The people at my work are going APESHIT because they're opening a Panda Express

Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 01:28 PM
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The people at my work are going APESHIT because they're opening a Panda Express

I need to get the fuck out of here.

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Tue Mar-24-09 01:29 PM
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1. What they got tired of Wok N' Roll?

Ah I love Manassas...:rofl:

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Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 01:30 PM
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3. Yeah

Coming from people who think Chipotle is fine dining, I don't know why I find myself so shocked. I hate this fucking place.

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CreekDog

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:56 PM
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19. Some people at work were saying they like Chipolte

and i'm in San Francisco. :eyes:

tastes like flavored, shredded cardboard. :puke:

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Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 03:06 PM
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25. Have some more rice in that burrito

MMMMmmmm....

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Tue Mar-24-09 06:21 PM
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36. Manassas, sheet you may as well go to tacos tacos tacos, puke

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ContraBass Black

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Thu Mar-26-09 11:41 AM
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56. When Tony's is the pinnacle of local dining,

people are easy to impress.

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Tommy_Carcetti

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Tue Mar-24-09 01:29 PM
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2. But Panda Express serves the best Chinese food in all of Times Square! nt

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jobycom

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Tue Mar-24-09 01:32 PM
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7. Probably. nt

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geardaddy

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Tue Mar-24-09 01:30 PM
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4. Yes...

you must.

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Rabrrrrrr

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Tue Mar-24-09 01:30 PM
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5. I'd go apeshit, too. That place totally fucking sucks acrid donkey sweaty balls in hell.

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Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 01:40 PM
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8. Dude, you don't understand

There's already 20 Chinese-esque restuarants within a five mile radius of this shit hole to begin with.

But, oooh awwww, it's a PANDA EXPRESS!!!1

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geardaddy

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:28 PM
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12. I can't believe Leeann Chin

won "Best Chinese Restaurant" in the City Pages Reader's Poll one year. :puke:

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Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:34 PM
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13. From Wikipedia:

Leeann Chin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Website www.leeannchin.com
Leeann Chin (also styled Lee Ann Chin in promotional materials) is a Chinese-American fast food restaurant chain in Minnesota and Wisconsin, operating twenty outlets. The menu is dedicated almost entirely to chicken entrees and fried appetizers, but does have a beef entree.

- Sounds delicious.

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geardaddy

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:37 PM
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14. Not delicious

Just another chain.

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Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:40 PM
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15. *

I never add the sarcasm smiley thing.

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geardaddy

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:48 PM
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16. Yeah, I wasn't sure about that.

lol

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no name no slogan

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Wed Mar-25-09 06:58 PM
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49. To be fair, the sit-down restaurants are different from the take-out places

The buffets weren't half bad, about twenty years ago. They also have bigger menus and aren't all chicken and/or deep friend. However, I think the last of the restaurants closed a while ago, and now all that's left are the take-out places.

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eppur_se_muova

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Wed Mar-25-09 07:15 PM
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51. Minnesota Chinese ... well, that says it all.

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Eyerish

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:58 PM
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21. Really?!

"Best Chinese Restaurant"? Leeann Chin= :puke:
Granted, in Northern MN I did see people put ketchup on their chinese, so there's no accounting for taste.

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redqueen

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:59 PM
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22. Ketchup on Chinese food?

Fucking hell.

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geardaddy

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Tue Mar-24-09 03:07 PM
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26. Nixon asked for ketchup

at a state dinner in Beijing in the 1970s.

:puke:

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elleng

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Tue Mar-24-09 06:26 PM
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37. for his cottage cheese!!!

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geardaddy

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Wed Mar-25-09 09:55 AM
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41. Really?

I thought it was for his Peking duck.

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elleng

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Wed Mar-25-09 06:03 PM
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45. Maybe, when he was in China;

at home, yes. AND he had AC on, along with fire in fireplace.

Just a couple things.

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geardaddy

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Thu Mar-26-09 09:28 AM
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54. lol

:thumbsup:

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Eyerish

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Tue Mar-24-09 03:21 PM
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28. Yeah...

bloody disgusting. It would usually go on their fried rice...:puke: There's a Mexican restaurant in Grand Forks, ND that ask if you want red or green "gravy" for your enchiladas. I swear, I think all of that cold weather killed off their taste buds.

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Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 03:54 PM
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29. Gravy?!?!

Someone please take a picture of this on a menu somewhere.

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Eyerish

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Tue Mar-24-09 04:18 PM
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33. Luckily it really isn't gravy...

Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 04:19 PM by Eyerish

but their culinary intelligence is so lacking up there that instead of saying "sauce" like it even reads in the Menu, they say, "gravy". It drove me up a wall when we'd go there and they'd ask me that. I'd usually reply, "I'd like the red SAUCE"

Another example literally off their menu,:
"Poco Burger- Hamburger and Fries. (Note: Poco means "Little.")
:banghead:

I miss real southern california mexican food...:-(

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Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 04:21 PM
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34. You're telling me

Any joint that ends in "to's" is destined to be delicious.

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geardaddy

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Tue Mar-24-09 03:58 PM
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30. I actually had a Chinese teacher from Beijing

who used ketchup in some of her dishes.

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wickerwoman

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Tue Mar-24-09 05:56 PM
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35. In Chinese Chinese cooking ketchup is a pretty common sauce.

I was served ketchup on fried dumplings in a four star restaurant in Shanghai. Not even super classy fancy ketchup... ballpark dayglo Heinz style packet ketchup. I saw it on a lot of other menus too in pretty upscale places.

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geardaddy

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Wed Mar-25-09 09:28 AM
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39. And the word "ketchup"

comes from Chinese, or so they say.

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redqueen

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Wed Mar-25-09 10:36 AM
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42. Yeah... it was a fish sauce.

What we eat now is kinda different.

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geardaddy

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Wed Mar-25-09 10:38 AM
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43. Yup.

That's why we call it "tomato ketchup" :D

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eppur_se_muova

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Wed Mar-25-09 07:20 PM
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53. Ummm ... Indonesian, by way of Dutch.

Edited on Wed Mar-25-09 07:25 PM by eppur_se_muova

That accounts for the variable spelling, BTW.

Ketchup started as a general term for sauce, typically made of mushrooms or fish brine with herbs and spices. Some popular early main ingredients included blueberry, anchovy, oyster, lobster, walnut, kidney bean, cucumber, cranberry, lemon, celery and grape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup

Warning: the wiki entry is sadly lacking in references.

ON EDIT: I just wikibombed someone over the etymology of ketchup. Is my life just a sad, empty shell, or what? :(

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geardaddy

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Thu Mar-26-09 10:16 AM
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55. Etymology is uncertain

From Wikipedia:
Etymology
The etymology of the word ketchup is uncertain, with multiple competing theories.<9>

Though even if it were Indonesian, it's still probably a word borrowed from Hokkien (Chinese dialect).

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redqueen

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Wed Mar-25-09 10:39 AM
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44. So... Chinese people can have bad taste too.

Who'da thunk it.

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Art_from_Ark

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Fri Mar-27-09 03:13 AM
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69. Considering that ketchup is supposed to have originated in China

I don't know what the big deal is about putting a Chinese condiment on Chinese food.

And here in Japan, they put ketchup on omelettes. But they don't put ketchup on French fries.

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geardaddy

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Tue Mar-24-09 03:04 PM
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23. That was the Reader's Poll.

No accounting for some people's tastes.

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Sequoia

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Tue Mar-24-09 03:21 PM
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27. Ours in the mall is really swell.

The food is good. Guess it depends on the cook.

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jobycom

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Tue Mar-24-09 01:32 PM
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6. No vegetarian options. Defeats the whole point of "Chinese" food. nt

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MorningGlow

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Tue Mar-24-09 01:59 PM
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9. I can go you one better

I used to work with a foodaholic who actually called directory assistance (this was pre-intertubes) to get the number of the new Del Taco so she could call them to find out when the were going to open. When the manager said "three weeks" I thought she was going to burst into tears. She counted the days and then ran right out for a crappy cut-rate burrito as soon as it opened. x(

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Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:01 PM
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10. Del Taco

I think the nimrods I work with would probably fall to the ground in orgasmic ecstasy if Del Taco opened here.

"OMFG SO MUCH CHEESE!!!"

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MorningGlow

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:23 PM
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11. ROFL you're probably right

Del Taco didn't last around here--and rightly so. I think my coworker made it there all of two or three times before it closed up. Really, really :scared: :puke:

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geardaddy

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:49 PM
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17. Don't they serve that there?

Sweet and Sour Apeshit?

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Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:55 PM
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18. I believe it's

General Tsao's Apeshit.

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geardaddy

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Tue Mar-24-09 03:05 PM
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24. Or Apeshit Sub Gum?

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MilesColtrane

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Tue Mar-24-09 08:03 PM
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38. Poo Goo Gai Pan

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geardaddy

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Wed Mar-25-09 09:54 AM
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40. ...

:thumbsup:

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bif

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Tue Mar-24-09 02:57 PM
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20. Never heard of it

I don't think they have them in the Detroit area. Thank god--we have enough shitty chains as it is.

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Tangerine LaBamba

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Tue Mar-24-09 04:02 PM
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31. Is there one at Pentagon City?

Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 04:05 PM by Tangerine LaBamba

Because I think I ordered food there once, in the food court.

When I got it, I couldn't identify what I had. Not by looking at it, and I didn't dare risk tasting it.

I could tell that there was rice with it. But that was all.

It smelled bad.

I don't know what it was, but it wasn't Chinese food.

Are you anywhere near Chinatown, because Full Kee at 509 H St., NW, can always save your soul?

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Symarip

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Tue Mar-24-09 04:04 PM
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32. Next time I play a show in downtown (cough April 30th cough) I'll hit that up

But I generally stay out of the city.

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Deja Q

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Wed Mar-25-09 06:05 PM
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46. Not to repeat anything, but are the pandas tasty?

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gmoney

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Wed Mar-25-09 07:07 PM
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50. I hope they serve free-range panda...

Those factory panda farms are brutal.

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TK421

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Wed Mar-25-09 06:12 PM
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47. What is Panda Express?

:shrug: sorry, I have no idea...is this a popular chain or just a west-coast thing?

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Kajsa

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Wed Mar-25-09 06:29 PM
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48. Here,

http://www.pandaexpress.com/

The food is not bad at all.

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Manifestor_of_Light

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Wed Mar-25-09 07:18 PM
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52. Never eaten there.

I got sick from TASTING a couple of spoonfuls of takeout from P.F. Chang's.

Have no idea what it had in it. I burped all night and was miserable. Just from tasting the crap.

:shrug: :wtf:

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Kajsa

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Thu Mar-26-09 02:28 PM
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58. You might want to stay away

from Chinese food for a while.

I'm sorry you got so sick.
That's the pits!

:(

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Manifestor_of_Light

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Fri Mar-27-09 02:53 AM
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68. I have random problems with various foods.

Some of it is just weird spices, some of it is food allergies.

I belched all night from some beef n cheese nachos at Chili's with no peppers on em. Weird stuff!!

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Symarip

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Thu Mar-26-09 04:08 PM
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60. If by 'not bad at all' you mean,

'like Ronald McDonald is having sex with a Panda in my mouth'.

Then I would agree with you.

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Tommy_Carcetti

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Thu Mar-26-09 04:11 PM
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63. "like Ronald McDonald is having sex with a Panda in my mouth"

Another photo shop opportunity?

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Symarip

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Thu Mar-26-09 04:12 PM
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65. I have my work cut out for me this weekend

What with all this shoe snogging going on in So. Maryland.

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Tommy_Carcetti

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Thu Mar-26-09 04:37 PM
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66. The SMIBs love shoes. Just remember that. They love shoes. nt

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DS1

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Thu Mar-26-09 11:46 AM
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57. Now I want Kung Po chicken and beef and brocolli and spring rolls

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Mar-26-09 02:34 PM
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59. Jonesing for some Kung Pao Shrimp.

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Taverner

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Thu Mar-26-09 04:10 PM
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61. No hate for the Corporate Panda - they do good cheap Chinese food fast

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Symarip

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Thu Mar-26-09 04:11 PM
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62. Cheap?

I can't argue with their expediency.

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Taverner

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Thu Mar-26-09 04:12 PM
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64. Our PE is offering 3 items + appetizer for 4.99

Sounds pretty good to me!

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Paladin

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Thu Mar-26-09 04:58 PM
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67. Their Beijing Beef Is Actually Quite Good..... (n/t)

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