Mildly Interesting - People
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Weekly Egg McMuffin with sausage is good for your longevity and your marriage, based on this sample of one:
Centenarians John and Jerry Carroll, who marked their 80th wedding anniversary in April and Jerry’s 100th birthday in June, go to their local McDonald’s in Tennessee every Friday and order the same menu item.
“For breakfast, we usually eat the egg McMuffin with sausage,” John, a 101-year-old World War II veteran, told local news outlet ...
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Good for them.
But McDonald's sucks. Plasticky food in inadequate buns with salty fries.
Vanilla milkshakes being the exception, slurp slurp.I had my first taste of their food(I use the word loosely) in my late 20's and it has always been my least liked takeaway.
I usually try their 'special' burgers...
so Thursday evening having been out, we roll into the drivethru, to be told the heatwave means their shake machine ain't working(?) so I get a Big Arch.
Arrives looking a pale shadow of the photo and after a couple of bites turns to mushy cheesy bits ensuring my shirt, trousers and car all need a wash.
I just wanted a cold vanilla milkshake.Thankfully MrsA usually prefers KFC. We get a boneless bucket, and I repeat my joke about the bucket coming in useful if the food makes us feel icky.
We don't go often. So many better options on which to spend your £20.
Burger King
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Starbucks is my go-to on journeys and as a tourist. They're all over England now. Large mocha with 4 sugars keeps this driver alert
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My understanding is you can still order a short it’s just not on the menu. I haven’t tested that in about 15 years, but that was well after they introduced the venti and took the short off the menu.
Once I ordered a grande and the woman didn’t hear me well and said ‘venti?’ I said ‘no, sedici’. No one but me laughed.
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So they're of Italian origin (mea culpa, wrongly assumed American Spanish influence).
You know how we Brits are with languages. Nearly everything here including Starbucks uses small/medium/large.Seems McD only do small. Small chips, small packets of chips, small buns. Smaller burgers too.
It's shrinkflated.
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Short tepid nonfat latte used to be my SBUX order of choice. I tried that in NYC and the young woman behind the counter didn’t know what tepid meant.
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@AndyD I think it has to do with how hot you heat the milk for the latte.
The counterperson in NYC didn’t want to admit she didn’t know what tepid was, so she kept saying, “short nonfat latte?” and I kept saying “short tepid nonfat latte.” I finally gave up and said, “not too hot.”
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I have discovered that, in a pinch, with no other options around, the espresso shots at Dunkin’ are really not bad.
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@jon-nyc I’ve got 20 years on you, sonny.
@RealPlayer lol
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@chas
Interesting. I switched to decaf earlier in the year. My only transition was a week of half regular half decaf. I still order regular outside the house. It that’s a couple times a month if I’m not traveling. Of course decaf isn’t zero but it’s far less than what I was drinking. -
Chinese student displays 70 marathon medals at graduation after running to fund education
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The 2026 Fields Medal
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