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I suspect the days of a

A-nonny-nonny — Thu, 14 May 2015 15:52:48 +0000

I suspect the days of a single fast food chain appealing to everyone are over. Urban poor that went to fast food because they lived in a food desert are probably going to convenience stores and dollar stores now. The rural poor trek to Walmart once a week or so. Urban folk with income have so many other options. Chipotle's is trying to rebrand as healthy with their no-GMO assertions, but McDs has a much deeper hole to climb.

Thanks, for the welcome back.

Elusive Trope — Sun, 10 May 2015 03:16:42 +0000

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Thanks, for the welcome back. I won't go into the boring details, but year now I've finally have a pharmaceutical regime and counseling for the past year that has me in better place than I've been in over over me over thirty years (as well as I don't have a lot of stressors).

You're comment reminds of the little birds that hung out at Dick's looking for scraps of bugers and fries. Even some nature's creatures like the greasy indulgence.

Not only that, your comment reminds me of the the days I grew up in Seattle and pretty much everybody went on a trip for more than a week, the first thing they would think of going to get an order of Dick's Deluxe Burger, fries and a shake.

Nice to see you, Trope! I

barefooted — Sun, 10 May 2015 01:46:07 +0000

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Nice to see you, Trope! I hope you've been well in your absence here.

"My" McDonald's didn't have a drive-thru window either, that hole-in-the-wall idea came later. (Thankfully for me!) There's a place here called El's - a real live drive-in that dates back to my little kid days. A shack, really, with a big parking lot they repaved after thirty years, an old Oak tree for shade and a huge outdoor menu sign that's always lined with seagulls. Rain or shine, the ladies somehow manage to get all those bags of superburgers and shrimpburgers - with requisite onion rings - to all those cars in minutes. No inside seating ... which no one would consider anyway. It's such a landmark that when locals move away El's is a must-stop on visits home. It's funny - when the last bad hurricane came through and severely damaged the hospital next door, all anybody cared about was that big old tree getting hurt.

Come to think of it, there's not a single salad on their menu. Seagulls prefer fries.

Excellent blog.

Elusive Trope — Sun, 10 May 2015 00:26:44 +0000

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Excellent blog.

I was thinking back to when I was we six and seven years old and we would go McDonalds, Burger King, and Taco Bell. It was as you said, it was that special treat we got once in a while, usually when we had spent the day doing things like going to Zoo (I grew up in San Diego, and when it was one of the top notch zoos. giving the animals a notch or two, which meant the people didn't have a really up close experience with most of the animals, and sometimes all of a particular animal would be in their little caves away from the stares of the visitors). What has really changed is back then there no drive-thru windows at those places around me.

If you wanted your food fast in the late sixities, you had to get out of the car and walk up to the windows or go inside. The Taco Bell near our house didn't even have seating except for a few tables outside. The only places that had one was the Jack-in-the-Box, which had that funny head you spoke into and usually had to repeat your four or five times and you couldn't understand what they saying in response, the Der Wienerschnitzel which specialized hot dogs was the drive-thru and it was tunnel with both sides of A-frame building around you.

In Seattle you can still have the experience of a place with no drive through and you have to stand out to give your order and I believe they basically sell just a few kinds of burger, fries (hand cut there) and milkshakes with real ice cream. And that is a couple of places of local chain of Dick's.

"Danger lurks."That's a

barefooted — Sat, 09 May 2015 00:56:26 +0000

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"Danger lurks."

That's a genesis for a haiku if I've ever seen one, and we both know the perfect place for it. It's not like you've got anything else to do while you wait for two storm systems to converge over your head.

... and piss off alot of

barefooted — Sat, 09 May 2015 00:35:12 +0000

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... and piss off alot of beachgoers here for a big weekend - not to mention the businesses that need the ones who stay home. Surfers, on the other hand, are thrilled!

The biggest potential danger is rip currents. They are too easily deadly to idiots who insist on going in the water when the sun shines between bands.

Thanks, trkingmomoe. This is

Oxy Mora — Sat, 09 May 2015 00:25:34 +0000

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Thanks, trkingmomoe. This is interesting tonight. One system moving north, one moving west, converging about where I am.

BTW, my son-in-law was driving one of my trucks from Atlanta to Virginia today and was stopped in traffic about two miles from where the small plane crashed the freeway. Danger lurks.

Another daggster and I have

trkingmomoe — Sat, 09 May 2015 00:16:33 +0000

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Another daggster and I have been watching for that low to develop off the coast of North Carolina on facebook for the last week. I didn't expect it to develop and he thought it would. It should give you plenty of rain for the farmers.

Please stay safe. I have

trkingmomoe — Sat, 09 May 2015 00:09:03 +0000

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Please stay safe. I have been following all the storms.

Hey, thanks, barefooted. Last

Oxy Mora — Fri, 08 May 2015 22:55:33 +0000

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Hey, thanks, barefooted. Last night was a near miss but sitting another one out tonight. On the newscast just now the major storm center north of here in Oklahoma reported they were themselves under a tornado watch.

Preciate ya!