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[WestlakeTech]

Thursday night, I was working on a band concert. I had to get food quickly, so I just decided to get some at the pharmacy/deli across the street. Well, it's kinda like a miniature version of Whole Foods Market or Central Market. Yeah, one of those places. So I shouldn't have been to optimistic w/the BBQ Wrap I ordered. (I added bacon for an extra 50 cents. Bacon is good) I placed the order and waited. After a couple of minutes, the man making the food called my name and said "I'm sorry but we're out of bacon." I said "It's kool," and decided it was no big deal. But literally about 2 seconds later, the guy says "Sorry, I forgot, we're also out of beef. I can make it w/chicken if that's okay." Inside, my jaw dropped, but I kept the real one in check as I told him it was fine. But then I put the "wrap" in my mouth and it was so utterly disgusting. The BBQ sauce was SWEET, like literally sweet. YUCK!!!

I am just so fed up with hippies! If you can't make a decent BBQ wrap, don't offer it. And why on earth do you need to specify that your beef and chicken are "grass fed." What else is a cow gonna eat? Steak!? (corn, maybe, but other than that...) And since when do chicken's eat grass?
These places sell "Whey Protein" by the gallon! What the heck is Whey Protein and why do I need it? If it's gonna give me dreadlocks like the guy behind the counter, I don't want any. Am I gonna die young w/out it? No! So why use it!?
And what on earth is w/tofu and other artificial meats? If you ask me, if you decide to become a vegetarian, you should live w/the consequences of your decisions and not taste anything like meat.

Out of time right now. I might write more later.

[Jaymze13]

I could go off on this for a while, but suffice to say for now, dead on.

[WestlakeTech]

Jay, whenever you've got a few minutes, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject. (Plus, I can't elaborate much. If I spend to long on a post, my dad's turd of an internet connection will fail.)

[viking4life]

Sorry you had a bad BBQ-wrap. They'll keep selling it until people stop buying them.

Alot of great restaraunts run out of certain types of food.

Many varieties of BBQ sauce are sweet. You're just use to the spicy kind, and that's what you like. Sorry that you got the kind you don't like.

Cows eat alot of things. While most of it is a variety of a type of grass or wheat, most of what cows eat doesn't come from standing around a grazing all day. They get fed types of corn sometimes too, among other things. Ranchers also like to provide huge chunks of salt for the cows to lick. My father runs about 30 head of cattle.

Grass feeding is a way of raising chickens. I have no experience with them, but, I know chickens eat alot of things, and grass fed chickens mean they were allowed to freely eat all the grass they wanted to forage for as they were raised. It surely has effects on those who eat grass fed chickens, as other ways of raising birds will have other effects. I googled it and it says grass fed chickens are very healthy for humans to eat. Helps against cholesterol and some diseases.

Protein is a very very very valuable commodity to your health. You wouldn't be born without it, and wouldn't keep living if you didn't put it into your body during meals. Whey protein is a variety of that stuff that comes from a cheese by-product. It has some very improtant things in it that fight disease in one's body (some varieties are so strong that they are used to treat those with weak or damaged immune systems...plenty important to some who "don't want to die young", but, the main use is that it provides plenty of protein to help build muscle, while being very low in bad varieties of fat and cholesterol. Most protein you put into your body probably includes much higher levels of bad fat and cholesterol than if you got protein from those gallon jugs. I've never used whey protein but a few times, but, alot of my athletic buddies do it/did it regularly. Like the BBQ-wraps, they'll keep selling them until people stop buying them.

Have a good day.

Edited by viking4life, 08 January 2008 - 12:18 AM.

[Exporter]

"Grass-fed chickens?"

How would the buyer of the chicken KNOW they were grass fed and not caged up eating chicken feed?

I do know something about shrimp. Wild shrimp taste better than the pond-raised shrimp (or cultured shrimp).
Pond-raised shrimp are farmed and have not much shrimp taste at all.

[WestlakeTech]

Well yeah, I mean...I understand why some people eat those products. And to an extent, I understand why they might like them. I was just expressing my view on the subject. It's not entirely aimed at those specific things... Sure, it's an attempt at getting healthier, but in my eyes it just seems like one more thing we're doing to complicate life.

Well, I hope you both have good days too. Yesterday was excruciatingly slow...

[jcisco loboe'77]

PEACE!!!!

[WestlakeTech]

You know, I got to thinking about something yesterday. (though it wasn't the first time) Was it just me and my elementary school friends, or had the "peace" hand sign re-emerged in the '90s?

[carter08]

don't eat there again. pretty simple.

There are a lot of "hippies" in Austin, TX. So, they need places that appeal to them.

Then again, this is Texas. We're all suppossed to be rowdy drunk conservatives. We need our beef, because we can't be pansies and eat chicken :/

[viking4life]

You know, I got to thinking about something yesterday. (though it wasn't the first time) Was it just me and my elementary school friends, or had the "peace" hand sign re-emerged in the '90s?

There is a crossing guard back home in Arlington that waves the peace sign to people who drive by. I forget which elementary school he works in front of, but, he's always at one of the two by the hospital. I'd usually do it back to him if I drove by during when he was there. He'd get pretty excited sometimes. Maybe when I'm home again in May, school will still be going on for another month or so, I'll drive by and see if he is still out there working for peace.

I remember it being popular back in the 90's. The 90's were good times.

[WestlakeTech]

There is a crossing guard back home in Arlington that waves the peace sign to people who drive by. I forget which elementary school he works in front of, but, he's always at one of the two by the hospital. I'd usually do it back to him if I drove by during when he was there. He'd get pretty excited sometimes. Maybe when I'm home again in May, school will still be going on for another month or so, I'll drive by and see if he is still out there working for peace.

I remember it being popular back in the 90's. The 90's were good times.

If my "good times" you mean "only the best decade ever!", I agree with you. lol. Maybe we should start a rant thread on the 90s featuring all of the popular items and fads: rollerblading, Furbee, Super-soakers, Nerf, SuperNintendo/N64, the Taco Bell Chihuahua, Tamagachis/GigaPets/NanoPets, Pokemon, the 75cent 20oz Soda, Westlake had never lost to Austin High, Doug, McDonalds kids menu items that came with fries and a soda.....

man, times have changed. I miss the 90s.