Yes.

Edit: Oops, wrong thread. Damn tiredness.

I am no longer listening to anything Americans have to say about food ever. It seems a sure-fire recipe (ho-ho!) for calcified veins.

That's pretty much it. It's actually kind of tasty if extremely messy.

This coming from a man whose countrymen deep-fry candy bars before eating them?

In all seriousness though, fast food isn't really representative of American cuisine as a whole. I can count the number of times I eat at fast-food franchises ("restaurants" is too complimentary a word, I feel) in any given year on one hand.

Go eat a lime.


Edit: Also, deep-fried candy bars? America wins for we have deep-fried soda.

http://inventorspot.com/fried_soda

Cousin's wedding was so much fun, and I caught the bouquet!

The guy who caught the garter though, that was awkward because they all decided to sit me down and have him put the garter on my leg. Very, very awkward when you have a boyfriend.

That's... weird.

My own "rave" is that I now own four computers: An iMac (circa 2007) dual-booting an older version of OS X and Win XP SP2; a "gaming" PC (circa 2008) running Win XP SP3; a new MacBook, which I legally own, but which is being used by my ailing father (my grandmother purchased if for his use, but should he die, she doesn't want his latest wife to keep the MacBook — thus why I own it); and finally my mother's Asus netbook. I irresponsibly spilled coffee on its keyboard while visiting her a couple months back, and I ordered a replacement keyboard for it, but she went ahead and bought herself a new netbook in the meantime, giving me the old one. She's a talented attorney who has to turn away clients on a daily basis due to being overbooked all the time, and she likes the new netbook a lot better, so everything turned out for the best I suppose.

So yeah, two desktops, a laptop, and a netbook. My ownership of the laptop is rather morbid considering the unfortunate conditions of ownership, but own it I do.

Kinda weird. I started college owning one very large, very old, very finicky, very crappy laptop.

Currently I have 2 desktops, 2 1u rack mountable servers (dell poweredges, I believe), 1 laptop, and 1 laptop that's essentially mine, but if I leave my job they'll want it back... maybe.

Edit: So yeah, I know the joys of having a lot of computers... not trying to outdo anyone, just empathize... realized that could have been misconstrued.

A bunch of army/college boys having a fun night celebrating my cousins and their best friends wedding, my aunt came up and said she had meant to warn me about it but happened too fast for it, and she had had a chat with some of the groomsmen but not all.

A bunch of army/college boys having a fun night celebrating my cousins and their best friends wedding, my aunt came up and said she had meant to warn me about it but happened too fast for it, and she had had a chat with some of the groomsmen but not all.

You didn't know? I've always avoided the whole garter throwing event myself Hate weddings

Last garter toss I was at, they didn't do the awkward thing.

I've never seen that before, either.

Well, the last wedding I attended was my female cousin's. It had a medieval renaissance theme, so everyone had to dress up in some sort of medieval garb. Yep, my cousin is a role-playing nerd just like me, and so is her husband. I don't think there was even a garter-throwing, as it was more... uh, Celtic/pagan traditional.

A while before that, at a more normal wedding (though it was on yacht), the guy who caught the garter simply pocketed it.

For the record, surprising as it seems, it actually has less calories, fat, etc. than ordinary burgers they've been selling at Mickey D's for years. Not that that's any standard for good health, or anything. But it's surprising how heavily people have come down on the Double Down as being a new low.

(Also for the record, I haven't had one. I don't think the local KFC does them, but I haven't been to it.)

The double down is basicly the same as this chicken cordon bleu which people pay big bucks for in fancy restaurants and no one whines about how awful it is:



Notice how it is fried chicken, wrapped around cheese and ham?

That looks grotesque as well. And I make a point of not eating at basically any takeaway. Especially McDonalds. I don't think I have since I was about eight, and I saw some documentary about the standards of hygeine there. The nuggets, urg.

I'm probably not a good person to argue 'bout food with, though, I'm like the brown bread, brown rice, grilled chicken guy.

My rave: being a cheap drunk.

This happens at every wedding I've ever been to, so it sounds perfectly normal to me. Except at most of the weddings I go to, they make garter-boy put it on bouquet-girl's leg with his teeth.