re: TulaneLSU's top 10 Outback items from lunch today

The sirloin is a decent little steak too. Sometimes they go overboard on the seasoning.

Pics of waitress? An attentive hottie that is accustomed to handling meat has me curious.

Friend,

It may be time to think about your caloric intake. Unless you are an Ironman, in which case, forget I posted this.

Sincerely,
TCO.

You’re a shell of your former self.

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Total - 6880 calories

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That is closing in on the upper end for the DAILY intake of calories for a cyclist in a Grand Tour (ie Tour de France).

I would never question TulaneLSU's veracity as that would be gauche but had it been anyone else that had posted this lunch I would make the quick assumption it was the result of two or more people breaking bread at the table.

TigerDroppings should charge you a fee for posting shite like this on here.

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J&M is not a high end shoe, but it has always produced a reasonably good product, at least until this pair. I did some research and discovered their shoes are now made in China. Apparently, they closed their factory in Tennessee five years ago! Like you are now, I was outraged, so I staged a peaceful yet loud protest outside its store.

Security asked me to leave, which I did.

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Washington Post has a fascinating article today about how Brazil looooves Outback. Some excerpts about the world's largest Outback, in Rio, and the chain in general:

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The restaurant is now nearly twice the size of the biggest Outbacks in the United States, where the faux-Australian chain was founded. But even then, it’s not big enough. Not for Brazil, and not on a recent Monday.

Hostess Kalany Nunes, 19, surveys the line for lunch, several dozens deep. “This is Outback,” she explains. “It’s very chic.”

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For five years running, the chain has been voted Rio de Janeiro’s most popular restaurant. The polling service Datafolha has named it São Paulo’s most popular shopping mall eatery. In the past three years, as the coronavirus pandemic decimated Brazil’s restaurant industry, Outback expanded rapidly here. Brazil now accounts for 83 percent of the chain’s international revenue.

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The frenzy has even sparked a knockoff restaurant. Outbêco opened in 2020 and has swept Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, despite its self-inflicted syntactic challenges.

“Outbêco Strokehouse,” several outposts call themselves.

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For a restaurant founded by four American business executives who intentionally avoided visiting Australia because they didn’t want to risk spoiling their vision with authenticity, the theme has been known to irk actual Australians. “Outback has nothing to do with Australia,” said Australian food critic Besha Rodell. “Zero. It is a wholly American invention.”

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The article also talks about how Outback has killed a family run group of churrascaria that had been popular for 50 years. Sad.

Friend,

it was a terrible mistake to not order the wings.

always yours,

dire wolf

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Do not worry; I told Uncle on the way home that night, and we turned around. Cousin had to go in, return the knife, and apologize to the manager. Uncle grounded Cousin for a full week and Cousin never stole again.

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Aunt Teedy would have brought cousin back and stolen the whole set.