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incredibly cheap cigarettes

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link

CCR were definitely from NORTHERN CA

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link

Damn.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

Hipsters = ??? possibly a kind of pants

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, what the hell am I saying, CCR weren't even good, I hate CCR. Fuck California.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

Also we built the space station

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

grits with shrimp and mayonnaise

Um... I'll have the gumbo, please.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:19 (twenty years ago) link

Kenan, stop pulling a Ned Raggett on this thread.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:19 (twenty years ago) link

< / ;-) )

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

(x-post)

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

Who the hell is that, Jack in the Box? Get me some waffle fries, beeyotch.

(xpost--db you know I'm talkin' to you)

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

It's Ned wearing his pointy wizard hat.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

Thankfully the South doesn't have Jack in the Box.

― hstencil, Monday, 18 August 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

I do. In fact, I thought ONLY the south had JITB.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

I think my new thing is to just call everyone "you racist".

[Pulls off headpiece of giant squirrel suit, looks camera in the eye]

"What, surpised to see me? Face it--you're a racist."

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

Part of the south has JITB, other parts have Hardee's. Both are equally fantastic, as is Popeye's chicken.

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

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― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

I thought Jack in the Box was a California/Left Coast thing. Maybe they have 'em in Texas now? They're certainly no Waffle House.

― hstencil, Monday, 18 August 2003 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

So I have a pointy wizard hat now? And I'm being pulled? Like a pork sandwich?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

I think my new thing is to just call everyone "you racist".

i try to use the phrase "all up in your grill" as many times as possible thru-out the workday. it sends the brokers who call into titters.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

Anyone who dislikes Jack in the Box is a goddamned racist.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

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― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

something good = all the ilxors who live here (except possibly me)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 18 August 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

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― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

I can't believe it took us this far in the thread to get to Faulkner (or did I miss it above?)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:44 (twenty years ago) link

you did. I mentioned Faulkner waaaaay upthread.

― hstencil, Monday, 18 August 2003 20:45 (twenty years ago) link

My first taco ever was from Jack In The Box. :( I blame hstencil.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

Damn, sorry, stence. It's been a long quick thread.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.sewaneewriters.org/images/williams.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

Southern drawl: slow and easy on the ear as poured molasses.

DB: Who told you that Tacos from Jack in the Box were any good? Taking your life in your hands, weren't you;>?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

Hardee's Biscuits and Gravy. So terrible. So wonderful. The snuff film of fast food breakfast.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think I'd like having molasses poured into my ears.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I didn't think so either...

― oops (Oops), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:54 (twenty years ago) link

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― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

The drawl gets a lot of play, but let's not forget the twang.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

or the stammer!

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:56 (twenty years ago) link

We've always had Jack in the Cracks here. At least for all of my 30 years. We also have Hardee's and there's a Popeyes across the street from me.

Jack puts sliced cheese on his tacos. This is clearly, clearly wrong.

Fried okra rules you fules. I had some with my jalapeno burger this weekend.

Stence, born in TX, raised amongst the bluegrass = even bettah!

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

Ally, that depends who is doing the pouring, though

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:58 (twenty years ago) link

Popeye's is maybe the tastiest food in the world if you're incredibly hot and tired and near-dehydrated and then park yourself in the air conditioning. And their sides are so much better than KFC's that I just can't eat KFC anymore.

I'll add Sam's jalapeno burger to the list of somethings nice.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

In your ears though?

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.seabirds.org/falklands/menus/king-penguins.jpg

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Monday, 18 August 2003 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.csulb.edu/~jhrice/b&esmall.jpg

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 18 August 2003 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

To Kill A Mockingbird

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 18 August 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

Biscuits! (I'm making dinner.)

Also, syrups. The selection of syrups for pancakes, waffles, French toast, biscuits, etc., is staggering.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

Oh my god, I need to go to the south, the only reason that I ever even EAT breakfast is for syrup.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

this thread makes me want to go back home, but not really

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

I LOVE Jack in the Box. And their tacos are tasty; what are you guys on to make you think otherwise? My whole friggin' family loves them and we're big sticklers about authenticity. I think maybe you just haven't gotten the ones that are particularly spicy. Those tacos need to have a bite to them in order to be good.

We don't have any Hardee's or Waffle House restaurants locally. We do have Weinerschnitzel, though, which is thoroughly a Sun Belt thing I would imagine. We also have Jason's Deli, which IIRC originated from the South and thus could also fit into this thread. (OMG, their pasta salads. There's this one made with angel hair pasta and featuring chopped avocado and shrimp... *sighs*. It's so big you can share it with someone else, which is a neat thing.

Other localized restaurants here:

Jim's (pretty much an S.A.-only thing)
Bill Miller's (only available in Central & South TX)
Luby's (is it just a TX thing or is it available elsewhere?)
Whataburger (mainly a TX thing)
Taco Cabana (mainly a TX thing)

... and people wonder why so many of us here have weight problems....

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

We had Whataburger in Phoenix. They were pretty good. Paul Westphal was their spokesman for a while.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

I just realized nobody on this thread has mentioned BOURBON.

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 August 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

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