I guess they don’t fix what isn’t broken
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/why-chick-fil-a-is-successful-2018-9
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I can’t read the article as Business Insider blocks ad blockers. If they are making money they’re doing something right.
Ouch. A friend of mine broke her shoulder last year . . . it wasn’t good then, but she’s good now.
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Dang, what the heck happened? I hope you are seaworthy. You probably know this but a water survival technique I learned is laying on one side and stroking with one arm while kicking with both feet.
The Jets are getting killed by the two B’s but the zebras are trying hard to level the playing field. They’re out of control. Ooops another interception. Me thinks the mono is back.
I could be wrong but you seem like a Giants/Yankee fan.
Jose Altuve!!
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I do but I like plain sandwiches and usually don’t eat maybe a bite or two of the bun taking the rest home to feed the birds or a stray dog down by the railroad tracks.
My mother used to shudder when I would order a hamburger plain being convinced I was the only kid on the planet that ate them this way.
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I’ve only been once, these ladies said it was ok, (and the chicken sandwich was fine)
… but I don’t make a habit of it, and Popeye’s is much closer anyway
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I fell down a flight of stairs and managed to hit the wall then fall down another half flight. I broke a rib too…not a fun few days after the fall.
I’m a giants and mets fan. Did I just admit that publicly? I am definitely rooting for Houston.
I’m afraid to open that video above! 
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I thought they were mutually exclusive from my time watching Boomer and Gio.
I hope you got good “medication”, my favorite part of two joint replacements.
Do the in home therapy if offered, don’t get down and it will be over with before you know it.
I’ve never been [the closest one is 20 miles from San Francisco] and I’m with @Babette, I rely on Popeye’s for my twice a year (err maybe 4 times a year) fast food fried chicken pleasure. I am curious to try it though should the opportunity arise without having to go out of my way.
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Just a happy little song about fried chicken!
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post can’t be empty .
Ouch. I HATE when that happens!!
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Either way, the likelihood is that now no other landlord in the UK will touch them. Too much trouble.
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I’m sure the birds appreciate your largess. My wife has a feeder outside her home office window which I am charged to keep full. Mostly the birds chitter at me angrily from the trees when I disturb them to fill it. sigh Stupid birds.
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Thought that was really funny. As with most satire, there is a bite of truth in it. We are, indeed, a small, quite insular, cold, wet island off the coast of Europe. The writer seems to know us well.
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You’re generally right on that score, Dave.
A few years back, there was some minor political matter concerning one of our two village pubs (both owned by breweries). The landlord/manager of one decided to “decorate” the outside with posters supporting one of the candidates standing for election as councillor. A pal of mine rang the brewery to complain, asking if they were supporting this. Within about three hours, posters had gone and landlord had been warned of the possible consequences of any repeat.
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Plus Wetherspoons and its Brexiteer chairman, Tim Martin.
Definitely tongue in cheek so to speak! On the facebook post comments for this article, I was surprised at the number of folks stateside that think English food is all boiled meats. Some of the very best meals I’ve ever had have been in England, which is in large part why I get all excited to go over once again.
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It’s kneejerk sterotyping of British (not just English food). Used to be a regular comment on Chowhound. On the occasions when I could be arsed to engage with the discussion, it would seem that the view often related to someone (or their older relative) who had served in the US forces, based in the UK in years immediately following WW2. That was a time when food rationing was still in place (didnt end till 1954, when i was 4), few Britons travelled overseas on holiday and there was still minimal immigration of non-white people - so we were an impoverished and quite insular society. It’s interesting that British food comes in for this criticism, yet very similar national food in other North European countries - say Ireland or the Netherlands - does not. One fits the kneejerk I suppose, the others don’t.
I suspect that you’d get a similar stereotyping of American food from most Britons who have visited the country. For most, it will be holidays in Florida and they’ll eat at cheap chain restaurants and come back saying how fantastic the food is (or, indeed, how samey and bland it all was). I remember when we first started to visit the States (first trip in 1980). We’d tour round with a map book and a rough idea where we were going to stay each night. We’d arrive and find a hotel. As for dinner, the only places you knew of to eat were what you could see from the hotel, or had passed in the drive to it. You had no idea of the great little place round the corner that the locals went to. We’ve eaten badly in the States. In fact, possibly my two worst meals ever, anywhere, have been there. The internet changes all that. No need to eat badly in the UK or US
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I think British food gets a bad rap. During my first visit in 1981 pub food was not exciting (except for my introduction to ploughman’s lunch that generated a love affair that endures) but restaurants were pretty good. On subsequent visits pub food got better and better. Frankly pub/bar food went through a similar evolution in the US.
If you make it to the culinary wasteland of Annapolis MD please let me know so I can steer you in the right direction.
Or just look for Dave S in Yelp. I don’t pull punches. grin
