Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 15, 2012

Perhaps this was a bad choice for all concerned.

I’d take the pepper jack and leave the rest of the orange stuff.

Not at franchise restaurants, Mr. Otterloop.

Finding an actual orange on the menu would be a-peeling.

Did you see where McD is no longer going to put “pink goo” in the burger?

Probably means they overdid it with the yellow ink when they printed the menus – it happens.

Yeah, I know what’s in the food at McD and BK. That’s why I DON’T eat at either one! Let’s just say, Chimps and Horses are endangered as a result of McD and BK!!

Harry Harrison’s classic SF book “Bill, The Galactic Hero” postulated a future where there was so much vegetable matter and horsemeat in the food, the hotdogs were “Cloro-Fillies” and the hamburgers were “DobbinBurgers.” And he, in the space navy, had to “cut his coffee substitute into chunks small enough to swallow.” A send-up of the Golden Age of SF.

don’t get me started on using horses for meat. I am a horse lover and I support humane slaughter of unwanted horses. People get so excited about limiting mustangs of the wild. Hello? horses are an invasive species.. not native!! and old horses need a LOT of care – much more humane to let them end their lives in service – lions, tigers and bears in the zoos gotta eat too.

Ahhh,, sooo, it’s all in the family phobia time!! Petey boy isn’t alone after all. Interesting things hanging on the walls apparently aren’t what make the place……hmmmm, methinks maybe the things on the wall are just a clever distraction from the orangeness…………

O ye of little faith! The “orangeness” is of the menu, not of the food! I’m sure that P.J. Piehole’s offers nothing but the very, very best organic, free-range, mountain-grown, natural, fresh food at fast-food joint prices! La la la la!

Good one.

Raspberryice54 said, about 7 hours ago:

Well, head for McD’s or BK where you know what’s in the food. We do, since when?

Since watching things like “Food,Inc” I don’t eat fast food. I eat a lot more true organic and free range local food. Even when I ate their food I didn’t want to see their restrooms.

My food store has free range poultry; I buy a fresh killed turkey breast about every six weeks. I’ll roast one today stuffed with fresh herbs and a few spare vegetables just for more flavor- baste it with white wine. I store slices in a freezer box separated with thin hard plastic. That makes many of my healthy meals with a variety of good sides.

That was totally UNCALLED FOR!

Wonder if there is any Orange Roughy on the menu?

Where can I find one of these restaurants?? Grilled pepper-jack cheese, sweet potato fries, orange slices and an Orange Crush. Bring on the orange color! And my Pepcid pills are orange too.

I’d come for the cantaloupe.

Alice seems perfectly happy. When I was a kid, I always liked to get the piece of turkey or roast beef with the hole from the meat thermometer. I thought it was the bullet hole from where they shot it!

Was that REALLY necessary? While everyone is entitled to their opinions, one should hold their Self-Righteous ones to themselves.

I didn’t know about the pink goo either, but I stopped eating at MD’s a long time ago. Now I’m very thankful that I did.

Can’t eat breaded stuff any more because of the gluten, but I used to love the sauce that BK served with their onion rings – that is, if I could get any. The BK’s I went to were very chary with their sauce. Forget what color it was. Probably pink, judging from online fake recipes.

I would not be there so no problem with that ;-D

@Dry, Raspberry and new folks, thanks! I learned that fast foods (and public school programs too :-( get their meat from sources that throw together the scrap stuff, they sterilize it with nasty chemilals and try to cover that with special sauces. It may taste OK but I don’t enjoy now that I know that. There are many online places that feature Jaime Oliver and even the Food Inc film is probably still out there. I am willing to share my recipes by email and on my Facebook with anyone and I keep trying to improve them more. I watch lots of TV and much is Food and Cooking. I currently love my local “Sprouts” store as they generally have the best overall prices in my main food (produce, organic meats, and baking products). I go elsewhere for a few things like wrap, containers, paper goods, etc.

vldazzle I would enjoy that , but please be careful sharing your email and Facebook. And I don’t do Facebook myself for that reason. Oh and you are welcome! I enjoy your comments!I am so curious as to how you came to have birds as pets. A neighbor of mine some years back had a cockateil, Peaches, as a pet. Loved that bird. He was SO NEAT! He got married (my neighbor, not the bird LOL) and his wife made him get rid of him. He went to a good home, but still . . . Oh, and my old neighbor and his wife are now DIVORCED!

My god, that’s how they kill the olives in my martinis.

I love pepper jack.