Chicago: Beef, Love and Understanding

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Really, you thought it was scolding? I didn't get that impression at all.

dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

recycled cardboard = not so healthy

Laurel, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

lunchables? more like lunchdisables!

Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

xpostoramalamadingdong!

Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

more like lunchaDON'TS!

Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

(I know it's pretty much been said 900000x already but: no xpost notification ate my balls)

dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Thought what was scolding?

jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

nonono-- FFN is not scolding. I just meant that it did not have the effect on me of making me want to eat McShitcakes every day.

Jenny, if you were me today you would have eaten
oatmeal
figs
nuts
grilled cheese
pretzels
applesauce
licorice

for dinner i hope to eat a salad with giant scallops!

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Fast Food Nation

dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm coming off as cranky, but that article made me cranky. Sorry you're so sensitive about what you eat, sister, but that's not my problem.

Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG I LOVE GIANT SCALLOPS

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, that settles that! :) Also, once again, fuck no xposts... how confusing.

dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I love everything that Amanda has eaten today with the possible exception of pretzels, which I don't hate but which I rarely get excited for. Unless you are talking about SUPER PRETZELS in which case: AWESOME.

Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i know. it blows.

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

GODDAMN THE NO XPOSTS

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc I still have a copy of FFN if you want to borrow it.

dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

If you were my friends you would go with me to Lawrence's sometime and eat (fried) giant scallops.

Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

And his awesome follow up: Reefer Madness

dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

oh and a diet hansen's rootbeer because i could not stop eating licorice.

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

The fact that FFN is apparently not scolding means that its appearance in old girl's article makes even less sense.

jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i dunno about fried scallops-- are they rubbery? i usually only make my own because i am FUSSY about rubbery scallops.

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Bye Chicago. I'm going home to eat the $12 worth of caprese salad I bought from Jewel to take to a meeting that turned out to be nonexistent.

Come to my conference tomorrow at UNITE Hall, 333 S. Ashland, at 10 AM to hear me give a fiery speech. Stay for free food.

Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to go to Lawrence's sometime. Actually, Kr and I did stop in when we went to Chinatown recently, but we weren't hungry, so we just kind of looked around and promised ourselves we'd return someday.

jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

They're not rubbery, they're BUTTERY.

Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr

jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I think scallops are a perfect transition food from vegetarianism to fish-eatingism. They don't have heads, taste like whatever you put on them and have an inoffensive texture if cooked properly.

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Mmmm buttery.

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr is buttery?

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, I'm to drive slow and rock shows. Have good weekends.

Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Even though I've been typing it for nearly a year, it just occurred to me how funny "Kr" is.

jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

BYE GUYZ

jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

It's the periodic abbreviation for krypton(ite).

Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, both of the Schlosser books are pretty fascinating in a non-obnoxious way.

n/a, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

My fave veggie burgers are the Morningstar Grillers PRIME. I don't think they contain any vegetable matter at all, just mysterious chemicals. They're probably relatively fatty because they are DELICIOUS.

n/a, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I checked out this book from the library but I'm not sure I'm actually going to read it.

n/a, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

(from the amazon description) But the meatless diet couldn't be completely violence-free, for it also appealed to Adolf Hitler. Stuart points out that not only was Hitler a vegetarian but so were Himmler, Hess, Bormann and possibly Goebbels. They even argued about the purity of each others' diets, with Hess declining to eat meals cooked by Hitler's chef because the vegetables were not truly organic.

hahaha sorry but that made me chortle

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I read the New Yorker review of it. Sounds interesting.

jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the BPAL perfume i'm wearing today might smell like AXE body spray. I can't tell if it smells good and freshly unisex or like men's deodorant.

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Nothing wrong with a woodsy spicy woman.

Eazy, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Better than being musky, I suppose.

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

This entire conversation has reminded me of the GBV song "Ambergris"

What's that you're wearing/smells so good
You don't wanna know
What's that you're eating/could be misleading
You don't wanna know

La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

so if I go to Panang circa 7:45 tonight some of y'all are going to be there, right?

horseshoe, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep, H'shoe.

Haha, I'm loving these Olde-ILM revives. Jeff on Avril Lavigne:

I think her britches are too big.

Jeff on Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (4 years ago)

jaymc, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm late here, but I just wanted to say that that article was knee-jerk reactionary asshattery without a single cogent point. Fuck that bitch.

kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I'm not going out tonight. Sorry guys, but it suuuucks out there.

kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

And my mom said that I would never be famous

Also, Jeff OTM re: Avril Lasagna.

Jeff, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Again, can you see "cynical and lazy" as her trying to speak for the bulk of the population of the country? Like "put this important information in some terms everyone can understand and appreciate instead of being snobby about it and making them feel like they're being talked down to"?


Ok, but isn't that basically the same argument the right wing uses to convince people they're victims of a sinister left-wing cabal? "They're snooty; we're REAL." Ok, ok, I do not doubt your existence, but "real" and "possibly mistaken" are not opposite ends of the same spectrum. I understand her point about Whole Foods, and how it's easier for poor people to afford bad food than good. Or at least, it's an obviously more enticing an option to them. But those problems are systemic, and not at all the fault of organic farmers or consumers of grass fed beef or any such thing. If there is any real complaint against certain kinds of food zealots (who, by her description, I have never met) in this article, it's overridden by what I suspect to be hysterical and totally unwarranted hatred of libruls and their damn judgmental ways. It's right-wing propaganda, is what this is, of the lowest sort.

kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I must say, though, that if the next big conservative talking point before the election is that we should all keep eating fast food with impunity to protect our freedom, I will be highly amused.

kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"Fatten up, America! Also, smoke! Smoke while there's still time!"

kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(umm... I take back the phrase "of the lowest sort." The kind of phrase that sets people's teeth on edge. I retract it.)

kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link


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