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20 October 2005
So I go to get something to eat and...→[More:]Pass a media circus. Apparently our local "we have more kids than most schools" couple are on the view today. How nice for them. Poor Arkansas.
They probably have mad cow, yeah. They are up to child number 16 now and the woman said she wants to have more. INSANE. They have two extended vans that look like the little busses churches sometimes have. In no time they will have to drive a regular sized bus.
Also: Arby's Roast Beef is lean as hell. Good-tasting low-calorie fast food, people. About 320 calories per sandwich. And one packet of Arby's Sauce only has 15 calories and is plenty for a sandwich. Eat up.
I saw that couple in an article on CNN earlier this week, weretable. Meant to post it and forgot all about it. Those poor kids. I doubt any of them have much, if any, one-on-one time with mum and dad. And, of course, the older kids will be forced into caring for the younger kids shortening their childhood.
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me3dia, IIRC there are two sets of twins.
And one packet of Arby's Sauce only has 15 calories and is plenty for a sandwich. Eat up.
Are you kidding me? Two is a bare minimum, three is better. An Arby's sandwhich is merely a thing to hold Arby's sauce. One is better that McDonalds, but still sorely lacking, that's for sure ;-)
I'd like to take this moment to rant about the 'Bold' button stealing my Ctrl-E emacs-style key binding for moving to the end of the editing line. And oddly, I'm a VI guy.
How in the world have we gone this long without anyone mentioning the jamocha shake?
(And, as a transplanted Arkansan, let me just take this opportunity to say that Mike Huckabee's chances of getting a presidential nomination in 2008 are effectively zero. You heard it here first.)
Hucakbee is too much of a joke for anyone except die hard repubs to take seriously after the nonsense with the trailer, believing that the government of Canada was in giant igloo - which was tragically melting, etc.
I've never gotten close enough to an Arby's sandwich to see said irridescence, but I have noticed it on meat in the deli counter. I haven't gotten close enough to get an Arby's sandwich near my mouth, either.
Huckabee's such a joke--the marriage rally, the diet book, all kinds of stuff. And the cultural-conservative wing of the Republican party has plenty of choices with better recognition and more experience than Huckabee.
Besides, lots of hard-right voters still associate Arkansas with a certain pot-smoking, saxophone-playing boogeyman.
A jamocha shake is kind of coffee-flavored, with a little bit of vanilla and chocolate in there too.
specklet, you poor garbage-food deprived human. We're gonna have to work on you, if only to show you that it's at the junkfood level where nuance and quality become most important, as Mark Kingwell said.
Arby's also made really good jalapeno poppers. But White Castle still reigns supreme among the franchises.
One day, jonmc, you'll go to Japan and try Mos Burger. Your food won't arrive as quickly as at the Castle, but you will know which franchise reigns supreme.
No, but I would certainly try the candy bar. I don't trust Twinkies. When I was a kid my mom had a box in the freezer. I took one out and tried my best to destroy it - jumped up and down on the thing even - and it didn't make a dent. I think I still have whole Twinkies rattling around in my colon . . .
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