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• The Last Hardee’s In Southeastern Michigan, which was on Coolidge near 11-Mile in Berkeley, is now called “Arnie’s.” Same people, and they still had the Hardee’s menu boards when I was there last, but they dumped Coke for Pepsi and finally pulled the trigger on the whole Golf thing [if you’ve been in there, you know what I mean, all the golf “art” on the walls]. I don’t get there all that often — the last time was to ask them what the deal was with the three charges that mysteriously appeared on my credit card a couple of weeks back. They pled ignorance. I believe them [that they are ign’ant].
• There is a Hot-N-Now drive through on Wayne Road between Ford and Cherry Hill in… is that Garden City or Westland? Heck if I know. I happened ‘crost it by accident while looking for the cheapest gas [if you didn’t know, Westland has cheap gas]. Hot-N-Now is a small, Michigan-based chain of inexpensive drive-through burger joints. The one I knew best was on Washtenaw in Ypsi, and fed me lunch often through some of my commuting years at EMU. It is now the Icescapes drive-through ice cream joint, and I am told that Icescapes serves the super-premium Haagen-Dazs style of ice cream, not just your typical ice-cream-stand soft serve. But I digress.
• I was getting some fried chicken at the White Castle/Church’s on Ford Road at 275 later that night, and I had a coupon that came in one of those bundles of fliers you get in the mail every few days. The clerk acted like I ordered in Urdu. I told her I wanted the 2-pc. for $2.49, and she put me down for a 10-piece. I told her I had a coupon and she thought I was lying or that the coupon wasn’t valid “yet.” [It expires Saturday, 6/26.] After repeated explanation she finally put me down for what I asked for. When I got up to the window I showed her the flier and she called everyone else over to stare at it and then forgot to give it back to me in case I wanted to burn the other coupons. I fixed that real quick. Funny thing is I went back tonight with my brothers and went inside to avoid her — she was working the inside register this time, and the person in front of us was demanding their money back because she’d forgotten their drink.
• One more digression — one day I went to McDonald’s and asked for two Q.P.s, no cheese. I get back to work and open them — cheesy! So I go back, after work, and explain what they did wrong. The clerk asks if she can see the sandwiches. So I show her my two stone-cold, hours-old Q.P.’s. She turns around and calls to her co-worker, “HE HAS PROOF!” Yes, I had established the burden of proof for two QPs, retail value $2.
  This was the McD’s on Mich. Ave. in Saline across from the Fishteord Saline Plant, if you’re keeping track.

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Men’s Health makes with the consumer advice.

I suppose it goes without saying, but Planters Nut Poppers did not make the list. I tried the Original flavor once as part of my effort to bring really scary-sounding snack foods into the office. Once I brought a bag of Soy Nuts in, and some wiseguy wrote a “B” over the “S” in Soy. Get it? So I saw the Planters Nut Poppers and figured they were pretty much graffiti-proof. What are you going to add to make a name like Nut Poppers funnier?

Anyway, they sort of reminded me of Nutter Butter cookies, if the cookies were really, really salty. This poor guy tried Original and Cheddar and wrote an article about it.

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