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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...

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

they have the best commercials

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

yea I know

I fully expect it

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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)...

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

Try adding lemon and ghost pepper powder...

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...

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...

hedge wrote: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.

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...

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