10-13-2025, 11:59 AM
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#26241
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
I ate at one years ago in Vietnam and hard agree. When they opened in Calgary and had hour long lineups for months I was flabbergasted, that chain has to exist solely on Filipino nostalgia credit
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It's their Tim Horton's. The gravy is pretty decent, I liked the spicy fried chicken but not something I'd seek out.
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10-13-2025, 12:10 PM
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#26242
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Jollibee was replacement level fast food when I tried it. Everything was weird, I can't explain it. Like the texture was off and the taste was a little too sweet or something.
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10-13-2025, 12:51 PM
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#26243
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First Line Centre
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Little too sweet is kind, I believe the biggest import in the Philippines is Type 2 Diabetes. You know what spaghetti shouldn't be? A sugary treat.
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10-13-2025, 12:56 PM
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#26244
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by Yamer
You've made a very, very harmless enemy today.
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I dont know...that Mary Brown lady looks like she throws hands like an inmate!
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10-13-2025, 01:34 PM
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#26245
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Always love sale scams at grocery stores. My favourite brand of cheap bacon at Safeway is usually $5.99. Today it's on an end cap as a huge weekly sale. Buy two get the third free...except they jacked the price up to $9.99 for the sale.
So now I have to buy more and pay more per package for the privilege of buying it during a "huge sale!" $20 for three instead of $18 when not on sale. 
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10-13-2025, 02:12 PM
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#26246
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Originally Posted by Sr. Mints
I went golfing on Thursday for the first time in 15+ years. Took it really easy, just light swings and half shots since my back’s a mess. But even then I ended up with this burning-tingly electric wire sensation running from my lower back down the back of my thigh. None of the medications or stretches in my bag of tricks are of help.
I would like to exchange this body for a new one, please. It's defective.
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My brother has Spinal Stenosis and a Degenerative back disease. He's had 3 back operations and a couple on his neck. He has reached a point where he will never be able to play golf again. Titanium rods and screws are what's keeping his back together. To be able to walk pain free is his goal.
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Last edited by Dion; 10-13-2025 at 02:24 PM.
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10-13-2025, 02:13 PM
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#26247
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands
I find KFC and Mary Brown's both better the next day, cold. It isn't as greasy, and you can taste the seasoning better.
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What makes fried chicken the GOAT is its wide range of edible temperatures.
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10-13-2025, 02:22 PM
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#26248
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
What makes fried chicken the GOAT is its wide range of edible temperatures.
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I'm just finding that I'm getting tired of fried chicken, you cant swing a dead cat in a room without hitting a half-dozen fried chicken joints and they're largely so similar as to be indistinguishable.
I'm looking for a place that makes a strong bird, like Kenny Rogers' Roasters!
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10-13-2025, 02:24 PM
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#26249
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Yeah, a few years ago when Korean fried chicken places were popping up every other week, with each new one being "the best fried chicken in Calgary, OMG!!!!", I tried all of them. You could have swapped the name or chicken amongst any of them for me I wouldn't notice. All extremely similar and mostly just ok.
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10-13-2025, 02:30 PM
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#26250
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by jayswin
Yeah, a few years ago when Korean fried chicken places were popping up every other week, with each new one being "the best fried chicken in Calgary, OMG!!!!", I tried all of them. You could have swapped the name or chicken amongst any of them for me I wouldn't notice. All extremely similar and mostly just ok.
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Exactly my experience as well, although granted I didnt try all of them, I just got tired of it.
Like you said, similar and just ok.
I like chicken but anyone can dunk a bird in a vat of grease, completely interchangeable.
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10-13-2025, 02:35 PM
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#26251
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: back in the 403
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Cluck & Cleaver is great fried chicken as well, but it's a bit pricier as far as takeout joints go.
And +1 for Mary Browns, had it for the first time last summer, I was shocked at how good it was.
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10-13-2025, 02:35 PM
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#26252
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dion
My brother has Spinal Stenosis and a Degenerative back disease. He's had 3 back operations and a couple on his neck. He has reached a point where he will never be able to play golf again. Titanium rods and screws are what's keeping his back together. To be able to walk pain free is his goal.
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I'm an enthusiastic DIYer as much as the next guy, but I think you should put those screws back in.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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10-13-2025, 02:38 PM
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#26253
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I'm an enthusiastic DIYer as much as the next guy, but I think you should put those screws back in.
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When you reassemble your spine and have screws left over like IKEA furniture... 
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10-13-2025, 02:46 PM
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#26254
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I'm an enthusiastic DIYer as much as the next guy, but I think you should put those screws back in.
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They are a sample of the screws and titanium rods that were put in his back. I almost gagged when he showed them to me 
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10-13-2025, 03:09 PM
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#26255
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by Red Potato Standing By
KFC to me is really only good when it is cold…I find it kinda flavourless when it’s hot, but the flavour comes out when it’s cold.
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KFC for me is a real 'Sophie's Choice.'
It is delicious. I also like their sides. But within an hour of consumption I'd better be near a bathroom that nobody is particularly fond of because that chicken goes through me like a Japanese Bullet-Train.
My 'Go To' for fried chicken is actually Chicken-on-the-Way, but failing that, it would be Mary Brown's. There was a Mary Brown's across from my old office.
If you wonder if I ever had Holy Smoke BBQ ribs, the Barnyard Burger and Mary Brown's chicken for lunch one time? Yes. Yes I have. I believe I was in a coma for a bit after that.
My Doctor was appalled.
"You...I've told you, you can't do this. You're not a teenager anymore. That lunch borders on a War Crime..."
Yes but...I walked to both restaurants to pick up the food and walked back to the office so...it should net out?
"No."
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10-13-2025, 03:12 PM
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#26256
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Aw man I miss Holy Smoke. My friends office was a block away so we always made an excuse to meet for lunch
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10-13-2025, 03:17 PM
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#26257
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Originally Posted by btimbit
Aw man I miss Holy Smoke. My friends office was a block away so we always made an excuse to meet for lunch
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We all do.
I used to go there all the time because it was a 3 minute walk from my office. What happened to that place? The only thing I can think of is that they didnt charge enough?
It was always packed. Lineups out the door. I'd go early to avoid the rush because I was so close.
But drop $10 for ribs and thats lunch. Done. The Barnyard burger was a crime. Their pulled pork was divine. Those guys knew how to cook swine.
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10-13-2025, 03:18 PM
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#26258
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Franchise Player
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I'd be curious to know what happened too. I know they opened other locations but they all sucked compared to the original. Owner sold it to somebody that expanded and then ran it into the ground maybe?
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10-13-2025, 03:20 PM
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#26259
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by btimbit
Aw man I miss Holy Smoke. My friends office was a block away so we always made an excuse to meet for lunch
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I always found it funny too, not Holy Smoke in general, but my friends would always think:
"You're eating lunch in the Industrial Sector?"
Yes. Eat lunch in the Industrial Sector. You want to know what guys who drive trucks, lift product or work in warehouses for a living really, really take seriously? Lunch. Its lunch.
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10-13-2025, 03:25 PM
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#26260
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by btimbit
I'd be curious to know what happened too. I know they opened other locations but they all sucked compared to the original. Owner sold it to somebody that expanded and then ran it into the ground maybe?
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Its possible, I genuinely dont know. It just seems to me that all one would have to do is just let it run the way it was running. Do nothing. Change nothing. Profit.
I do remember them starting up a 'food truck.' It was more of a BBQ trailer, but I dont know how that went.
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