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Via a commentor at Paul Constant’s Stranger blog. (Constant actually linked to a different reciped, at Crasstalk.) Complete ingredients and recipe at the YouTube link. Since I’ve nver eaten a Chik-fil-A sandwich — I’m not a fan of chicken sandwiches in general — I have no idea how close these come to the original. I’d be dubious about the icing sugar, if it weren’t for all the jokes about the ‘diabeetus sammich’…

Also via Constant, there is also a “Chicken Offset” program where the helplessly addicted can buy donations to the It Gets Better Foundation. As old people used to say, when I was young: Only in America!

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  2. 2.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    It’s a good chicken sandwich. Someone told me they marinate the raw chicken breasts in pickle juice at the factory. Whatever crazy magic they use, it’s good.

    Not a fan of the waffle fries though. To me, they taste like cardboard.

    At any rate, we need to get this whole gay rights thing taken care of ASAP so me and fat gay people can have a chicken sandwich from Chic-Fil-A. This is really supercharging the whole fucking issue.

    Assholes.

  7. 7.

    The Other Chuck

    I remember having one like 20 years ago or so. I have to imagine they’ve cheaped out and turned it into complete crap. Even if they didn’t, everything tastes worse when slathered with sanctimony.

  8. 8.

    David Koch

    No Olympic thread tonight?

    Well, let me just say Misty May has an incredible apple-bottom.

  9. 9.

    suzanne

    Those sandwiches are highly mediocre. Really don’t see what all the fuss is about. Chicken Selects from McDonald’s are better.

  11. 11.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I may give in and go order a chicken sandwich and just demand that it be prepared by a homosexual employee.

    That seems like a reasonable compromise.

  13. 13.

    CaffinatedOne

    I think that they’re quite tasty, though I’m not going to give them my money. I’d trust the following recipe a bit more:

    Serious eats recipe

    I’m going to give it a try later this week and see how it goes.

  14. 14.

    Moik

    @Hypatia’s Momma: First thing to pop into my head was “..the hose again”, but yeah, that makes more sense.

    IT PUTS THE LOTION IN THE F**KING BASKET!!

  16. 16.

    Violet

    I ate at Chick-fil-a a few months ago when a new one opened in my neighborhood and they sent out coupons for a free sandwich. It had been years since I’d eaten at one and I remember not being impressed then. Nothing had changed in that regard. Bland, dry unimpressive sandwich with one or two pickle slices. Meh. I wouldn’t have gone except it was free.

  22. 22.

    dead existentialist

    @amk: Pfft! tax and tacks, why do you liebrals mit-pick?

    ETA: It’s not like he was ordering a pack of rubbers and got embarrassed.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    Whoa, Nationals and Orioles both involved in extra-inning games right now. Mariners are walking someone to load the bases for the Orioles to get a force out in the 14th. Nats one up on the Astros, who are batting in the bottom of the 12th.

    It has been great this season to have the Nats and Orioles actually be good, since here in NoVa we get all their games. Makes the “baseball screensaver” actually enjoyable.

    ETA: Orioles win with a line-drive hit!

  27. 27.

    eric

    Men’s high bar was the single greatest olympic event i have ever seen. Four guys were better than any godl medalist in history and three of them were not even close to the winner, who did the most ridiculous athletic performance I have ever seen. holy effing wow.

  32. 32.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Todd Akin beat Sarah Steelman and Some Other Goon to face Bothways McCaskill. Things get a little harder for Chinless McConnell, if not necessarily easier for Harry Reid

  33. 33.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I’m torn. I think Akin will be harder to beat, given that he’s a 5-term congressman and all, but it is still delightful to see Sarah Palin’s candidate (Steelman) go down.

  34. 34.

    Ash Can

    So I guess crack statesman Mitt Romney decided to offset his slam of Palestinian culture by slamming kibbutzes.

    “What America is not is a collective where we all work in a kibbutz or we all in some little entity,” Romney told a gathering at Maggiano’s Little Italy in downtown Chicago. “Instead, it’s individuals pursuing their dreams and building successful enterprises…”

    h/t TPM

  35. 35.

    Spaghetti Lee

    When I read about the chicken offset thing, the first word that came to my mind was “Indulgences.”

  36. 36.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Spaghetti Lee: I won’t pretend to knwo MO politics, but from the polls I’ve seen Akin was the weakest of the three GOP candidates. Rasmussen has Akin and CMcC within the MOE. And, yeah, it is great to see Palin’s pick go down. I was watching MSNBC earlier and they were talking about Palin’s “strong track record” as an endorser. I think Rubio was the only time she went against the establishment pick and won. If anything, she helped Dems pull out squeakers in NE, CO and DE

  41. 41.

    amk

    Another mittbot billionaire tax-dodging pal in IRS net.

    The Internal Revenue Service is demanding $45 million in back 2002 and 2003 taxes from San Antonio billionaire Billy Joe “Red” McCombs for his use of a tax strategy similar to one a judge disallowed last week for billionaire Philip Anschutz.

    The case involves a complicated strategy, which was widely peddled by Wall Street as a way for rich folks like Anschutz and McCombs to raise cash from highly appreciated stock positions, while deferring capital gains tax. “It’s like a who’s who of business that entered into these things,” observed Robert Willens, an independent tax analyst in New York who was a managing director in the equity research department at Lehman Brothers ( LEHMQ – news – people ) for 20 years.

    So when is IRS gonna go after mittbot ?

  43. 43.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @TexasMango: @Hill Dweller: Romney really thinks he’s picked a winner with this. I’m not anywhere near the sliver-sized demographic he’s targeting, but I don’t see this as his road to the White House. From what I’ve seen on TV, the Broderists are too timid to call the race-baiting for what it is. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, since this is a degree more subtle than Gingrich’s “Food stamp president”, and they didn’t have the guts or the character to call that what it was, IIRC.

  45. 45.

    TexasMango

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Hell, I want the Obama Campaign to stop calling it a “falsehood”. It’s a damn lie so call it a lie. Especially when you know the MSM won’t call it a lie. Any journalist could read what the order says and see that it’s a lie, but they won’t say so. They will act like it’s he said/he said. The Obama campaign has been doing really well with hitting Romney hard, but it’s time to use the l-word now.

  46. 46.

    middlewest

    Here, watch a very heterosexual man with a pink shirt and pornstache set fire to General Mills’ lawn to protest gay marriage.

    It makes sense to them.

  47. 47.

    dead existentialist

    I hate everybody, and so does this really, really white dude, who may be crazy but ain’t nobody’s fool. When’s the last time you heard from him, you old fucks?

  48. 48.

    jl

    @middlewest:

    Thanks for providing me with my daily two minutes of totally weird.

    And that was so weird. Was it a spoof? Who was the girl giggling off camera at the end? How did this hilarious mess of a protest video get released?

  51. 51.

    David Koch

    @TexasMango:

    And they found some black chick to promote the lie on CNN.

    If CNN broadcasts a show and nobody watches did it make a sound?

  54. 54.

    Hill Dweller

    Clinton released a statement hitting Willard for his dishonest welfare ad.

    The Village idiots better do more than the he said/she said bullshit. This shouldn’t take more than five minutes to prove Willard’s commercial false.

  55. 55.

    RadioOne

    I used to work near a mall that had a Chick-Fil-A, and I’ve always thought they were in the top tier when it comes to chicken sandwiches in fast food franchises. The fact that they’re doubling down unto the gay marriage thing whole hog pisses me off. There is always the orange chicken from Panda Express.

  58. 58.

    jl

    @Hill Dweller: Thanks for heads up. Here is Big Dawg on how Rmoney lied ’bout Big Obama:

    Bill Clinton calls Romney’s welfare claims ‘not true’

    ‘ Clinton said the welfare reform law he signed emerged after “years of experiments at the state level” and noted that he had granted waivers to 44 states that wanted to implement “welfare to work strategies” before the 1996 welfare reforms had passed.

    Clinton [pointed] out that the recent DHS directive came at the request of Republican governors in Utah and Nevada.
    “The (Obama) administration has taken important steps to ensure that the work requirement is retained and that waivers will be granted only if a state can demonstrate that more people will be moved into work under its new approach,” Clinton said in his statement. “The welfare time limits, another important feature of the 1996 act, will not be waived.”

    Clinton called Romney’s ad “especially disappointing” because Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, had pushed Congress to give states more power to control their welfare measures.

    “We need a bipartisan consensus to continue to help people move from welfare to work even during these hard times, not more misleading campaign ads,” Clinton said.

    The Romney campaign had no immediate response.

    news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bill-clinton-calls-romney-welfare-claims-not-true-033013524.html

    I can’t wait until Politifact clears this up. I dunno who people will trust, Politifact or Big Dawg?

  59. 59.

    scav

    @Hill Dweller: Cui bono?

    All those juicy super-pac fueled advertising budgets. News room doesn’t stand a chance. And as for looking to the Villagers? pls.

  60. 60.

    Hypatia's Momma

    @Hill Dweller:

    Romney spokesman Ryan Williams responds: “…Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has a record of fighting to strengthen work requirements…”

    Good grief.

  63. 63.

    Hill Dweller

    @Hypatia’s Momma: So they’ve already moved the goalposts after just one day.

    With Bubba weighing in, and the governors in question being Republicans, I’m cautiously optimistic this won’t have much effect on the campaign. If we’re really lucky, Willard will get some criticism for blatantly lying again.

  64. 64.

    David Koch

    PPP: Black Metrosexual Abe Lincoln opens up lead in North Carolina 49-46.

    This is Great News for McCain!

  67. 67.

    Martin

    Wheee! Earthquake in SoCal.

    Nice rolley one. Probably pretty far away, but decently sized.

  68. 68.

    Martin

    4.4 in Yorba Linda. Maybe 15 miles from me. 4.4 is no biggie out here. Enough to get your notice, but not break stuff.

  69. 69.

    Dennis SGMM

    Nice thump here, roughly twenty miles NW of the epicenter.
    I didn’t spill a drop.

  70. 70.

    Martin

    Turns out it was 2 quakes less than a minute apart. The 2nd was small, but because the seismic waves stretch out as it travelled, I think it felt like one long one.

    Well, it woke the kids up. No doubt this will add to the ‘earthquake weather’ urban legend.

  74. 74.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Yutsano: I lived right across the street from a Papa Johns for 6 years and never once darkened the door. Nastiest pizza ever.

  76. 76.

    NotMax

    @ TheMightyTrowel

    Never ate in (nor even saw) a Papa John’s, but shall give it a wide berth based on the comments here. :)

    Nastiest pizza had from a large chain has to be anything from Little Caesar’s.

    From a smaller operation, Magoo’s. Never tried the one in Honolulu, but many years ago there was one on Maui, operating out of a rickety, lopsided old stable/barn (which they apparently hadn’t bothered to clean when they moved in). Crust had the consistency and taste of a soggy saltine.

    The box the pizza came in would have been better tasting.

    Also never tried it, but acquaintances warn against any Sbarro’s in an airport.

  77. 77.

    Narcissus

    Hey I like little caesars. I can get a whole deep dish pizza for like 8 dollars.

    yes i’m quite poor

  78. 78.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Narcissus: Think that may be part of the problem with Papa Johns – not only does the pizza taste like regurgitated, salted cardboard liberally seasoned with old deep fryer oil it’s more expensive than most quick pizza places (certainly the one by me charged 10 GBP for a pizza the size of a Dominos 6 GBP pizza)

  79. 79.

    WereBear

    @Hypatia’s Momma: Thanks for the adorable thread! I would have tweeted it out but it is on a subforum called Penis Land and some of my readers are older and not hip to the whole casual swearing/rampant genitalia thing.

    I called Reverend Jim a wiseass in one post, and got objections. Now he’s a wisenheimer.

    Fortunately, I’m originally from the MidWest, and I understand.

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