Tag Archives: Cheese

Not amused.

There’s a fast food chain. Lots of them, but this one in particular just came out with a new line of mushroom cheeseburgers. It’s already fried beef with more calories in one serving than you need for two days. Very … Continue reading

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Guaranteed stinky breath

There’s a great big commercial hoo-hah going on about putting whiskey in hamburgers. On a quick religious notion, they already put cheese and bacon on them so it’s a double anti-kosher. And the specific whiskey is corn likker. Moonshine or … Continue reading

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Why can’t the State of Florida tally votes?

By my clock it is just minutes away from 4 pm the day after the national election, however in Florida all the national election reporting sites say that it is still too close to call yet in Florida! How can … Continue reading

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Hardees, Carls Jr, like you mean it

TRUTH IN ADVERTISING DEPT.– Critics of the latest Hardees & Carls Jr ad campaign don’t think the supermodel actually means to eat that egg & bacon cheeseburger, sandwiched between buns of mortarboard. Obviously she’s neither eating that burger, nor blowing … Continue reading

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Suck on this Colorado Springs teat, American tourist!

Most of the US is forbiddingly developed as a horrible eyesore, so Colorado Springs Big Business cheeses chose to market the city with this new logo that looks amazingly like a BIG FEMALE NIPPLE! Cost to come up with the … Continue reading

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The Cooking Network Deen of diabetes is in trouble

Aug 2011- Anthony Bourdain told TV Guide that Paula Deen was “the worst, most dangerous person to America,” who “revels in her unholy connections with evil corporations” and is “proud of the fact that her food is f—ing bad for … Continue reading

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You get your weather forecast at the grocery store DUH!

My Grandpa, 27 year veteran of the Army, was also a staunch Democrat mostly because of Roosevelt and his emergency actions to stop the Depression from destroying America. As bad as it was, it could have gone worse. I know … Continue reading

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Consider the Lilies

My friends are no doubt a scrappy bunch. It’s no big surprise that guys like Jon and Adam and–holy shit–Skip, are pissed off and ready to burn a few barns down, so to speak. I don’t think I need to … Continue reading

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PIC: Hey Georgia, say cheese!

GODDAMN RACIST CRACKERS. By which I mean bloodthirsty Georgian officials, the US Supreme Court and the POTUS himself. Last week a Texas audience cheered their own state’s record number of executions, on TV, the halfwitted bigots. Lynch mobs used to … Continue reading

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Dit Fromage!

Ah, photography and cheese, together again. In French. New concept, Calendar Girls posing with … CHEESE! It doesn’t translate very well, culturally, or didn’t. “Say Cheese” becomes “Dit Fromage! Dit Fromage!” Warning, the webpage is in French. So for those … Continue reading

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Wolfman is a man’s werewolf, no Olalla

Poor wolf man, he’s the bastard of the horror big three. Dracula and Frankenstein have antecedents in folklore but bloomed on the quills of novelists. The werewolf traces back to the Greek, yet no one will pull him from the … Continue reading

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Yes, America is going to Hell.

See can you spot the pattern… (I saw this at the doctor’s office) Food network… Commercial for “lose weight fast and easy with expensive damn exercise machine”… Commercial for Liposuction Clinic… Show featuring Meat and Cheese Grilled Sandwich with butter … Continue reading

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Übermenschen, a shorter story…

The Leaders say that we’ll win in Afghanistan because we have “superior technology”. Like the Soviet Hind helicopters, thermal imaging, an intelligence service that was feared worldwide… Or that before the USAF Terroristic Blitzkrieg bombing began, there were 5 aircraft … Continue reading

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Overheard at the Drive-in

From a family of 7 in an SUV, all of them with weight issues. 8 of the three-days-worth-of-calories-in-one-meal specials, 3 with extra cheese, 6 root beer floats and a Diet Coke. I think at that point the Diet Coke would … Continue reading

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Obama ate a fish who knew Lincoln

Fishermen have always called it the Slimehead fish. It’s sorta-scientific name is Darwin’s Slimehead. But when bottom-of-the-barrel scraping began for the ocean’s remaining fisheries, fishmongers created a market for the never-thought-palatable deep bottom feeder by renaming it the Orange Roughy. … Continue reading

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Life, Love, Liberty and Lunch

I thought the advent of Youtube would finally lead me to the script for a TV special of the late 70s called Life, Love, Liberty and Lunch. I can find only scant trace of it online. And so I will … Continue reading

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Cornmeal

Lack of money to pay for higher priced cornmeal is what is helping starve millions in Southern Sudan, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Somalia, and elsewhere in Africa. Many are just a few weeks from dying because they can’t buy the … Continue reading

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US media takes shoe, makes lemonade

Muntadha al-Zaidi’s shoe may have missed George Bush, but it left a figurative black eye on the warrior emperor, and, a literal shiner on White House spokes- gidget Dana Perino. She was hit by a microphone as secret service agents … Continue reading

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Food alternatives to the Holy Wafer

“It is terrible that Jesus is being wrapped up in gold foil and sold along with chocolate bunnies, edible penguins and lollipops,” said Aegidius Engel, a spokesman for the archbishopric of nearby Paderborn. German churches find ‘chocolate Jesus’ tasteless Hey! … Continue reading

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In the best of election outcomes…

I’ve been fantasizing for decreasingly brief moments of late, about the outcome of this election. There’s still time to make a wish. Join me! It’s one thing to win the lotto, and another to have everyone win. Let’s assume a … Continue reading

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The DNC’s Denver meatpacking facility

Calling it the Gitmo on The Platte might be a bit of hyperbole here, but look what the Democratic Party has prepared for US dissidents that will arrive protesting their lousy corporate politics? Tasers and cattle pens. I can hardly … Continue reading

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Ice Cream rBGH opens a pint of worms

Looking for an organic source of dairy products leads inevitably to questions about the most substantive food items of the so-called food group: the fat-rich cheeses and ice creams. Where are the blurbs which eschew rGBH and talk of range-fed … Continue reading

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List of top privately held US companies

The shift of businesses into private ownership represents the eroding stake which common Americans have in the Capitalist system. Stock holdings in most public corporations are predominantly in wealthy hands, but private corporations drop even the pretense of serving the … Continue reading

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Embed cheesecake

If you have a sense that embedded reporters may be reluctant accomplices to the war machine, here’s a jolt of indecorous complicity. Attractive blond reporter in sea of Green Zone testosterone lends her “me on tank” snapshot extra cheesecake by … Continue reading

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FDA rapists on the loose, again

One of my favorite jump starts to the day is a breakfast of cottage cheese, fresh fruit and almonds. It’s is a simple meal, easy to prepare, and represents a near-perfect combination of protein, carbohydrate and healthy fat. It’s the … Continue reading

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