Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

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I'm glad that you appreciate that.

i'm gonna say it -- this "grass jelly" sounds pretty tasty to me
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/michael-mcgill-old-oak-tap-grass-jelly/Content?oid=5045816

The flavor, he said, is similar to anise. "It takes a while to develop on your palate. When you first eat it, it tastes like absolutely nothing. Five, ten minutes later you start to feel a sensation. We were joking yesterday that it sort of tastes like bad sambuca with pennies in it."

also, nice sunset today in spite of truly ugly weather

This board is almost unusable without bookmarks.

my bookmarks are working better than they did on regular ilx tbrr

only issue i'm having is not being able to turn off images

CTA was fucked up today but it was almost rehabilitated by the hilariously talkative train driver i had for most of my commute home.

My bookmarks works for this thread and a couple others, but definitely not all.

the Wish Anus bookmark never fails

no bookmark probs here afaict

I have no bookmark problems either, although when browsing on my phone, I have to "click to confirm" that I want to add a bookmark, at which point I am whisked back to SNA, whereas here, I just bookmark the thread and stay on the same page.

You know what is great? Grapefruit. Grapefruit is great.

Yes, it is! Jennifur, do you have grapefruit spoons? They are handy.

My memory was jogged by "grapefruit", for some reason, to remind me that I wanted to post about JUICE FASTERS in this thread. I'm certain we've talked about it before, maybe even on the sandbox? WTF, juice fasters? I have a friend who is evangelizing via fb for this and it's hard to read sometimes.

we live in an eating disordered society
that is all i have to say about it really

It's beyond eating, it's straight up science ignorance.

Jeff, I want you to share a database of debunking sources. You're my anti-woo guru.

tubgirl dot com

Hahahaha

A fitting response to claims of the Cult of Natural, I suppose.

omg irl at work LOLs

I do not have a grapefruit spoon. I just use a knife to free the sections and then eat them with a regular spoon. Not even a grapefruit knife, either. A steak knife! ~~rebel~~

ps juice fasts are super dumb.

I'm a big fan of grapefruit, too.

Only my bookmarks for this thread and the wish anus are working now. The others stopped working.

EZ hasn't registered here yet, but he just posted this on the FB ILX secret group http://www.wbez.org/blog/city-room-blog/2011-11-30/walmart-makes-inroads-chicagos-north-side-lakeview-store-opening-9444.

I'm not going to shop there, but they did a nice job reusing of that space.

"There are three transgender employees working here,"

When asked why the opening release said "Walmart Express Opens in Wrigleyville" and not Boystown or even Lakeview, Restivo stressed it was not any slight to the gay community, but that the broader public would be more easily able to associate the location because of Wrigley Field.

"This store is creating 45-50 new jobs" -- but how many will be lost at other stores around the neighborhood?

All of them.

That area was already lousy with food stores without this addition. The good people of Lakeview are assured their nutrition.

I think it's a stretch to call that Wrigleyville. It's generally considered Wrigleyville ends at Fremont.

It's closer to a phallic pole than it is a foul pole.

Jeff.

I've got a foul pole.

For you.

Right here.

#justsaying

hey i won two tickets to see white mystery at the hideout on friday, is anyone interested in accompanying me?

things i've won recently:
kindle
show tickets

i should play the lottery

in other news, i'm going to have a sandwich for dinner tonight

Nick.

Jesse.

I've got a foul pole .

JESSE?

Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, ooooh.

I've got a fowl pole

if you know what I mean

(I fuck chickens)

(and eat the eggs)