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Awesome Recipe

I cooked this last night. It's an easy, great tasting recipe for a dinner party.

Tequila Prawns Brasilia Cubano

Ok, I added the "Brasilia Cubano" part. It's Key West Prawns (you can buy them frozen by the pound at QFC), served over Valencia long grain rice (cooked in chicken broth) with cilantro, garlic and tequila. I added long sliced sweet peppers, cubed ham, peppered panceta, chipoltle and cyanne pepper  for that South American-Cuban feel. If you really want to grub, throw some chicken into the mix. Tellin' ya, seafood, chicken and the hog together...just does it for me.

Oh, and save a little tequila for yourself. Don't forget the lime.

Tasty!

Million Dollar Idea For Starbucks

Starbucks should allow their debit cards to store your drink information on them. If you want to change "your drink" you can do so online. Sure sometimes you want a pastry. Sure sometimes you buy for more than one person. Sure, sometimes you try something different. But by and large its the same boogie day in and day out for most people. Call this the "express-o" (get it?) crowd.

Starbucks should the 'Expresso' people swipe their cards as soon as they walk into the door. The order is recognized and passed on to the barrista, your account is debited...

and you have the privilege of bypassing that guy I hate at Starbucks that drools on your change.

I Hate That Guy At Starbucks

You know, the older guy working behind the cash register with the glassy eyes that have all the life vitality of a pasture cow; the guy for whom time passes like a play session with a six month old at 6:00 am after a hard night of drinking; the guy who measures every action to take exactly 3 (Mississippi) seconds; the guy that makes unnecessary (and uninteresting) conversation with every patron as the line grows and grows.

I hate that guy.

McDonalds, Where did You Go Wrong?

Elaine sent this to me and I couldn't believe it. Somehow the muckety mucks in McD's headquarters figured they would expand their dominance of the fast food industry and make up for the chips and dings at the health quality of their food by referencing their customer's intake of their product as a "Snack Hole".

I have seen some wacky things from the corporate world and this is one of the wackier ones.