Do you support local?

[Farm Boy]

Hardee's? Why do all the bad American chains get exported...

They don't always look the same overseas. KFC in Shanghai was a relatively high quality meal. It had to be as it wasn't price competitive with the local food. Same with Pizza Hut. It was a nice sit-down Italian style meal that happened to have pizza available on the menu.

 

[thecrazyscot]

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit. I didn't know that! A shame, really, that most of it is such crap here when they serve higher quality elsewhere.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit. I didn't know that! A shame, really, that most of it is such crap here when they serve higher quality elsewhere.

As FarmBoy points out, it is market driven. We get crap because we demand it, not because Taco Bell wants to push it on us.

 

[Narz]

As FarmBoy points out, it is market driven. We get crap because we demand it, not because Taco Bell wants to push it on us.

Well I wouldn't put it so black & white. Our demands are driven by cravings which can be manipulated & even manufactured. No one demands Dr. Pepper but my friend drinks 1/2 gallon of the stuff a day because he's hooked. People may demand junk food in the same way they demand cigarettes but their cravings are stoked. Taco Bell are other food giants spend millions (probably billions) designing their 'food' items just right to get their users maximally addicted.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The market for almost all goods in the US is totally driven by price.

A better quality product, but it costs more? No deal.

I can buy the same thing from a local shop, the owner of which is a pillar of my community who pays his employees decent wages and considers them friends, if not family...but I can save a nickle if I buy it at WalMart? I'm on it!

This politician has policies whose record of destruction rivals Godzilla's, but he promises lower taxes? He's got my vote!

 

[thecrazyscot]

Godzilla might actually improve things if he were in office.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Godzilla might actually improve things if he were in office.

I admit to misrepresenting Godzilla there. He has always been the misunderstood anti-monster trying to do good. Comparing him to politicians, who by and large are just monsters, was inappropriate.

 

[thecrazyscot]

I admit to misrepresenting Godzilla there. He has always been the misunderstood anti-monster trying to do good. Comparing him to politicians, who by and large are just monsters, was inappropriate.

I've just now decided to add Godzilla as a write-in candidate wherever possible.

 

[Farm Boy]

I think empowering Godzilla because Moth-Ra is a bastage is exactly how we get into a lot of the trouble we get into.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I think empowering Godzilla because Moth-Ra is a bastage is exactly how we get into a lot of the trouble we get into.

How many farmers are this insightful, really? If you aren't totally unique I need to get to know more farmers.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

I've just now decided to add Godzilla as a write-in candidate wherever possible.

I usually use Spider-Man as my write-in candidate. Spider-Man for president 2016! He will do right by us because he understands that with great power come great responsibility.

 

[Farm Boy]

I'm pretty subpar Tim. I'm just louder than a lot of them.

It's nice and empowering to be largely responsible for your own success through figuring things out when you're being clever. It's a bit meditative to need to complete repetitive and simple tasks even though you're capable of being clever. It's humbling to realize that it doesn't matter how clever you are or how hard you work if God doesn't smile on you with the weather or the government screws you through policy or the market decides that ruining you is what it's going to do this year.

I guess it's this. The guys that still get their hands dirty recognize both that nothing gets done without personal effort and nothing can be sustained without communal cooperation. The bigger timey they get, the more hands they have working for them, the more they start to resemble any other business owner. Though you can usually still tell who started out owning and who started out operating.

 

[warpus]

Hardee's? Why do all the bad American chains get exported...

For the longest time I used to think that Boston Pizza was yet another crappy American export.

Turns out it's a Canadian chain masquarading as an American one..

 

[Timsup2nothin]

For the longest time I used to think that Boston Pizza was yet another crappy American export.

Turns out it's a Canadian chain masquarading as an American one..

Boston Pizza? To the best of my knowledge here in the US Boston is not even remotely associated with Pizza.

 

[Antilogic]

I've just now decided to add Godzilla as a write-in candidate wherever possible.

I usually use Spider-Man as my write-in candidate. Spider-Man for president 2016! He will do right by us because he understands that with great power come great responsibility.

This reminds me of that time I wrote in Gary Busey 22 times against everyone running unopposed.

Boston Pizza? To the best of my knowledge here in the US Boston is not even remotely associated with Pizza.

We have a couple good shops in Little Italy, but that's more a New York or Chicago thing.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

We have a couple good shops in Little Italy, but that's more a New York or Chicago thing.

I was actually thinking the opposite direction. If you said "what city would have good Pizza?" I would say New York and Chicago and can't guess what I would say third so it may be Boston. But if you said "list things associated with Boston" I would run my pen out of ink before I got to pizza. Heck, my keyboard would run out of characters before I got to pizza, because I would never get to pizza.

 

[MjM]

I live in Houston so there are more Wal-Mart supercenters than mom-and-pop anything here. It's an easy choice.

 

[Spidernova]

I live in Austin, and I support local whenever possible.