Word: meats
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore has committed enough flip-flops in his years of realpolitik to support a good hour of stand-up material. But I suspect that if someone had made a truly light, witty and funny commercial - the ad that this spot claims to be - it wouldn't have been red-meat enough to please the party hacks. Instead, "Really" sounds not just nasty but tone deaf, down to what should have been a classic punch line: "(Gore:) 'I took the initiative in creating the Internet.' Yeah, and I invented the remote control, too." It's a beauty - right up until that...
...throng of Koreans on a street. "For once, people are staring at Kel and Jake instead of me") and three parts I'm-never-coming-here-again (a teenage boy ate dinner at his foster parents' home only to discover in mid-bite that they raise dogs for meat...
...likability election. Maybe we could just settle it like this: stand them in an arena, put a dog between them and whichever one the pooch runs to first gets to be president. And dogs, like voters, are known to be won over by a friendly man bearing raw meat and treats...
...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...
...south end was a little soggy by the time I began to eat. But the taste was unaffected. There is a tang in the sauce (reminiscent of Big Mac sauce, except redder and more drippy), hard to describe but delightful. The buns were gently toasted, and the meat patties were thick for the genre. The large-cut lettuce -"hand-leafed every day" - was fresh, and the onions fresher. Maybe too much so; their flavor stood out a little too much. I preferred the double cheeseburger to the single, in which the meat-flavor quotient was a little low, but both...