tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post661815474630606231..comments2024-03-28T19:59:32.409-07:00Comments on Eat The Blog: A Fishwich in HoovervilleGoodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-10512392209700413802018-04-27T06:24:31.400-07:002018-04-27T06:24:31.400-07:00I have only been to drive through McDonalds in rec...I have only been to drive through McDonalds in recent years, being vegetarian, and then we only ever get fries and milkshakes. Yum xxxMelanie Folly Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11714445701351287394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-67725218601673957532018-04-23T20:31:51.120-07:002018-04-23T20:31:51.120-07:00@Mim
Oh, I think they know exactly what they'r...@Mim<br />Oh, I think they know exactly what they're doing. Goodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-71858340632494037352018-04-20T01:51:51.720-07:002018-04-20T01:51:51.720-07:00I don't know much about what employers do, but...I don't know much about what employers do, but I think it's massively unfair - rent and food cost the same regardless of age. Minimum wage has several age brackets and people are only eligible for the full amount once over 25, which is daft as a woman could easily have several kids by then. My guess is our stupid mostly posh or middle-class government haven't looked beyond their own little Alfies and Amelias, and assume anyone under that age who's working is doing it as a student side-job. Or possibly they're just gits. Increasingly our government is revealing they're not the incompetents I thought they were, they are genuinely and consciously unpleasant.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578612522819952936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-71879034217451658142018-04-19T16:11:56.130-07:002018-04-19T16:11:56.130-07:00@Thrifty Parka
Ha! I spent the holiday photographi...@Thrifty Parka<br />Ha! I spent the holiday photographing food and forgot to take outfit photos! Wouldn't have mattered-it was 30 degrees and snowing most of the trip. Almost froze to death at Wrigley.<br /><br />@Bibi<br />We don't hear much about your part of the world unless there's a natural disaster. I guess economic disasters don't get the same television ratings. I had no idea you even had a downturn. <br /><br />@Mim<br />I suspect KFC is better in the UK because here it is a disgusting last-choice before starving food. <br />So what happens? Do employers just hire teens because they are cheaper labour? How evil. <br /><br />@Vix<br />Don't know the song, but a Hooverville is a homeless encampment. <br /><br />@Beth<br />I told him to look, "Confused" and that's the face I got! That child is now a few inches taller than I am and wears the same size shoe. <br />TV dinners are God's gift. I'll always have a soft spot for potatoes with a blob of margarine. <br /><br />@Beate<br />Thank you. It was an interesting trip. 500 miles each way but it was like another country. <br /><br />@Propagatrix<br />Yes!<br /><br />@Ann<br /> I am pleased to know he's inherited my scowl!<br />I would reccommend the potatoes at MacDonald's but since you are Belgian I won't as you can get much, much better ;)Goodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-42598514729412369282018-04-19T10:47:03.060-07:002018-04-19T10:47:03.060-07:00Brilliant writing, Goody, I missed that! Great tit...Brilliant writing, Goody, I missed that! Great title too! I don't think I've ever been to McDonalds, or similar fast food joints for that matter. As for Danny, I totally agree with the other commenters that he's looking very grown- up here. I see a lot of you in him, must be the scowl ;-) xxxPolyester Princesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05602613792584925087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-75347587972504448972018-04-19T08:31:26.485-07:002018-04-19T08:31:26.485-07:00Our next mission: gather in the nearest Levittown ...Our next mission: gather in the nearest Levittown for TV dinners. Propagatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07450679576020462553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-6897971010766806792018-04-19T07:45:47.924-07:002018-04-19T07:45:47.924-07:00you even make a common roadtrip + fastfood to a co...you even make a common roadtrip + fastfood to a cool story!!<br />chapeau!!!<br />danny does a good job looking serious ;-)<br />xxxxbahnwärterinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02032478343344432338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-64488449642421668822018-04-19T05:30:33.234-07:002018-04-19T05:30:33.234-07:00Talk about being discombobulated by a photo! Neve...Talk about being discombobulated by a photo! Never mind him in the hat, who is that young man glowering at us in the first shot? The one who resembles your husband...<br /><br />Loved the story about Clara and the phony white upscale bread! My Great-aunt Nora lived into her 90s, devoted to TV dinners eaten on a tray while watching Ed Sullivan on the biggest console television available. Such convenience and comfort!Beth Waltzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02720634636307254576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-70679614618279050022018-04-19T03:21:24.283-07:002018-04-19T03:21:24.283-07:00Danny does look very grown-up.
I loved The Christ...Danny does look very grown-up. <br />I loved The Christians' song "Hooverville" in the 1980s, I wonder what that was all about?<br />xxxVixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05263970600699632661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-39694894844395808922018-04-19T01:21:34.581-07:002018-04-19T01:21:34.581-07:00I haven't been to a McDonalds in YEARS. Their ...I haven't been to a McDonalds in YEARS. Their burgers were always a sort of guilty pleasure, squashy and not exactly tasting of anything they were supposed to contain. Somehow if we're going for fast food we always end up with a bucket of KFC instead. And our local McDonalds, even the Bath branch, are nowhere near as swish as the Hooverville one. <br /><br />Minimum wage in the UK has age rates attached. For people under 18 it's £4.20 an hour. No wonder there's been such a growth in food banks over here :-(Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578612522819952936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-29208893395837875452018-04-18T20:13:17.594-07:002018-04-18T20:13:17.594-07:00Glad you're back!
McD's has really changed...Glad you're back!<br />McD's has really changed their game. Most are really clean & tidy and even have decent coffee now. I was 6 yrs old when we got a McD's in Sonoma in the early 70's & recall only one visit there about a year after it opened (my mom was on her 10 yr hippy healthfood kick). I remember being entirely disappointed in the squashed little 15 cent burgers, greasy limp fries and the pasty thick milkshakes- nothing like the commercials with muppet-like characters dancing around (I loved Grommit & Hambourglar) eating picture perfect burgers & shakes. The Sheikh loves McD's fries & I love their sparkling clean bathrooms on roadtrips. <br /><br />Apparently the "Prolonged Ecomomic Downturn" or "Great Recession" we suffered 2006-2011 rivaled the Great Depression. We don't here much about people who lost most of their home equity & life-savings in that mess but I know quite a few. Bibi Maizoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07383381158640915162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-47718257471850748612018-04-18T12:24:55.778-07:002018-04-18T12:24:55.778-07:00My goodness Danny is growing! He looks like a youn...My goodness Danny is growing! He looks like a young adult.<br /><br />I can all too adamantly concur that pulling over and enjoying the quiet is very pleasant. Since Thunder Bay is located almost in the middle of nowhere, I have experienced many road trips.<br /><br />Hooverville, chuckle. I wonder what Reganville would have been like.<br /><br />What?? No outfit pics??<br /><br />Safe travels and happy thrifting ;)ThriftyParkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17295345786296221184noreply@blogger.com