# So my husband stopped at Jack in the Box for breakfast yesterday... **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/41 "2006-01-07T02:48:47Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > Note to self: Don’t eat at Jack in the Box. Ever. Well, how could you, anyway? You’d have to eat Jill in the box. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/42 "2006-01-07T03:05:55Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Scarier is that fact that I used to eat that way, but only alone and only from drive thrus where no one would actually see my real size. [This](http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b75/anyrose/blackjacket.jpg) is before my surgery :eek: - and I’d already lost 20 when this was taken Hey, I understand, I had a food addiction (was bulemic for years, then the pendulum swung hard the other way). Temperence is not my middle name, though I’ve learned. This woman I speak of is delusional, and tries to spread her delusion. I tried to show her the nutrition chart that you can pick up at any Subway, tried to help her on many, many a diet, planned our meals together, exercised together - eventually, she more or less admitted that she was only dieting with me in the hopes that she could make me fail, and maybe make me fatter than her. What a pal, huh? I don’t always preface with the lengthy background, but this is a woman I’ve spoken of many times on this board - never in a good way. She’s not a nice person. I don’t use “fat” as an insult. But this woman wanted to trick me into failing (never fell for it, just what she wanted, by telling me things were non-fat when they obviously weren’t, trying to sell me on eating bacon every day because it was good for me, whining about exercise so I wouldn’t go out, (but I did anyway), etc) - this woman wanted to make me weigh more than her - an otherwise healthy though a little chubby 160 lb, 5’7 woman - me - to become over 400 lbs?! :eek: Anyway, that’s part of the background. I have total respect for overweight people, and their struggles; or pride in their self love, comfortable with who they are. But not this woman. Not her. She wasn’t happy with who she was, and she wouldn’t be happy unless she brought the whole world down with her. I still have nightmares. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/43 "2006-01-07T03:08:39Z")
Oh, and **anyrose** , I didn’t even click the link until just now. Just wanted to say: You’re a _cutie_! Maybe it’s because I read your posts, but you just emit a “hug me!” vibe. I would. 😛 Man, I’ve been hanging out in MPSIMS too long. But it’s still true! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/44 "2006-01-07T03:32:30Z")
Meh, I really don’t want to weigh in too heavy on this thread, but I am constantly freaked by Jack-in-the-box references. I have an unfortunate negative association. I am sorry for sharing this but it haunts me. Where I’m from in the Midwest, there are no JIB franchises. The first time I ate there was also my last time sharing a meal with my Father and subsequently his last meal. He died less than two hours after eating at a JIB in Las Vegas. He had a heartattack (He was healthy, at weight, had High Blood Pressure but was on medication for it.). Out of all the horrible things to remember, a persistant image haunts me. He vomited during CPR and later at the hospital after he had been pronounced dead we were paying or respects and grieving and all I can remember is hugging my Dad and being outraged by the chunks of French Fries and vomitus in his nostrils. I am sorry to do this. I know I sound crazy. I hope you could understand. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/45 "2006-01-07T03:32:46Z")
aw 😊 thanks I’ve won Huggin Awards in the past. But soon, people will actually be able to get their arms around me when they hug me! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/46 "2006-01-07T03:41:19Z")
He only had three of them? Sounds like his count is low. ---
**Author:** ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/47 "2006-01-07T16:31:31Z")
You think that’s bad? Just [wait till you see what I found at Toys R Us](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/xwalrus2/jedimilk.jpg). That’s right. And it’s marketed to _kids_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/48 "2006-01-07T16:36:40Z")
Is that like dog milk? ‘Red rocket! Red rocket!’ ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/49 "2006-01-08T03:57:52Z")
There’s a reason I used to call that place Jack-Off-In-The-Box! In the spirit of the O.P., my hubby, b-i-l, and I went to Sonic for a treat. Normally, they don’t give you a receipt, but this time they did. My Butterfinger Blast was listed on there as a Butt Blast! Still makes me giggle after all these years. Sneezy ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/50 "2006-01-08T07:39:37Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > [This](http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b75/anyrose/blackjacket.jpg) is before my surgery :eek: - and I’d already lost 20 when this was taken At the risk of prying, is the surgery to which you refer a gastric bypass? My mother had one several years ago, herself. It’s freaky to look at her stomach now, because they sewed up her navel, also. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/51 "2006-01-08T09:24:17Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > I nearly did a spit take. What a terrible wife! 😉 OK, from the linked thread, apparently not so much. 😃 > [@astro](#): > > Unless he’s a professional athlete Did you see that thread? I’d say he counts. 😃 > [@Kythereia](#): > > I’d be too scared to get anywhere within ten blocks of the restaurant. I hate clowns. There’s nothing vaguely clown-like about the place. > [@anyrose](#): > > Scarier is that fact that I used to eat that way, but only alone and only from drive thrus where no one would actually see my real size. I don’t know that I ate quite to that level, but I used to be quite the eater. Most of my friends are shocked to find out that I weighed 200 pounds from at least 8th grade (I didn’t care enough to weigh myself before then) until I lost 30 in a month to make the basketball team in 10th grade. I made the team, but I think it was only on pity points for going to the trouble of losing all that weight. When I went to college and lived in the dorm I put all 30 back on in about two months. Now I’m about halfway between and riding a real roller coaster. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/52 "2006-01-08T14:37:52Z")
Apparently, these croissants are a result of penis ensuing. Robin ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/53 "2006-01-08T15:58:44Z")
There are no Jack in the Boxes in Albuquerque, as they all closed up after some samonella thing about 15 years ago. There are some in Las Cruces, but I just can’t talk myself into going into one and getting something. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/54 "2006-01-08T21:06:13Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > There are no Jack in the Boxes in Albuquerque, as they all closed up after some samonella thing about 15 years ago. There are some in Las Cruces, but I just can’t talk myself into going into one and getting something. Actually, after the E. Coli deal that went down ~1997, Jack in the Box became (as I understand it) the forerunner in the industry in food safety. They hired doctors to draft strict requirements for the ranchers, processing plants etc. and then refused to buy meat from businesses that didn’t comply to the reqs. Then they checked the places out and actually made sure they were putting out safe meat. (Heh.) They also regulated their own restaurants. Good for you? No. Safe? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/55 "2006-01-08T21:07:19Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > Actually, after the E. Coli deal that went down ~1997, Jack in the Box became (as I understand it) the forerunner in the industry in food safety. They hired doctors to draft strict requirements for the ranchers, processing plants etc. and then refused to buy meat from businesses that didn’t comply to the reqs. Then they checked the places out and actually made sure they were putting out safe meat. (Heh.) They also regulated their own restaurants. > > Good for you? No. Safe? Yes. I was about to post this same thing. Beat me by mere seconds! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/56 "2006-01-08T21:11:07Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > Actually, after the E. Coli deal that went down ~1997, Jack in the Box became (as I understand it) the forerunner in the industry in food safety. They hired doctors to draft strict requirements for the ranchers, processing plants etc. and then refused to buy meat from businesses that didn’t comply to the reqs. Then they checked the places out and actually made sure they were putting out safe meat. (Heh.) They also regulated their own restaurants. > > Good for you? No. Safe? Yes. I see. Well, I still remember them all going out of business about a decade before that because of a food safety thing. Unless it was 1993. Well, in any case, I don’t think any Jack in the Boxes existed in Albuquerque past about 1990 and maybe earlier. But I was young and it’s hard to remember exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/57 "2006-01-08T21:33:47Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > Actually, after the E. Coli deal that went down ~1997, Jack in the Box became (as I understand it) the forerunner in the industry in food safety. They hired doctors to draft strict requirements for the ranchers, processing plants etc. and then refused to buy meat from businesses that didn’t comply to the reqs. Then they checked the places out and actually made sure they were putting out safe meat. (Heh.) They also regulated their own restaurants. > > Good for you? No. Safe? Yes. So you’re saying that they have standards. **And** man juice on the croissants. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/58 "2006-01-08T21:35:43Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I see. Well, I still remember them all going out of business about a decade before that because of a food safety thing. Unless it was 1993. Well, in any case, I don’t think any Jack in the Boxes existed in Albuquerque past about 1990 and maybe earlier. But I was young and it’s hard to remember exactly. That’s believable. I don’t doubt that there were other Jack in the Box scares before E. Coli. I moved into California right before the E. Coli scare and everyone told me to stay away from Jack in the Box. Just sayin’ that after they hit the really big one, they cleaned up their act in commendable fashion. Their food still sucked, though. A year or two ago they retooled all of their recipes and niced up some of their restaurants with a second floor, nicer menu, more of a “real restaurant” atmosphere, etc. Jack in the Box is now one of my favorite chains. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/59 "2006-01-08T21:37:03Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > So you’re saying that they have standards. > > **And** man juice on the croissants. They fry the man juice first to cook off the AIDS. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754/60 "2006-01-09T00:59:09Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > They fry the man juice first to cook off the AIDS. Pan-fried, I presume. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-husband-stopped-at-jack-in-the-box-for-breakfast-yesterday/338754.md?page=4)