God I miss working in DC sometimes. There was a hotdog cart outside our K street office. Half smoke, bag of cheetos and a coke for $1.50. Of course you had to pay $15.00/day to park in our office garage… and I got hit by a car, twice, a week apart, riding my bike to work. Nevermind. Don’t miss it.
If the story your sister told you were true, wouldn’t it make more sense for the regulation to say that every restaurant must have some menu option that constitutes a complete meal for less than some set price? Just because a fine dining establishment has a bean soup on the menu doesn’t mean it’s going to be affordable to Mr. Smith, come to lobby his government.
No, Mr. Smith was himself a U.S. Senator.
Be vewy, vewy quiet…we’re hunting touwists.
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Well, soup is a meal, some would argue.
Why do they call it “tourist season” if we’re not allowed to shoot them?
That’s not the part I’m quibbling. I mean, why would the purported regulation specify the dish, instead of specifying the price? There are expensive soups and cheap hamburgers.
your car hit a time warp and you don’t realize it. it’s already 2080.
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God I miss working in DC sometimes. There was a hotdog cart outside our K street office. Half smoke, bag of cheetos and a coke for $1.50. Of course you had to pay $15.00/day to park in our office garage… and I got hit by a car, twice, a week apart, riding my bike to work. Nevermind. Don’t miss it.
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What’s a half smoke and why was your downtown parking so cheap?
In short: a spicy smoked sausage.
Also known as “diarrhea on a bun.”
The nifty thing about it is that when you eat one is also causes diarrhea from your ass.
Does that go good with “shit on a shingle”?
my reclusive sister fires back:
“by congressional act, bean soup is always served at the house cafeteria, precisely to serve poor people going to congress. i have the recipe.”
“it came with virginia ham hocks. true enough, it was the only thing poor fulbright scholars on tour can afford.”
“i notice people are born, live, work and die in a city without really understanding it. oh well, can’t say i’ve mastered chicago.”
I live near DC, have worked there in the past, and can say that no, not every restaurant in DC serves bean soup.
“Freedom Stew”
i’m already assuming she was wrong about the restaurants (or was exagerating.)
Your sister is still speaking nonsense. The fact that bean soup is or was always on the menu of the Senate cafeteria has virtually nothing to do with whether it’s on the menu of every restaurant in Washington, DC. If someone who knew little about the city came for a visit and said that all restaurants in the city were either Ethiopian, Italian, Thai, or sold half-smokes it would be wildly wrong, but at least it would show that the person had done a tiny bit of observation. Claiming that all the restaurants served bean soup though shows that someone can’t think through the tinest chain of logic.
wooohh… like my last post had absolutely no meaning.
is it ok if you stay with the restaurants while we focus on senate bean soup served in capitol hill?
Again, nothing that your sister has said makes any sense. There are no poor people going into the Senate cafeteria to eat. The only people who eat there are Senators and their guests. There are no Fulbright scholars going into the Senate cafeteria (or none except the rare ones who are the guests of Senators, and they aren’t poor). Your sister’s statements about the restaurants of D.C. make no sense. They aren’t exaggerated. They just make no sense.