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It seems strange that it is October already.
I had a 1 PM appointment yesterday/ I had been unable to fall asleep all night - my digestive system was upset - and finally nodded off at 6 AM/ Blondie tries to help me fight my agoraphobia, and one way is to force myself to leave the house when possible. I'm comfortable with the Alfred & Sam people, so she woke me at 7 AM announcing that we had no bread at all for breakfast, and I must go fetch some.
I'll withhold my comments on being awakened. You can probably guess.
I set the alarm for 11 AM, so I'd have enough time for a quick shower before my appointment. I woke when the alarm went off, checked the address on my calendar - and found it was a 2 PM appointment, not a 1 PM one. Good, I needed another hour in the sack.
I awoke. Oh, bother, I'd forgotten to reset the alarm, and I had 20 minutes to don some clothes and get there. I ran breathlessly in. It was 2 minutes after, and the nice lady said, "You realize that your appointment isn't for another hour?" It's not a 2 PM appointment? Yes, it is, she said, but it's 1 o'clock now. I'd misread the clock!
You look stressed out. she said. Why don't you get a drink and sit out in the wind and chill out? The other lady in the office looked up and said, "You're telling him to get drunk before his appointment?" She turned to her laughing coworker, and protested that she wasn't talking about an alcoholic drink.
I was near WGAL. amd I drove past Taco Bell - no sense in driving my blood sugar through the roof - and went on to KFC, which, if you think about it, is the same company Yum restaurants. I have a hard time remembering that name; I still think of them as Tricon, the name they used when Pepsi first cast them loose. I ordered a snack bowl, and a side salad, and a Pepsi.
I haven't had one of their bowls before. Mashed potatoes, gravy, small pieces of chicken (the crispy stuff, not the better-tasting original, unfortunately), and whole kernel corn. It doesn't taste bed, but it looks like the garbage you get from scraping the plates after a 3-year-old eats, and it's not particularly good. The flavors don't blend, and there are no spices that give it a unified flavor. The fresh bright corn fights with the savory gravy, and the corn is fairly crunchy while the flavorless mashed potatoes are mushy. Not the best idea to come out of KFC in recent years, although that's not much of a criticism - they've had some pretty good ideas, such as their chicken pie.
Chilly now
End of summer
No more shiny hot nights
It was just the arbutus rustling
And the bumping of the logs
And the moon swept down black water
Like an empty spotlight
The salad wasn't much of a salad. Shreddee lettuce - looked like it'd been through a slaw cutter - which is a description, not a complaint. And there was a slice of white tomato atop it. If you buy a bad of lettuce at tjhe supermarket, you get a bit of shredded red cabbage, and some bits of carrot. Most places toss some slices of cucumber and radish in. Not a few add croutons and some cheese. What a disappointment.
And there's no excuse for white tomatoes. Red ripe ones are still available. It won't be long now, before we have no choice. Must we rush the season of terrible tomatoes?
KFC appeared about 1954, and they weren't originally fast-food restaurants. Intead, KFC was a menu entree at site-woen full-service, long-menu restaurants. Phil Klauss, who gave Dave Thomas (of Wendy's) his start as a teenager, who invented the silhouette of the colonel as a logo, and invented the bucket, had three restaurants - the Hobby House, the Hobby Ranch House, and the Pancake House. Most of the men eating in those restaurants were dressed up, wearing ties, and their dining companions were nicely attired, as well
The mantra is buy local, buy fresh, and there's no reason why fast-food restaurants have to serve second-rate produce. They used to serve the food you'd be proud to serve your family, They tried to hide the word "fried" by changing their name to KFC, and they've introduced unfried chicken, but that's not really addressing the problem. Fried chicken is good food as part of a balanced diet. Yum needs to worry about the rest of their menu, instead.
Oh, by the way, the 2-o'clock went well,
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