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The Gallery of Regrettable Food
Pizza? At Home? With CHEESE?
It’s time to make fun of the past for not being as clever and sophisticated as our brilliant modern age. Oh, the inadequacies and banalities of their dreary world!
I’m not sure why I deserve a break today
That seems rather generous and presumptuous
Do you remember these McDonald’s uniforms? I don’t. But that’s what they wore before they switched to . . . brown, I think.
Joe Ohio 1957
The Lincoln Rep
“Sure” Joe said. “We do a lot of insurance work. It’s pretty straightforward, usually. Pass-alongs, like this one - “ he tapped the book Mr. Wright had laid on the desk - “but they usually come down from the home office.”
The Channel-Changing Pliers, Explained
There’s an odd subset of AI-made boomer-bait dreck that consists of Warner Brother characters talking about the good old days. I’m sure it’s the product of bots in Indonesia run by Chinese operatives, trying to sow discord and rile up the Y...
Gloomy Food and the Decline of McD
What can save the tired old chain?
I had an apotheosis on Highway Ten many years ago while heading home to North Dakota, a Saul-on-the-Road-to-Fargo moment. I’d pulled into the McDonald’s in St. Cloud as usual, and ordered two cheeseburger...
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