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Who knew there were so many cases of bored people?
Update #2: Oh f*** me in both ears.
D&D in Prisons Could Lead to Gang Activity. Didn’t we already live through this happy bullsh** with Tom Hank’s stoopid-beyond-belief D&D version of “Reefer Madness”?
I say that as one whose mother tossed all his D&D books in a dumpster somewhere while he was at school.
Update #3: Oh please. She was not jailed for sending her kids to a better school. She was jailed for breaking the law by lying on her paperwork. The mechanics were different but it’s not much different than holding up stores to pay for your kid’s school. It’s taking money that isn’t yours.
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I freely admit: I love Taco Bell.
An engineer I worked with for a year said something about it that I’ll never forget.
Why Taco Bell? Because it’s cheaper than food.
That was a pretty profound statement but I’d still eat the stuff every day if I could.
I’ve found the latest lawsuit to be both funny and puzzling. Funny because, well, you get it.
Puzzling, because it still tastes pretty good.
Me? I'm rooting for Taco Bell.
I am loving PhotoShop. I’ve always been bullish on open-source and freeware but I’m a convert. There’s a good reason why it’s as popular as it is. Been saving for it forever and finally was able to justify buying the package.
According to that Web site, ingredients used to season the Taco Bell meat include salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats, soy lectithin, sugar, soybean oil, garlic powder, yeast extract, citric acid and cocoa powder.
So, if you start with beef, throw a few things in the mix, it alters the chemical composition so that it is no longer beef???
I guess the higher ups at Taco Bell are level 9 dark wizards who have discovered the secrets of alchemy to turn the above ingredients into a ground beef like product. WTH???
Have you read the ingredient list of your average breakfast cereal lately???
Full-body alchemy, truth36.
I raise a taco shell in salute to the alchemical wizards of TB.
I may have made a graphic that mocks the situation but I love their grub.
I don’t read ingredient lists because they don’t actually tell the average consumer (like me) anything when they use words that consist of so many syllables they can compete with German.
So, you add a bunch of ingredients to beef, and suddenly it’s “not-beef”? What has it become.
Or, if it’s no longer beef, does that mean that their food has no meat, and is now meat-less (neutered), and can be considered vegan?
It used to be meat. I worked there for years as a kid and later when I couldn’t get a real job yet.
I remember dumping huge slabs of raw ground beef into large pans and stirring it around with a massive squiggly spatula type of thing. We had to start making the “food” at 6 in the morning to open at 10. Dried pinto beans and water in a pressure cooker for hours then they got smushed up with a paddle attached to an electric drill. And you had to be over 17 to use the automatic lettuce slicer/cheese grater.
Over the years I saw the introduction of preseasoned meat in boil-in-bags, pre-fried taco shells, pre-grated cheese and lettuce… It ceased being food long ago but I’m with you – I still eat it every chance I get.
Taco Bell was one of the few fast food places that I knew of where the kids who worked there still actively sought out the food after leaving employment. Real meat or not, it’s damn tasty.
So back when girls were girls and men were men, meat also used to be meat?
You may laugh at the slicer age thing (not that age will save you in the least) but those things are scary-wicked-sharp. Years ago when I worked in the culinary sector, this co-worker 24 years my senior, managed to plunge his hand into soapy water only to find the slicer there had sliced lengthwise into his fingers by about an inch and a half.
It was a really cool demo of how sharp they could be but pretty awful messy, too. Geez, what a mess. Poor guy had so many sutures to fix his fingers that it must’ve taken a long time to stitch him up.
That was back before AIDS was suspected to be lurking in every drop of blood no matter who spilled it, and guess who cleaned it up?
Thank you for your service to a Great American Institution, Nicole!
Meh, sharp is fun, but for real destruction, there’s nothing like an industrial strength dispose-all/in-sink-erator. We used to lob whole cantaloupe into the thing for fun. From across the room. Off the backsplash, nothing but mush!
I’ve been snarking that I’ll only get my psuedo-mexican food from higher-class establishments like Del Taco today, but yeah – it’s cheap and tasty. As one of my bosses once said, “I feel like a rich man at Taco Bell.”
I feed my dog McD’s double cheeseburgers for treats.
When people give me a hard time I’ve always said, “They’re much closer to food than dog treats”.
Dog treats are the parts of food that just aren’t food, fast food uses the parts of food that can’t be sold as they are.
By extension, that goes for all fast food. Anyone who’s surprised has most likely been deluding themselves.
I’d say more likely it’s a Captain Renault thing, “I’m shocked, schocked that that food-like thing isn’t real food!”
The only fast food that is food is KFC, not the new, chicken nuggetty stuff, but the old fried chicken stuff.
Except their mashed potatoes which have been instant for over 30 years, since I worked there in the late 70s-early 80s.
Related.
So the guy who was going to put actual meat in his tacos (Lion meat) decided not to in response to threats
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tucson_african_lion_tacos
I’m sure the threateners are tea partiers who are upset….
I can’t do it.
We know it’s global warmmongery leftists who think a rat is a pig is a child is a lion.
Never mind that the African Lion is not endangered, it’s legal, and probably pretty darned tasty.
I’d eat a lion taco in a heartbeat and purr about it.
D&D in prison leads to gang activity.
Huh.
I always kind of thought that prison in prison led to gang activity.
Shiv of Annoyance +3.
Maybe a Feat called “Bubba’s Teddy Bear Embrace”.
Elixir of Pruno.
I’m sure there’s lots more.
I find it rich in IRON-y that the people who complain about Taco Bell not using “real meat” are the same ones that would advocate for Soylent Green.
Would Soylent Green have different flavors?
Could you get a “Ranch Flavor”, “Spicy BBQ”, “Scooby Snack”, or maybe even “Cookies-n-Cream”?
We all know TB has been/is playing games with words; “all the MEAT in our tacos is 100% beef” is still factually correct.
All the meat in my Toyota pickup glove box is also 100% Track Rabbit.
Guaranteed.
Everyone involved knows TB is playing word games.
The way I figure it, if the oats filler absorbs some of the seasoning and meat grease or whatever, it adds to the unique TB taste.
I’m with LK – I hope TB wins.
They can have my Cheez Whiz when they pry it from my warm, greasy fingers.
Well, LK, if you’re really loving photoshop, I have a project for you to run on it.
A sidebar badge– shiny, golden, sort of like those old notary sun seals with “Official Internet God” in the center.
If you read my crossdressers post, it will make sense. So will this last sentence.
I saw the e:mail announcement of the post but I didn’t read it other than some comment about Russian crossdressers.
I’ll poke around and see, m’kay?