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SquishMitten

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  1. On 4/24/2025 at 2:19 PM, BurntOrange&White said:

    The old PIzza Hut in Navasota is now a funeral home.

    Makes sense. It came with the ovens already.

    Damnit. Should’ve known I would’ve been beaten to the punch on that one.

  2. On 4/24/2025 at 1:47 PM, Bill Brasky said:

    food margins have been pretty thin for the past 4-5 years, so most places raised the price of tea/fountain drinks to compensate.   while many will look at the price of food on the menu very few people look at the tea/fountain drink prices and just order whatever reflexively 

    This has been true forever. Excluding alcohol, which everyone knows has a huge markup, cokes, tea, coffee, etc, go a long way towards profitability. 20+ years ago, I believe the cost of what an average diner would drink was 1.5 cents worth of product/labor. And you were charged $1 or $2 dollars for it. 
     

    Jesus. I need to get off this thread.

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    On 4/24/2025 at 12:03 PM, Ghost of LL said:

     

    But that raises a bigger issue: food in small or medium-sized Texas towns sucks ass.  Perhaps there was a time when there were restaurants in small towns that used fresh ingredients that were locally sourced in traditional recipes to come up with some fantastic shit.  But those days are in the past.  Now, it's much cheaper/easier to used canned or frozen ingredients, and everyone in small-town restaurants does.  And absolutely none of the recipes are any good when you use inferior ingredients.  

    I guarantee that’s better for their business in almost every way. The thing about them, especially depending on whether the town receives a lot of through traffic, is that almost all of their customers are locals. The smaller the town, the older that clientele is likely to be. So, the food needs to be cheap for a couple reasons. Older folks and those living in small towns generally have lower incomes and are less prone to spend it on finer dining. To ensure the restaurant is regularly filling up, they need those locals to be coming several days a week. If the food costs much more than it costs to eat at home, the locals will just eat at home. Really, they’re making the same exact food their customers would make at home and just charging  a bit extra to save them the hassle of cooking for themselves. Additionally, someone that’s going to eat at the same place multiple days a week is going to want absolute consistency. That’s much easier to do with cheap, processed food than it is with farm to table. Point being, while small town folks may want better options locally, they won’t actually support them enough for those places to survive. Nobody is driving from Austin to Liberty Hill for a good meal that they could get here for a few more dollars. 

    Even in the places with a lot of through traffic, it’s harder for the more expensive places. Let’s say I’m driving through some random town and want to stop for a bite. I see two options, one where the parking lot is nearly full and one where there’s only a few cars. I’m more likely to pick the busy one on the assumption that it’s better. But it might not be. It might just be the cheaper one that everybody goes to several days a week rather than the good restaurant they only splurge at once a month.

    Wow. What a weird rant I just went on. 

  4. 38 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    Other than some of them being fruit, an eggplant masquerading as a zucchini, and one not being a plant at all (although technically a fruit) - much less a veg - there's pretty much nothing there that I wouldn't chow down on, happily.

    Which one?

  5. 1 hour ago, LCHorn said:

    I’m somewhere between a grimace and a laugh about that one (since I’m paying into it), but the fact that Austin voters approved that particular bond was insane.   Let’s raise taxes by $171 million so we can keep $41 million of it.  
     

    I guarantee you if we could deploy $171 million for the 2026 election we’d run this state, update the recapture formula, and maybe have a more permanent solution.  

    Huh? Are you suggesting a bond election to raise $171 million across all Austin tax payers and then use it to fund Democratic campaigns?

  6. 2 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Kamala stood up to him and dragged his ass for a full 90 minutes straight to his face at the debate.  It didn’t mean shit.

    Try again.

    She didn’t have the ability to stop him. Elected Republicans do. That was the entire point of my post. They’re all following along, some because they actually do want all this evil shit, but it doesn’t take very many to stop him. There’s enough that aren’t fully onboard but they’re just too cowardly to stand up and risk being primaried

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  7. 2 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

    TSLA is up something like 10%+ since its disappointing earnings report dropped. Maybe your MIL just understands the backassward reality we live in. I’m starting to think we’d all do well with the Costanza Opposite approach these days. 

    lol. Maybe. She bought it April 2, so basically the exact same value as today. I don’t believe it’s possible for them to sustain that value with the whole world basically protesting Musk. And if he leaves, the value crashes even further

  8. 18 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

    I heard several exit poll interviews of people that voted for Trump hoping to get that stimmy check "like when he was in office last time."

    Like it was unrelated to a global pandemic and just a generous dear leader.

    We Are That fucking stupid

    Seriously?!? This is the first I’m hearing they actually expect stimulus checks… but it’s based solely on the fact we got Covid checks? Like, his platform is just to give us money for no reason? 
     

    I mean, my firm did quite well processing PPP loans, so I wouldn’t complain about something like that as the economy craters due to tariffs. Maybe we’re on to something here. Fuck it. Bring on the pain, baby!

  9. 14 hours ago, texas08 said:

    Part of the game….kill the poors and ill informed.

    But we’re all ill informed now because the FDA isn’t reporting on outbreaks anymore. You’ll just have to rely on word of mouth. Might just have to give up chicken for the foreseeable future

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  10. On 4/24/2025 at 11:56 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:

    If that was all there was to it, the dotard wouldn’t be President today. Try again. 

    What? Damn near every elected Republican cowered to him. That's why he’s in office. If only a handful of them would actually standup, he would’ve been removed from office during one of his prior impeachments. They could also do it now. Or, they could just do their jobs and cut out this tariff bullshit, pass some laws re: immigration and deportation, laws to make it even more clear that due process fucking matters. They could do something to get more gear and equipment to Ukraine. I can go on for days. They simply aren’t standing up to the bully.

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