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On Feb 21, 6:37*pm, Gary > wrote:
> John Kuthe wrote:
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> > On Feb 21, 6:15 pm, Chemo the Clown > wrote:
> > > On Feb 21, 4:03 pm, ImStillMags > wrote:

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> > > > Good book review......good article. * Think I'll check it out.

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> > > > At Applebee’s, almost no actual cooking is done: premade food in
> > > > plastic baggies is heated in microwaves and dumped onto plates. Ms.
> > > > McMillan deplores this practice while also finding it fascinating. “I
> > > > watch an endless assembly line,” she writes, “a large-scale mash-up
> > > > that hits the sweet spot between McDonald’s and Sandra Lee’s ‘Semi-
> > > > Homemade Cooking.’ ”

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> > > I think it's the same way at Red Lobster and some at The Olive Garden..

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> > They all do that, It's the way they insure uniformity of "product".

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> > It's not food, it's "product". *"Would you like a nice hot plate of
> > 'product'? I'll slide a frozen one out of a plastic bag and nuke it
> > for you! BRB!"

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> > Ugh! :-(

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> My daughter worked at Applebees for a very short while as a waitress. *She
> was disgusted at how there was no in-store cooking.....just heating up
> prepackaged things....so she quit soon after and went to a real restaurant.