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Marie Callendar's sudden restaurant closures
On Jun 14, 3:26*pm, Nancy2 > wrote:
> On Jun 14, 10:10*am, "Janet" > wrote:
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> > > We've run off Burger King, Little Caesars, Boston Market, Taco Bell,
> > > Cold Stone Creamery and Subway. Except for the daily deluge of jurors
> > > from all over the county *to the county courthouse, us locals are
> > > very staunch supporters of the locally owned businesses.
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> > Good for you! (Although I must say I loved Boston Market's chicken salad and
> > creamed spinach, as well as Coldstone Creamery...)
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> > > I read the Arby's roast beef ingredients. Turns out it's just pressed
> > > ground beef, frozen, thin sliced and then steam cooked (?). A friend
> > > was eating one of them with horseradish (?) sauce when some of it
> > > oozed out and landed on his truck's hood. As fast as he was able to
> > > wipe it off, it took off the paint! It was actually an amazing
> > > incident. When Arby's time comes, they too, will not be missed.
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> > For a while I had a *job in a location right next to an Arby's, so we ended
> > up buying food there occasionally. I never tried any of their beef things,
> > but there were two good items on the menu: the "fresh market" chicken or
> > turkey caesar sandwich and the Jamoca shake. The sandwich actually contained
> > real ingredients and came on good bread. The coffee shake was a guilty
> > pleasure. 
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> We had a Boston Market for a very, very short time. *It was a take-out
> place only, but it got taken away, I guess. *I don't know anyone who
> eats Arby's - all that fake meat and stuff. *Ick.
"People do crazy things when they're in ads Lisa, like eat at Arby's."
--Marge Simpson
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> N.
--Bryan
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