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20080610 Tuesday June 10, 2008
The Pickle Makes it Southern Humor

A recent tweet about pickles reminded me about a recent trip to Arby's.  They were advertising a "Southern Chicken Sandwich."  My wife got one and she ended up with a tiny sandwich consisting of the following:

  • tiny bun
  • tiny fried chicken patty
  • mayo
  • pickles
Arby's Southern Chicken Sandwich
Arby's Southern Chicken Sandwich

We weren't sure where the "Southern" part came from.  Maybe we are just ignorant Yankees, so was it the pickle?

Soon afterwards I saw an adversisement for McDonald's Southern Chicken Sandwich.  It, too, consisted of just chicken and pickle.  I was sensing a pattern.

McDonald's Southern Chicken Sandwich
McDonalds's Southern Chicken Sandwich

So, I put down my copy of William Shatner's book, Get a Life, and went to google "southern chicken pickle" to see if, indeed, the pickle is the key to making a Southern Chicken Sandwich.  What I found where two blog postings [1, 2] mentioning that McDonalds was ripping off Chick-Fil-A's southern chicken sandwich.  Ah ha!  (Arby's didn't make their RADAR).

Chick-fil-a Southern Chicken Sandwich
Chick-Fil-A's Southern Chicken Sandwich

Again with the pickle.

I don't get to the south much, nor even to the few Chick-Fil-As in California.  The first time I saw their name I pronounced it "chick-FILL-ah."  Can someone tell a dumb Yankee why the pickle makes it Southern?

Update: Pulled from the comments, it's a NY Times story on the chicken-pickle sandwich wars.


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20080501 Thursday May 01, 2008
The Deadliest Snack Kids

 Code Orange!  Code Orange!  Hazmat teams to Playground One!

Cheese and peanut butter crackers

When you have a kid in school you learn all about other kids with food allergies.  The most common allergies seem to be wheat, dairy and peanuts.  Schools are careful that no one is served food they shouldn't eat but some schools actually ban all kids from bring food with peanuts in it.

I have to wonder what the extra zealous schools would think of the following snack: Keebler Cheese and Peanut Butter Crackers.  Motto: It's the trifecta of allergens!

And, yes, I'm pretty sure that this isn't so healthy for kids without allergies to be eating, either.


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20071101 Thursday November 01, 2007
Apathy or Agnostic? Life

Wife: How was your sandwich?

Me: OK.

Wife: Was it tuna or chicken?

Me: I'm not sure.


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