La Salle Explorers

[hedge]

I kinda favored Hardee's, too, when I used to eat that shit, but that was probably mostly b/c my grandfather used to tell me they made their burgers with kangaroo meat. I would also guess, although I haven't had one, that Hardee's's thick burger would be better than any of the standard pancake thin burgers you get elsewhere...

[eCat]

while I have given up burgers, I haven't given up fast food places for breakfast. Its just too convenient.

I get a sweet tea with a jr. meatfree breakfast burrito (egg and cheese) for $2.25 on my way to work pretty much every day

If we got a Hardees, I'd be all over breakfast there

[crashcourse]

they have the best commercials

[Bklyn]

AA is gonna flood you with sweet tea bad PR, eCat. I need to get him out of my head with that shit.

[eCat]

yea I know

I fully expect it

[AlabamAlum]

Hell, drink it. This is America. We practically invented type II diabetes. I just thought the "I am eating healthy now" and "I just drink sweet tea" was funny.

[eCat]

Eating healthy has multiple definitions

For my old man that meant "I'm down to two packs a day"

I'm not sure I intended to relay that I went straight up Euell Gibbons, just that I needed to alter my diet to get off Prilosec and Lipitor.

My decision to give up soft drinks and switch to tea is because tea is water, tea and sugar. I can keep up with that.

[hedge]

Euell Gibbons. That's a name from the past. What was his deal, anyway? Just some old naturalist? Like Marlin Perkins?

[eCat]

I'm not sure anyone under 40 would know who he is

[hedge]

Well, I didn't really know who he was back when he was feed-bagging Grape Nuts and now I realize that my knowledge of him has progressed exactly zero since then. There has to be more to him than just feed-bagging Grape Nuts. And now, come to think of it, those things couldn't have been good for your teeth. It was like chewing on granite pebbles...

[hedge]

That shit could sit in milk for 15 minutes and still chip a tooth...

[eCat]

he kind of became the defacto spokesman for natural eating

I think the joke was he ate tree bark

Nowadays he'd just be one of 200 guys with a reality show on the history channel

[Dave23]

I've been soft-drink free for a month or so now, and since I quit them I find sweet tea (at least the overly sweet kind we have always made, where the spoon can stand up in the glass) to be just too sweet unless I add fresh lemon or lemon juice to make it a bit more tart...

I drink more Gatorade than anything now...water just doesn't do it for me (unless, again, I add lemon)...

[eCat]

I'm getting better at drinking water but its tough.

[hedge]

Try adding lemon and ghost pepper powder...

[hedge]

Now reading up on Euall Gibbons, that fucker was dead at age 64. Goddamn, he looked like he was 80 when he was doing the Grape Nuts commercials...

[hedge]

OK, now it says he died of complications due to Marfan's syndrome, which (according to wikipedia) before the advent of some modern techniques and drugs usually shortened normal lifespan by a third, with many dying in their teens and 20's. So given the Marfan's, I guess he did pretty good to make it to 64. I think I'll go eat some bark now...

[BigRedMan]

I kinda favored Hardee's, too, when I used to eat that shit, but that was probably mostly b/c my grandfather used to tell me they made their burgers with kangaroo meat.

I can't eat kangaroo meat. Makes me jumpy.

[hedge]

Please refrain from eating it then. The energy is would take to lift you off the ground would likely throw a mid-sized planet such as ours out of its orbit...

[hedge]

But I do give you an A- for the quip...