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Because of a number of factors I wasn’t able to have Thanksgiving yesterday with dear friends as is the usual custom.  But they resolved that we were going to come together today and celebrate all the things that we have to be thankful for.  So a little before noon they arrived at my front door and we headed off to the nearby town of Landrum, South Carolina for a meal at Stax’s Drake House.

Folks, I’m not lying.  I hadn’t had real food in over three months.  My selections at the grocery store have been pathetic.  I had been so focused on finishing the manuscript of my book that proper eating simply hasn’t registered at all.  So all this time I’ve more or less been making do with French bread pizzas purchased at the nearby Aldi.  My dog Tammy, with the food in those little foil cans that I’ve ...

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From KOB.com comes this weird story of how the hard economy has hit even the prostitution trade…

Police: New Mexico man traded McDonalds for sex

This happy meal didn’t end with a treat.

A New Mexico man was arrested for allegedly trading a sex with a woman for a meal at McDonalds.

Albuquerque police found Donald Jones, 58, at Bullhead Park with a woman he picked up near Central and Virginia.

According to the criminal complaint, Jones picked up the woman in an area known for prostitution. Police watched Jones order food at a McDonald’s drive thru window and head to a nearby park.

On their way to the park Jones told police he purchased the woman food and asked how she would reimburse him, the criminal complaint states.

Police confronted the pair at the park and saw the woman pulling up her pants in the car.

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You can’t have any doubt: those three kids are going to turn out great! They’re gonna be really thankful someday that they have two awesome parents like the Kings.

Laura King and her husband took their three children – ages two, three and eight – out for dinner at a swanky Italian restaurant in Poulsbo, Washington. And when they got the ticket at the end of the meal… it listed a four-dollar discount for “WELL BEHAVED KIDS”!

From the MailOnline story…

A Washington couple were left stunned after their server handed them the bill for their family’s dinner – and they saw they had been given a $4 discount for their ‘Well Behaved Kids’.

Laura King and her husband took their three children, aged two, three and eight, to an Italian restaurant in Poulsbo to enjoy an early-evening meal last Friday.

As they tucked into their feast of

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Police in Rome, Georgia (a town that I have some firsthand knowledge of) are on the lookout for none other than the Burger King himself, who allegedly stood outside the McDonald’s restaurant there and commenced to handing out free hamburgers.

From the CBS News story…

Police were called to a local McDonald’s in relation to a disturbance caused by a man dressed as the Burger King.

In a police report provided to the Rome News-Tribune, officers indicated that they were summoned to the fast-food restaurant around 1 p.m. on Monday, in response to a call about a suspicious person on the premises.

The person was allegedly resplendent in full Burger King regalia.

Police stated that, upon his arrival, the Burger King mascot reportedly began to hand out free hamburgers to customers, and stopped to take pictures with several children.

Officers were additionally told that one child ran away from

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Crime does not pay. At least it not pay enough for one Atlanta-area robber, who held up a Wendy’s and then phoned the restaurant to gripe about how little money he got away with.

From the story at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution…

A man who robbed a Wendy’s at gunpoint Saturday night apparently was so upset with his haul that he twice called the restaurant to complain, Atlanta police said.

“Next time there better be more than $586,” he said during one call. He made “a similar threat” in the second call, police said.

About 11:15 p.m., a man wearing a ski mask and holding a gun walked up to the drive-through window at the Wendy’s at 1940 Piedmont Road, police said. He told an employee to put the cash drawer on the counter.

After grabbing the drawer and running away, the robber discarded the drawer in the bushes

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The last time that the thermopolium in Pompeii, Italy enjoyed patronage was August 24th, 79 A.D. And then nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted and completely buried the city. The stylish snack bar was evacuated in such a hurry that the tip jar was even left behind.

As of this week and under new management (previous owner Vetutius Placidus having long since retired or worse), the thermopolium of Pompeii has reopened for the first time in 1,921 years, and is reportedly already enjoying a thriving business! The menu for the first day included sugary treats that Roman citizenry were known to enjoy, but from here on out the thermopolium will be serving up a more modern repast.

(And probably a good thing too, ‘cuz the “sell by” dates on the potato chips have no doubt long, long since expired.)

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Leslie Pope and John Wagner were hauled away from the Lehigh Pub in handcuffs by the police in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania last week. Their “crime”? Refusing to pay a tip!

If you’re frustrated by poor service at a restaurant, think twice before you decide to not tip. You may be in for a bit more than just a dirty look from the waiter.

“Nobody, nobody wants to be forced to pay a tip or be arrested for terrible service,” Leslie Pope said when her happy hour ended in handcuffs.

Pope and John Wagner were hauled away by police and charged with theft for not paying the mandatory 18 percent gratuity totaling $16 after eating at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem, Pa. with six friends.

Pope claimed that they had to wait nearly an hour for their order and that she had to get napkins and silverware for the table herself.

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Yesterday Lisa and I went to Winston-Salem and wound up eating at Texas Roadhouse. This was my first time trying their food, although Lisa ate at one in Georgia a few months back and kept telling me how good the barbecue ribs were.

Well, I ordered a full slab of ribs and something happened that very, very rarely occurs: I couldn’t eat the entire order. And ya wanna know why? ‘Cuz that slab was huge!! Probably the biggest portion of ribs that I’ve had in quite a long time. Next time I may have to get a half-order. But they were delicious! The meat was tender and true to their word, comes clean off the bone. The sauce was exquisitely spicy. I’ll definitely be enjoying the leftovers tonight for dinner. The place also had great service.

Lisa says that a Texas Roadhouse is supposed to be coming ...

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This is one write-up that I’ve been wanting the opportunity to do for quite awhile now. The very first time that I heard about Mildred Council AKA “Mama Dip” and her restaurant, it was when I spotted her cookbook Mama Dip’s Cookbook eight years ago. Something about this woman’s beaming smile on the book’s cover screamed out to me that one way or another, I had to try her cooking sometime. And then I happened to notice that UNC-TV, the statewide PBS network, had her live in the studio every so often to demonstrate real southern-style cooking. I’m telling you here and now: I felt dire hunger pangs just from watching this lady make biscuits.

Well yesterday evening after Lisa and I saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in IMAX at Exploris in Raleigh, we made a stop in Chapel Hill. And at long last, I ...

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