| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Maureen Glaude on 12/26/05 at 08:20 PM Chicken & Ribs always sounded tempting together, but yeah, I wouldn't think of the combo in your poem. Never heard of that outfit. A good one to accompany your Less Cluck one I should think. You'll have a fast food series for sure. Thanks for this slice from the menu file. |
| Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 12/27/05 at 07:37 AM Well, having done some research on this...etablishments of this name have some things in common: 1. they all think they have healthy food, and brag about it! 2. they all have silly names attached to the already aforementioned silly name...try "Bub's (B&I)(California), Lick's (B&I) (Ontario,Canada), Zoomie's (B&I) (Washington) and the least silly, Peggy Sue's (B&I)(50's style) but made silly by being in Hawaii...well...I think grenerally it is supposed to appeal to kids...
and (epecially) kids' parents by the look of the adverstising.. But the really important thing presented here...is that these thing stick (!) As has been demonstrated and so generously shared in this impeccable, memorable verse...the mundane, and poetically elevated blackboard scratches of the mind...
Thanks, Chris!
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| Posted by Kyle Anne Kish on 12/29/05 at 05:06 AM "yet still those words haunt my pallet
as if culinary fingernails drawn across
a chalkboard menu" ... oh what you can create with a simple message laminated and tacked up on a restaurant sign. Fabulous, Chris! :)
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| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 12/29/05 at 01:41 PM irony provoking work Chris, and for my philosphical money, no matter how you pair or divorce one word from the other, for purposes that they are vegetally expressed or carnally, all words, coming right down to it, seem to taste like chicken. |
| Posted by Ann Krischus on 12/30/05 at 01:49 PM in highschool, my best friend and i ate burgers at friendlys and considered the bowl of vanilla icecream after similar to rolaids, helping us relieve our indigestion. |
| Posted by Ginette T Belle on 12/30/05 at 05:19 PM genius is all i can say...that is a damn good piece of poetry... |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 12/31/05 at 01:29 PM Most interesting commentary on a restaurant name. I have to agree with the sentiment! |
| Posted by Kate Demeree on 01/05/06 at 02:59 AM Although it doesn't sound good.. I have been known to eat both... lol and liked it! Great read Chris! |
| Posted by Carolyn Coville on 01/05/06 at 03:41 AM i guess you wouldn't like the chain of fast food places down here in Miami called 'Steak n Shake' which is famous for their burgers and nearly ice cream, original flavored milkshakes! now i can never go there without thinking of you and this poem |
