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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 1st Jan 2008 23:56
Here's something you've probably never tried. Turkey cold cuts and chocolate fountain...
Yum.
No, seriously, it's quite nice.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2008 12:26
You're all freaks, complete and utter freaks, I'm sorry but you are.

Well what about baked beans and pasta? Or rice? I know it's not a hardcore thin to do, but it's nice - what about noodles in a sandwich with bits of meat? Also nice, mind you I eat noodles with anything. Though I wouldn't go as far as mixing dessert and dinner together.

When I worked as a Kitchen assistant we dared one of the waiters to put chocolate sauce on his pasta and pesto for him to eat, he did. He felt sick afterwards.

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Don Malone
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2008 13:22
I avoid McDonald's because a fast food restaurant should be fast. Burger King is no speed demon, but it is the flash compared to my local McDonald's.

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2008 22:16
You should move up north dboy. When I was down south everything moved so slowly, everyone is all polite and takes the time to say hello... but I'm in a rush lol. Up here, at some McDonalds locations, if you don't get your food in 30 seconds your order is free. Well, at least with breakfast, not sure if they still do that with all of the meals.

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2008 22:37
You don't happen to think that green stuff inside your burger was... LETTUCE? Or some other form of green salad?

Don Malone
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 00:41 Edited at: 3rd Jan 2008 00:42
I wish that is how it is Matt. It is just seems like a slower process than it used to be.

I did note on my trips up north that service seems pretty good.

I would freak them out at the Dairy Queen. Dead of winter, snow had been falling, and a southern boy would order an ice cream cone before leaving.

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I did not eat at McDonald's up there though.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 02:21
Well, service is worse in some ways. For instance, people seem to be less enthusiastic about their jobs here. Instead of "Welcome to McDonald's sir, how may I help you today?" Which is how it was for me in parts of the south and out west, up here it's "Yeah, you're at McDonalds... what the hell do you want?" lol. Not quite that bad but you get the idea

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 02:23
Quote: "The grease adds flavor!"


And heart attacks!!!!! Want health pizza? Go to Chicago!!!!!!!

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 02:25 Edited at: 3rd Jan 2008 05:22
Quote: "Want health pizza? Go to Chicago!!!!!!!"

Seems awful far...


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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 05:06
Blah, I've never known a single person who had a heart attack from eating NY-style pizza. *Obviously* you can ditch the grease by folding the pizza and holding it crust-side down... I mean really, don't you know how to fold a slice? Oh right, YOU CAN'T, because chicago pizza is too fat and cumbersome to fold it! And everyone whose anyone knows you can't eat pizza without folding it . That means Chicago style isn't real pizza!!! I win. Slappy, do your thang:



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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 05:07
Quote: "Want health pizza? Go to Chicago!!!!!!!"

The words 'health' and 'pizza' don't generally go well together in a sentence, unless 'bad' comes before 'health'.

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 05:12
No way! with a peperoni and green pepper pizza (my personal favorite) you get your bread, meat, dairy, and fruit, all in one absolutely delicious package . If man can't live on pizza and coca cola alone, I'm going to die any minute now .

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 05:26
Fruit? Oh, who cares. Everyone one knows the best pizza is in New York. Of course you can drain the grease, I always do. Deep dish only makes you fat.


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Posted: 3rd Jan 2008 19:10
Quote: ""Yeah, you're at McDonalds... what the hell do you want?" lol. Not quite that bad but you get the idea"

Actually, once at McDonalds someone said to me 'What do yer wan', and get on with it! You're slowin' us down!' and then proceeded to ask me to repeat my order three times.

It get's that bad, beleive me.


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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 18:26
I stopped going to McDonald's after I saw supersize me, and have not regretted it since. I actually quit eating fast food all together.


And chicago definitely wins the pizza prize. And no, I'm not from chicago, I live on the east coast.


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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 18:33
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And Chicago definitely wins the pizza prize. And no, I'm not from Chicago, I live on the east coast."


YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU BIZAR GUY!!!!!! I live in Maryville Mo, and i still am Chicago all the way. Did you know that the guy who invented the lock thing for the space shuttle to dock onto the ISS lived and invented it in Maryville?

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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 20:35 Edited at: 4th Jan 2008 20:36
Quote: "I stopped going to McDonald's after I saw supersize me, and have not regretted it since. I actually quit eating fast food all together."

Please don't take this the wrong way Bizar, but... that movie was such a load of crap, lol. It's been disproven by people with less of a bias. Think about it: This guy is making a MAJOR change in his diet. He isn't trying to burn off the calories or fat... a diet like that would make anyone puke, and it doesn't have to be fast food. I dare anyone to eat only one type of food every day for 30 days, without exercising, and not get equally sick and whatnot. When I first saw the movie I thought the exact same thing, that I'd never eat at McDonald's again, but after talking to a friend of mine (whose an attending at a hospital in Baltimore, so I trust her opinion lol), the movie was a very poor representation of how unhealthy fast food is. The truth is, If you exercise properly, you could easily live off of this diet without any of the same ill effects that Morgan Spurlock encountered during his documentary.

Quote: "Did you know that the guy who invented the lock thing for the space shuttle to dock onto the ISS lived and invented it in Maryville?"

That would, for me anyway, be an interesting discussion on TGC... talking about what stuff was invented in the towns/ cities where people live. Like, here in Binghamton NY Edwin Link invented the flight simulator, and IBM was founded here too. Might be cool to learn about where stuff is invented that way, hehe.

Okay, pizza-wise we're two for two. We need someone to come along and vote for either NY style or Chicago style and tip the scale, lol.

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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 21:23
Pizza is pizza. I heard it doesn't taste great in Italy, but it's the best in NY. At least that's what I've heard, but having never been to that state (nor want to), I can't confirm that. The pizza in my city is pretty good too, but I much prefer eating Asian food.

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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 22:01 Edited at: 4th Jan 2008 22:04
@Matt Rock, I didn't stop because of the movie, I stopped because fast food IS bad for you. The Movie just made me say to myself "you know, I don't want to eat fast food, so I wont". And I have food allergies. I happen to have lost a lot of weight since then. And obviously I didn't stop because I thought that was the only alternative to eating nothing BUT fast food. I'd be absolutely disgusted by someone who ate nothing but fast food.

But yeah, I probably should have made it sound less like the movie was the only reason I "quit".

As for places we live...
I live in Lexington. You know, that place where the American revolution started. I'm in the greater Boston area, so I really can't name all the important things that have happened/been invented where I live or near me. One though, I'm right near where the headquarters of Digital was.

Edit: Oh! And one of the winners of survivor lives in Lexington!


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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 22:12
Where I live... Ummm... Umm... Well, let's put it this way: There's a plaque in a nearby cafe that says 'In this spot, 1949, nothing happened.'
And Chicago Pizza is the best.


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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 23:35
I vote Papa John's !!!!!!

I'm so deprived.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 01:50
Dude, you just lost 750 points

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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 02:17 Edited at: 5th Jan 2008 02:25
Quote: "And Chicago Pizza is the best."


YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE PWNED YOU NY PIZZA LOVERS!!!!!!!!! PWNED!!!!!!!!

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Seriously IBH? Wow 0_o that is crazy!!!!!
Also, the St.Louis arch is in St. Louis (where i was born)

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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 02:23
I'm a NY pizza fan.


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Veron
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Posted: 6th Jan 2008 18:44
Okay, that's just over the top with all those 's.

All the same, how come nobody's mentioned Australian pizza? It wins against everything! Mmm... ima call me some Dominoes delievered at 4:42AM now... stupid thread gone and made me hungry for a 7 meats... all the way to the edge...

Maccas I love, apart from their diet coke, it makes me feel really sick, but then again, so does bottled diet coke. Anybody here drink LA Ice? It loses it's carbonation faster, which most people think is bad, but I love it! And, it's only $1 for 2L!

I've ranted again, haven't I...


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Posted: 6th Jan 2008 18:52
eh, deep dish is the way to go so much more pizza. i especially like it with TONS of sausage!

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All the way to the edge is the best - there's no crust! My good old pizza man came out at 5AM and gave my pizza to me... he didn't look so happy, heh.


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Posted: 6th Jan 2008 20:26
How do you eat a pizza that has no crust?

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@Pixelator - You've earned a 7 day noob slap. This is not the MySpace forums, so don't post crap like that please.

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Quote: "You've earned a 7 day noob slap. This is not the MySpace forums, so don't post crap like that please."


Im sorry all, i probably did go a little over the top...

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Heh, so true. On those forums they are like that.


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The Myspace forums remind of the people in the movie Idiocracy.

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Posted: 7th Jan 2008 03:59
Don't hate me cause I can't get good pizza.


Plus I could have said Little Ceasar's pizza. Large one topping for $5. How many points would that have cost?

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The best pizza is definitely cheap takeaway pizza which has been (and this bit is most important) LEFT OUT ALL NIGHT to accumulate flavour so that when you wake up in the morning with a hell of a hangover and peel it off your face you have a delicious breakfast to wake up to.

Quote: "When I worked as a Kitchen assistant we dared one of the waiters to put chocolate sauce on his pasta and pesto for him to eat, he did. He felt sick afterwards."

Wimp. The other week after a night out I wanted something flavourful to eat when I got home but there wasn't really anything interesting, so I made some toast and put mango chutney, pesto, tobasco sauce, barbecue sauce, ketchup, butter, cheese, tomatoes, some weird pickle style saucey thing and i can't even remember what else. Now THAT was horrible. I kept making it and eating it though. I think I was a little too drunk to stop.

I did used to eat some pretty funky stuff when I was younger as well though. A bowl of pepperami and raspberry yogurt anyone?

Although one thing I do like which people call weird is sandwhiches made out of biscuits with things like barbecue sauce in the middle. That's got me some funny looks in the past...

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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 14:13
Quote: "Think about it: This guy is making a MAJOR change in his diet. He isn't trying to burn off the calories or fat... a diet like that would make anyone puke, and it doesn't have to be fast food. I dare anyone to eat only one type of food every day for 30 days, without exercising, and not get equally sick and whatnot."


Sorry to quote from the last page, but I agree with Matt Rock - everyday for the first couple of weeks at uni my flatmate went to the chippy for some fast food, he complained that he didn't feel too healthy, so he went onto a diet. I eat from there every so often and I feel fine, though I don't get my fair share of healthy food, but I do keep away from the grease and artery cloggers.

And I don't eat at McDonalds because I hate the quality of their food and am more than happy for people to eat there. Speaking to a friend who works at McDonalds I found that their health and safety regulations are very tight, especially compared to the restaurant I once worked for.

Quote: "Wimp. The other week after a night out I wanted something flavourful to eat when I got home but there wasn't really anything interesting, so I made some toast and put mango chutney, pesto, tobasco sauce, barbecue sauce, ketchup, butter, cheese, tomatoes, some weird pickle style saucey thing and i can't even remember what else. Now THAT was horrible. I kept making it and eating it though. I think I was a little too drunk to stop."


Nice? I think the case is, he was sober and you were drunk, he had the sense not to eat something so disgusting...I mean for goodness sake you forgot the Helmans, if TV told me anything it's that Helman's mayonnaise makes the sandwich.

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Sadly I've had to cut out everything good in the world including McD's and PizzaHut for the physique I'm working on.

But when I do get to go to McDonalds it's heavenly!

I dont get why people dont find it delicious! Its crap, but it's amazing crap.

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Quote: "I dont get why people dont find it delicious! Its crap, but it's amazing crap."

That's exactly the problem.


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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 07:22
Little Caesars... I'd tell you how many points you would've lost for that, but in attempting to figure it out the calculator produced -e+63 . lol I had the unfortunate mishap of ordering from them a while back, not good! They have that same deal here, 2 allegedly large pizzas for $10... Seriously, I've seen chocolate chip cookies that were bigger! I mean that literally of course, did anyone else have a Carvels around them when they were growing up? Fudgy the Ice Cream Whale?

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fast food opinions depend on what you consider fast food
i.e.: here on the west coast me and my friends chill at pizza my heart, which gets all sorts of perspectives.
P.S. if anyone else has been to PMH please share your experience, as it is a ritual to go there once every two weeks minimum in my town

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I used to hang out at a place called Azzi Pizza, which is a palindrome that I never realized until a few years after. Anyway I went there every night for about 4 or 5 years. Funny thing is I never tried their pizza--- but damn they had great burgers Bottomless coffee for $1.50--- you just can't beat it.

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I'd be careful slaggin off McDonalds they are known for sueing people, even ones without money!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1415518,00.html

The basic law of libel is don't write it unless you can prove it. You got evidence of your green burger? Holiday photo of it?

If I was a Mod I would have removed this comment because even the forum could be sued as a publisher of your comment

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Posted: 10th Jan 2008 15:44
I think that's silly, I take it McDonalds didn't realise real people don't have as much money as they do, yeah the protesters should have had proof - perhaps they felt they were right and protested on their conviction after seeing some sort of 'proof' themselves. Even if they didn't, I'm sure there are other solutions than a lawsuit.

But hey, it's so easy to sue, you get money out of it, so who cares about the person/people you're suing right? Suing for compensation is a good thing if you need the money on behalf of the offense and the person should rightly hand the money over. (if they deserve of it of course)

I don't have a problem with them selling their food, but I don't think they should have sued.

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Quote: "Bottomless coffee for $1.50"


How much water was in the coffee

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In case anyone hasn't been checking on the petition, there's a few new "interesting" ones.


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Quote: "Quote: "Bottomless coffee for $1.50"

How much water was in the coffee "


Doesn't matter, if it's bottomless it can't hold any coffee at all.


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