Restaurant Rage: Woman Trashes Store When She Can’t Return Burger
A Memphis woman is accused of destroying two cash registers at a popular Memphis restaurant when the employees refused to take back a three-day old hamburger.
Police say 41-year-old Chondra London did several thousand dollars worth of damage to the Tops Barb.B.Q on Jackson.
The store’s surveillance cameras captured it all.
Store Manager Frankie Lemay says London bought three double cheeseburgers and a couple of fries, and three days later tried to return one of the burgers.
Lemay says she became enraged when she wouldn’t take it back and pushed two cash registers and a credit card machine right over the counter.
One of the cash registers hit Lemay on the legs, “I had big bruises this way and this way.”
Lemay wasn’t able to catch London, but did help police pick her out of a photo lineup.
She can’t believe one person could get so upset over a $5 burger, “People are crazy, people are crazy.”
London has been charged with vandalism.
Tops Barb.B.Q estimates damage at around $14,000.
“She can’t believe one person could get so upset over a five dollar burger.” Well, anything is possible when you’re dealing with the lower half of Bellcurvius’s bell curve.
Aside from the obvious, Miss London needs to lay off the double cheeseburgers for awhile. Where she’s going, she just might have no choice.
And also…ordering burgers when you’re at a BBQ restaurant in western Tennessee?
Yes, this is the famous “busy single mom” faux pas. Then again, her husband spends so much time away from her and their children, either golfing, playing “Barack-the-Brick” basketball, hustling money, and what not, that she might feel like a single mother at times.
But that’s not what interests me about this video. It’s the first part, where she proclaims that people in “underserved communities” (black ghettos) are going to be bused to farmers’ markets, mainly because “underserved” communities are “food deserts” (black undertow ghettos can’t sustain a big box supermarket).
As you know, I frequent Soulard Market, one of those farmers’ markets. Hell, even when I lived in Carbondale, when I made it back to St. Louis, I made it my business to go to Soulard Market for this or that. Do you think I’m thrilled about the concept of ghetto blacks being trucked in by the busload into the place? Hell no. And what for? Blackie O is so hot and bothered about ghetto blacks not eating enough fruits and vegetables. But in spite of these photos I took, there are plenty of blacks who shop at Soulard. In spite of most of Soulard Market being fresh fruit and vegetable vendors, most black Soulard patrons don’t spend much time at those — They’re mainly hanging around the meat markets and the few stands that sell shirts and hats and sunglasses and fake bling. Even when fresh fruits and vegetables are offered and plainly in sight, if the current coterie of black SM patrons is any clue, they’ll ignore them like they were either invisible or known poisons, and go for the food which gives so many of their men the hypertension which they’re world famous for having and which kills so many of them before their time.
Open revolt over Marie Antoinette Obama’s food obsession. People who are hungry do strange and irrational things. Or in this case, people who willingly go hungry because the food available to them is less satisfying than eating air just might be the force behind something rational in about a month and a half: Firing Marie Antoinette Obama’s husband.
Nancy Carvalho, director of food services for New Bedford Public Schools, was quoted as saying that hummus and black bean salads have been tough sells in elementary cafeterias. That means even smaller children are going through the day fighting hunger pains, which can never be considered a good thing.
One government official tried to put the blame on the students.
“One thing I think we need to keep in mind as kids say they’re still hungry is that many children aren’t used to eating fruits and vegetables at home, much less at school. So it’s a change in what they are eating. If they are still hungry, it’s that they are not eating all the food that’s being offered,” USDA Deputy Undersecretary Janey Thornton was quoted as saying.
Ms. Thornton just put her finger on the problem. The government is trying to impose a new diet that children are not accustomed to. It’s not reasonable to expect them to either eat what the government deems healthy or go hungry.
Did you think a “government official” who ultimately works for Marie Antoinette Obama’s husband would blame Marie Antoinette Obama herself? Eventually, if this bullshit isn’t stopped, it will be a racial hate crime not to eat hummus and black bean salads for lunch.
Notice something about the YT video above. Who isn’t protesting? That’s right, no black girls and young black women. That’s because I think Marie Antoinette Obama’s food obsession is basically racial/gender projection. What I mean by that is because she’s a black woman, and many black women get to an age when they plump up just by looking at food, ergo her maniacal obsession over eating healthy exists purely out of racial and gender loyalty. That white football players aren’t getting enough calories from her rabbit food lunches to be functional doesn’t matter to her, because she is not a white man.
As an aside, I attended two different St. Louis City Public magnet schools from second to fifth grade, but neither school had its own cafeteria, so they, like most St. Louis City elementary schools (from what I came to understand), had to truck in boxed lunches in a JIT sense from a central supplier. Anyway, whoever made that food during those days (that would have been 1984-88) made some of the best pizza I ever ate. Pizza was always served on the first day of school, as if they were trying to lighten the blow of summer vacation ending, and in general, it was about a once a month appearance on our lunch trays. Two out of those four school years, the pizza was also served on the last day of school. The pizza slice itself was rectangular, about six inches by four inches, and had pepperoni and sausage bits. It was kept warm in a white box slightly larger than the pizza slice itself, with a few holes along two sides to vent steam. If anybody reading these words knows what they did to make 1980s boxed SLPS pizza so delicious, please tell me!
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the food in question was not chateaubriand. Whatever was the delicacy, that was as good as he’ll ever eat for the rest of his life. It’s bologna from here on out.
Hiding gun in rack of ‘Rap Snacks’ fails to save Belleville man from prison
A Belleville felon will be home in six months, then in his home for six months, after being caught with a gun he tried to hide in a sales rack of “Rap Snacks.”
Shevon A. Martin was sentenced to six months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a weapon, U.S. District Attorney Stephen Wigginton said Friday. He will serve home confinement for six months after his release.
Martin was arrested Aug. 24 after members of the FBI’s Working Against Violent Elements team approached the ZX convenience store on Bond Avenue in East St. Louis. Wigginton said the store is well-known as an open-air drug market where weapons are present.
Martin went into the store when officers pulled up and tried to hide a loaded Sturm Ruger 9mm pistol in the rack of “Rap Snacks” potato chip bags.
Martin was previously convicted in 2008 of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon in St. Clair County. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kit Morrissey prosecuted Martin on the federal charge.
Genius. Hiding a gun in a bag of “Rap Snacks.” Because nobody gets suspicious when they see a bag of “Rap Snacks.”
“Rap Snacks” are distributed by Evans Food Group, a Chicago-based firm which is known as the country’s largest producer of generic-label pork rinds. It is said that “Rap Snacks” are the result of black entrepreneurship, but in reality, it’s just one of many labels of snacks distributed by a large corporation. It’s like “record labels” — You’ll hear about this rapper or that rapper starting his own record label. Yeah, it’s a label, but it’s under the aegis of WMG or UMG.
Needless to say, none of the quickie marts I managed ever carried “Rap Snacks.” If you walk into a quickie mart and see them available, and you don’t know already, that’s one clue you’re in the ghetto.
Survey shows McDonald’s lowest in fast-food satisfaction
Being the biggest doesn’t necessarily yield the happiest customers, according to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index released Tuesday. Oak Brook-based McDonald’s Corp. received the lowest customer satisfaction ranking of any full-service or fast-food chain on the survey, with 73 percent satisfaction, up from 72 percent.
McDonald’s, which serves 68 million customers around the world every day, has been a historically poor performer on the satisfaction index. The chain has shown significant improvement in the past decade, up from 61 percent satisfaction in 2002. Competitors Burger King and Wendy’s have posted smaller gains over the last decade, but their ratings were still higher in 2011. Wendy’s outperformed all burger rivals with a 78 percent rating, and Burger King remained at 75 percent.
Yeah, but just wait until 365Black kicks into full gear. Once it does, it’ll be 73% dissatisfaction.
He used to own Chubby’s in Hayti, the best BBQ restaurant in Missouri. But, the second to last time I was there, I found out that he and Mrs. Greenwell had a parting of the ways, and the judge gave her the joint.
Will Philadelphia’s experiment in eradicating ‘food deserts’ work?
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Others question whether proximity is a good metric for defining access. Adam Drewnowski at the University of Washington recently surveyed Seattle residents on where they bought groceries. He found that most people don’t shop where they live — access is determined as much by price and public transit, for instance, as proximity.
“If you live next to a Mercedes dealership, that doesn’t mean you’ll buy a Mercedes,” he says. “And it’s the same with living next to a grocery store: That doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll start eating salads.”
Oh, surprise. Just because you put a zucchini bar next to people who swill on crap-in-a-sack from a clown’s head doesn’t mean they’re trading quadruple slopburgers for zucchini? How much of our money will Blackie O on behalf of our Federal government burn through before this becomes obvious even to Blackie O?
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama says banning big servings of sugary drinks isn’t anything she’d want to do at the federal level, but she offered some kind words Tuesday for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s effort to do just that. She later issued a statement backing away from taking a stand on New York’s controversial proposed ban.
Translation: She would if she could get away with it, and she knows from the outrage over Bloomy that she can’t get away with it. I actually think that Bloomy did what he did on behalf of the Obama gang as a trial balloon — If it weren’t such a PR clusterfuck, you can bet your bip that Blackie O would already be talking about prohibiting big soda cups.
We’ve already had lunch nazis confiscate the healthy brought-from-home lunches of school kids, telling them in the process that their parents are evil and stupid, so they should eat the mystery meat they call school lunch made at the school.
This Occutard better be careful with his wishes. These fake ethnics slinging this fake ethnic food is the “in” which D.C.’s growing SWPL population uses to pretend that they support diversity, even though they’re trying to clear the real diversity out of the District.
If all goes as planned one part of St. Louis won’t be a food desert anymore.
On Tuesday night we got a look at plans for a Save-A-Lot that will move into the old Foodland building near Jefferson and Interstate 44.
Foodland shut down in 2004.
People who live in Lafayette Square, Soulard, and the Gate District have had limited access to affordable fresh food since then.
There are also plans for a hardware store, coffee shop, fitness gym and bank.
This particular edifice has hosted just about every grocery chain that has ever existed in St. Louis in the era of supermarkets. I’ll give you a hint — There’s a reason why it’s been vacant since 2004. It has far more to do with the demographics to its west than to its east.
But let the implication sink in — People who live in Soulard don’t have access to fresh food.
Hello? Anyone home? Think: Any given Saturday with decent weather, big crowds, people hauling push carts behind them or in front of them, yelling clerks, live animals, people playing instruments with their instrument cases open for pocket change donations, taking #38 at a meat market when they’re currently serving customer #14, so you know you’ve got a long wait…except this will never happen on a certain Saturday in February.
I was searching on YouTube for TI-89 hacks. One thing led to another, and its “suggest” mechanism led me to this video:
This was McDonald’s first really big national TV ad campaign, the “Happy Place” slogan in 1967.
Someone said this at AR during its one of their recent stories about McDonald’s crime:
Sometime back in the ’70s or ’80s, I remember reading a magazine article about McDonald’s corporate strategy. Back when they were starting out in the ’50s, their head honcho Ray Kroc committed to making his restaurants as family-friendly as possible. Because other burger joints and malt shops back then were known as hangouts for greasers, hot-rodders, and Juvenile Delinquents (remember them?), McD’s decided their shops would never contain any cigarette machines or payphones (which is still the case to this day). The idea was let their competitors have the troublesome teenaged clientele; the Golden Arches would instead position itself as the “good” burger chain. The one you can take the kids to without having some duck-tailed Fonzie-wannabe leaning on the cig machine while making an obscene phone call and leering at your pubescent daughter.
And for several decades, the concept of cheap, G-rated food and ambiance worked brilliantly. McDonald’s became not only a large, rich corporation, they turned into an international money-making machine the likes of which the food industry had never before seen.
I really can’t say what caused the McD’s brain trust to abandon this successful strategy of wholesomeness and trade it for the current “365Black” (sic) masterplan. I’d probably guess “Political Correctness gone mad,” if I didn’t think Political Correctness was mad to begin with. But for a company that originally set out courting the most respectable and well-behaved segment of society — suburban middle-class white parents and their non-smoking children — to change course to go chasing after the poorest and most troublesome segment of society, well, that’s something for historians and economists of the future to try to figure out. As an example of a corporation doing a total 180-degree turnaround in their Mission Statement, the self-inflicted blackening of McDonaldland is pretty hard to beat for sheer bizarreness.
The video proves this.
The crossover had to be some time around 2003, the year McD’s introduced it’s Ebonics-sounding “I’m lovin’ it” slogan, part of it was Ronald McDonald “hangin” with various rappers.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The White Castle hamburger chain is sipping on the idea of selling alcoholic beverages at its restaurants.
The 90-year-old company is testing beer and wine sales at a location in Lafayette, Ind., that combines a traditional White Castle burger joint with a Blaze Modern BBQ, a new restaurant concept also being tried out. In other cities, Columbus, Ohio-based White Castle is testing an Asian food concept and a restaurant that serves grilled sandwiches.
Customers in Lafayette can buy a glass wine for $4.50 or a domestic beer for $3.
They don’t get it. White Castle is a place you go in the middle of the night after you’re already drunk. Every St. Louisan, as well as every denizen of a metro area that has WCs, has their particular “Drunk at 3 AM” White Castle location. But it does not follow that people will want to go to White Castle just to get souzed when they’re not already souzed.
USDA Secretary: We Must ‘Create Appropriate Transition’ for What Americans Eat
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told members of the National Restaurant Association on Monday that Americans need to “adjust” their tastes so that they like the kind of food the government believes they should eat—and “we have to make sure that what we do is create the appropriate transition.”
Business meeting between 2 cousins leads to gunfire at Ferguson Cracker Barrel
ST. LOUIS • A business meeting between two cousins at a Cracker Barrel restaurant turned violent this morning when the men began arguing and one pulled a gun, police said.
The two men were inside the Ferguson restaurant shortly after 11 a.m. when they argued, said Tom Jackson, the Ferguson police chief.
They went outside, where one of them pulled a gun and fired between eight and 10 shots, some into the ground.
No one was struck, but the man who was shot at ran off. The shooter was taken into custody at the scene, and the second man later turned himself in at a St. Louis County police station.
The men are apparently in business together.
Probably not for much longer.
Among the P-D’s photos are one of the “shooter” cousin. Yep. Not a “cracker.”
This CB in Ferguson just might be the only one in the country that’s in danger of being “ghettoed” out of business.
Incidentally, the only Godfather’s Pizza in St. Louis is also in Ferguson. Something last night made me look that up. No way in hell I’m going to Ferguson for pizza, even if I were a Cainiac.
Meanwhile, the Title IX extremists, ambulance chasing shysters and self-esteem screwballs who infest/support the Obama administration are continuing to do away with sports and clubs for men and boys, eliminating games and other means of physical exertion that might have the slightest of risk of physical contact and of someone actually losing, failing or flunking, and doping up boys that actually want to burn calories on Ritalin.
When did parents go out of the breakfast business? If not for that, then the students should know when they’re hungry. I mean, when I recover from a hangover wake up, and I’m hungry, and I have food, I’m going to eat.
I know that there were two Applebee’s that served breakfast; one is at the Radisson Hotel in Nashville, and the other is in NYC. I was made to think that these were the only two Appllebee’s in the country that served breakfast. So why is the one in Sikeston open at 6?
Restaurant Threatens To Kick Out Baby Not Wearing Shoes
SUNSET HILLS, MO (KTVI – FOX2now.com) – No shoes, no shirt, no service: there is word that the manager of a St. Louis County restaurant threatened to kick out a six-month old baby and her mother because the baby wasn’t wearing shoes. The infant’s mom says the restaurant is taking the policy too far. Jennifer Frederich said the manager of the Sunset Hills Burger King at 10734 Sunset Hills Plaza cited ‘health concerns’.
Frederich said her daughter, Kaylin, was too young to even get her feet dirty; she couldn’t walk, couldn’t crawl, her feet still pretty much too small for shoes.
I’ve eaten at that particular Burger King before, plus a few others. Believe me: For a fast feeder manufacturing facility that microwaves its hamburger mystery meat (you can call it “beef” if you want), to throw a baby out for not wearing shoes is a bit hypocritical.
MINNEAPOLIS — Cereal maker General Mills is launching a new version of Wheaties it says is designed for athletes, with input from athletes such as NFL quarterback Peyton Manning and NBA star Kevin Garnett.
The Golden Valley, Minn.-based company says it is testing three types of the new version of Wheaties with athletes and some readers of Men’s Health magazine. It will announce the new product in September.
The company says the new version will not replace the 85-year-old original Wheaties.
General Mills plans to market the cereal as helping athletes with endurance and energy.
Athletes have been jonesing for years to get on the box of regular Wheaties, and all of a sudden it isn’t good enough for ‘em anymore?
Coming soon: Wheaties, Athletes’ Edition. Whole wheat grains fortified with anabolic steroids. Every box has a “Get Out of Federal Grand Jury Testimony” Free card inside. Personally autographed by Barry Bonds. “Lawdy Lawdy, Miss Scarlett. I don’t know nuttin’ about now Victor Conte.”
Healthy school lunch efforts face daunting hurdles
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – School cafeteria meals like low-fat pizzas with whole grain crust don’t taste too bad to Paola Villatoro, a 17-year-old at Downtown Magnet High School in Los Angeles.
“Some of it is pretty good,” she said.
But West Adams Preparatory School student Alfredo Segura doesn’t like them. “It tastes like prison food,” said Segura, 16, as he and other students ate snacks at a fast-food joint near the school.
And how would you know that, Mr. Segura? From personal experience?
Probably not, I’m just being glib. The better explanation is that he’s whining.
What a difference a decade makes. When it started, The Kreme could do no wrong — every new store christening was an event. When the first KK opened in Denver in 2001, people were lined up for a mile to get in, and some people were dancing inside the store after they got their doughnuts. Its IPO rocketed to astonishing highs, then dropped like a rock, as if The Street thought KK was a dot com. As the decade is about to end, Double-K is on the verge of closing altogether, so thinks Yahoo Finance.
Six Flags is also on that danger list. If both The Kreme and Six Flags go, this should make a drive on Interstate 44 west from St. Louis less interesting. After all, the routine was that you got off of 44 at Bowles to get some Krispy Kreme, then back on it going west to get off at Six Flags.
On the recent scandal with peanut butter and salmonella — we’re told that the suits deliberately concealed bad news and went on with production anyway. But we’re not told about the other half of the coin.
I understand that the processing plant in question is in north Georgia, which happens to have a high Hispanic growth rate. Hispanic farm workers don’t have a very good track record when it comes to hygiene. Could it be that the other half of this coin has to do with the workers at the plant?
When a banana ripens, it turns yellow – unless you look at it under a black light, in which case, it appears bright blue, a new study has found.
The banana’s blue glow was discovered by scientists at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and Columbia University in New York, the first team to look for this phenomenon in bananas. The researchers think the coloring is related to the degradation of chlorophyll that occurs as the banana ripens and could aid animals who eat bananas and can see in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum
Chlorophyll is the green pigment present in plants that allows them to obtain energy from light during photosynthesis.
As the banana ripens, the chlorophyll begins to break down – a process called catabolism – and the resulting products are concentrated in the banana peel. Under ultraviolet light, more commonly known as black light, these breakdown products fluoresce, or glow, blue.
This reminds me of the history behind the development of color television. In the 1940s (save WWII) and the early 1950s, CBS and NBC/RCA/Sarnoff were competing with each other to introduce the first viable color television technology. CBS initially won, but its system involved TVs that had a “color wheel,” a platter of colors that spun around and around behind the TV set, in order to reflect the real colors needed to produce a full color image on the screen. This process was known as “mechanical scanning.” Trouble is, the wheel needed to be much larger than the size of the TV screen, making color screens more than a diagonal foot impractical. NBC/RCA responded by attempting to produce a working fully electronic color scanning system, which they eventually did, and became the American analog standard that will end in February of next year, but their first attempts failed, lab experiments where the camera was turned to a bunch of bananas showed them coming out as blue on the TV screen.
Now that we know bananas can actually appear blue under the right kind of electromagnetic radiation, I’m just wondering if this was the reason why those bananas appeared blue.
SIKESTON, Mo. It’s a sandwich that makes children’s eyes grow to the size of saucers and amazes adults. The 7-pound Frankenstein burger made at Stan’s Wagon Wheel is generating some buzz in Sikeston, and even some friendly competition.
Owner Frank Stanley has another bar near Midland, Mich. It was there that he came up with the idea for the burger, which he brought to Sikeston when opening a new bar a few months ago. It’s part of the Wagon Wheel challenge, in which a customer can order the sandwich and, if they eat it in its entirety in one hour without leaving the table, the meal is on the house and the customer also gets $100.
Sorry, Frank. You’re going to have to do better than that to topple Lambert’s Cafe and Dexter BBQ as the top restaurants in Sikeston. Maybe you’ll have to start throwing the meat to seated customers. That might do the trick.
Now, if Dexter BBQ makes a sandwich with seven pounds worth of pork shoulder, that would put Sikeston on the world map.
