George,

 GP> Either way, I order what I want to eat; if they balk, I go elsewhere.

  So, you don't eat at "Borg Burgers" -- they do it THEIR WAY...your way
is irrelevant, and if you argue with them, you'll be assimilated. Or, if
you encounter Dyslexia Of Borg, he'll tell you "Prepare to have your ass
laminated". 

 GP> More that they want to streamline for cheapest producton & maximum
 GP> profits.

  Exactly. That's why there are these kiosks in some restaurants. I've
only seen them in area McDonald's, but heard that other franchises are
considering such.

 GP> When I order extra pickles; staff time is needed to change my order &
 GP> pickles  cost something. (the cheap crap they have might cost 3 for a
 GP> penny); they think in terms ofmillions & if millions ordered like I do,
 GP> they could lose $100K  easy.

  I love the dill pickles, but I don't go overboard on them. One time, I
was snacking on Lay's Dill Pickle potato chips, and eating ice cream
sandwiches. So, I raised a few eyebrows when I told folks "I'm eating
pickles and ice cream".  Or "I'm pregnant with an elephant...want to
see its trunk". 

 GP> Of course; I'll point out the difference & often people trust me on
 GP> sight, but like you say, ewhatever you want, Sir; I'm here to serve
 GP> you! Have a nice day!

  Sometimes, it's like "here's your sign".  One smart aleck came 
through the drive thru, wanting "a fur burger and a side order of
thighs". I told him "you'll find that in the red light district
downtown".  Another smart aleck tried to order something from 
McDonald's, and I said "Sir, this is Burger King. McDonald's is down 
the street". And, there was a black guy who had "the dialect", and
he wanted "a waffer...a double waffer...a double waffer with cheese".
He couldn't make up his mind, and he obviously wasn't educated. I
guess a waffer is a rather large wafer. :P

 GP> Soda pop is bad in so many ways. I can't recall when I lasty had any --
 GP> maybe  my last 8 hour early morning shift (up at 4am)

  I drank a little Sprite the other day, but sometimes now, the drink
(especially Pepsi products) will set my colon off into diarrhea...I
guess too much fluid or sugar.

 GP> Per the mothers I've talked to, stones are worse, by far.

  Two women's takes on kidney stones:

1) I'd rather have quintuplets (5 at once) with no epidural or
anesthetic, in hard labor, than one kidney stone. That sums it up.

2) Woman: "If us women can pass a baby, you men can pass a kidney stone".
Me: "Unlike the female cervix, the male penis cannot dialate". That
shut her up.

 GP> Both involve some thing big goigb through a smnaller passage; buy with
 GP> a baby,  you got a nice(give or take) baby at the end.

  One asked me if I had several at once if I'd name them, and I replied
"Of course. Sly And The Family Stone". 

 GP> With stones it's more like you get a porcuypine acoming out -- but even
 GP> a  porcupine is a living crearture, & lovable for that reason, so more
 GP> like giving birth to a dead porcupine, breech! (quills facing the
 GP> wtrong way)

  Exactly...never mind a prick to the prick. :P

 GP> I think of it olike tht & I understand why every mother I've spoke with
 GP> whose  had both says stones hurt worse.  A couple OB/GYNs say in their
 GP> career's  experience with patients, they've said the same.

  See my comment above.

 GP> Pain sucks, no matter what, but you see many a mother go through 20+
 GP> hours of  EXCRUCIATING childbirth pain, purposely get pregnant again
 GP> later.

  Men are wimps when it comes to pain. It reminds me of a joke (I may
have told this before, but it's still funny).

  This husband brings his wife to the hospital, as she has gone into
labor to deliver a baby. The OB/GYN doctor tells them "We have a new study
to transfer the pain from the mother to the father, so he can know how it
feels". Needless to say, Mom was all for it...and Dad bragged that he had
a high pain tolerance. So, they get them both in there, strip them both
naked, wire them up for sound (as it were), and the doctor starts the
pain transfer. Well, he does it slowly, then ramps it up. 

  Neither Mom nor Dad had any pain, and she delivered a healthy 8 pound
baby boy.

  However, when they got home...the milkman was found dead on the front
porch. 

 GP> Never met a kimney stone patient yet who would willingly re-up for a
 GP> kidney  stone!

  Unless they're into pain.

 GP> Yup, Tim Horton's is a Canadian brand, now bought out by Burger King,
 GP> in Canada - they've been opening up outlets globally to serve ex-pats
 GP> who request it.

  Interesting. 

 GP> A&W has been slowly disappearing for 20+ years. I worked at one of 2
 GP> remaining  drive-ins in Canada.  My boss owned both & went bankrupt
 GP> soon after I went into the hospital for several months.

  One local restaurant, Grady's, had great food...but when several of the
employees came down with Covid-19, causing a staff shortage, the owner
shut the place down...and the employees were out of a job. There is 
another Grady's in a different part of town, but the parking lot is
smaller, and it's harder to get in and out of there. The same is true
with this David's Burgers, where I met this young lady...and am going
to be joining her church. The location I go to is near a Bass Pro Shop,
and it has a lot of available parking, and it's easy to get in and out
of. Another location in west Little Rock has less parking, and it's
very hard to get in and out of...especially considering it's at a busy
intersection.

 GP> Way to go! Too much greed moticvated mercantile game-playing by the
 GP> bilionaires these days. . .

  They have more money than they know what to do with. Believe me, if
I could convert the money in L.O.R.D. II right now (over $114 million)
to real life, I think I could survive. 

 GP> I buy as locally as I can find & afford.  I consider US stuff as good
 GP> as  Canadiuan, except for meat & dairy, but we don't get that here,
 GP> unless one  drives down for a shopping trip (Done that in the past; not
 GP> knowing about the  antibiotics & hormones)

  They got actual visual evidence of a hormone...a hooker moaning because
she was having pain before sex. 

 GP> Yup, ours doesn't allow private ownersship of the franchise outlets --
 GP> the  owener of all 7 Tim Hortons in Richmond, including the airport's
 GP> must sign over operationhs of the airport one & he gets a small piece
 GP> of the profits.

  It should be that way...and everyone is treated the same.

 GP> It gores by many names, including Mongolian Grill -- basically you take
 GP> a tin  late & fill it from the fresh  raw food buffet, they weight it &
 GP> charge you by  weeight, then the cook sautes it on the greill with a
 GP> bit of stir fry sauce, &  puts it onto another plate, on  top of a half
 GP> cup of rice (we get choice of  white or red/brown)

  Benihana has a Steakhouse in a hotel in North Little Rock that does a
similar thing. There is another place in town called "The Butcher Shop",
but I'm not much of a steak eater...however, my late wife was. There used
to be a placed called "Steak-Out"...that had the best beef sirloin tips
and baked potato combo (please excuse me while I wipe the slobber off of
the keyboard).  Unfortunately, all of them shut down awhile back.

 GP> No kidding -- that's not healthy eating in any way -- hopefuly you
 GP> don't have  hypertension, as those are loaded with Sodium!

  All processed foods are drowning in sodium, and I do have hypertension,
along with atrial fibrillation (and 40 other medical conditions). The best
example of drowning in sodium are anchovies on pizza. My late wife, who
had a defective aortic heart valve since birth...when we ordered out for
pizza, she'd say "I want every anchovy you have in the place", and I told
her "you can have those nasty things". Talk about a massive salt lick!! :P
I asked her one time "If you drop an anchovy on the floor, what if the
dachshund gets it??". She growled "If he touches it...he dies". 

 GP> You're unable to cook from ingredients? (even only ground beef can be
 GP> very  versatile, if you have a variety of herbs & spices); I used to go
 GP> to the  grocery store on disaility pay day & order 3 pounds, separated
 GP> into double- wtapped paxckages of 1/3 pound each (for freezing so they
 GP> won't get freezer  burnt)

  I can't stand for long periods of time at the sink, toilet, table, or
in the shower...as the arthritis is so bad in my legs, along with the
degenerative disease in my back and spine. I use a cane or walker every
day...which one depends on how I feel.

 GP> & spuds -- I love my mashed taters!

  When someone told me to cut carbs, I said "I sliced a pizza". 

 GP> For gravy, when on au jus, Isd cheast & put a can of crream of
 GP> m,iushroom(or  chicken) soup ointo a 2cup glass measurig bowl with a
 GP> little  worcestire(pronounced woostah) sauce, then stir it & nuke it
 GP> (or use cream  corn)

  There was an episode of "The Three Stooges", where Moe is talking about
this sauce (the one you noted), and he was having trouble pronouncing it.
Then, he lamented "I never could say worcestshire". 

 GP> How could that be? You're getrting less grease? (you can order any
 GP> burgere at  McDonalds "extra lean" & they will squeeze the fat out of
 GP> it until it's dry)

  Probably because of the broiling. I love their original chicken and
chicken nuggets. Lately, when I go to this David's Burgers, I've been
eating their grilled chicken sandwich. It's a central Arkansas franchise,
and if you eat in and order a combo, you get unlimited french fries.

 GP> & I always order my fries unsalted -- healthier & better tasting, plus
 GP> hot as they get!  If you prefer the salt, ask, for some on the side.

  We had some customers at Burger King who did that.

 GP> Likewise; & I try to tip well, but finances don'rt usually allow too
 GP> much  generosit -- but I have given extra, especuially, if I'll be away
 GP> for a while.

  Same here. I can't afford to eat out every day.

 GP> Mostly I tipp my cabbies 20-25% -- as I like that they'll usually waste
 GP> little  time picking me  up when I call for one, at least if they know
 GP> it's me.

  I did the same with Uber...I'll have to consider that if I end up having
to sell the car.

 GP> I thought it was "hold the mayo"?

  No, that was the exchange in Airplane, where the pilot was talking on
the payphone to the Mayo Clinic on his vasectomy results. He then is paged
that he has a phone call from Mister Hamm on Line 5...so he replies "OK,
give me Hamm on Five, and Hold The Mayo". 

 GP> Arbys isn't bad, but my nearest one is the airport. . Ditto Taco Bell
 GP> (I want  to try the Gordita Crunch, but not with a bus & two
 GP> skytrains.)

  I got gas for under a dollar the other day...but it was at Taco Bell. 
And, I saw a meme where they were changing the seats in Taco Bell to 
toilets. 

 GP> I'm not into fast food fish; McD's teed me off when they made a big
 GP> promo of  their Maritime Haddock & chips basket for par of their world
 GP> tour -- so  miserable -- a thin dry piece of over-breaded generic fish
 GP> paste (no flakiness  like real fish)

  I thought the fish at Arby's was better than Captain D's. The fish at
Long John Silver's is good, but it has too much breading. And, I'm not
going to Red Lobster (too expensive). There is a seafood restaurant north
of Arkadelphia, Arkansas off of Interstate 30, called "The Fish Net". They
put Red Lobster to shame!!

 GP> I got a world-known fish & chips place near here - they serve it in
 GP> newspaper,  even! Not cheap, though (under $20 so not overely out of
 GP> reach; but a very rare treat in the summer near rthe water, watching to
 GP> see if some other idiot puts  their tot on the edge of the pier, so a
 GP> sealion yanks her into the water! (true story--a watching stranger
 GP> wasted no time in jumping in & rescuing her)

  There was a place in south Florida called "Arthur Treacher's Fish And
Chips". I don't think they are in Arkansas.

 GP> Q: What's the difference between a Sea Lion & a Seal? A: I.O.N.

  I ON the mark, U OFF the mark. 

 GP> Q: Why are sea lions so strong?
 GP> A: Because they love big mussels

  Stud-ly Do-Right??

 GP> [chemistry 101 trigger warning]
 GP> A seal is just a neutral sea lion. Neutral, as in without the ion.

  Are you sure you lost an electron?? I'm positive. 

 GP> My family spent an afternoon at Fisherman's Wharf. My daughter and I
 GP> were  taking pictures of the sea lions. Several of them started making
 GP> noise. So I  said to my daughter,"The sea lions saw you. They're saying
 GP> Dork, Dork, Dork".

  Really.

 GP> [if they were Swedish, they'd say, "bork! bork! bork!"]

  Wasn't he a political figure or a judge??

Daryl

... A penny saved is a Congressional oversight.
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