# The death-spike industry **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 27, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351 "2004-05-27T15:43:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/221 "2004-05-31T21:16:49Z")
Yup, one of the stupidest, most devoid-of-intelligence OPs I’ve ever read. Some people really need to learn a little about: critical thinking, responsibility, and probably, reading comprehension. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/222 "2004-05-31T22:36:54Z")
> [@Cerowyn](#): > > Yup, one of the stupidest, most devoid-of-intelligence OPs I’ve ever read. Some people really need to learn a little about: critical thinking, responsibility, and probably, reading comprehension. [Here you go](http://www.dictionary.com). I think you misspelled “cleverest and on-point” in your first sentence. And I’d agree, though, that reading comprehension has definitely been lacking througout this thread. > [@Fenris](#): > > Except that he specified “Old-world ingredients” not style of prep. Ingredients, style of prep, whatever; I’m obviously not talking about the same fast-food pizza you’re talking about. I mean, sixteen freaking inches?! That’s madness (and speaking of magical venues, what place would sell a 16" pizza and put buffalo mozzarella on it?)! And I never specified tomato sauce. I said “sauce”. That could mean pesto sause, some sort of cream sauce, or a third thing, so there. Ass: covered. > [@DrDeth](#): > > But I am interested in the “old world ingredientes”. I always thought that pepperoni was a “classic” pizza topping. It is _the_ classic pizza topping across our continent, but it doesn’t even exist in Italy (a peperoni pizza there is covered with bell peppers). And I see some posters take some posts a bit too seriously. While I was talking about restaurant pizza of the hoity-toity brick oven variety rather than the fast-food conveyer belt oven kind, you couldn’t have thought that I was being serious about eating at places that literally “have never heard” of pepperoni. No wonder so many freaked out by my purposefully ridiculous story in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/223 "2004-05-31T22:53:59Z")
**pizzabrat** , you’ve slain untold hamsters demonstrating that you hate McDonald’s. OK. Fine. Don’t eat there. Your debating skills badly need a diaper change. And your jokes aren’t even remotely funny. Insufferable twit. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/224 "2004-05-31T23:33:57Z")
How you take your own advice you morons. If you don’t like my jokes, don’t read my threads. Better yet, burn in Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/225 "2004-05-31T23:36:31Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > And I see some posters take some posts a bit too seriously. While I was talking about restaurant pizza of the hoity-toity brick oven variety rather than the fast-food conveyer belt oven kind, **you couldn’t have thought that I was being serious about eating at places that literally “have never heard” of pepperoni.** No wonder so many freaked out by my purposefully ridiculous story in the OP. Hey, so it WAS satire! Good call, **Fenris**! ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/226 "2004-05-31T23:38:16Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > How you take your own advice you morons. If you don’t like my jokes, don’t read my threads. Better yet, burn in Hell. There isn’t a website which can insert words into a sentence, rather than correct their spelling, so I’ll just direct you to **about**.com. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/227 "2004-05-31T23:39:06Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > How you take your own advice you morons. If you don’t like my jokes, don’t read my threads. Better yet, burn in Hell. Insufferable twit _and_ hostile shitstain. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/228 "2004-05-31T23:51:01Z")
So? Just because that pizza may be a gourmet, old world style pizza, that doesn’t make it healthy. My mom’s pierogies are homemade and delicious. They’re also swimming in butter, full of cheese, mashed potatos, butter, onions, etc. Not exactly what you’d call “healthy”. Dumbass. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/229 "2004-05-31T23:54:35Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > so there. Ass: covered. You’re an Ass: hole. You stir up as much shit as possible while _technically_ covering your ass. People around here hate that. How the fuck did you soil us with almost a thousand posts without realizing that? ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/230 "2004-05-31T23:55:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > So? Just because that pizza may be a gourmet, old world style pizza, that doesn’t make it healthy. > > My mom’s pierogies are homemade and delicious. They’re also swimming in butter, full of cheese, mashed potatos, butter, onions, etc. Not exactly what you’d call “healthy”. I’d call that healthy, as long as you don’t eat a bucket of it. > [@Denis](#): > > Insufferable twit and hostile shitstain. After five page harsh personal insults directed at me just because I criticized some faceless entity, you’re calling _me_ hostile? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/231 "2004-06-01T00:03:24Z")
Is anyone else reminded of the Chewlie’s Gum representative? If my perception of pizzabrat wasn’t that of such a worthless loser I could almost see him owning a restaurant, or at least being a chef. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/232 "2004-06-01T00:10:07Z")
Yes, I am calling you hostile. The latest bit was you saying “Go to Hell.” Look back on the thread. Your whole attitude has been hostile towards those who have the temerity to disagree with you. When you haven’t been hostile, you’ve displayed a level of pomposity that would be offensive if it wasn’t so patently ridiculous. Insufferable twit. Hostile shitstain. Pompous jackass. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/233 "2004-06-01T00:11:55Z")
Chewlie’s Gum representative! 😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/234 "2004-06-01T00:22:52Z")
> [@Denis](#): > > Yes, I am calling you hostile. The latest bit was you saying “Go to Hell.” > > Look back on the thread. Your whole attitude has been hostile towards those who have the temerity to disagree with you. When you haven’t been hostile, you’ve displayed a level of pomposity that would be offensive if it wasn’t so patently ridiculous. I looked back as hard as I could, and I couldn’t find any hostility. And if my pomposity was ridiculous, why are you prentending to be offended? Don’t tell me you laughed yourself angry. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/235 "2004-06-01T00:31:24Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > I’d call that healthy, as long as you don’t eat a bucket of it. So how is it that a ground beef patty, a sesame seed bun, a slice of tomato and a leaf of lettuce isn’t granted the same status in your world? For you see, that’s an option at McDonalds. I’m willing to bet if I were to eat a burger from McDonalds’s once a week, I’d be just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/236 "2004-06-01T00:37:40Z")
> [@](#): > > I’d call that healthy, as long as you don’t eat a bucket of it. In moderation, in other words? Just like McDonalds, you dumb fuck! ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/237 "2004-06-01T00:43:09Z")
> [@JuanitaTech](#): > > So how is it that a ground beef patty, a sesame seed bun, a slice of tomato and a leaf of lettuce isn’t granted the same status in your world? It is. > [@](#): > > For you see, that’s an option at McDonalds. I’m willing to bet if I were to eat a burger from McDonalds’s once a week, I’d be just fine. I haven’t thoroughly studied the McDonald’s menu, but that doesn’t sound like a familiar option. Which McDonald’s burger has a leaf of lettuce and a slice of tomato? Besides, after _Fast Food Nation_, I’m hardly alone in being grossed out by the industrial hamburger meat purchased by the fast-food industry. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/238 "2004-06-01T00:48:53Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > I haven’t thoroughly studied the McDonald’s menu, but that doesn’t sound like a familiar option. Which McDonald’s burger has a leaf of lettuce and a slice of tomato? Besides, after _Fast Food Nation_, I’m hardly alone in being grossed out by the industrial hamburger meat purchased by the fast-food industry. Allow me to introduce you to the Big N’ Tasty. A quarter-pound beef patty, with lettuce, tomato, ketchup, mayo, pickles, and onions, on a sesame seed bun. Feel free to request them to hold the onions, pickles, ketchup, and mayo. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/239 "2004-06-01T00:53:33Z")
The Big and, er, Big **N’** Tasty is a sandwich consiting of a hamburger patty, a slice of tomato, a lettuce leaf and, get this, onions all between a bun. It also comes with ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise. If you’re feeling a particular need to cut calories that day, I’m sure one could skip the mayo. What is industrial hamburger meat, by the way? ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351/240 "2004-06-01T00:54:54Z")
…or what Garfield said. See, I had to go to McDonald’[s.com](http://s.com), and then my porn window loaded, and then the pop-ups, oh the pop-ups and well, it took me a while to compose my post… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-death-spike-industry/247351.md?page=13)