Proof positive that broccoli packagers are trying to prepare us for the day when our alien vegetable overlords will launch their plans of conquest:
http://bread-and-honey.blogspot.com/2008/10/wtf-broccoli.html
From WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, audio from a promotional record put out by Kellogg’s for Rice Krispies:
See? There’s a reason I’m fat!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080904/sc_livescience/thinkingmakesuspigout
Hey, Ryan’s restaurants owners:
Your food sucks. Does anybody even taste it before it’s brought out and placed on the buffet? I mean, seriously - do you just dump it out of those industrial-sized cans, heat it, and then put it out? It certainly tastes that way.
My sister Linda took me to eat at a Ryan’s this afternoon, at my suggestion. I hardly ever go there, but there aren’t that many restaurant choices in our small locale, and since I hadn’t been there in a while, I suggested it; she said she hadn’t been there for about three years, either. Well, guess what! There’s a reason we haven’t been there in a long time. And that reason is the food sucks, Goddamn it.
I imagine it’s difficult to run a large restaurant, especially a buffet, where there are various pressures to keep costs down while managing to bring in the punters - food costs have been rising a lot recently, especially. Restaurant owners have a lot of employee costs, and if it’s a buffet, there’s a lot of waste going on. I understand all that.
But, my God, how badly can you screw up something as simple as corn, mashed potatoes, or chocolate cake? For a restaurant that had all sorts of different things on offering (but not chicken and dumplings, to my dismay), you’d think at least some of it would be good. But it all had the feel of being slapped together, as quickly as possible, as if it were going to be thrown to pigs or something. Chocolate-chip cookies undercooked, rice overseasoned, dishes allowed to sit out until they’re as hard as the floor….
I’ll give them some credit: the rolls were hot and fresh, soft and delicious; and the fried chicken was pretty good too. Fried chicken on a Southern buffet is important, so they get a few points for that one.
But everything else? Yuck!