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    From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Tue Dec 30 21:33:37 2025
    Re: Re: Can't get anymore ret
    By: Nightfox to phigan on Tue Dec 30 2025 12:17:06

    I've heard a rumor that McDonald's uses sawdust as filler, and another about McDonald's using "pink slime", but I've always thought those are just myths. I think the pink slime one in particular has been debunked as false. Also, Google sez the sawdust rumor comes from the use of cellulose as a filler.

    Reminds me of a bit from Steve Martin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4u9dv-YPzA

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to phigan on Fri Jan 2 00:02:01 2026
    Re: Re: Can't get anymore ret
    By: phigan to Nightfox on Thu Jan 01 2026 08:56:58

    See if you can figure out how much and what kind of "meat" is in Jack In The Box tacos.

    They're still around? They died out decades ago in my area.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Mortar on Fri Jan 2 07:53:11 2026
    Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: Mortar to phigan on Fri Jan 02 2026 12:02 am

    See if you can figure out how much and what kind of "meat" is in Jack
    In The Box tacos.

    They're still around? They died out decades ago in my area.

    As far as Taco's go, they're the bottom of the pile to me.
    The shells are soggy.
    Not a fan of Jack taco's, Some of the guys at work like them because they're cheap.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mortar on Fri Jan 2 10:44:17 2026
    Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: Mortar to phigan on Fri Jan 02 2026 12:02 am

    See if you can figure out how much and what kind of "meat" is in Jack In
    The Box tacos.

    They're still around? They died out decades ago in my area.

    Yeah, there are a number of Jack In The Box loactions where I am. I like to get fast food breakfast sometimes - I prefer McDonald's breakfast items, but McDonald's stops serving their breakfast stuff at 10:30AM; if I'm in the mood for a breakfast item after that, I might go to Jack In The Box and get one of their "Extreme Sausage" sandwiches.

    I do like McDonald's coffee though. I tend to prefer iced coffee, and McDonald's has a sugar-free vanilla iced coffee, which is a good option for me since I need to limit my sugar intake.

    Nightfox

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Mortar on Fri Jan 2 13:10:09 2026
    Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: Mortar to phigan on Fri Jan 02 2026 12:02 am

    See if you can figure out how much and what kind of "meat" is in Jack In Box tacos.

    They're still around? They died out decades ago in my area.

    Crazy! We just got some for lunch on Wednesday!

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Denn on Fri Jan 2 12:18:12 2026
    Denn wrote to Mortar <=-

    Not a fan of Jack taco's, Some of the guys at work like them because they're cheap.

    Back in my college days, Jack in the Boxes weren't open 24 hours - but
    the drive-thru was. As long as they had food left and were closing
    up, the drive-thru window light was on.

    Most college post-party after-action reports were accomplished over stale supertacos, 32 oz. sodas, and whatever was left in the fryer.



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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Nightfox on Fri Jan 2 13:36:26 2026
    Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: Nightfox to Mortar on Fri Jan 02 2026 10:44 am

    They're still around? They died out decades ago in my area.

    Yeah, there are a number of Jack In The Box loactions where I am. I like to get fast food breakfast sometimes - I prefer McDonald's breakfast

    I have 2 Jack in the boxes near me, one just east and the other just west.
    I don't go there to often as their drive thru is slower than molasses running up hill, going inside is about the same.

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Nightfox on Fri Jan 2 15:06:58 2026
    Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: Nightfox to Mortar on Fri Jan 02 2026 10:44:17

    I prefer McDonald's breakfast items, but McDonald's stops serving their breakfast stuff at 10:30AM..

    Yeah 10:30 seems to be the standard time, at least the places 'round here. Love Mickey-D's breakfast. I usually got either a couple sausage, egg and cheese McMuffins or their pancake breakfast. I also liked BK's French Toast Sticks...Yum!

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Denn on Fri Jan 2 15:17:54 2026
    Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: Denn to Nightfox on Fri Jan 02 2026 13:36:26

    I don't go there to often as their drive thru is slower than molasses running up hill, going inside is about the same.

    On the bright side, if you go in, you'll have a better chance of thme getting your order right.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Jan 2 14:40:49 2026
    Re: Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Fri Jan 02 2026 12:18 pm

    Not a fan of Jack taco's, Some of the guys at work like them because
    they're cheap.

    Back in my college days, Jack in the Boxes weren't open 24 hours - but
    the drive-thru was. As long as they had food left and were closing
    up, the drive-thru window light was on.

    Not sure about them being stale or not, I want taco's with a crunchy shell. Jack has soggy shells and no where near as good as tacotime or del-taco.
    The breakfast menu is pretty good, although I prefer a suasage egg McMuffin from McDonalds.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mortar on Fri Jan 2 14:15:06 2026
    Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Mortar to Nightfox on Fri Jan 02 2026 03:06 pm

    I prefer McDonald's breakfast items, but McDonald's stops serving their
    breakfast stuff at 10:30AM..

    Yeah 10:30 seems to be the standard time, at least the places 'round here. Love Mickey-D's breakfast. I usually got either a couple sausage, egg and cheese McMuffins or their pancake breakfast.

    My favorite breakfast items from McDonald's are their sausage & egg McMuffin and hash brown, as well as their iced coffees. I like their pancakes too, though sometimes I feel like it's a bit too much carbs & sugar for me.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mortar on Fri Jan 2 14:24:09 2026
    Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: Mortar to Denn on Fri Jan 02 2026 03:17 pm

    I don't go there to often as their drive thru is slower than molasses
    running up hill, going inside is about the same.

    On the bright side, if you go in, you'll have a better chance of thme getting your order right.

    Occasionally lately I've been getting food delivery, but sometimes I still prefer to go pick it up myself. Sometimes, my delivered food order is missing an item (which could be the fault of either the delivery service or restaurant employees). Food delivery also adds fees.. So going there to pick it up myself is less expensive, and I can ensure the order is correct (especially if I go inside).

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Denn on Fri Jan 2 14:26:49 2026
    Re: Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: Denn to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Jan 02 2026 02:40 pm

    Not sure about them being stale or not, I want taco's with a crunchy shell. Jack has soggy shells and no where near as good as tacotime or del-taco.

    I think Jack In The Box is a popular choice for people who like to make snack runs when they have the munchies, and the quality might not be as important as filling up on snacks (and some people might prefer it). If I'm getting hard-shell tacos, I generally like a crunchy taco shell too, though sometimes I don't mind if it's not as crunchy. Soft-shell corn tortillas are a thing too.

    The breakfast menu is pretty good, although I prefer a suasage
    egg McMuffin from McDonalds.

    The sausage & egg McMuffin is one of my favorite fast food breakfast items.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Nightfox on Fri Jan 2 21:24:21 2026
    Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Nightfox to Mortar on Fri Jan 02 2026 14:15:06

    My favorite breakfast items from McDonald's are their sausage & egg McMuffin and hash browns...

    Forgot about the hash browns; those are great. Too bad they only serve those for breakfast. I'd get those instead of fries.

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  • From Accession@VERT/PHARCYDE to Nightfox on Sat Jan 3 09:34:11 2026
    Hey Nightfox!

    On Fri, Jan 02 2026 16:26:49 -0600, you wrote:

    The sausage & egg McMuffin is one of my favorite fast food breakfast
    items.

    While I do enjoy those, they've also (finally, as it seemed to take a bit) adapted from the steak, egg, and cheese bagel and made a McMuffin version of it. It's wonderful. I've never really been a fan of bagels, so while that was a thing I was always like "man, they should make this on a muffin," which they eventually did!

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Sat Jan 3 09:05:15 2026
    Nightfox wrote to Mortar <=-

    Occasionally lately I've been getting food delivery, but sometimes I
    still prefer to go pick it up myself. Sometimes, my delivered food
    order is missing an item (which could be the fault of either the
    delivery service or restaurant employees). Food delivery also adds
    fees.. So going there to pick it up myself is less expensive, and I
    can ensure the order is correct (especially if I go inside).

    I miss the old days of having a drawer full of to-go menus, calling the restaurant and knowing there wasn't a middleman involved. Heard too
    many horror stories of delivery companies gouging customers and screwing restaurants.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Sat Jan 3 09:05:15 2026
    Nightfox wrote to Denn <=-

    I think Jack In The Box is a popular choice for people who like to make snack runs when they have the munchies, and the quality might not be as important as filling up on snacks (and some people might prefer it).


    "Pot smokers". He means to say "pot smokers". :)



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mortar on Sat Jan 3 09:05:15 2026
    Mortar wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Forgot about the hash browns; those are great. Too bad they only serve those for breakfast. I'd get those instead of fries.

    Peak breakfast fast food has to be the Carls Jr. Breakfast Burger. It's
    a burger with cheese, sausage, an egg and hash browns, somehow all
    barely contained in a bun. Then, to add to it, the combo includes MORE
    HASH BROWNS.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mortar on Sat Jan 3 09:26:24 2026
    Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Mortar to Nightfox on Fri Jan 02 2026 09:24 pm

    My favorite breakfast items from McDonald's are their sausage & egg
    McMuffin and hash browns...

    Forgot about the hash browns; those are great. Too bad they only serve those for breakfast. I'd get those instead of fries.

    Yeah, I might do that too if they offered hash browns all day.

    McDonald's started offering all-day breakfast about 10 years ago. They stopped doing that after a short while, so apparently something about that must not have been working out well for them.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Accession on Sat Jan 3 09:39:13 2026
    Re: Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: Accession to Nightfox on Sat Jan 03 2026 09:34 am

    The sausage & egg McMuffin is one of my favorite fast food breakfast items.

    While I do enjoy those, they've also (finally, as it seemed to take a bit) adapted from the steak, egg, and cheese bagel and made a McMuffin version of it. It's wonderful. I've never really been a fan of bagels, so while that was a thing I was always like "man, they should make this on a muffin," which they eventually did!

    Interesting.. I've tried McDonald's steak, egg & cheese bagel and I thought that was pretty good.

    For me, I think their sausage & egg McMuffin is hard to beat though. I think McDonald's sausage is seasoned really well.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 3 10:07:31 2026
    Re: Re: I Don't Know Jack
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Jan 03 2026 09:05 am

    I miss the old days of having a drawer full of to-go menus, calling the restaurant and knowing there wasn't a middleman involved. Heard too many horror stories of delivery companies gouging customers and screwing restaurants.

    I miss those times too. But I think one advantage to being able to order online is order accuracy - at least, if you go to pick it up yourself. When calling in to order food, sometimes they'd mis-hear me or something and might get part of the order wrong. There's one restaurant near me I sometimes liked to get take-out from though which would make mistakes very often, no matter if I called it in or ordered on their web site.. Their food was good though, which is why I liked going there.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 3 10:08:52 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Sat Jan 03 2026 09:05 am

    Peak breakfast fast food has to be the Carls Jr. Breakfast Burger. It's a burger with cheese, sausage, an egg and hash browns, somehow all barely contained in a bun. Then, to add to it, the combo includes MORE HASH BROWNS.

    I like those kinds of things sometimes. But sometimes I feel like simplicity is good though.. Less is more, sometimes. :)

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Nightfox on Sat Jan 3 15:31:11 2026
    Nightfox wrote to Mortar <=-

    My favorite breakfast items from McDonald's are their sausage & egg
    McMuffin and hash browns...

    Forgot about the hash browns; those are great. Too bad they only serve those for breakfast. I'd get those instead of fries.

    Yeah, I might do that too if they offered hash browns all day.

    McDonald's started offering all-day breakfast about 10 years ago. They stopped doing that after a short while, so apparently something about
    that must not have been working out well for them.

    Waffle House for the win.




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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Gamgee on Sat Jan 3 15:00:41 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Jan 03 2026 03:31 pm

    McDonald's started offering all-day breakfast about 10 years ago. They
    stopped doing that after a short while, so apparently something about
    that must not have been working out well for them.

    Waffle House for the win.

    Unfortunately, there aren't any Waffle House locations in my area..

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Nightfox on Sat Jan 3 18:39:46 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Sat Jan 03 2026 15:00:41

    Unfortunately, there aren't any Waffle House locations in my area..

    Never been to one, but their reputation for bad food is well known.

    Interesting bit of lore, I've heard that you can judge the severety of the weather by whether a Waffle House closes or not. Ergo, if a WH closes, you're in deep doo-doo.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Nightfox on Sat Jan 3 20:08:11 2026
    Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Jan 03 2026 03:31 pm

    McDonald's started offering all-day breakfast about 10 years ago. They
    stopped doing that after a short while, so apparently something about
    that must not have been working out well for them.

    Waffle House for the win.

    Unfortunately, there aren't any Waffle House locations in my area..

    Bummer. I love eating there. Not something you should do every day,
    though. ;-)



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Mortar on Sat Jan 3 20:08:11 2026
    Mortar wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Sat Jan 03 2026 15:00:41

    Unfortunately, there aren't any Waffle House locations in my area..

    Never been to one, but their reputation for bad food is well known.

    You may be mis-informed. The food is excellent.



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  • From Codefenix@VERT/CONCHAOS to Nightfox on Sat Jan 3 21:53:24 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Sat Jan 03 2026 03:00 pm

    Unfortunately, there aren't any Waffle House locations in my area..

    Pretty sure this is the first time this sentence was ever typed.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Nightfox on Sat Jan 3 20:29:09 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Sat Jan 03 2026 03:00 pm

    McDonald's started offering all-day breakfast about 10 years ago.
    They stopped doing that after a short while, so apparently
    something about that must not have been working out well for them.

    Waffle House for the win.

    Here in Utah we have Ihop.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mortar on Sat Jan 3 19:58:53 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Mortar to Nightfox on Sat Jan 03 2026 06:39 pm

    Interesting bit of lore, I've heard that you can judge the severety of the weather by whether a Waffle House closes or not. Ergo, if a WH closes, you're in deep doo-doo.

    When FEMA looks at WH closure maps, you know it's serious.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Codefenix on Sat Jan 3 23:51:18 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Codefenix to Nightfox on Sat Jan 03 2026 21:53:24

    Unfortunately, there aren't any Waffle House locations in my area..

    Pretty sure this is the first time this sentence was ever typed.

    None in my area either, so I guess that's #2.

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Denn on Sat Jan 3 23:53:37 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Denn to Nightfox on Sat Jan 03 2026 20:29:09

    Here in Utah we have Ihop.

    Here in Michigan, too. Love the Grand Slam.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Codefenix on Sun Jan 4 09:37:38 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Codefenix to Nightfox on Sat Jan 03 2026 09:53 pm

    Unfortunately, there aren't any Waffle House locations in my area..

    Pretty sure this is the first time this sentence was ever typed.

    Are you referring to the "no locations" part or the "unfortunately" part? :P

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Denn on Sun Jan 4 09:41:59 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Denn to Nightfox on Sat Jan 03 2026 08:29 pm

    Waffle House for the win.

    Here in Utah we have Ihop.

    We have IHOP here too. I like them, but I haven't been there in a while. We also have some of our own local restaurants & chains which I think are pretty good (Tom's Pancake House, Black Bear Diner, Elmer's).

    There's another restaurant chain in the western US called Shari's which closed all their locations in my state a couple years ago.. I miss them. They were similar to Denny's (and I'm disappointed to see they've closed a lot of locations too).

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Codefenix on Sun Jan 4 09:41:23 2026
    Codefenix wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Sat Jan 03 2026 03:00 pm

    Unfortunately, there aren't any Waffle House locations in my area..

    Pretty sure this is the first time this sentence was ever typed.

    There are no Waffle Houses on the West Coast, we have to get by with
    local diners. I have one in Moss Landing that serves fishermen heading
    out to the harbor that does a killer breakfast. Great chilaquiles, a
    fish and eggs breakfast, with a couple of fishes caught about 500 feet
    away, and a great eggs and carnitas breakfast with tortillas and beans.

    Ok, now I'm hungry.




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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Nightfox on Sun Jan 4 14:26:29 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Nightfox to Denn on Sun Jan 04 2026 09:41 am

    Here in Utah we have Ihop.

    We have IHOP here too. I like them, but I haven't been there in a while. We also have some of our own local restaurants & chains which I think are pretty good (Tom's Pancake House, Black Bear Diner, Elmer's).

    We do have a Black Bear Diner, they're good.
    Of coarse we have Denny's but Denny's really suck here in Utah.

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  • From MIKE POWELL@VERT/CAPCITY2/UUMOES to MORTAR on Sun Jan 4 10:06:00 2026
    Interesting bit of lore, I've heard that you can judge the severety of the weather by whether a Waffle House closes or not. Ergo, if a WH closes, you'r in deep doo-doo.

    I have also heard this said. If I knew winter weather was coming and saw
    a WH close, I would be worried.

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  • From MIKE POWELL@VERT/CAPCITY2/UUMOES to CODEFENIX on Sun Jan 4 10:08:00 2026
    Unfortunately, there aren't any Waffle House locations in my area..

    Pretty sure this is the first time this sentence was ever typed.

    There actually was not one in my town (of ~30,000), either, until about
    10-15 yrs ago. I have never been to that particular one as there are some local joints with good breakfast food. It also had the misfortune of
    moving in back before there was a Cracker Barrel... which moved in just to
    the other side of the interstate.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Sun Jan 4 17:23:11 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Nightfox to Denn on Sun Jan 04 2026 09:41 am

    They were similar to Denny's (and I'm disappointed to see they've closed a lot of locations too).

    Lyon's restaurants in the SF bay area competed with Denny's. There was a Lyon's near my college campus, we'd go there around midnight, get the breakfast deal - 2 eggs, hash browns and toast for $1.99, and drink endless cups of coffee while we did our homework. We were polite and quiet, we tipped as well as we could being poor college students, and the restaurant was empty, so they didn't mind us taking up a table for an hour or two.

    I was glad I was able to make my schedule so my first class was 11am!

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jan 4 19:58:14 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sun Jan 04 2026 05:23 pm

    They were similar to Denny's (and I'm disappointed to see they've
    closed a lot of locations too).

    Lyon's restaurants in the SF bay area competed with Denny's. There was a Lyon's near my college campus, we'd go there around midnight, get the breakfast deal - 2 eggs, hash browns and toast for $1.99, and drink endless cups of coffee while we did our homework. We were polite and quiet, we tipped as well as we could being poor college students, and the restaurant was empty, so they didn't mind us taking up a table for an hour or two.

    When I was a teenager, we had a restraunt called Sambo's on state street, in Salt Lake City.
    We could get a cup of coffee that was an endless cup for 10 cents, we used to spend a couple of hours BS'ing and drinking coffee.

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Sun Jan 4 23:33:40 2026
    Re: Re: Can't get anymore ret
    By: Denn to Gamgee on Sun Jan 04 2026 19:14:32

    ... Ever catch yourself replying to the tagline?

    All the time. :)

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLTBBS to Mortar on Sun Jan 4 19:17:08 2026
    Interesting bit of lore, I've heard that you can judge the
    severety of the weather by whether a Waffle House closes or
    not. Ergo, if a WH closes, you're in deep doo-doo.

    The Waffle House Index...featured on The Weather Channel. <G>

    Would you like your weather scattered, smothered, or covered?? <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Codefenix@VERT/CONCHAOS to Nightfox on Mon Jan 5 08:08:21 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Nightfox to Codefenix on Sun Jan 04 2026 09:37 am

    Unfortunately, there aren't any Waffle House locations in my area..

    Pretty sure this is the first time this sentence was ever typed.

    Are you referring to the "no locations" part or the "unfortunately" part?

    Yeah, the "unfortunately" part. :P

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  • From Bf2k+@VERT/TACOPRON to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 5 11:21:24 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Sat Jan 03 2026 07:58 pm

    They take their responsibility to feed and provice comfort for people displaced by disasters and first responders seriously.

    Unless you happened to be living in NC during the last hurricane disaster that hit in the mountains there.

    They are going to have to pay for that one...

    The quote in the lawsuit is "They placed unlawful restrictions on emergency management grants."

    Or truthfully, the Fema workers were told not to help anyone with Trump sign in their yard. I understand that employee was fired. I wonder where he/she got their instructions from?

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  • From MIKE POWELL@VERT/CAPCITY2/UUMOES to BF2K+ on Tue Jan 6 10:03:00 2026
    They take their responsibility to feed and provice comfort for people displaced by disasters and first responders seriously.

    Unless you happened to be living in NC during the last hurricane disaster that
    hit in the mountains there.

    They are going to have to pay for that one...

    The quote in the lawsuit is "They placed unlawful restrictions on emergency management grants."

    The apparent lack of response to that one completely amazed me, but then I remembered the response to Sandy for the NE vs. the response for places
    like WVa (which also got hit hard by a derecho during that same time frame).

    I was not quite as surprised then, but still surprised as NC is usually considered "purple."


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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLTBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jan 6 17:26:21 2026
    Ok, now I'm hungry.

    We need to have bibs while we're at our computers, to catch the
    drooling when we read "delicious food posts". :P

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLTBBS to Nightfox on Tue Jan 6 17:26:21 2026
    There's another restaurant chain in the western US called
    Shari's which closed all their locations in my state a couple
    years ago.. I miss them. They were similar to Denny's (and
    I'm disappointed to see they've closed a lot of locations too).

    All the Denny's in the Little Rock, Arkansas Metro area have been
    closed down as well. I'm not sure if there are any left. It's like
    Shoney's Big Boy and Krystal...they're gone from Arkansas as well.

    As for Krystal, you can buy the White Castle burgers in the frozen
    food section at many grocery stores. Those are affectionately known
    as "gut grenades"...but, I personally love sauteed onions.

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLTBBS to Denn on Tue Jan 6 17:26:22 2026
    When I was a teenager, we had a restraunt called Sambo's on
    state street, in Salt Lake City.

    There was a Sambo's in southwest Little Rock 50 years ago.

    Daryl

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Daryl Stout on Wed Jan 7 10:51:20 2026
    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Daryl Stout to Nightfox on Tue Jan 06 2026 17:26:21

    White Castle burgers...are affectionately known as "gut grenades".

    I've also heard them called gut or butt bombs. I love 'em. Unfortunately, since the prices have shot up, I get them much; six bacon-cheeseburgers for $13.xx? Fuggetaboutit!

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Bf2k+ on Thu Jan 8 07:51:22 2026
    Bf2k+ wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Sat Jan 03 2026 07:58 pm

    They take their responsibility to feed and provice comfort for people displaced by disasters and first responders seriously.

    Unless you happened to be living in NC during the last hurricane
    disaster that hit in the mountains there.

    We're talking about Waffle House, not the federal government.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Daryl Stout on Thu Jan 8 07:51:22 2026
    Daryl Stout wrote to Nightfox <=-

    As for Krystal, you can buy the White Castle burgers in the frozen
    food section at many grocery stores. Those are affectionately known
    as "gut grenades"...but, I personally love sauteed onions.

    Sautee onions on a skillet, make a burger patty next to them. Smash the
    patty down, and when you flip it, put it on top of the onions. You get
    all of the hamburger grease cooking with the onions.

    Slice of american cheese on top a few moments before taking it off, and
    don't forget to grill the bun. Perfection.




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mortar on Thu Jan 8 07:51:22 2026
    Mortar wrote to Daryl Stout <=-

    Re: Re: The Breakfast Club
    By: Daryl Stout to Nightfox on Tue Jan 06 2026 17:26:21

    White Castle burgers...are affectionately known as "gut grenades".

    I've also heard them called gut or butt bombs. I love 'em.
    Unfortunately, since the prices have shot up, I get them much; six bacon-cheeseburgers for $13.xx? Fuggetaboutit!

    I've seen people take those sheets of dinner rolls, slice the whole
    "brick" of them in two, spread sauteed ground beef and onions on it, top
    with cheese, put the top bun on and bake - instant sliders!



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  • From MIKE POWELL@VERT/CAPCITY2/UUMOES to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Fri Jan 9 09:12:00 2026
    They take their responsibility to feed and provice comfort for people displaced by disasters and first responders seriously.

    Unless you happened to be living in NC during the last hurricane disaster that hit in the mountains there.

    We're talking about Waffle House, not the federal government.

    Thanks for bringing us back on topic. I am sure that Waffle House did
    their best in areas where they were still functional.

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