Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

So Tony Stewart hangs out at the DQ in hometown of Columbus, IN
DAIRY QUEEN BRAZIER
616 3rd St   Columbus, IN 47201

But they say that Becker's Drive-In in Columbus has better food.
BECKER'S DRIVE-IN
1024 25th St, Columbus, IN 47201

So what?   What does that have to do with Tony Stewart and his attitude problem.


Oh wait, it's food.   Stuffing your face this weekend or avoiding putting your pinky toe in the city

Tony Stewart shows one lucky fan his Classic Car Collection
POSTED 5:52 PM, MAY 7, 2013, BY KENSOTHMANFOX59 AND JEREMIAH JOHNSON, UPDATED AT 05:58PM, MAY 7, 2013

Tony Stewart invited one lucky fan to his Columbus, Indiana home Tuesday.  Sandra Clark of La Grange, Georgia was the winner of a Mobil 1 sweepstakes on the company’s facebook page.  Clark got to spend time with Stewart in his garage and talked racing with the NASCAR star.

After the tour, Stewart talked with Fox 59’s Jeremiah Johnson about the classic car collection, the possibility of a return to the Indianapolis 500 in the future, and this weekend’s Sprint Cup Series race in Darlington, South Carolina.

No brain of his own.

Just keep googling, copying and pasting.   Knows NOTHING about racing, the drivers, the cars, or how cars handle

REFUSES to admit that Tony Stewart IS a hot head.

Quoted from mikechristine1

No brain of his own.

Just keep googling, copying and pasting.   Knows NOTHING about racing, the drivers, the cars, or how cars handle

REFUSES to admit that Tony Stewart IS a hot head.

^ Bully.  

Off topic -- but in many parts of this country Dairy Queen is doing quite well and has very nice stores.  

It would be good to have a Dairy Queen in Rotterdam -- maybe on that vacant retail pad down by BJs and Office Max.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Off topic -- but in many parts of this country Dairy Queen is doing quite well and has very nice stores.  

It would be good to have a Dairy Queen in Rotterdam -- maybe on that vacant retail pad down by BJs and Office Max.

Of course you would know about ice cream.  

Oh yes, you would love to have such a junk food place not far from you, huh?   Stuffing you face today and tomorrow?

Another franchise that we should get to come to the City-County of Schenectady:

Bojangles' Chicken 'n Biscuits: Fast food worth a stop
Larry Olmsted, Special for USA TODAY 9:10 a.m. EDT August 14, 2014

The scene: Considering how popular fried chicken is in this country – and it's bigger than ever, suddenly following in the trendy footsteps of barbecue – there are surprisingly few places to get it. With burgers you have three huge national fast-food chains, plus several more very large regional ones like Five Guys, In-N-Out, Jack in the Box, Arby's, Hardees, Fatburger, Whataburger, Smashburger and so on. But with chicken there is just one truly national player, KFC, and even they dropped the very words from what was once Kentucky Fried Chicken. KFC is widely available but not very good, and then there is Popeyes, much better and pretty big, with over 1,600 outlets, but mostly concentrated in New York, Texas, California and the Southeast. Then it drops off pretty quickly, with only two other sizeable fried chicken chains, Church's and Bojangles', which is the most regional of all, limited to just 11 contiguous states from Pennsylvania and Maryland at the northern end all the way south to Florida and west to West Virginia, Mississippi and Kentucky.

Bojangles' menu has changed much less than its competitors -- for nearly 40 years the chain has largely stuck to its core trio of fried chicken, biscuits and sides. Physically, Bojangles' is very much a cookie-cutter fast-food eatery, typically in a building accented in brick with a beige color scheme and orange trim and awnings. Inside you order at the counter from overhead menu displays and get your food to eat at plastic tables on plastic trays, or to go in paper bags and cardboard boxes. Bojangles' does serve breakfast, thanks to its big focus on biscuits, but the entire breakfast menu is limited to these in myriad variations – you won't find any pancakes, breakfast fajitas, bagels or English muffins here.

RELATED: Who has the tastiest Southern fried chicken?

Reason to visit: Fried chicken, biscuit sandwiches.

The food: Two things most set Bojangles' apart in the world of fast-food fried chicken: its single style of chicken and heavy focus on the biscuit side of the menu. The latter is so important that it is part of the full official name, Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits. The former is simply Cajun fried chicken, despite the fact that the chain hails from Charlotte, N.C., and not Louisiana. This simplicity, since 1977, is refreshing in a world full of constantly changing mild, spicy, extra crispy, grilled, boneless and even skinless chicken options.

While not lip-searing or Buffalo-wing hot, the sole style is a bit spicy for "normal" fried chicken, in a good way, and there is a visibly red hot sauce-colored layer just below the fried breading exterior. As you eat it the chicken doesn't taste hot in each bite, but the cumulative effect is there, leaving a spicy flavor on your lips when you finish. The breading is good and crispy, but not so crunchy that it shatters when you bite into it, and overall it is similar to the spicy choice at Popeyes and much better than the soggier KFC style. Bojangles' is basically very good fast-food fried chicken, reliable and with just enough spicy punch to make it interesting.

The biscuits are cut from the same cloth, not as good as you'll find in individual Southern-style restaurants making them by hand daily, but much better than most chain competitors, where they are usually nothing more than a heavy free side on a value meal. The biscuits here are intended for use as sandwiches, and as such are quite large, about 4 inches in diameter, but not as thick as more traditional fluffy Southern biscuits. They're roughly the size of a normal fast-food hamburger bun, though flat rather than domed. They are not especially fluffy, but they are very buttery and tender, almost crumbly, and the exterior is the same consistency as the interior with no defined crust. The biscuit sandwiches are all very simple, no secret sauce or lettuce and tomato here, just one or two ingredients at a time like the steak biscuit, which is just a slab of breaded chicken-fried steak, or the country ham biscuit, with nothing except a single thick slice of country-style ham, generous and overflowing the biscuit, but far too salty.

Not surprisingly the fried chicken biscuit is the best choice. Many sandwiches do double duty as breakfast or anytime meals, including the steak, ham, sausage and fried chicken biscuits, while egg can be added to the sausage or ham to make them more of a breakfast sandwich, along with egg and bacon and egg and cheese options. There is also that Southern breakfast staple, biscuits topped with sausage gravy, something you will find at very few fast-food chains. Like the chicken, the biscuit sandwiches are better than you'd expect via mass production.

Then there are the sides, called the grammatically curious "fixin's" here. These go beyond the typical soggy cole slaw, and include both hits and misses. The flagship dirty rice, with sausage and flecks of red bell pepper, is relatively bland compared to that of New Orleans (or even Popeyes) but still a big step up in flavor from the listless mashed potatoes often offered as a side starch by chicken chains. It is also a very good foil for the slight heat of the chicken, as is the cole slaw, fresher and crispier than at most chains. The Cajun pinto beans also aren't as spicy as the name would suggest, but they are quite good, and these three are the standout choices for sides. The Cajun fries are another solid choice, good but not great, and I think they are a better option if you are going biscuit sandwich for your main course than chicken, because then you end up with a redundancy of deep-fried food. They come in an unusual shape, flat wedges, and are heavily seasoned, but not overly hot. I'd skip the mac and cheese side altogether, which is pasty and tastes processed.

Ultimately fast food rises or falls on value and consistency, and Bojangles' offers both. If you love fried chicken like I do, sometimes you just need a fix, and if you can't get to a legendary place like Willie Mae's in New Orleans or Gus's Famous in Memphis or the newer Blue Ribbon in New York (all featured in this column), well then, for a drive-through, Bojangles' hits the spot and delivers pretty good poultry, pretty good biscuits and pretty good sides. It is easy to get bad fried chicken nationwide, and it's getting easier to find excellent fried chicken in specific locations, but Bojangles' offers a middle ground for travelers, with satisfying chicken across about a quarter of the country.

Pilgrimage-worthy?: No, but it satisfies the highway/road trip hankering for fried chicken.

Rating: Mmmm (Scale: Blah, OK, Mmmm, Yum!, OMG!)

Price: $ ($ cheap, $$ moderate, $$$ expensive)

Details: About 500 locations across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida; bojangles.com

Larry Olmsted has been writing about food and travel for more than 15 years. An avid eater and cook, he has attended cooking classes in Italy, judged a barbecue contest and once dined with Julia Child. Follow him on Twitter, @TravelFoodGuy, and if there's a unique American eatery you think he should visit, send him an e-mail at travel@usatoday.com. Some of the venues reviewed by this column provided complimentary services.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Another franchise that we should get to come to the City-County of Schenectady:

Bojangles' Chicken 'n Biscuits: Fast food worth a stop
Larry Olmsted, Special for USA TODAY 9:10 a.m. EDT August 14, 2014

The scene: Considering how popular fried chicken is in this country – and it's bigger than ever, suddenly following in the trendy footsteps of barbecue – there are surprisingly few places to get it. With burgers you have three huge national fast-food chains, plus several more very large regional ones like Five Guys, In-N-Out, Jack in the Box, Arby's, Hardees, Fatburger, Whataburger, Smashburger and so on. But with chicken there is just one truly national player, KFC, and even they dropped the very words from what was once Kentucky Fried Chicken. KFC is widely available but not very good, and then there is Popeyes, much better and pretty big, with over 1,600 outlets, but mostly concentrated in New York, Texas, California and the Southeast. Then it drops off pretty quickly, with only two other sizeable fried chicken chains, Church's and Bojangles', which is the most regional of all, limited to just 11 contiguous states from Pennsylvania and Maryland at the northern end all the way south to Florida and west to West Virginia, Mississippi and Kentucky.

Bojangles' menu has changed much less than its competitors -- for nearly 40 years the chain has largely stuck to its core trio of fried chicken, biscuits and sides. Physically, Bojangles' is very much a cookie-cutter fast-food eatery, typically in a building accented in brick with a beige color scheme and orange trim and awnings. Inside you order at the counter from overhead menu displays and get your food to eat at plastic tables on plastic trays, or to go in paper bags and cardboard boxes. Bojangles' does serve breakfast, thanks to its big focus on biscuits, but the entire breakfast menu is limited to these in myriad variations – you won't find any pancakes, breakfast fajitas, bagels or English muffins here.

RELATED: Who has the tastiest Southern fried chicken?

Reason to visit: Fried chicken, biscuit sandwiches.

The food: Two things most set Bojangles' apart in the world of fast-food fried chicken: its single style of chicken and heavy focus on the biscuit side of the menu. The latter is so important that it is part of the full official name, Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits. The former is simply Cajun fried chicken, despite the fact that the chain hails from Charlotte, N.C., and not Louisiana. This simplicity, since 1977, is refreshing in a world full of constantly changing mild, spicy, extra crispy, grilled, boneless and even skinless chicken options.

While not lip-searing or Buffalo-wing hot, the sole style is a bit spicy for "normal" fried chicken, in a good way, and there is a visibly red hot sauce-colored layer just below the fried breading exterior. As you eat it the chicken doesn't taste hot in each bite, but the cumulative effect is there, leaving a spicy flavor on your lips when you finish. The breading is good and crispy, but not so crunchy that it shatters when you bite into it, and overall it is similar to the spicy choice at Popeyes and much better than the soggier KFC style. Bojangles' is basically very good fast-food fried chicken, reliable and with just enough spicy punch to make it interesting.

The biscuits are cut from the same cloth, not as good as you'll find in individual Southern-style restaurants making them by hand daily, but much better than most chain competitors, where they are usually nothing more than a heavy free side on a value meal. The biscuits here are intended for use as sandwiches, and as such are quite large, about 4 inches in diameter, but not as thick as more traditional fluffy Southern biscuits. They're roughly the size of a normal fast-food hamburger bun, though flat rather than domed. They are not especially fluffy, but they are very buttery and tender, almost crumbly, and the exterior is the same consistency as the interior with no defined crust. The biscuit sandwiches are all very simple, no secret sauce or lettuce and tomato here, just one or two ingredients at a time like the steak biscuit, which is just a slab of breaded chicken-fried steak, or the country ham biscuit, with nothing except a single thick slice of country-style ham, generous and overflowing the biscuit, but far too salty.

Not surprisingly the fried chicken biscuit is the best choice. Many sandwiches do double duty as breakfast or anytime meals, including the steak, ham, sausage and fried chicken biscuits, while egg can be added to the sausage or ham to make them more of a breakfast sandwich, along with egg and bacon and egg and cheese options. There is also that Southern breakfast staple, biscuits topped with sausage gravy, something you will find at very few fast-food chains. Like the chicken, the biscuit sandwiches are better than you'd expect via mass production.

Then there are the sides, called the grammatically curious "fixin's" here. These go beyond the typical soggy cole slaw, and include both hits and misses. The flagship dirty rice, with sausage and flecks of red bell pepper, is relatively bland compared to that of New Orleans (or even Popeyes) but still a big step up in flavor from the listless mashed potatoes often offered as a side starch by chicken chains. It is also a very good foil for the slight heat of the chicken, as is the cole slaw, fresher and crispier than at most chains. The Cajun pinto beans also aren't as spicy as the name would suggest, but they are quite good, and these three are the standout choices for sides. The Cajun fries are another solid choice, good but not great, and I think they are a better option if you are going biscuit sandwich for your main course than chicken, because then you end up with a redundancy of deep-fried food. They come in an unusual shape, flat wedges, and are heavily seasoned, but not overly hot. I'd skip the mac and cheese side altogether, which is pasty and tastes processed.

Ultimately fast food rises or falls on value and consistency, and Bojangles' offers both. If you love fried chicken like I do, sometimes you just need a fix, and if you can't get to a legendary place like Willie Mae's in New Orleans or Gus's Famous in Memphis or the newer Blue Ribbon in New York (all featured in this column), well then, for a drive-through, Bojangles' hits the spot and delivers pretty good poultry, pretty good biscuits and pretty good sides. It is easy to get bad fried chicken nationwide, and it's getting easier to find excellent fried chicken in specific locations, but Bojangles' offers a middle ground for travelers, with satisfying chicken across about a quarter of the country.

Pilgrimage-worthy?: No, but it satisfies the highway/road trip hankering for fried chicken.

Rating: Mmmm (Scale: Blah, OK, Mmmm, Yum!, OMG!)

Price: $ ($ cheap, $$ moderate, $$$ expensive)

Details: About 500 locations across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida; bojangles.com

Larry Olmsted has been writing about food and travel for more than 15 years. An avid eater and cook, he has attended cooking classes in Italy, judged a barbecue contest and once dined with Julia Child. Follow him on Twitter, @TravelFoodGuy, and if there's a unique American eatery you think he should visit, send him an e-mail at travel@usatoday.com. Some of the venues reviewed by this column provided complimentary services.

Change the topic because you can't handle being WRONG about Tony Stewart's attitude and you can't speak about him from you own brain.


Naturally, talk about more junk food for that bod

Quoted from Alva White

^ Bully.  

your are being too kind.
the word should be JERK!!!
dvor is making more sense than mc1!!!
woulda thunk it???

Quoted from bumblethru

your are being too kind.
the word should be JERK!!!
dvor is making more sense than mc1!!!
woulda thunk it???

I made mention of that in another post. DVOR has become a sympathetic figure. I wonder if this is what mikey boy teaches his children (if he has any) how to behave . Or does he tell them not to be a bully and than becomes a hypocrite when he gets on the computer. I wonder how mikey boy would feel if the shoe was on the other foot. How would mikey boy feel if his children or wife were being bullied (God forbid). Frankly I think he needs a time-out.

Quoted from Alva White

Frankly I think he needs a time-out.

Uh Yup!

Personally, I think we all need an ice cream cone.  Then, we'd all get along.

"Oh, its a very merry confectionery scrumpdillyisous day.
Its incredibly edibly tantalizing I mean its a perfect day,
So lets all go to the Dairy Queen, the scrumpdillyisous Dairy Queen
All the flavors of your minds
Wait for you at the DQ Sign.
Have your seen the dairy queen the scrumpdillyisous Dairy Queen oh!
Scrumpdillyisous frozen treats are mine at the DQ Sign
My whole world goes scrumpdillyisous every single time.
so lest all go to the Dairy Queen the scrumpdillisous Dairy Queen, scrumpdillyious delicious
Dairy Queen.

Your bod looks like you need some ice cream.


Just would be nice if DV would speak from his own brain instead of googling all the time, such as about Tony Stewart, all DV can do is google but he cannot in any way speak from his own brain because he knows nothing about racing, the drivers or the cars  

And upon spewing all the babble about Schenectady, he asks for discussion, we present a topic, all this wild uncontrolled spending of taxpayer dollars on the so called economic development, what impact is it having on the city and the taxpayers.   Can DV EVER engage in a discussion about that AND present FACTS with EVIDENCE?   NOPE

He would gain a little respect if he explained WHY the poor homeowners should pay the taxes of downtown millionaires and explain what the homeowners are getting in return for their money.   But NOPE, just brown nose the dem party

Quoted from mikechristine1

Your bod looks like you need some ice cream.


Just would be nice if DV would speak from his own brain instead of googling all the time, such as about Tony Stewart, all DV can do is google but he cannot in any way speak from his own brain because he knows nothing about racing, the drivers or the cars  

And upon spewing all the babble about Schenectady, he asks for discussion, we present a topic, all this wild uncontrolled spending of taxpayer dollars on the so called economic development, what impact is it having on the city and the taxpayers.   Can DV EVER engage in a discussion about that AND present FACTS with EVIDENCE?   NOPE

He would gain a little respect if he explained WHY the poor homeowners should pay the taxes of downtown millionaires and explain what the homeowners are getting in return for their money.   But NOPE, just brown nose the dem party

(yawn)  

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

(yawn)  

Topic was Tony Stewart and racing.   You don't even know the difference between Nationwide and the Cup, and cannot speak from your own brain about racing, and so turn to food, huh?   Guess food is what soothes a 52 yr old boy