Fried shrimp patties are amazing. It’s chopped-up shrimp in batter, then fried like a croquette.

Unless if you’re buying a track edition of a performance car: there they’ll charge you more to take stuff off, like a more flimsy (but lighter!) seatbelt.

If you’re going to ask for substitutions, you should always assume they’re going to charge you more.. Most places will charge you extra even for something as minor as going 1/2-1/2 on chips and fries when they’re the same price; you should definitely expect an sub-up charge for something like scallops.

Waiter was…

Lotteria laughs in BK’s face:

That shaking confirms it: Papi is a junkie....for baseball.

Definitely this.

Down Throws Brown!

Tales of teens pulling stupid and inconsiderate stunts always brings to mind these lines from The Winter’s Tale:

Nope, not really. The government doesn’t take kindly to (potentially) organized groups outside of its purview in general, and buddhists fit the bill.

There’s still plenty of folk religion/ancestoral worship going on, but the actual practicing, vegetarian buddhists are all in Taiwan. And the Buddhist vegetarian cuisine…

This is the kind of BS that drove my Indian-American vegetarian friends nuts during college. Our dining halls were broken down by dorm, and the smaller scale meant that selection was more limited. Rather than make both a vegetarian and a vegan dish, the dorm kitchen went lowest common denominator and made only vegan…

I believe the preferred term is “charismatic megafauna.”

Namaste.

46 yards on 3 straight throws? That’s so Mabin.

This pumpkin onslaught has got to stop. I spotted this at my supermarket last year, not sure if they’ve brought it back this year because I’m too afraid to check.

I’d also check with the other members of staff and see how they handle them. “

That said, while I generally tend to ask questions and let the other person talk about themselves when I’m at parties, there’s a real danger here that these regulars may think that you want them to overshare for 10 minutes straight about how…

Ah, thanks. That choice of eagle design still is very odd.

And this is why we should have turkey as our national bird. I would definitely take up golf if the local club holds a “Turkey Hill Sundae Invitational Tournament.”

Take a look at Mary Bono’s marker. I know it’s a bald eagle, but its 2D design where the wings are outstretched and the head tilts to the left is awfully reminiscent of a certain regime’s Reichsadler.

This is a nice and strategically calculated apolitical gesture that nonetheless has a worthy objective. Shame the parent company would never consider giving its workers a day off.

That’s great news and maybe I overestimated how long it takes inside. I’ll have to try this technique out next time.

You’re lucky. My local McD suffers from a lot of absenteeism and worker turnover; if there is a staff shortage, the drive-through gets the workers.

So while I’m opposed to drive-throughs on principle (needless waste of gas) I will make two points in their favor:

1) Leaving the AC environment of your car to order…

I’m curious to see how the almost-4 minute (234 seconds) average wait for drive-through compares with ordering inside, depending on time of day.