I had some time to kill

 So I made some stuffed mushrooms.

Slow and slow easy Sunday so we can have these as an appetizer.

I made spaghetti with cherry tomatoes, garlic, oil, ricotta salada and basil for the main.

Simple Sunday fare. 

Fast food kills.

Ronald McDonald gunned down at NC Sonic restaurant

UMBERTON, N.C. (WNCN) – A man named Ronald McDonald, 36, was shot during an argument at a Sonic restaurant Thursday evening in Lumberton, North Carolina.

McDonald, who is the husband of one of the restaurant’s managers, argued with Telvin Drummond, 24, an employee at Sonic.

Both men shot at each other. McDonald was struck by gun fire and is being treated for injuries that are believed to not be life threatening.

chicken sandwiches

Chick Fil-A specifically. Would you like to see New York progs head's explode? It's not so fun as it sounds. Chick Fil-A opens in New York and offers the first 100 customers sandwiches for life and that is a very compelling pull. Darren Rovell Twitter post with photo of line 3-4 deep wrapping around the block in both directions from a corner shop, and all with umbrellas opened, raining with hurricane warning. The sophisticates simply cannot believe it.

The link is for the photo and comments.

"Man loses 56 pounds after eating only McDonald's for six months"

"John Cisna, a high school science teacher in Colo, Iowa, who gained national attention for his experiment, says he has lost 56 pounds, lowered his cholesterol and lost a total of 21 inches off his chest, waist and hips while dining only at the fast food emporium."

As enthusiastic as Cisna is about the results, even he’s incredulous about what he’s done. He documents his experience, which ends on March 15, in the new book, ”My McDonald's Diet.”

“It’s kind of scary to realize that in nine days, I’ll have spent half a year of my life eating nothing but McDonald’s,” ... read more 



John Cisna before and after

Via Instapundit who files is under "Health News". 

Bill Murray was asked "What was the oddest experience you had in Japan?"

"The oddest… well, I was eating at a sushi bar. I would go to sushi bars with a book I had called "Making out in Japanese." it was a small paperback book, with questions like "can we get into the back seat?" "do your parents know about me?" "do you have a curfew?"
And I would say to the sushi chef "Do you have a curfew? Do your parents know about us? And can we get into the back seat?"
And I would always have a lot of fun with that, but that one particular day, he said "would you like some fresh eel?" and I said "yes I would." so he came back with a fresh eel, a live eel, and then he walked back behind a screen and came back in 10 seconds with a no-longer-alive eel. It was the freshest thing I had ever eaten in my life. It was such a funny moment to see something that was alive that no longer was alive, that was my food, in 30 seconds."

reedit rip-off

It's Lurking In The Warehouse, Waiting For The Minimum Wage To Be Increased

It sits there quietly, waiting, a soft hum coming from its brain, a dull glow from its LEDs.  Waiting, waiting, patiently waiting.  It knows that before much more time passes it will be called upon to Save The Investments.

It waits for cloying and facile politicians to propose, plead for, nay demand a $10 per hour minimum wage for all base jobs in America.  "Living wage!!" they will scream full throated before cameras and microphones and publishers and editors and cable talkie hosts who never studied economics.

Voters will respond.  Voters will vote.  Unions will fund ad campaigns.  Laws will be made or Executive Orders signed, and a $10 per hour minimum wage will be The Law Of The Land.

Telephone calls will be made, permits and contractors aligned, and fast food stores remodeled.  All so you can get this.....

 

 

.....without human intervention.  A credit/debit card, a tap on a few buttons and this is delivered to you.  One hundred percent fresh, perfect, and made by a robot.

 

Not just any robot, but  the Momentum Machines gourmet hamburger making robot.  Coming very soon to a fast food restaurant near you.  "What do it do?" you ask.

 

Well friends, we got burgers.  We got burgers right here.  Burgers with a capital B right here in River City.  Burgers with a capital B that rhymes with E and that stands for fewer employees.

 

*Chorus in the background chants "burgers, burgers, burgers, burgers, burgers, burgers, burgers"*

 

Let me tell you, neighbors:

Our alpha machine frees up all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant.
It does everything employees can do except better:

• It slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.
• The next revision will offer custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground to order? No problem.
• Also, our next revision will use gourmet cooking techniques never before used in a fast food restaurant, giving the patty the perfect char but keeping in all the juices.
• It’s more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour.

The labor savings allow a restaurant to spend approximately twice as much on high quality ingredients and the gourmet cooking techniques make the ingredients taste that much better.



It slices fresh tomatoes and pickles for every burger.

It grills meat and buns to order, then adds the condiments and toppings to order.

 

 

It shows up on time.  It makes the correct change, every time.  It's never hung over.  It's never high.  It never has baby daddy or baby mommy issues.  It never asks for a raise.  It never has its friends hanging out in the dining area.  It has no face tattoos.  It never argues.  It never steals.

 

It's the Momentum Machines Hamburger Robot.

 

It costs $135,000, and it's inventors claim it will pay for itself in two years by saving labor cost, real estate cost, construction cost, and by offering a gourmet burger at fast food prices.

 

People who want an increase in the minimum wage simply do not understand this, or willfully deny that it can happen.   But it will, just like this happened in the auto industry when wages became too high.

 

 

It won't need to wait much longer.