Chinese Food and Pepperoni Pizza

Panda Express and Little Caesars are both new in town, so I thought it would be fun to eat these foods together.

NEW Panda Express makes it a Fun Friday!

The new Panda Express in Ontario, Oregon is a beautiful restaurant. I went there on Friday -- as did many people -- and I was impressed with how nice it looks. There was a long line inside the restaurant, so I decided to use the DRIVE THRU.  

Panda Express is now OPEN in Ontario, Oregon

Chris Brown's song "Fine China" Number 1 on half-year Pop 10

Great singing and music in a song make it worth listening to again and again. "Fine China" by Chris Brown is one of those songs. It's a beautiful and elegant song, and so interesting I can't wait until they play it again.

I've been disappointed that I haven't heard it on the radio lately. (Thanks to YouTube we can hear this wonderful song and others anytime.) If my readers have had the same experience with local radio, then maybe we can  feel proud knowing we are enlightened music lovers who recognize a great song when we hear it.

It's clear to me that "Fine China" by Chris Brown is Number 1 for the first half of the year.

Pop 10

Top 10 Pop Songs list for the first half of 2013

1. Chris Brown, Fine China

2. Mudhoney, Chardonnay

3. Zedd feat. Foxes, Clarity

4. Alyssa Turkowski, Waiting In Two

5. Sylwia Grzeszczak, Pożyczony 

6. Rihanna feat. David Guetta, Right Now

7. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz, Thrift Shop

8. Justin Timberlake, Suit & Tie

9. Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX, I Love It

10. Demi Lovato, Heart Attack

　
*Note: This is my list (and my opinion) based on listening to many songs, comparing songs, reading, and research.  There were several other songs that were great, too. 

'Pop 10' for the First Half of 2013

I will be posting a 10 Best Pop Songs List for the first half of 2013. It's my opinion based on my listening and comparing songs, reading, and researching songs. It's not based on sales, radio airplay, popularity, or any of that stuff. In other words, the list has songs that I think were the 10 best songs for the pop list. Some songs are from other music genres or sub-genres. I'm not using the word 'songs' to mean only singles. There will be both radio singles and songs on my lists that were not released as radio singles.

Jack in the Box has Iced Coffee Now

This was a time when I was thinking about getting iced tea at Jack in the Box. However, once I got there I could see that they now have iced coffee. The photo is from above the lid of the iced coffee, which is larger than it looks in the photo. This is Original. They also have Mocha. I think it was a great iced coffee. It wasn't sweet though that's fine with me. 

Note: I'm still not sure about everything but I had to upload photos again but kept the same days of those posts.

Can I wait?

There's a Panda Express location I haven't been to yet and I could go there before this Panda Express opens. 

Problem

There was a problem with a few recent photos that I was unaware of until I found out about it, and I'm going to do those posts the same and same calendar days as before, if possible, but have to upload those photos again. This note will be on here until I get that done. Thanks.

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This was fun though I don't exactly make doughnut eating look easy.

National Doughnut Day is for real

Sometimes I go to Krispy Kreme in the evenings and it's a good place to relax while eating a doughnut. Yesterday, when I ordered in the drive-thru, they told me it was National Doughnut Day and they were giving each customer a free doughnut. I paid for two more doughnuts and had those put in another bag. I decided to park there and eat my free doughnut at their outside seating. It was a bit windy, and I had a hard time keeping my napkins from blowing away and stuck them in my pocket. I got my camera out and snapped pictures of me holding the doughnut. If one looks alright I will put it on here this weekend.

I went to Arby's this evening

My dinner was Arby's Chicken Tenders with Tangy BBQ Sauce and the Arby's Triple Berry Shake.

That's the 5 Piece Chicken Tenders in the photo. I ate three and took two back and put in refrigerator for later. And I really need a midnight snack! 

The Chicken Tenders are very good but some parts of the breading on outside are hard, so please be careful. 

I like the Triple Berry Shake flavor very much. It's sure a nice sight for the eyes of a hungry guy (me) who also likes beauty in food. Okay, I couldn't find exactly the right words but don't worry. I think the Triple Berry Shake is a great shake and I want to get it again.

What more can I say? The music was really good too while I was eating. I think it was a local station they had playing in there, but I was paying attention to my food. I do know the names of some of the bands and songs. It was fun to hear those songs. 

The signs of Burger King and McDonald's are not very close together. It just seems that way in the photo. These two fast food restaurants are fairly close but not on top of one another.

Burger King and McDonald's, though not necessarily in that order

This photo doesn't come with an opinion.                                       It's just an interesting photo.                                                                  

Not a sermon about soda

On a recent Sunday morning, I went to Carl's Jr. at about 11 am and bought a large fountain drink. I put in the cup Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, a little Fanta Orange and Strawberry, and I can't remember for sure what else. I had just come from church. The sermon was on a good subject and I did feel the unconditional love of God. I'm not that good at describing sermons and I forgot some of what it was about but that's okay because it made me not think about anything sad for a couple of hours. I was looking up and around at stained glass windows. The beautiful colors really inspired me to have a nice day.

Shamrock Shake too beautiful for me to drink?

No. I drank it and several other Shamrock Shakes, other times. I don't think there's a limit during shamrock shake season, but sometimes I wish they had those shakes all year. One time I got to McDonald's and the drive-thru menu said it was sold out and of course my luck had run out. 

This was one of the top two or three most artistic Shamrock shakes I had, but a few weeks later the shakes tasted even more delicious and minty. 

As I said last time, I've been drinking lots of iced tea at fast food restaurants, mainly going to the drive-thrus but I've had problems with one drive-thru this year, which is why I'm going to go inside more often to eat and drink or take it out with me. The iced tea at McDonald's is the Sweet Tea and that has been the most consistent and great most of the time this year. Other iced teas have been inconsistent and it's hard for me to predict what they will taste like. 

Way too average and normal

Today is a day. That's not much of a reason for getting excited. Okay, it's the day after Mother's Day and Filet-O-Fish and iced coffee from McDonald's was a good choice for lunch. I didn't take a picture because I wasn't prepared. Like many times before, the fish sandwich and iced coffee were really good together, but I've had them separately other times, too.

What else is going on? I can't think right now but I keep eating, though not much fast food. It's getting kind of warm, and even before it was, I was getting iced tea at McDonald's, the Sweet Tea, and the Peach Iced Tea at Burger King, oh yeah and also the iced tea at Jack in the Box and the flavors I've had are Peach, Mango, and Raspberry. I haven't made up my mind which one I like best, so I'm still forming an opinion.

Small Town Still Boring, Food Getting Better

I can't speak for small towns, little cities, or neighborhoods of big cities that have a famous restaurants open in their areas. I'm a person, not a town. Sorry for stating the obvious... Anyway, I do know there's not much to do for fun in small towns, so one of my interests is thinking and talking about restaurants, especially pondering the question: When will a well-known restaurant open here?

Panda Express is one of those chains. It has good-tasting Chinese food that's fast to order, be served, and for not much money.

Now it's almost here. I'm sure people in other areas are excited when a restaurant they like is coming to town. 

Sign of the Month

Wonder if anyone has tried all 50 Flavors

While I was in the Fanci Freez drive-thru, after deciding on a large Blueberry Shake, I noticed a whole bunch of flavors on the menu that I didn't see at first. The drive-thru line was moving and there wasn't enough time for me to count the flavors, but I did have time to start thinking about other flavors I want to try.

The One that can't get away

I think McDonald's Fish McBites are fun to eat and while the napkin I was holding this one with caused it slip out of my hand and sink part way into the tartar sauce, not to worry... Fish McBites can't swim, there's not much tartar sauce, and even if there were, did you ever try to swim in tartar sauce? I'd like swimming in a milkshake the size of a lake better but that would be too cold, so don't try that at home. Okay enough kidding around, I like Fish McBites but last night I ordered the Large Fries at a different McDonald's drive-thru because fries are easier to eat in a vehicle, when I'm sitting there just kind of spacing out on a Saturday night. The fries were not their best but most of the time that particular McDonald's restaurant is much better. It was a very slow drive-thru but there must be a positive way to look at this, though I can't think what it is right now. I tried to come up with an analogy using tartar sauce, lots of fish in the sea, having to wait when I don't want to, but this a fast food blog and I do my best to get away from thinking too much. 

One more time...

A day later, and wanting to see if it was basically the same at another Carl's Jr., I ate the Charbroiled Atlantic Cod Fish Sandwich again and have to say this is one of the best sandwiches I've had in years. There are others of course, but this is one of my favorites.The sandwich (in the photo) was more juicy than the sandwich the day before, but probably about equal in flavor, with plenty of lettuce and tomato.

Wait a minute... keep waiting...

sorry, I'm trying to compare buns: This bun and the Cod Fish Sandwich bun on the Carl's Jr. website, and the bun in their fish sandwich commercial (on YouTube) which doesn't appear to be popular with feminists and girls who just plain don't like men. Don't get me wrong, I like women and girls, just not the ones who don't like men. If you don't like the commercial, you should say so but not imply all men like the commercial because I didn't think it was very good. 

More on the fish sandwich buns...

well, I don't know much about buns but this one seems different on top.  I could go out today and look at  buns, and of course I mean sandwich buns, although I probably won't get this fish sandwich today. I had a funny idea for the closing sentence but I don't want any girls or women thinking to themselves that I'm going to a very hot place someday, unless it's a tropical island or something. If it helps you to imagine everyone wearing lots of clothes on that tropical island, that's your problem. haha

a Bikini Model sitting across from me wouldn't have made this fish sandwich any better

The sandwich didn't need to be any better because I thought it was great! But (or in this case, Butt) a Bikini Model sitting on my lap would have been OK. I wouldn't have said No, because it would have just made the sandwich even more fun to eat. 

This is just in reference to the commercial for The Charbroiled Atlantic Cod Fish Sandwich at Carl's Jr. and Hardee's (as viewed on YouTube) which featured a bikini model in the commercial. I think she's an expert on the sandwich, or something, but I don't have her email address so I can't ask her if it really was as delicious as she made it look. Butt that's fine with me. haha

Bought a gift card for myself

 

I went through the drive-thru to get a gift card because I didn't want

to get money back when I bought the fish sandwich. I've already been

sick twice this year so I'm just being careful to reduce the amount of money I touch.

There were a couple of misspelled words but if I correct those words then it will appear I'm a thousand times better than the haters and really I'm only maybe a hundred times better. haha. Joking. Damn, I'm funny. No, I'm far from perfect, and I don't want to be perfect either. Man, that would be boring.

Sorry to readers.  I thought the video could be shared but apparently someone doesn't believe in freedom of information.  I don't understand it.

"Sun Tan" - The Charbroiled Atlantic Cod Fish Sandwich at Carl's Jr. ® a...

Where to begin? First, some girl commented on YouTube that this Carl's Jr. commercial is for old men who can't find dates. I did click to see what she's been watching on YouTube, not that I really care, and I guess it's obvious the reason she doesn't like men... she watches Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos, who both have TV shows about extreme relationship problems among other topics.  I've watched them too, but I don't take these shows too seriously and know even if it's true, it's not the average people who are on these shows, or probably the world would have ended back in the '90s.

More first, there are a lot of man haters out there, and many are females which really is there problem. We don't like you either, so deal with it.  That just goes for the mean women and girls, which I think is a word some of them use because they like to be immature and say whatever silly things enter their minds.

However, continuing with First, I like lots of women and girls and respect them, and they earn respect by being good people and being their best at what they do.

I guess then the second point is that some young women and girls are models, actresses, singers, dancers, and other types of entertainers and I don't read the same criticisms of women who have chosen to wear skimpy costumes, for example Lady Gaga, who probably has more young girl fans than men who are fans. I like watching her videos sometimes and even more like Nicki Minaj and Rihanna, and some other pop, rap, soul, and R&B singers who are very sexy young women wearing some of the most enticing outfits of all time. In other words, let's not be hypocrites and say a fast food commercial is naughty if we're not prepared to fair and criticize everyone equally.

I didn't like it that I had to sign in to prove I was old enough to watch the director's cut, which in my opinion wasn't very good, and could have been sexier and more interesting. This version is better though it's still only mildly amusing or slightly funny.  It could have been much better and they should have put more thought into the dialogue.

The sandwich was great!  It's delicious and I ate it this morning, perhaps spurred on to get it by the fact that some girl said she wasn't going to go there anymore.  At least I wouldn't have to see one man hater there.  Oh heck, I don't know if she hates men yet. She needs to love everyone, and love fish too.

The Charbroiled Atlantic Cod Fish Sandwich is a winner.  I'm not much for "charbroiled" but I wanted to cancel out someone else's vote, or rather cancel out their comment with what is much better, my writing.

Hot Cinnamon, You're No Strawberry (Shake)

Right now I'm into experimenting with fast food choices.  My hair isn't standing up on end while I spout wild equations that could get us 'somewhere'...  no, it's just a matter of me trying some foods and beverages I've never had before.

Jack in the Box appears to like the word "hot" and while their Hot Mess Burger looked exciting, I didn't try it because I just wanted to be careful and not do anything that might give me a stomach ache.

However, I was ready for something different that didn't necessarily make sense or follow logic and for me that was the Hot Cinnamon Shake at Jack in the Box.  

The shake looks like their other shakes except it's a dark shade of pink or is that a light shade of red.  I don't know what they call that color, but the shake was hot, maybe like the hot cinnamon candy, but I don't remember what that's like since it's been so long since I ate it, and I hope it will be longer, meaning I don't like that candy.

The shake kind of made my throat sore at first, though it's mainly a strange feeling, and I suppose if I went to another planet where they served some strange, exotic beverage, it would be different too. But I'm planning on staying here, on Earth, and drinking shakes I'm used to and really like..

Is this Love?

Valentine's Day 2013

The DQ 4-Piece Chicken Strip Basket included four nice-sized chicken strips, fries, and their special toast and gravy. There was Ketchup but I didn't use it.  I liked this meal very much and had it brought to me since I was still sick.  The dog got close and really too close for comfort, so I won her affection by giving her a few small pieces. She has a love for chicken, and I'm chicken when it comes to love. Not really, that just sounded poetic or something, and could attract the kind of gals who like the shy type, even if that isn't me. 

If not, I know what I like, and that chicken strips. This should be an annual, lonely guy and hungry dog Valentine's Day chicken-strip basket party.  I like monthly better but we need to eat other fast foods, too. 

Table Topic

instead of real dating...  "Pleasantly Plump Dog seeks Chicken Strip Basket for FUN!!!"

Fun = Eating

Fast Food Notes

McDonald's Cherry Pie was one of my favorite fast foods of the month.  At a local McDonald's, the pies were 2 for $1 and I bought 4 for $2.  But when I went to Meridian, Idaho McDonald's last week, the pies were .79 for 1 pie (same as the local McDonald's)  but 1.58 for 2 pies, so I said told the guy, I'll just have one.  I wanted to check it out further so I went to another McDonald's on the way home. It was the same as in Meridian:  there wasn't a special of 2 pies for a dollar.

Next, I went back to the local McDonald's, in Ontario, Oregon, and they still had 2 pies for a dollar, so I purchased the 2 pies and also some large fries.  And not because fries and pies rhyme.  I was hungry because I hadn't eaten much and wanted to eat fries. "The fries were a perfect golden color and the flavor was the best I've had in a long time. Great!" I just decided to quote my own notes.

I wrote about Burger Time in October 2012, but there was a problem because I couldn't upload the photos.  I went back there on Thursday and had another milkshake, again choosing the Huckleberry flavor.  They use a syrup to make that flavor shake.  It's a soft, smooth shake (no pieces or fruit), so it was exactly what my stomach needed. This is the Large size. 

Some snow is on the ground and perhaps some ice/slush is visible in the photo. I stayed inside the car and snapped this photo with the window open.  The photo was cropped on one side because the back of a sign was in it and would have taken away from what is important in the photo.  The drive-thru is not in the photo because a vehicle was there at the moment I took the photo.

McDonald's Cherry Pie tasted great on a cold day

Here are more photos from Sunday.  I ate this McDonald's Cherry Pie while it was very warm and it tasted great! I had another one a couple of hours later. It wasn't warm then but still very good. I went to McDonald's again, on Tuesday, and ate two more cherry pies. 

I'd like to order one tropical beach, please

There's a lot of ice in the parking lot between Burger King and McDonald's on Sunday, January 20. I stopped to get a photo before I went over to McDonald's drive-thru. I can see the Burger King sign in the mirror. Can you?

McDonald's Cherry Pie: Hot, sweet, delicious

As I promised myself, I went to McDonald's on Sunday, and as it turned out I bought 4 Cherry Pies because they were 2 for $1 and she said I could get 4 for two dollars. I'm still good at the easy math, but don't know all the fast food definitions of "hot".

Now, before I go any further, this little "baked pie" really can be quite hot in temperature, so please be careful!  I had mine out for a minute or two, or heck I forget exactly how long but you understand I didn't bite right into it immediately.  That's because I'm careful and also usually take photos of my fast food, but not necessarily because I think it will slow down my fast food.  haha

I did handle with care and when I ate my first pie (in photo), I had waited until it was very warm, not hot. The cherry pie tasted very good and I liked it very much.

However, "hot" also is one way to describe what is going on in the artwork or image on the little pie box.  I guess it's another fast food definition to make a point and made me wish I had some of that hot stuff.

More photos will be posted.

Circling, craving fast food is not enough

I was circling Taco Bell yesterday morning and wishing I could eat one of their specials they show with pictures, but I still was not feeling up to eating any spicy food or much of any food food, as I was sick during the week starting last weekend. I ought to cover the last sentence with a thick patch of ice and snow.

Yesterday, there was ice on the streets and the parking lots, which of course isn't much fun at all, though I wanted to see what else is happening in fast food right now so I decided to drive around. Burger King has a special this month on chicken nuggets and I wrote this down from what I read on their sign which advertised 20 piece chicken nuggets for $4.29 and that sounds like a good deal.  I'm not sure I can eat that many or at least it wouldn't be a good idea.

I was having a problem with the pen running out of ink, and if my notes are wrong, blame the pen. No, I think my notes are right.  I have no idea what the prices are at other locations. Moving on to the next suspenseful scene, I drove some yards (and I'll measure it in yards because this month's the NFL playoffs) It was too darn cold and icy in the parking lot to get out and walk, not that I ever do. Not much more than a chicken nugget's throw, I mean a football's throw from Burger King is a McDonald's and I could see that cherry pie was advertised on their drive-thru menu... however, I didn't get into the drive-thru, therefore I don't know if it's a special on the small cherry pies I have come to love, especially when I'm alone (meaning no girlfriend). Actually, I don't eat those cherry pies often and didn't know I even had special feelings for them, but I'm trying to make some sort of point, I guess.  Well, I did wind up with a Jack in the Box strawberry shake and liked it.

Hmm...I don't know why but I'm craving the cherry pies again today and since today isn't yesterday, I just might get over there to McDonald's and get one or two or three, or more, and pass them around.  

Happy New Year!

Krispy Kreme holiday doughnuts

Krispy Kreme Gingerbread Cake Doughnuts and Red Velvet Cake Doughnuts

Both kinds are moist and delicious. The gingerbread doughnuts do have a nice holiday-spice flavor, while the other doughnuts may be too fancy for a guy like me, though I can live the high life, sorta, but it does make me feel like something I'd eat if I were getting married.  Who said that?! Don't say that word here! LOL

Maybe I'll do a list of my favorite 'M' words if I can think of all of them.  Maybe.  Oh I'm not saying Maybe is one of those words, but why not! Maybe is a better word than commitment, which isn't an 'M' word except it does have three M's in it. Heck, I had insomnia last night, also not an M word but it's why I can't stick to one topic. What's wrong with commitment... well nothing if we're talking about eating doughnuts because I am committed to it though I did need some help to eat up all the doughnuts.

Right after I went through the drive-thru to buy these doughnuts, I just had to snap a photo.

Some pre-holiday cheer for me began on the Saturday (before Christmas) when I bought these doughnuts. There were lots of shoppers out and some looking for something sweet to eat.  I wanted to share the doughnuts in the box starting with a full dozen, so I bought another doughnut and munched it down quickly. 

Merry Christmas!

Gingerbread Cookie Shake at Burger King

The Burger King Gingerbread Cookie Shake was featured on October 31, so please go back and read that review. I had this shake (in photo) again tonight, and I'm still drinking it now but decided to upload the photo so it shows up here to same calendar day I am drinking it.

Oh and tomorrow (Dec. 21) the world ends? If so, maybe the aliens will be the only ones left to read this and wonder what Gingerbread Cookie Shake at Burger King tastes like. haha

In other words, they'll be sorry if they mess with us humans, and then they will never find out. haha

Don't be upset! The world probably will be here on Saturday, unless we all party too much Friday, or something. Please have a happy day and a happy day after that day too, and so on.

Eating Ice Cream Never Looked So Good!

This is a McDonald's commercial from a few years ago. I don't put the title on videos when I show videos from YouTube, it's probably a title by the person who uploaded it to YouTube. I also don't know about the description on YouTube and have no responsibility for it. It says she's making faces at a baby and that makes sense, but I don't need a responsibility, just a pretty Asian girl or young woman to make me feel good.

I just know this makes me feel happy and maybe it will make someone else happy too. It's a very cute Asian girl or young Asian woman and I think she's being funny here. Someone said she's a South Korean actress but I don't know because I don't know her. haha I realize that I shared it before but can't find it on my blog, so it must have been from my previous fast food blog. This uplifts my spirits when I'm feeling down, and I'll enjoy it!

It was a long ride for these doughnuts

(a few years back) and oh well they were beautiful when I left Portland.

If this were a low-budget horror flick

they would have gotten even with me, but these are just doughnuts

and, as you know, doughnuts are for eating.

I decided to keep this doughnut from another Voodoo Doughnut shop in Portland, Oregon

Did waiting give this doughnut good or bad voodoo?

Other photos will answer this question. You can wait for me to post those photos, but I'd recommend coming back in a few days.

This photo is from the same day as the other doughnut photo but another one of their doughnut shops. Their doughnut creations are different than other doughnuts I've seen (and eaten) and one may have a slightly obscene name especially to certain people, so don't ask me unless we're a very close couple.  Otherwise, I'll just refer you to their website, which anyone can find online. Voodoo Doughnut is on YouTube, too.  Also at other locations on the web.

The giant size photo below is just if they want me for a Thanksgiving day parade balloon.  haha  I'll put a better size photo above. 

Wish I could GO UP to Portland, Oregon and to a Voodoo Doughnut shop

In September (2008), I felt like
I could lift off, coz there was
blue sky in Portland, Oregon.
Actually both of my feet were planted firmly
on the sidewalk, outside of the doughnut shop.
The doughnut is a creation by Voodoo Doughnut
which an employee said they called the Orangutang as it
has some orange-flavored Tang on it.

Note:  Most of the writing was done in 2008 and was going to be put on the blog in December 2008 but I gave this post a title and wrote the note on Friday afternoon and now it GOES UP blog, which I wish could fly me to Portland.  Oh yeah, blogs can't fly, yet. For people who don't understand me, stop being so uptight and use your imagination.

Extra doughNote: I have no idea how they spelled Orangutang, the doughnut.  This photo was cropped then made much smaller because it's blurry.  What the heck, I'll put up the larger photo too.

Adding to the last post...

I would like to say thanks to me, I'm not giving up no matter who tries to pick on me.  And I guess it's been over more than 2 1/2 months that the writing about that one day of fast food took place, on and off, and back on, off, and on, off, on, off, on, and you know, off and on.  I really don't like to stop writing about that day, so maybe I can talk about how I had five hot dates in between all those fast foods and drinks.  They were very, very fast dates. Blinked and I missed them. No, I'm kidding.  No fast dates or slow ones then. I'm much better at writing than dating.