviously, this board rawks.

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?

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Not in DC. They just opened one immediately adjacent to a McDonalds. Kind of like that Pizza Hut/KFC/Taco Bell thing.

but they're doing something right. the lines are outrageous at lunch. Although maybe the lines just look long because all the fat butts the 1200 calorie burritos cause take up more room.

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.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
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.

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.

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
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.

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.

[SEC_Chick]

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

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
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.

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.

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.

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

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

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by SEC_Chick
http://www.msnbc.com/news/928500.asp?0cv=CB20

It looks like Clay outsold Ruben by 100K singles in the first week.

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

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
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

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.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I wonder if str8 remembers the southern Ontario flirtation with chocolate potato chips (if I recall correctly, we had a whole bunch of weird flavors for a while, and still have hard-to-get-in-the-US flavors like dill pickle, salt & vinegar and ketchup chips). Anyway, the chocolate potato chips were gross.

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.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Dill Pickle Hostess chips, I remember. Ketchup, I remember. Chocolate? Not so much.

My favorite Canadian snack foods:

1. Jos Louis
2. Wine gums (also British, of course)
3. Canadian Oreos
4. Smarties (no, not those Smarties, the other ones) (also British)
5. Crispy Crunch
6. Caramilk bars
7. Mr. Big
8. Crunchie
9. Aero bars (mmmm, bubbles).

str(does anyone except GWNC and Thrash know what I'm talking about)8

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).

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
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.

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.

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
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.

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.