[Lingster]

This is hilarious – the Jack in the Box burger chain is running ads that imply "Angus" beef is actually "Anus" beef, a swipe at its competitors who have introduced "Angus" burgers:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3215032

[AlexG]

So, now we really know Where's the Beef, hey?  😉

Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.  ;D 8)

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Lingster]

For those of you outside the Jack in the Box advertising zone, here are some of their better ads:

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And then there's this:

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[cpbell0033944]

Interestingly, "Angus" is a popular Scottish boy's name and a region of Scotland, but NOT the name of a breed of cattle.  That's Aberdeen Angus.  It's popular here as a better quality of beef for the traditional Sunday roast lunch (we had some today), and it often comes from the more upmarket supermarkets (Waitrose etc.)  Most decent butchers also tend to sell it, but, with the first faint glimmers of interest from British consumers in buying local, high-quality traceable food, some high-quality butchers have started selling very local meat from older breeds of cattle kept by specialist, small, independant farmers who use husbandry techniques that produce better-quality, more flavoursome and tender joints (not that sort of joint ::) ;)), such as Red Poll, which are reared around my area (though we're mostly arable round here – wheat, barley and sugarbeet are our region's major crops).
How do I know this?  Three reasons:

1.  I'm a yokel.  I don't know whether that word is used in the States, but it refers to a rural born-and bred individual.  Once upon a time, of course, it almost always meant someone who worked the land, but now, very few people are employed in argriculture.

2.  I've got the sort of mind that tends to retain trivia.

3.  I'm interested in things like quality, regional variation and seasonality in food, as opposed to the homogenised, preservaive-laden c*** that passes for food in most supermarkets.  Rick Stein is my hero (look him up if you're interested).

[Lingster]

"Yokel" is used in the U.S., but here it means a man who performs oral sex on other men while dressed in furry animal costume.

[cpbell0033944]

"Yokel" is used in the U.S., but here it means a man who performs oral sex on other men while dressed in furry animal costume.

;D 😮

[Chuck]

You know, cpbell's post was making me hungry until Lingster posted his definition of the word yokel. Now I'm not hungry anymore…

*reread's cpbell's post*

Okay, I'm hungry again.  🙂

[cpbell0033944]

You know, cpbell's post was making me hungry until Lingster posted his definition of the word yokel. Now I'm not hungry anymore…

*reread's cpbell's post*

Okay, I'm hungry again.  🙂

I'm the appetite enhancer! 8)

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