March 31, 2012
— Open Blogger In the Spiritual Capital in the State of Doom, Subway faces reality when the voters will not.
Minimum-wage increases*, on top of other business-killing expenses, have forced San Francisco Subways to stop offering 5-dollar subs, aside from their nasty ass-flavored Tuna.
Which, come to think of it, is probably their best seller.
* (10.24/hour, in case you were wondering.)
UPDATE: Spelling fixed because logprof is smarter than me. Or I'm dumber than logprof. I've heard it both ways.
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Posted by: Hammer at March 31, 2012 07:04 AM (5buGz)
Posted by: t-bird at March 31, 2012 07:05 AM (l/xhO)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 31, 2012 07:05 AM (niZvt)
I kill the taste of the Tuna with oil and vinegar, onions, and pepper...ohmigod, I'm tossing the salad!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 31, 2012 07:07 AM (AbDWA)
Posted by: Subway at March 31, 2012 07:08 AM (l/xhO)
Posted by: Max Wedge at March 31, 2012 07:10 AM (VvzrT)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 31, 2012 07:10 AM (niZvt)
Not to be anti subway but I can't eat Subway. No flavor. Fakish cheap meats. yick.
I think we should raise taxes, kill off more free market enterprise and bailout Subway San Fran, because that would be "fair". Like the Obama sez, it's important to be fair, even if it's wrong. Plus, that's the democrat business model: Pure dumbassery.
Posted by: rectal exam at March 31, 2012 07:11 AM (O7ksG)
Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2012 07:12 AM (GZitp)
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 31, 2012 07:12 AM (vpe0k)
I wonder if the Subway customers in the Castro are disappointed they can't get a cheap footlong anymore?
Posted by: SGT Ted at March 31, 2012 07:12 AM (arV2e)
Posted by: RightWingProf at March 31, 2012 07:12 AM (uf/As)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 31, 2012 07:13 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: SGT Ted at March 31, 2012 07:13 AM (arV2e)
San Jose is looking to emulate that stupidity as well.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at March 31, 2012 07:13 AM (TsNVA)
Posted by: Andrew L at March 31, 2012 07:14 AM (TYbti)
Posted by: PJ at March 31, 2012 07:14 AM (DQHjw)
Posted by: Funny Like That Sometimes at March 31, 2012 07:14 AM (BhxjG)
Posted by: nnptcgrad at March 31, 2012 07:15 AM (Opyrm)
If not getting cheap birth control is a "war on women", is not getting cheap footlongs in SF a "war on gays"?
Posted by: SGT Ted at March 31, 2012 07:15 AM (arV2e)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 31, 2012 07:15 AM (jUytm)
remember some AoS moron telling us about his trip to Subway where he asked for the tuna fish sandwich, he was told they don't have tuna fish only tuna. Yeah they really deserve to be paid more.
Me at a Hops: I'll have a pint of your Red Ale.
Server: We don't have pints, only 16-oz glasses.
Me: Um...
TGIF's in Orlando: We offer a 22 oz glass or one of our special 14 oz. pints.
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 31, 2012 07:16 AM (vpe0k)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 31, 2012 07:17 AM (niZvt)
I love visiting SF, but I could never live there. It's like a private hobo-hunting preserve there, or used to be anyway.
Do they still bait them in with 400 free taxpayer dollars per month?
Posted by: krakatoa at March 31, 2012 07:17 AM (Ex9on)
Posted by: San Francisco Sub Vendor at March 31, 2012 07:19 AM (zn0Us)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 31, 2012 07:19 AM (niZvt)
Don't worry... I cuntend dat poeple who can't spel are jus FREE Thinckers! Not boundd by Rulzes!
Free the BAD Spelers!
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2012 07:20 AM (lZBBB)
Which, come to think of it, is probably their best seller."
Huh - I'd've thought ass-flavored salami would be the best seller in SF, but what do I know?
Posted by: Underground Vulgarian at March 31, 2012 07:20 AM (Aaxiu)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 31, 2012 07:20 AM (jUytm)
Quizno's killed off its franchisees with oversaturation, high costs, too many menu items, and weak marketing.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 31, 2012 07:21 AM (AbDWA)
Posted by: lincolntf at March 31, 2012 07:21 AM (hiMsy)
Hollywood approved of this message with a boatload of Oscar nominations.
Go figure.
Posted by: krakatoa at March 31, 2012 07:21 AM (Ex9on)
25 Quiznos always had the creepy commercials.
Yeah....creepy and bizarre. ....That one with the singing....things....that looked like giant fleas, or amoebas, or something.....that one was really over the top.
Posted by: wheatie at March 31, 2012 07:22 AM (dEMjC)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2012 07:22 AM (Gc/Qi)
That's some deep seated resentment, right there.
His character was raped as a child by some hillbilly escaped convicts. It must be part of the PTSD.
Posted by: Synnerman at March 31, 2012 07:22 AM (0Bdlg)
Posted by: Michael Eric Dyson at March 31, 2012 07:23 AM (zKFOT)
Posted by: Andrew L at March 31, 2012 11:14 AM (TYbti)
--Also worth noting that Democrat policies in general are a big reason why San Fran has such a high cost of living.
Posted by: logprof at March 31, 2012 07:23 AM (ykSKg)
Pat Conroy sure has an unhealthy fascination with ass rapin, though it's much like reading one of his books or watching The Prince of Tides.
Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2012 07:23 AM (GZitp)
That one with the singing....things....that looked like giantfleas, or amoebas, or something.....that one was really over the top.
Those things look like the mice used to find inside the walls of the old Brownstones we'd renovate in NYC.
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2012 07:24 AM (zn0Us)
Regardless of subject, 'If the Justice system doesn't work, we'll find other means to get our way!'
Posted by: panzernashorn at March 31, 2012 07:25 AM (lpWVn)
Mike's minis are a great lunch-sized sammich, and they taste a lot better than Subway & Quiznos.
Posted by: krakatoa at March 31, 2012 07:25 AM (Ex9on)
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2012 07:25 AM (zn0Us)
JJ's numbers 8 and 9 (my favorite) are fantastic sammiches.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, formerly known as 'As If' at March 31, 2012 07:26 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 31, 2012 07:26 AM (Bmbjy)
Me at a Hops: I'll have a pint of your Red Ale.
Server: We don't have pints, only 16-oz glasses.
Me: Um...
TGIF's in Orlando: We offer a 22 oz glass or one of our special 14 oz. pints.
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 31, 2012 11:16 AM (vpe0k)
--When I was at FSU I briefly worked at a chicken shack there. A guy at the drive-through asks, "How big are your pints?" I'm snickering in the prep area while the cashier drily responds, "Sixteen ounces, just like everybody else's." 
Posted by: logprof at March 31, 2012 07:26 AM (ykSKg)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 31, 2012 07:26 AM (niZvt)
Pat Conroy sure has an unhealthy fascination with ass rapin
Didn't he write The Great Santini? I guess bouncing the basketball off the back of the kid's head was allegorical....
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 31, 2012 07:26 AM (AbDWA)
Hollywood approved of this message with a boatload of Oscar nominations.
Go figure.
Posted by: krakatoa at March 31, 2012 11:21 AM (Ex9on)
--See also Bridges of Madison County
Posted by: logprof at March 31, 2012 07:28 AM (ykSKg)
It's increasingly a city of retired White people and non-young Asians. Since we lived there in the 70s, the Obama's Son percentage of the pop has been halved ( from 12 to 6 % )
It has the smallest percentage of children of any American city. Clement Street, which was funky and Cali-hip back in The Day, is cluttered with elderly Chinese people wandering aimlessly along the dingy sidewalks
The old White 'elites', secure in their huge houses in Pacific Heights, send their kids to private schools and do not mix with the Others. The house you see early in 'Bullitt' ( where Steve McQ meets the evil White guy ) is gone, replaced with a private school ( 2700 Jackson Street )
The freaks are tolerated because the local elites, all the retired White civil servants on fat pensions, and the wandering Chinese ignore / do not see them
a sad, declining, crazy place--like a menopausal MadWoman, schizo and rambling but still a Looker
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 31, 2012 07:28 AM (Dll6b)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2012 07:28 AM (Gc/Qi)
48, garrett
Heh. ....It's like the idiots at Quiznos never grasped the idea.....that your commercials should make people want to eat your product. .....Not make them nauseous.
Posted by: wheatie at March 31, 2012 07:28 AM (dEMjC)
Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2012 07:28 AM (GZitp)
Posted by: logprof at March 31, 2012 11:26 AM (ykSKg)
We had a guy bring back a bowl of Gumbo at a place I used to work.
'It's too runny', he said.
'It's a soup. That's why we serve it in a bowl...with a spoon.', replied the waitress.
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2012 07:29 AM (zn0Us)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 31, 2012 07:30 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2012 07:30 AM (Gc/Qi)
I agree. Broiling the sandwich kills off any latent bacteria. You'd have to pay me to eat at a Subway. Blechhhh.
Posted by: Cast Iron at March 31, 2012 07:31 AM (EL+OC)
..that your commercials should make people want to eat your product. .....Not make them nauseous.
I know, after that ad campaign, I get nauseous just seeins a Quiznos Sign.
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2012 07:32 AM (zn0Us)
So if the San Francisco demographic is older and Asianer, shouldn't the Subway there vary its menu?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 31, 2012 07:34 AM (AbDWA)
Posted by: Cast Iron at March 31, 2012 07:34 AM (EL+OC)
Posted by: Jimbo at March 31, 2012 07:34 AM (O3R/2)
Never ate there again.
Posted by: Fritz at March 31, 2012 07:34 AM (KWdVT)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2012 07:34 AM (Gc/Qi)
"We had a guy bring back a bowl of Gumbo at a place I used to work.
'It's too runny', he said.
'It's a soup. That's why we serve it in a bowl...with a spoon.', replied the waitress."
I ran a pizza parlor back in my misspent yoot. Customers would come in and ask where the dining room was while standing in plain view of the big sign with the arrow pointing to the dining room.
Of course, this was in Alabama, so it was somewhat understandable.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 31, 2012 07:35 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: logprof at March 31, 2012 07:35 AM (ykSKg)
****
I wrote a letter to Quiznos and noted that, as a marketeer, I can appreciate the concept of getting your name out there but that associating their restaurants with vermin, and really creepy vermin at that, might not have been the best plan.
I must not have been the only person to do so because the ads came down a few days later.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, formerly known as 'As If' at March 31, 2012 07:36 AM (piMMO)
Sixty Dollars a night to park your car, bitches !!
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 31, 2012 07:36 AM (Dll6b)
Posted by: t-bird at March 31, 2012 07:36 AM (l/xhO)
Posted by: nickless at March 31, 2012 07:37 AM (MMC8r)
I must not have been the only person to do so because the ads came down a few days later.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, formerly known as 'As If' at March 31, 2012 11:36 AM (piMMO)
--Got a link to one of those? I don't think I've ever seen one.
Posted by: logprof at March 31, 2012 07:37 AM (ykSKg)
Posted by: USS Diversity at March 31, 2012 07:37 AM (vpe0k)
They tried, but the foot long Prune and Octopus just never caught on.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 31, 2012 07:38 AM (L7hol)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 31, 2012 07:39 AM (AbDWA)
Posted by: Y-not at March 31, 2012 07:39 AM (5H6zj)
No that's Conroy's other go to theme, all parents are horrible whose only purpose in life is to torture and mentally scar their children, usually by ignoring past trauma like ass rapin's.
Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2012 07:39 AM (GZitp)
Posted by: Cast Iron at March 31, 2012 07:40 AM (EL+OC)
Sixty Dollars a night to park your car, bitches !!
They wanted to charge me double for my 3/4 ton when I was down there, last.
They also had to have me park it, because they couldn't drive a standard transmission with a working gear.
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2012 07:40 AM (zn0Us)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 31, 2012 07:41 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: t-bird at March 31, 2012 07:41 AM (l/xhO)
"Didn't he write The Great Santini? I guess bouncing the basketball off the back of the kid's head was allegorical."
****
I actually know a guy who so missed the point of that book and actually admired the father that he named his kid Santini.
I said I knew him; not that he was a friend.
Posted by: Wodeshed at March 31, 2012 07:41 AM (K6sn/)
youtu.be/ahNLU0Ipdl4
youtu.be/OJlYRS2Vqkw
Posted by: logprof at March 31, 2012 07:42 AM (ykSKg)
Posted by: Y-not at March 31, 2012 07:42 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 31, 2012 07:42 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Y-not at March 31, 2012 07:44 AM (5H6zj)
They also had to have me park it, because they couldn't drive a standard transmission with a working gear.
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2012 11:40 AM (zn0Us)
----Welcome to the City of Tourists, Winos, Ancient Chinese, retired White civil servants, and Freaks.. :
( Freaks are tolerated because people think they help sucker in tourists )
You can use the city-owed garage under Union Square, but even that is $40 overnight and the lower levels are something out of Dante.
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 31, 2012 07:44 AM (Dll6b)
Ughh. Commercials where you have to sit, and listen to people chew...not appealing.
The grunts, the squelching sounds of cheap fast food being ground into paste, it actually sounds almost identical to the sounds my dog makes when he's trying to lick his balls.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 31, 2012 07:44 AM (L7hol)
Posted by: Drewbicle at March 31, 2012 07:45 AM (YqP7s)
Could Quizno's commercials be any nastier than Car's Jr.?
Careful, Carl's Jr. gave us Ms. Turkey in a Cheeseburger Bikinni, didn't they?
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2012 07:45 AM (zn0Us)
My wife really dug the lobster subs Subway used to sell up here. They don't anymore, except for the Maritimes I think.
****
I really miss the lobster roll meals I used to find at McDonalds when I went to Maine.
Fries, coke, and lobster roll with melted butter. YUM.
Posted by: Wodeshed at March 31, 2012 07:45 AM (K6sn/)
Ughh. Commercials where you have to sit, and listen to people chew...not appealing.
The grunts, the squelching sounds of cheap fast food being ground into paste, it actually sounds almost identical to the sounds my dog makes when he's trying to lick his balls.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 31, 2012 11:44 AM (L7hol)
--I love in the second video when JJ compares the CJ ad to a scat video.
Posted by: logprof at March 31, 2012 07:46 AM (ykSKg)
Apropos of lousy food advertising, we've got a local issue. A place called Upper Crust Pizza has a huge digital sign out in front, in the middle of a commercial strip, surrounded by crappy car dealerships, gas stations, even a bodega with zero words in English on it's exterior. Anyway, putting up the sign was a huge bureacratic hassle for the guy, zoning, sight lines, shit like that. Well the guy eventually got the sign erected and was allowed to operate it and he uses that freedom to constantly loop this message (paraphrased, but very close, I've seen it a million times): "Lawyer's Fees...Tens of Thousands of dollars,... Sign....$65,000....The Ability To Tell City Hall To Kiss My Hairy Ass...Priceless"...
I like the principle, and they do have very good food, but my wife won't go in, she just thinks it's gross. And the message has been there at least a year. This is a place where virtually everything is made by hand, do you really want to be referencing your "hairy ass" in scrolling 2-Foot LED's?
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 31, 2012 07:46 AM (HethX)
Posted by: nickless at March 31, 2012 07:46 AM (MMC8r)
http://tinyurl.com/6mqyq9g
Ironic that this sort of shit is driven by same weepy hand-wringing assholes who presume to admonish us as to how virtuous the noble Plains Indians were for using the entire buffalo.
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 31, 2012 07:46 AM (FeBwo)
People have families, obligations, etc., and often cannot relocate--despite being increasingly surrounded by CrazySh*t.
Not everyone in Cali is an accomplice, man.
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 31, 2012 07:48 AM (Dll6b)
Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2012 07:50 AM (GZitp)
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 31, 2012 07:50 AM (FeBwo)
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 31, 2012 11:44 AM (Dll6b)
I wasn't too worried about the price, as I was working for someone who was picking up the bill. (I was worried about my clutch, though.)
The cost was his penance for sending me to that sorry excuse of a city.
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2012 07:50 AM (zn0Us)
Posted by: Y-not at March 31, 2012 07:51 AM (5H6zj)
Surprisingly it's not any cheaper then fast food, but at least it tastes good.
***
If you make your own pink slime and pepto bismol sandwiches, you can survive for about three months on six bucks.
Posted by: Wodeshed at March 31, 2012 07:51 AM (K6sn/)
******
I dunno, I kinda like the Hardees ads:
http://bit.ly/z6QvSc
http://bit.ly/H9lVvD
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, formerly known as 'As If' at March 31, 2012 07:52 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 31, 2012 07:52 AM (jUytm)
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 31, 2012 11:28 AM (Dll6b)
The way you describe SF fits all of CA lately. My little burb is old and immigrant. Young folks have left for greener pastures.
(And what's so bad about Pink Slime? What's the difference between that and meat loaf?)
Posted by: PJ at March 31, 2012 07:52 AM (DQHjw)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2012 07:54 AM (Gc/Qi)
"Didn't Subway gain notoriety after a Candida outbreak?"
What's wrong with Tony Orlando and Dawn?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 31, 2012 07:54 AM (d0Tfm)
My problem is (lately) that getting anything with presliced meat is that if it were sliced any thinner, they'd have missed it. You shouldn't be able to read through pepperoni.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 31, 2012 07:54 AM (SAMxH)
Friend --
I need you with me on this one.
Tonight's deadline is our biggest yet, and I need everyone pitching in.
Give $3 or whatever you can
link)Let's go,
Barack
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, formerly known as 'As If' at March 31, 2012 07:55 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Egan Spengler at March 31, 2012 07:55 AM (5H6zj)
Good stuff...taking a risk here quoting from volokh /since "conspiracy" doesn't exist except to theorist kkkooks/ but after all the whys and wherefores are exhausted answering the pertinent question "why did legal elites underestimate the case against the mandate," the maxim 'keep it simple stupid' applies.
Regardless of intellectual development, abusive people dismiss out of hand the rights of others who would oppose what has been determined arbitrarily as "what is best" or in "our" best interest ("ours" being all that matters).
"Why Did Legal Elites Underestimate the Case Against the Mandate?"
Because elitists, legal or not, find all opposition "unacceptable". When an abuser demands something, regardless of legality, that demand is juxtaposed over all else. Absolutely no relevance existences within opposition. Dictators impose the irrational "One Voice" that only one view exists, all others are violently/silently obliterated. Myopic convolution: revisionism. Resistance is futile, unless of course logic wins the day.
"Greg Sargent is one of many commentators wondering “How did legal observers and Obamacare backers get it so wrong?” I think he’s asking the wrong question. A better question to ask is: why did so many expect legal elites to have any particular insight into the current court? ... Oops. Premier appellate litigators may have a good sense of how the Court is likely to assess complex constitutional law claims, but elite legal academics, not so much."--Adler
Posted by: panzernashorn at March 31, 2012 07:55 AM (lpWVn)
'It's too runny', he said.
'It's a soup. That's why we serve it in a bowl...with a spoon.', replied the waitress."
In an earlier career, my sister ran a seafood restaurant. One day she had to rush to the back to calm a woman who was shrieking and screaming abut her child. She said the restaurant had served her "baby" grasshoppers. My sister gently informed her that those were fried shrimp.
She started grad school not long thereafter.
Posted by: pep at March 31, 2012 07:56 AM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: irongrampa at March 31, 2012 11:54 AM (SAMxH)
Paper-thin deli meat and .38 mm Pilot G2 pens. It's what life's all about.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 31, 2012 07:56 AM (X3lox)
in fact, the source of most of the bacterial outbreaks that are linked to hamburger... but that linkage doesn't seem to be proven.
Don't want ecoli? Don't buy burger. Buy a roast and grind it.
Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2012 07:57 AM (zn0Us)
Posted by: nickless at March 31, 2012 07:57 AM (MMC8r)
Apparently, a lot of people sent emails to Quiznos about their creepy ads.
I was searching for a video of that creepy 'singing amoeba' commercial.....and found a lot of stuff out there about their "Toasty Torpedo" ads.
Shit. I'd forgetten about that one! .....The talking oven, telling the kitchen worker-guy to "Put it in me".....Ah yes. The Toasty Torpedo!
Posted by: wheatie at March 31, 2012 07:57 AM (dEMjC)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 31, 2012 07:57 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: Y-not at March 31, 2012 07:58 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 31, 2012 07:58 AM (jUytm)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 31, 2012 08:00 AM (jUytm)
Isn't the word "babysitter" French for "Au Pair?"
Posted by: Samuel Adams at March 31, 2012 08:01 AM (r3ITV)
Posted by: Vic at March 31, 2012 08:02 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Y-not at March 31, 2012 08:02 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 31, 2012 08:03 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 31, 2012 08:03 AM (jUytm)
-------------------
Didn't they also try to reclassify baby sitters as health care providers so that they would fall under the union umbrella?
Posted by: Vic at March 31, 2012 08:03 AM (YdQQY)
McDonald's lunch: McChicken, side salad w/ Italian dressing, two packs of apple slices, large diet coke. About 450 calories, $4.35.
****
Anyone who hasn't tried apple slices (or apple "fries" at BK) with a burger is missing something.
Unlike fries, it sorta cleanses the palate and you can actually taste the burger even more.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, formerly known as 'As If' at March 31, 2012 08:04 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Jimbo at March 31, 2012 08:04 AM (O3R/2)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 31, 2012 08:05 AM (HethX)
Posted by: Y-not at March 31, 2012 08:05 AM (5H6zj)
****
Jimmie John's makes a sub so fast I keep expecting to hear a sonic boom.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, formerly known as 'As If' at March 31, 2012 08:05 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Y-not at March 31, 2012 11:58 AM (5H6zj)
--------------------------
I still have couple friends in CA that I talk to regularly. Both of them are severely underwater on their houses and are stuck.
Posted by: Vic at March 31, 2012 08:05 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 31, 2012 08:06 AM (jUytm)
Posted by: nickless at March 31, 2012 08:06 AM (MMC8r)
Isn't that the movie where he rides the failing fighter out to sea rather than bail and let it crash into town?
Posted by: DaveA at March 31, 2012 08:06 AM (wwFlb)
The problem with the Togos pastrami sandwich is that it's too dry.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at March 31, 2012 08:06 AM (TsNVA)
Posted by: Y-not at March 31, 2012 08:07 AM (5H6zj)
Unlike fries, it sorta cleanses the palate and you can actually taste the burger even more.
But the point of eating fries is to taste the fries
McDonald's originally took off because of its fries. They were the big seller that rocketed the chain upwards. Not burgers.Personally, I prefer a cigarette for a palate cleanser ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 31, 2012 08:07 AM (X3lox)
I guess, POP, that I got spoiled there by Ma, who made world class sammitches featuring homemade bread and thick cut meat we butchered ourselves. 2 of them and you were good to go, almost to the point of being too full.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 31, 2012 08:07 AM (SAMxH)
But isn't there a rule that says she has to be hot?
Posted by: Samuel Adams at March 31, 2012 08:08 AM (r3ITV)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 31, 2012 08:08 AM (jUytm)
Posted by: Eunuch Husband at March 31, 2012 08:08 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: soothsayer at March 31, 2012 08:10 AM (jUytm)
Just because it's paper-thin doesn't mean you can't pile it on!
I used to have this fight at Katz's deli, all the time. They cut everything really thick. Loved their salamis, though.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 31, 2012 08:11 AM (X3lox)
Before I turned it off, Savage was polling his audience on how people do their reading these days.
When it comes to books or permanent record sources, I want the printed page on my book shelves for reference, to re-read or to lend/give.
In terms of preserving eyesight, a well printed page of paper probably has less negative impact than additional daily exposure to electronic screens.
News? The daily grind of the same ol' same ol', or USPS junk mail -- I don't waste the trees clogging the urban dumps with ink trash, and don't approve my taxes subsidizing solicitation, "cut rate" junk mail delivery subsidized with tax dollars and higher postage rates for REAL correspondence as if proving the efficiency of the USPS.
Posted by: panzernashorn at March 31, 2012 08:11 AM (lpWVn)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 31, 2012 08:11 AM (niZvt)
"Personally, I prefer a cigarette for a palate cleanser ..."
Speaking of, as I type I'm enjoying an additive-free cig from one of these little Roll-Your-Own shops that have sprung up down here. Cheap too, about half the cost of regular cigs, and taste better. Unforseen side effect - I'm smoking far fewer of them.
And, they're good with a Guinness to boot.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 31, 2012 08:12 AM (d0Tfm)
*****
Then you must be really disappointed since they switched several years ago from lard.
More often than note they are soggy now, even when fresh.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, formerly known as 'As If' at March 31, 2012 08:12 AM (piMMO)
"Oh yeah? Well, it's also French for, "Daddy can get all the oral he wants now!," IYKWIM."
So can Mom, if they're screened properly.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 31, 2012 08:14 AM (d0Tfm)
Union or not, to be held legally responsible, not just for mandated professional certifications but licensing fees, ongoing seminar re-certifications, taxation, and law suits.
Posted by: panzernashorn at March 31, 2012 08:14 AM (lpWVn)
And, they're good with a Guinness to boot.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 31, 2012 12:12 PM (d0Tfm)
I do MYO cigarettes (injection). Around $1.30/pack. I love them. I don't know about additives in the tobacco, but I do like it. Better than most commercial brands, though it's still tough to beat a Marlboro Red.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 31, 2012 08:16 AM (X3lox)
More often than note they are soggy now, even when fresh.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, formerly known as 'As If' at March 31, 2012 12:12 PM (piMMO)
I haven't been to a McDonald's in years. I used to go there all the time. Haven't been to a Wendy's in that time, either, which used to be my favorite. The Wendy's triple got me through high school.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 31, 2012 08:17 AM (X3lox)
"Better than most commercial brands, though it's still tough to beat a Marlboro Red."
Those things make me dizzy(er). This place is run by a little tatoo'd kid who doesn't smoke, but talks like a Moron, about things like freedom and taxes. He's the area manager, not even 30 yet. New store.
I really should quit, and I will soon, but these things aren't bad in the interim. And there are lots and lots of additives in commercial cigs to keep them fresh. You can literally taste the difference, can't you?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 31, 2012 08:20 AM (d0Tfm)
I remember when a Big Mac really WAS. Quit buying them when they downsized. Imho, the only meal yet worth it is the sausage biscuit--again downsized but the flavor is unchanged.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 31, 2012 08:25 AM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Jimbo at March 31, 2012 08:30 AM (O3R/2)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 31, 2012 08:38 AM (Af3Wg)
Which, come to think of it, is probably their best seller.
Yeah, if it tastes like ass in San Francisco....
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2012 08:42 AM (i0App)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 31, 2012 12:20 PM (d0Tfm)
I smoke Kentucky Red Select, Ramback Gold, Farmer's Gold, Rowland, and a whole bunch of others. They all taste different and I prefer most of the loose tobacco brands to most commercial cigs, but I have yet to find one that beats a Marlboro. Some are "as good" to my taste, but I haven't yet run into anything better.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 31, 2012 08:49 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: toby928© at March 31, 2012 09:30 AM (GTbGH)
Posted by: comanche voter at March 31, 2012 09:35 AM (6USwK)
Posted by: steevy at March 31, 2012 11:58 AM (7W3wI)
30The wife is forcing me to sit through Nick Nolte telling Barbara Streisand how beautiful her nose-laden face is in Prince of Tides.
Does Streisand even have stereo vision?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 31, 2012 12:15 PM (Sex08)
14I remember some AoS moron telling us about his trip to Subway where he asked for the tuna fish sandwich, he was told they don't have tuna fish only tuna. Yeah they really deserve to be paid more.
One time I ordered a quart of cole slaw at a fast food place. The gal came back and said she was so sorry - they only had pints.
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at March 31, 2012 12:35 PM (i0UnD)
I am probably close to getting the ban hammer: lease a Prius and order Subway toasted tuna subs with spinach and pepper jack. Also I've never acquired a taste for hobo and count lawyers as noble friends.
Problem is I can't go to the other side because I'm not a lying Communist pervert.
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at March 31, 2012 12:40 PM (i0UnD)
Posted by: EROWMER at March 31, 2012 01:53 PM (sIm3i)
#29
There's an episode of The Honeymooners where the Kramdens go to an expensive restaurant. Alice orders a demitasse, and Ralph says something like, "Nothing fancy like that for me! I'll just have a small cup of strong black coffee!"
Posted by: Pete in TX at March 31, 2012 02:08 PM (6AAsT)
You've got to be from the Northeast. I grew up calling them "grinders" and when I moved Down South for a few years, no one knew what I was talking about when I asked if they served "grinders".
Posted by: RightWingProf at March 31, 2012 02:35 PM (ndI4l)
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