The Dreaded Charlestown Pizza Hut is gone.....

Could this forum survive with a 60 day moratorium on the discussion of chain restaurants? Just asking.

Sure it could. I'll refrain from attacking chains unless I'm scandalously provoked by someone else daring to defend them.

I guess I have my answer. Sigh.

Could this forum survive with a 60 day moratorium on the discussion of chain restaurants? Just asking.

Sure it could. I'll refrain from attacking chains unless I'm scandalously provoked by someone else daring to defend them.

I guess I have my answer. Sigh.

I think that was a very straightforward answer, Jon. Why poke the bear of the champion of local restaurants and NOT expect him to answer. I usually skim the Chain vs Local debate threads but was brought up short by the "anti chain Taliban" comment. Freakin' hilarious (if intended) and even more hilarious if not.

It's fair to say that little is accomplished with.......uh....disregard, I have to go eat at Steve-O's. I'll be hummin' the Taliban Song by Mr. Keith on my way over. Love that song for the unintended parody it is.

Ed-
It was intended as hilarious if not so true.
BP
PS: Not intended to make light of the terrible sacrifices being made every day in that terrible place.. so far away. If it strikes a chord with the easily offended, so be it.

I realize they just closed, but any idea what place could be moving into the former Pizza Hut?

Namedropping the Taliban doesn't offend me. After all, our machines kill fascists.

Namedropping the Taliban doesn't offend me. After all, our machines kill fascists.

A few here seemed to take offense at my Taliban comment earlier in this thread...sometimes hyperbole does serve a purpose. Not sure we agree on the killing machine stuff...Godwin invocation?

During WWII, Woody Guthrie wrote "This Machine Kills Fascists" on his guitar. We've adapted it to describe the brewing equipment.

[Robin Garr]

Could this forum survive with a 60 day moratorium on the discussion of chain restaurants? Just asking.

And the point to such subject-censorship would be? Seems to me that folks wouldn't talk about it if they weren't interested in it. Is there a problem here?

Ed-
It was intended as hilarious if not so true.
BP
PS: Not intended to make light of the terrible sacrifices being made every day in that terrible place.. so far away. If it strikes a chord with the easily offended, so be it.

Bill: I wasn't offended by it, just amused.

And the point to such subject-censorship would be? Seems to me that folks wouldn't talk about it if they weren't interested in it. Is there a problem here?

It seemed to me the post was made in observation and not suggestion. I don't believe a "problem" exists anywhere on this site.

Dominos is moving in to the old Pizza Hut....!


(just kiddin')

Support local. But yeah, I'm always on the side of the workers. Today's economy is still very rough. We have some serious rebuilding to do in this country. I really don't see Obama's jobs program doing it. For all the talk about "green jobs" what have we seen? More highway construction?

Plunk a few hundred billion down for green energy (and jobs) rather than funding new wars for US hegemony, and we might see some real change. And become a global leader again...Raytheon and Boeing and Blackwater aren't going to lead us out of the recession. Unemployment is still going up. (but people are giving up looking, which the gov't conveniently doesn't count). We're up around twenty percent now if you do real counting. And much much worse in many areas.

It is all tied together. But again, Support Local!....(your local farmers included - CSA's)

Support your local restaurants. Complain about the chains taking money out of the community. And then drive up to the locals in the Kias, Toyotas, Mercedes and other foreign cars and make your self feel good. Some are made in USA but ALL of the profits leave this country. Many are made offshore. And than feel sanctimonious about not going to Domino's etc so that the profits of pizzas stay in Louisville.

An amazing hypocrisy.

If not eating crap pizza makes me a hypocrite then I'm OK (very, very) OK with that. Lead me to that dark altar, sir.

I though that we were discussing the restaurant industry, but perhaps i overlooked the bigger picture of pro-Americanism as the total solution to our economic woes

Why insinuate that we all drive automobiles made by foreign companies? (even if they do perform better, get better gas mileage, and have a better resale value than their American made counterparts - who BTW are quite fond of outsourcing many of their contracts to foreign countries with smaller labor costs.....you may want to check to see where the ignition switch or speakers in your Ford were made Mr. Shade)

A more financially savvy individual may be able to provide the numbers to us concerning US auto profits versus foreign investment/job creation in the US.

But then again, this is a topic for a much broader forum or at least another topic.

Shawn

Could this forum survive with a 60 day moratorium on the discussion of chain restaurants? Just asking.

And the point to such subject-censorship would be? Seems to me that folks wouldn't talk about it if they weren't interested in it. Is there a problem here?

Wasn't ever suggesting censorship, just a little restraint in the interest of variety. And frankly, it's the same people who always talk about it. And that's a comment from someone who shuns chains and agrees with most everything Mr. Baylor says. It's just tedious to me and apparently not to those who have made it a cause.