What wouldn’t you miss? [NOT 27/7/23]

27/7/23 brightersideoflife 32

Hi, friends!

I had a coworker the other day talking about how Arby’s was their favorite fast food.

I haven’t had Arby’s in at least 5 years. I haven’t had Lion’s Choice in at least 2 years. Side note – if you like roast beef sandwiches and you’re in St Louis or Kansas City MO, go to Lion’s Choice. It’s leaps and bounds better than Arby’s. Also they offer fresh veggies as a side option, if you’re trying not to blow up your arteries with sodium.

And while roast beef sandwiches are fine, they’re never going to be my preferred choice. If it were a situation of Arby’s or Jesus Chicken/Bigot Bird/Chick-fil-A? Fuck yeah let’s get some Arby’s. But at no point in years have I been like wow goddamn I could go for a roast beef sammich. Arby’s could fall off the map and I wouldn’t notice until I realized there weren’t commercials on TV.

Is there something in the usual suite of a product that you could give zero fucks over? Like are you a gamer but would enjoy never hearing about Nintendo again because that one time you cut your hand on a faulty controller? Or would love Hyundai to go the way of Saturn because of a specific reason? Fuck Snickers because peanuts suck, but you love Mr Goodbar?

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  3. I’m 100% with you on that Arby’s & Jesus-Chik’n** place thing, Brighter!

    Also, after having lived near a Popeye’s for the last 4 years?

    Popeye’s is *by FAR* the best Spicy Chicken Sandwich, and all the others should just give up, ‘cuz no one else comes close, and I can’t imagine the Jesus-Chicken does, either (haven’t ever tried it, and don’t plan to ever purchase it, either)

     

    (**See also: Hobby Lobby!)

  4. I tried Chipotle fairly soon after one opened up near my parents’ house. I can’t remember if it was 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, and I can’t really remember how it tasted, either. I just remember not being impressed enough to go back ever again. (Is that place still even open now anyway. . . ?)

  5. We have way too many hole in the wall places for me to eat chain fast food.  We have a place called Red Rock Subs that makes killer roast beef sandwiches though I prefer a French dip w/ lots of horseradish.  One of my favorite tap houses does a Pho-rench dip that is a French dip banh mi sandwich you dip in Pho broth, so good!

  6. I require some clarity if that is ok?

    would love Hyundai to go the way of Saturn because of a specific reason? Fuck Snickers

    …is that a bigger fuck to Hyundai than Snickers?

    Please explain.

  7. Pretty much all fast food and soda. I might have one of these every blue moon and I don’t think about them during the long intervals in between.
    However if we’re talking the other side of the equation, I would slit my own throat if green chiles disappeared.

    • Specifically the Hatch chiles from New Mexico, or do you have other varieties you love?

      I love sweet peppers, and I can’t really taste a difference between a giant marconi and a carmen and a corno di toro red pepper. I’ve grown all 3 now over the last few years and they’re all fucking delicious but not really distinct.

       

    • I believe we’ve had the great DS chili  debate a year or two ago. I much prefer  Thai chili and habaneros. But I totally agree that life is not worth living without chili peppers.

  10. Myo, that would be *somewhere between my Grandpappy’s and my Pop’s generation… Grandpa was Greatest, Dad was a Boomer, so I’d venture… Early 1900’s, iirc, that Pink–being a derivative of *red* was considered a “Masculine!”color–and Blue–what with being associated with the Virginia Mary, was considered the “appropriate”color for baby girls…

     

    I can’t remember *exactly* when the flip happened, or quite why…

    But suffice it to say that calling Pink a “Girly” color is the color parallel to saying Democrats are *still* the pro-slavery party…

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