Sunday, April 27, 2008
On intelligent design
It seems that the question is not so much the intelligence in the system, but whether that intelligence has a will.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Questions for the Editor
> I know your stance on Taco Bell (I think), but what is your
> take on KFC? Specifically, their wraps? The chicken can be
> a bit heavy, but I saw a commercial for some wraps that
> look delicious.
McDonald's now sells salads.
Someone recently said that going to McDonald's for a salad is like going to a crackhouse for vitamins.
Somehow, KFC selling wraps is the same thing. If you're not going there for the big bucket of greasy chicken, why are you going there? I just don't see the buying wraps idea as prudent. ---If you're going to some restaurant for the experience and you choose $10 wraps becuase you're at a restaurant with friends and it's the experience, fine. But driving to a place for a $5 wrap sandwich that you can make at home for, what, a buck? And you're getting the restaurant experience of a KFC?
I actually don't mind the big bucket of greasy chicken. I don't get it a lot because I spend the rest of the day sliding out of chairs and I spend the next three days all shiny. But it's something I can't make myself. And it's cheap. I remember hanging one summer with some Middletown kids at the little half-park down by Home and Ravine Avenue. One worked for KFC and would bring a huge hefty bag of the leftover end of the day chicken--like 20 pounds of it--and we would all eat
it. Yum.
And I also spent a lot of time in the company of a woman who had a deep and restless craving for it. It was part spiritual and part unreal, but she would gorge on KFC on a regular basis. It was a woman thing.
I don't mind the Taco Bell food, and get it regularly. Beef and Chicken grilled stuffed burritos. They're great. (Not deep fried, not baked in a huge wad of polyunsaturated synthetic polymer cheese-food product.) But I don't eat it there, cramped into an over air-conditioned plastic booth caked with refried beans someone has sneezed onto the wall. Zitty-faced zombie high school kids on both sides of the counter. Nope. The take-out window is absolutely necessary.
I found an excellent and cheap fish shop in Meriden. Now that's food.
> take on KFC? Specifically, their wraps? The chicken can be
> a bit heavy, but I saw a commercial for some wraps that
> look delicious.
McDonald's now sells salads.
Someone recently said that going to McDonald's for a salad is like going to a crackhouse for vitamins.
Somehow, KFC selling wraps is the same thing. If you're not going there for the big bucket of greasy chicken, why are you going there? I just don't see the buying wraps idea as prudent. ---If you're going to some restaurant for the experience and you choose $10 wraps becuase you're at a restaurant with friends and it's the experience, fine. But driving to a place for a $5 wrap sandwich that you can make at home for, what, a buck? And you're getting the restaurant experience of a KFC?
I actually don't mind the big bucket of greasy chicken. I don't get it a lot because I spend the rest of the day sliding out of chairs and I spend the next three days all shiny. But it's something I can't make myself. And it's cheap. I remember hanging one summer with some Middletown kids at the little half-park down by Home and Ravine Avenue. One worked for KFC and would bring a huge hefty bag of the leftover end of the day chicken--like 20 pounds of it--and we would all eat
it. Yum.
And I also spent a lot of time in the company of a woman who had a deep and restless craving for it. It was part spiritual and part unreal, but she would gorge on KFC on a regular basis. It was a woman thing.
I don't mind the Taco Bell food, and get it regularly. Beef and Chicken grilled stuffed burritos. They're great. (Not deep fried, not baked in a huge wad of polyunsaturated synthetic polymer cheese-food product.) But I don't eat it there, cramped into an over air-conditioned plastic booth caked with refried beans someone has sneezed onto the wall. Zitty-faced zombie high school kids on both sides of the counter. Nope. The take-out window is absolutely necessary.
I found an excellent and cheap fish shop in Meriden. Now that's food.
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