Posted on 11/26/2007 12:46:45 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
Arizona Charlie's isn't a buffet, they serve you at your table. The breakfast special at their Sourdough Cafe is wonderful. When my inlaws lived in LV, we ate there every morning.
24 hour breakfast specials:
New York Steak & Eggs - $3.29 N.Y. Steak flame broiled and served with two eggs any style, hash browns, toast & jelly or a biscuit & country gravy
Bone in Ham Steak & Eggs - $3.29 A generous portion of broiled ham steak served with two eggs any style, hash browns, toast & jelly or a biscuit & country gravy
WI winters are long and cold and that's when most people pack on the poundage.
Sweet tea has been on my mind this weekend; my boyfriend is a Northerner, and we visited his fam for the weekend. As we drove south, he began asking for it, and was shocked and dismayed yesterday that his Richmond sweet tea was not quite sweet enough. He’s been spoiled by living in NC! :)
who needs facts when you already have an opinion?
I ate fried olives the other night—they would have been great, but too much sauce. Spoiled the crunchiness!
Hey, we’re down to Number 3! Obviously, I’m gonna have to increase my margarita, Shiner Bock and Taco Cabana intake...
San Antonio rocks!
So adding a lot of sugar replaces the bitterness with???
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In almost every city ranked, the word “poverty” was mentioned.
Well, we have the fattest poor people on the planet, bar none.
This could be fixed in a week or so if the congress had the balls to change the Farm Bill (this is where food stamps lives, and it is federal, not local, so an individual state cannot do anything about it, even if they wanted to.
They talk about exercise initiatives and walking, etc. Hell’s Bells, would any of you walk in Baltimore, Detroit, or SE Los Angeles?
I own a grocery store in Virginia. The “Food Stamp Queens” are the fattest customers I have. And believe me, they are militant, multi-generational, entitled, and proud of it. Any real “cash” money they have goes to cigarettes, alcohol, and lottery tickets.
It is nothing for them to lay down on the belt arms full of chips, dip, sodas, ice cream, candy, cookies, popcorn, etc. Very seldom do I see any “real” food cross the scanner. The children they have with them are just as fat as they are.
I don’t buy for a minute the nonsense about “access” to healty foods. Within 5 miles, we have a Wal-Mart Supercenter, a Food Lion, and a large SuperValu. All the food in the world is available in these stores.
All the government has to do is remove the above-mentioned items from the allowability list. The problem would start to go away in very short order. But unless the party that proposes it has a veto proof, cloture proof majority, it ain’t gonna happen!
Flame away if you feel the need, but this is the reality where I live.
Mmmmmm...Shiner Bock!!
My favorite is stove top cooking. You can cook anything in skillet with a couple tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Fish, chicken, pork chops all turn out yummy. Baking is good also except in summer when it's too hot to turn the oven on.
I can't remember the last time I actually fried something. I wasn't brought up on fried foods and as an adult I've never really cooked that way. My mom cooked tasty but healthy food for the family so I guess I just take after her. That's not to say I don't love fried chicken or Micky D's french fries once in a while ;)
Good point.
It instead tastes sweet, with a little bite.
I can eat healthy enough, but still suffer because I tend to eat gigantic portions when compared to USDA standards.
The people who conducted this survey obviously never came here to Albuquerque, NM.
Not this weekend! Cleveland swallowed Houston!
I’d love to see the methodology on these surveys about how they obtain the figures. ‘Drive-by” videos? Weigh-ins at malls? weights gathered at county healthcare centers?
Particularly when cities like Austin ‘shoot up’ in the rankings while others like Houston apparently drop precipitously.
Every time one of these things comes out, our TV stations go crazy with drive-by videos of fat people on the streets.
The funny part is if you calculate my BMI at the time, I was well within the normal range by modern standards.
But at the saner time in American history, I looked like an emaciated beanpole and there was a genuine concern that I had a parasite or something because there was zero problem with my appetite (still isn't, unfortunately) and my fat percentage was probably near 0% with just a typical lifestyle (moderate exercise, sports and walking).
Nowadays everyone is terrified to let their kids play outside. When I was a little kid in the early seventies we were always playing outside. Our moms would just say, “be home by six o’clock,” or whatever. These days everyone locks their doors and no one wants to let their kids outside without an adult chaperon. The funny thing is that according to all the statistics the crime rate was actually a little higher when I was a kid in the early seventies. People just have the perception that there is a lot more crime today. I blame it on 24 hour news channels. Back in the day we’d have the six o’clock news and they’d only cover what they could cover in an hour. Now Fox News, CNN, etc., have to fill 24 hours with “news” so they dig up as much salacious crime news as they can, that and all the ridiculous reporting on spoiled celebrities, anything juicy. The same crimes were being committed decades ago, there just wasn’t so much reporting on them. Now we hear about it all, whether it happens anywhere near us or not, and people are left with the impression that things are a lot worse than they used to be, there’s a boogyman around every corner.
I've noticed that when news segments are done on the obesity epidemics, we get lots of drive bys of fat people from the neck down, or with the faces blurred out-but they're never *very* fat. They'll be 40-50 lbs overweight. The TV stations never get videos of the 300-400-500lbs + behemoths I see at wally world. I've never been able to figure that out : Why they illustrate segments on obesity with people who aren't terribly overweight at all, rather than with people who show just how bad it can get.
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