this shit is unintentionally funny

especially the blow-by-blow account of the IMPROVED golden corral eating experience.




Restaurants are opening left and right in Southeast Texas food boom


By: MIKE D. SMITH, The Enterprise
01/26/2007
Updated 01/25/2007 11:04:53 PM CST

Andrew Nenque/The Enterprise

Unemployment's down, jobs are coming and there's a housing boom.

But there's another way of gauging the economic leap forward Southeast Texas is taking, and it's just as reliable as waistline-measuring tape.

In fact, the two could be related.

Fueled in part by hurricane recovery and Southeast Texans' enjoyment of the dining experience, the region's restaurant industry has undergone a growth spurt that one area industry official said should continue for some time.

http://zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17767046&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=6

showed Texas was pretty bad, health-wise, in a lot of areas. First thing I thought of when I was reading how everyone goes out to eat.