Franchising is a whole ‘nother ball game: the owner of the franchise makes money no matter (up to a certain point, of course) how many of the individual stores might fail. That’s why you can see a Starbucks or Subway on every corner; they aren’t all making the same amount of money but all of them are generating money…
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I was just wondering that!
It’s probably nitrates you remember tasting; something manufactured in those giant cans would be swimming in preservative.
Ohh, that spaghetti!
The absolute worst was this limp, disgusting carrot-raisin-mayo “salad” they’d shove at us whenever the cafeteria workers were feeling extra sadistic. It was disgusting, revolting. Shredded carrots bleeding their orange life essence across the glops of mayo, studded with rock-hard off-brand raisins.
Our cat Harvey adores chewing up paper and plastic. You can’t leave a newspaper around him.
I have to give a standing ovation to that header picture. That pug’s face says it ALL.
Three or four times a year, inside and out. It’s amazing how much grumb (grime + crumbs) can build up in those accordion layers of the seals. Good time to toss old condiments and remember to use up that half jar of chutney on making curried chicken salad sandwiches, too.
Or was actually an incredibly successful long con pulled off by a sociopath criminal who laughed all the way to the bank.
They don’t feel special and smart taking a free vaccine. They’d rather demand hugely expensive, hard to manufacture antibody therapy or ridiculous crap like horse dewormer. That’ll show ‘em. Show ‘em all.
I can’t remember the exact wording, but the incomparable Michael Herriott said about another shitheel “I feel like people who say ‘I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy’ don’t know what the word enemy means.”
Lower Decks, indeed.
Barkley was way too technically competent to fail as bad as these guys did.
Idaho is so bad that the death panels have come true; patients have to be triaged out into “gonna die,” “might die,” “might live” because resources are so stretched---and the denialists are full blown insisting that COVID isn’t real and these hospitals are all in on a huge hoax.
Ahhh, Neil. You’re the best.
The GOP isn’t rallying behind Dump as he tries to bring down his only real equal in evil, McConnell. So I think once he actually chokes on a Big Mac and heads to Hell, the shedding of his orange skin dross will be faster than anyone now dreams.
According to Joan Didion, you have between ten and fifteen minutes after you become disabled in the desert before the coyotes show up. Food is too precious in that environment for them to wait around.