Word: frenched
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Taking my turn at the counter, I ordered most of the spartan menu: one double-double (double meat, double cheese), one cheeseburger, one french fries, a large Coke and a vanilla shake. The young order-taker, in his paper hat, was unenthusiastic but perfectly polite. "You want onions on your burgers?" he asked. I readily assented, and he shuffled...
...Coke was adequate, and the shake interesting. The vanilla tasted more like French vanilla - a hint of butterscotch? - and the texture was pillowy, as if it somehow wasn't frozen. It had little of that wonderful icy "crunch" sometimes to be found in other fast-food milk shakes. But it grew on me, and soon I pushed away the last bites of cheeseburger (and many uneaten fries) and lingered sipping my dessert...
Fancy-schmancy French restaurants might be fine for gorging like a Republican fat cat, but how does one dine like a Democrat? The correct answer, of course, is go to a fancy-schmancy French restaurant - just because Democrats are singing paeans to the blue-collar class doesn't mean they actually want to eat with them. (Here the McDonald's-eating New Democrat Bill Clinton is a laudable exception...
...Taking my turn at the counter, I ordered most of the spartan menu: one double-double (double meat, double cheese), one cheeseburger, one french fries, a large Coke and a vanilla shake. The young order-taker, in his paper hat, was unenthusiastic but perfectly polite. "You want onions on your burgers?" he asked. I readily assented, and he shuffled...
...Coke was adequate, and the shake interesting. The vanilla tasted more like French vanilla - a hint of butterscotch? - and the texture was pillowy, as if it somehow wasn't frozen. It had little of that wonderful icy "crunch" sometimes to be found in other fast-food milk shakes. But it grew on me, and soon I pushed away the last bites of cheeseburger (and many uneaten fries) and lingered sipping my dessert...