# So my husband stopped at Jack in the Box for breakfast yesterday...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 6, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754 "2006-01-06T17:06:06Z")
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/1 "2006-01-06T17:06:06Z")
And he brings home his receipt. We’re trying to keep a closer eye on what we spend each month - just trying to develop good money habits. That’s cool.
So yesterday, I’m on the phone with my mother, chatting away, pacing around the living room. I wander into the dining room and pick up the receipt my husband had left on his computer so he would remember to keep note of it.
“Ah, ah,” I say to my mother on the phone. “I try to make him healthy meals, and I just found a receipt to Jack in the Box\*.”
“Tsk, tsk,” my mother clucks with me. “What did he get?”
I squint at the receipt. I am startled beyond all normal proportion. “Uhhh…” I say into the receiver.
“What the heck did he get?” my mother asks. It’s her business. You know it is. She makes it so.
I compose myself. “Ah, looks like it says croissant. Three of them, I think.”
“Oh, well, that’s just healthy man appetite,” my mother says. I am reassured. This wife thing is hard to get the hang of. Sometimes I need such critical advice. 😉
So, I finish up the phone conversation, and take a closer look at that receipt. As far as I can figure it, it has to mean “Supreme”. Three supreme croissants. Or something along those lines.
But tell me, tell me, please, when you first glance at this thing, do you see anything that might make you do a [double](http://img416.imageshack.us/img416/3503/sperm8fc.jpg) [take](http://img416.imageshack.us/img416/8497/sperm24fk.jpg)?
I nearly did a spit take. 😃
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- [sub] I’m never serious. If he were chowing down 50 burgers a day, I would probably have something to say, but sometimes I just get playful and act like I’m going to go all Blondie\*\* on his ass. [/sub]
\*\* - [sub]Please. You know Dagwood is her bitch.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/2 "2006-01-06T17:11:13Z")
I know how to keep him from eating there again.
Show him the reciept.
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/3 "2006-01-06T17:12:01Z")
Yup. Makes you thick twice about what “Jack in the Box” might signify.
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/4 "2006-01-06T17:27:08Z")
He must have asked for the “special sauce”.
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/5 "2006-01-06T17:31:08Z")
Did he swallow them? Or just spit them out?
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/6 "2006-01-06T17:31:43Z")
“It’s what’s for breakfast!”
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### Author:  [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/7 "2006-01-06T17:37:26Z")
The worst part is they call their special sauce “Jack sauce”
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/8 "2006-01-06T17:39:27Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#):
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> The worst part is they call their special sauce “Jack sauce”
That’s my _favourite_ part! Hilarious!
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### Author:  [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/9 "2006-01-06T17:53:00Z")
So it’s the JItB version of a cream puff?
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### Author:  [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/10 "2006-01-06T17:58:25Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#):
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> The worst part is they call their special sauce “Jack sauce”
:eek: Ewwww.
Well, at least they’re honest about it. Most places don’t tell you what’s really in the special sauce.
Note to self: Don’t eat at Jack in the Box. Ever.
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/11 "2006-01-06T18:00:00Z")
I prefer the “cnt fried steak”, myself.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/12 "2006-01-06T18:06:45Z")
When I was a kid, we called the Boston Creme donuts “pusbuns”.
Then I saw a video of how the cream is injected into the donut.
I will never have one again.
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/13 "2006-01-06T18:10:27Z")
So hubby likes eating out, eh?
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/14 "2006-01-06T18:11:29Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> Then I saw a video of how the cream is injected into the donut.
Are you certain that you hadn’t mistakenly watched a porn video?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/15 "2006-01-06T18:16:12Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#):
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> The worst part is they call their special sauce “Jack sauce”
Kevin Meany did a bit on that. AFAIKR it went like this:
‘Do you want Jack Sauce on your burger?’
‘No! No, I don’t want Jack Sauce! Some fat hairy guy in a hot steamy kitchen making Jack Sauce! That’s not right!’
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/16 "2006-01-06T18:27:56Z")
That’s an awful lot of food for breakfast. What is a “supreme croissant” anyway?
- Shibb, who lives in a land without Jack-in-the-Box restaurants. Isn’t that the one where you drive up and talk into the clown’s nose or sumpin’?
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/17 "2006-01-06T18:30:12Z")
I bet Dave had to work extra hard to supply Jack Sauce for three of those babies.
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### Author:  [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/18 "2006-01-06T18:34:28Z")
According to the Jack in the Box website, a “Supreme Croissant” is a croissant with bacon, eggs, cheese, ham and butter-flavoured vegetable shortening.
…and man juice.
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### Author:  [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/19 "2006-01-06T18:37:03Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> That’s an awful lot of food for breakfast. What is a “supreme croissant” anyway?
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> - Shibb, who lives in a land without Jack-in-the-Box restaurants. Isn’t that the one where you drive up and talk into the clown’s nose or sumpin’?
Not anymore, but they used to be. I thought it was pretty surreal, even as a 10-year-old.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/20 "2006-01-06T18:39:57Z")
I’d be too scared to get anywhere within ten blocks of the restaurant. I _hate_ clowns. _shudder_
Are the croissants part of a nutritionally balanced breakfast?
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