Twitter is stupid. It makes otherwise smart people behave stupidly. I’ve stopped looking at it.
Getting kids to eat healthy by disapproving of healthy food is very tricky and all too likely to backfire as they come back: “Yeah, that stuff is gross!”
Honesty and ice cream for being quiet is the best policy.
Well I’m call BS on the first highlighted part there. If what you say is true, why the dust up at Target, the boycotts of sponsors of Ingram, Bee, and so on.
Now the 2nd bolded part is very much true which is why I continue to patronize them despite my disagreements with Carney’s stated position.
We eat a healthy varied diet, but I’m fine with fast food once a week or so.
No question there is some garbage there, but certainly good stuff too.
Twitter mobs certainly are a real thing.
Everything is so stupid now. Can’t even eat at a restaurant without making someone angry.
But the popularity of CFA, along with the long lines and big crowds, shows the overwhelming majority do not care about this issue.
There is a real problem on the left of mobs on social media scrambling to appear more ‘woke’ than everyone else. As someone on the left it’s pretty nauseating to observe.
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Yes, it’s too bad some use social media to bully and/or harass others.
Of course Trump himself has used Twitter for the wrong purposes. Doesn’t mean others should stoop to the same, or even lower levels.
In this case, the owner of CFA does NOT discriminate against anyone. This twitter mob was simply outraged because of his PERSONAL beliefs.
Here’s one of the Tweets this guy got back.
“You wouldn’t have forgotten or been so flippant with this reply if you cared about our #LGBTQIA community. BTW, how many of us are on Twitter right now?”
About as expected. I am surprised at how quickly the alphabet soup is growing.
How can any diligent lefty keep up with it?
LGBTQIA?
I keep trying to reverse engineer that stuff. Close, but not quite the same. Even better is the Mueller’s BBQ mustard based sauce, which you can probably only get in Texas and I’m not even sure about that anymore. It was at HEB on the Closeout end cap and I bought every bottle they had.
They weren’t even actually outraged. They just wanted to be at the front of the mob. It’s a game.
I’m Partial to Mueller’s Extra Spicy Witch Hunt™ BBQ Sauce.
This is supposed to be Mueller’s original recipe:
Here’s the Orginal Louie Mueller Sauce Recipe
Sauce Recipe*
1 quart (32 ounces) catsup
3 quarts water
2 onions the size of baseballs, cut up fine (use 1 if they are the size of softballs)
2 beef bullion cubes
2 tablespoons salt, or to taste
cup black pepper, or to taste
In large pan, combine all ingredients, going gently with salt and pepper first.
Bring to boil over high heat and boil vigorously 40 minutes. Reduce heat to low, tast and correct seasonings, and let simmer 40 minutes longer. At end, increase heat to medium-high and bring to a boil again. Then it’s done. Bottle in clean bottle or jars and store in refrigerator. Makes about two quarts.
Round these parts we just use Sweet Baby Rays. Of course I live with a couple of hours from Kansas City, so we I get the hankering for real BBQ I just go up there.
By the way, Chick Fil A has been the object of left wing hate before. Despite that, they are doing extremely well, on track to be the country’s third busiest fast food place by 2020. And they aren’t even open on Sundays.
With about $9 billion in sales in 2017, the Atlanta-based restaurant — as well known for its sandwiches as for its strong Christian values — today ranks seventh nationwide among fast-food chains in terms of sales, but it’s on track to become the third-largest in the next two years, behind McDonald’s and Starbucks, according to restaurant consultancy Technomic.
“The trajectory we’re on would support that,” said a Chick-fil-A spokesperson when asked about the possibility of rising to the top three by 2020.
Helping to fuel this growth is technology such as mobile ordering and on-site ordering by tablet, which have sped up Chick-fil-A’s service, brought in new customers, and encouraged old customers to come more often.
Sweet Baby Ray’s is good. I like Bullseye but I can’t find it anymore.
I make my own rib sauce which is the best I ever ate.
Chick Fil A has certainly donated through its foundation to anti gay groups so you can say Catht had helped bankroll efforts at discrimination, even if its Biblically inspired discrimination. Thus the “left wing hate”.
I’m pro LGBT and I eat at chik fil a when I get the chance. It’s a good place with some great chicken sandwiches.
As long as a place isn’t discriminating against a group I’m willing to spend money. So what if the CEO is anti LGBT and by extension a bigot? He hasn’t banned anyone from his restaurants. Plus it would be his right to do so but he hasn’t.
I’m willing to overlook some things.
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Good common sense. 
I think people are far too political.
I was much more political when I was in college than I am now.
Generally speaking I’m easy to get along with even if we disagree politically.
My girlfriend/fiancé (haven’t popped the question yet but I’m getting close) for example is very traditional, raised southern baptist. Me, I’m basically non religious (I come from a Methodist background). We disagree politically and socially on everything. Ironically I’m far more pro second amendment than she is.
But it works. We even talk religion and politics. It always stays cordial and we accept that have different beliefs and instead of focus on everything else in life that we have in common.
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My wife was a Buddhist and more or less a socialist when we married. I’m a southern fundamentalist Christian and a conservative.
It worked for us. We’ve been married for 47 years.
