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Subject: Re: McDonald's (was Re: Boss Peeve)
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 30 Sep 92 01:43:46 MST
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In article <BvCpM9.KEA@nic.umass.edu>, jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:
>In article <lch0ejINN3as@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
>>The company seems to represent a composite of all the usual societal boogey-
>>men to these folks: artificiality, massive beef consumption, environmental
>>"insensitivity" <gack>, etc., etc., ad nauseum.  One of these guys (some
>>Stanford type) even went so far as to label it a "deathkultur."  
> 
>My only problem with McD's is that they take away business from perfectly good
>diners.  To me, there is nothing that affirms my pride in being an American
>like a slice of meat loaf, some mashed potatoes and a helthy wallop of peas
>served to me by woman with HairFromHell(TM) who calls me hon & keeps my
>coffee cup eternally full.

Those diners are still around, Jenny.  We call them truck stops.  A good
one will be just like what you described.

Peeve: On I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson, there is a perfectly bad
restaurant (the TA Restaurant--from TA Tires, not T&A!) that I like
to call the Art Deco Truck Stop.  Out in the middle of scrub grass,
you see this truck stop with matching motel.  Kinda biggish, but it
looks impressive and homey from the outside.

Go inside, and you see a giant room with a high roof, pastel pinks and
Miami-Vice-blue pipes oh-so-prominent everywhere.  A well-apportioned
salad bar is tastefully placed in the rear of the restaurant for
Nutritionally Correct truckers.  Muzak.  Ferns.  You could tell a
BigNameArchitect(tm) from Berkeley or somewhere had designed this place
hoping to "redefine" the truck stop.

I felt ashamed to be a Merkin.

I came in the middle of the day, so I didn't get to see many
RealTruckers(tm). I suspect by night they huddle in the window booths
concentrating as much as possible on their table phones and as little
as possible on the restaurant, leaving the 100 or so genuine wood-
grain tables in the middle unoccupied.

To top it off, the food is too expensive.  $6 for a chicken-fried
steak?  It didn't *taste* like a $6 chicken-fried steak....

Peeve #2: Midwest transplants who moan over the lack of White Castle
hamburgers in the SW.  Does nostalgia really destroy people's brains?

!Peeve: Carl's Jr.  Now THERE is a burger.  They need all the support
they can get against the greedy war-mongering "deathkultur" that is
McDonald's.

> !Peeve:  I've got five gallons of wort simmering on the stove, and the
> whole place is heady with the aroma of malt.

What's wort?  Star Trek Stew?  Toad Legs Surprise?  Are you a Wiccan
by any chance?

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