Out of the Blue

In honor of the late Dave Thomas I took my appetite to a drive-through Wendy's last night. It's not often that I manage to swing by Wendy's, as they suffer from fewer locations than their competition. In spite of this, it has always qualified as my favorite of the fast food joints, but even then I found myself truly shocked at the quality of my dinner, which was tasty and shockingly fresh. I don't know if they were putting extra effort in after the death of their founder, if I had freakishly good timing, or if this location was some sort of burger heaven (I almost said nirvana, but that's inappropriate isn't it?), but when is the last time you had a fast-food burger that you had to be careful to keep from burning your mouth? My own answer is easy enough -- last night was the first time ever (even counting that McDLT hot side hot/cool side cool dealie).

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Re: Hot stuff
Jan 9, 2002, 21:32
anon@24.226
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Re: Hot stuff Jan 9, 2002, 21:32
Jan 9, 2002, 21:32
anon@24.226
 
Yes, saying that Dave Thomas was anti-homosexual because Wendy's didn't want their ads running with Ellen's TV show is pretty ridiculous. I guess some people just like to take something small and run with it until it gets all nice and juicy and bloated and out of perspective. Even if Dave Thomas had actually said he didn't want their ads running because he doesn't agree with homosexuality, ya know what? I don't care what his personal beliefs and opinions are, that's his decision to make. Just because Wendy's serves the public doesn't make Wendy's the public's slave.
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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 21:04
WarPig
 
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 21:04
Jan 9, 2002, 21:04
 WarPig
 
Man, am I embarrassed. All this time I thought the controversy was over Wendy's only serving sandwitches made from straight cows and chickens.

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Hot stuff
Jan 9, 2002, 19:56
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Hot stuff Jan 9, 2002, 19:56
Jan 9, 2002, 19:56
 
speaking of hot food. I work at a A&W and just recently while trying to clean above our grill i fell oon it, and burnt my hands pretty bad. Our food is pretty good though i prefer wendy's or harvey's. If i had my choice i would pick subway. thats the good stuff. and with all this gay stuff, every site that you linked too is some gay and lesbian support group, so their opinions are biased. Also the pulling of commercials from tv could be because the show was being canned. wendy's stopped advertising on april 30th and the show was canceled on may 13th.
maybe from lack of funds

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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 19:52
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 19:52
Jan 9, 2002, 19:52
 
You don't have the right to eat at any restaurant you want?

You are still dancing the issue. Have you gone into a Wendy's and not been served after telling the cashier you are gay? I highly doubt it. This sounds like an experiment for tomorrow, I will have to give it a swing.

And even if the cashier says "I'm not serving you you homosexual", the company is only at fault if it doesn't react when you report it to them. Given the rainbow colored glasses that everyone is forced to look through today, I can't imagine that Wendy's would ignore such a report fearing it would make it to the media (much like what has happened to Cracker Barrel and Jack in the Box).

People are upset that Wendy's pulled ads from Ellen, well so what. It's their money, and they can do with it as they please.


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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 19:13
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 19:13
Jan 9, 2002, 19:13
 
I find it funny that all the “anti-homosexual” companies listed at http://www.turnleft.com/out/boycott.html were accused of the same offense, pulling commercials from Ellen. Maybe its not homophobia they’re guilty of but of having good taste.

BTW businesses are not social or political activist organizations (though some try to be). Their purpose is to make as much money as possible. They do that by trying to appeal to as many people as possible. Being associated with a controversial topic goes against that. Having said that, Wendy’s failure to advertise on Blue’s News doesn’t offend me at all. Wendy’s would probably sell burgers to Taliban if they weren’t hiding in caves. Heck, that’s one less dollar they’d have to spend on something else!

PS I never realized what a great guy Mr. Thomas was. Although, I will have to overlook that whole giving-away-his-hard-earned-cash-to-charity thing:)


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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 18:39
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 18:39
Jan 9, 2002, 18:39
 
You don't have the right to eat at any restaurant you want?

Public businesses should be open for the public; if they are otherwise they should not be able to take advantage of the various tax breaks and other benefits that apply to them. If Wendy's chose/chooses not to serve gays then they should qualify themselves as a club, just like the Boy Scouts..

The above is directed at you, #10..
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I eat pasta!
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A real burger
Jan 9, 2002, 16:52
anon@63.161
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A real burger Jan 9, 2002, 16:52
Jan 9, 2002, 16:52
anon@63.161
 
Ever since I've had a burger at Fuddruckers, every other burger place has paled in comparison.

I guess if its late at night and Fuddruckers is closed, Wendy's and Jack In The Box will do. MickeyDs, Burger King and Whataburger are all crap!
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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 16:02
anon@24.226
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 16:02
Jan 9, 2002, 16:02
anon@24.226
 
Bah, typical extremist pro-homosexual/anti-heterosexual/anti-freedom-of-opinion propoganda. Take it elsewhere.
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Re: Indeed
Jan 9, 2002, 15:31
anon@67.203
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Re: Indeed Jan 9, 2002, 15:31
Jan 9, 2002, 15:31
anon@67.203
 
Blue, I believe your experience at Wendy's isn't just a lone one. All of the Wendy's in the area I live serve the same way, whether they're extremely busy, or nobody's around. I've come to the conclusion that it must be some sort of company-wide policy to have their cooks make the burgers correctly or something, but I sure do like it
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Congressman strip searched
Jan 9, 2002, 15:19
anon@64.166
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Congressman strip searched Jan 9, 2002, 15:19
Jan 9, 2002, 15:19
anon@64.166
 
Just wanted to let you know that the story about the congressman being strip searched was moved to: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/homefront020108.html
The link that was posted just goes to the dynamic homepage of that section of abcnews.
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McD
Jan 9, 2002, 15:09
anon@66.75
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McD Jan 9, 2002, 15:09
Jan 9, 2002, 15:09
anon@66.75
 
I messed up and had McDonalds yesterday. The brown sickly disgusting looking lettuce was scraped off my chicken burger.

EJ
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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 14:46
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 14:46
Jan 9, 2002, 14:46
 
In Reply to #7
Wow, just looks like alot of uppity people who happen to be uppity about their sexual preference seek to uppity to someone for an obscure reason.

Wendy's pulled the ad from the show because it was a "controversial subject", which was apparently against their advertising guidelines. You'd be hard pressed to get anyone to agree with an assertation that Ellen wasn't a controversial show. Sure, the policy is stupid, but it doesn't show that they have anything specifically against homosexuality.

And just because some random person claims that Dave Thomas likes a homophobe, it doesn't make it true.

There are plenty of rights violations in the country. Can't people use more VALID examples, rather than knocking on a dead guy because they disagree with his company's advertising standards?

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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 14:21
indiv
 
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 14:21
Jan 9, 2002, 14:21
 indiv
 
All those articles talk about is Wendy's pulling an advertisement from the TV show Ellen because as a corporation they would rather avoid controversy. Maybe I'm missing something, but that hardly equates to a company refusing to serve gays. It sounds like a load of propaganda, and a bunch of gay people hopping on the bandwagon against Wendy's just because they can't think for themselves, and need some gay group to tell them what to think and how to act.

Maybe you just forgot to link to the press release where Wendy's mentioned they would no longer be serving gay people. If so, please provide the links, and please provide them from a non-biased source if possible.

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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 14:14
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 14:14
Jan 9, 2002, 14:14
 
Because Wendy's doesn't serve gays, and if they do, they want you to know that they don't support it. So Dave loves orphans, but hates gays.

Now you're being silly.

You know what I think is funny... In this world if you don't agree with someone, you can be a bigot & a racist. If you don't think homosexually is okay then you are a bad person. Or so people want you to think. Fuck that, I know my opinions.

I don't agree with homosexuality but the drummer in my band has dated another man before. I don't agree with his views but I still love the guy. To me its just about my moral upbringing... People are funny sometimes...

Anywho--regarding Dave, I'm going out for a frosty and all the Jr Bacon Cheesburgers I can stand! Woohoo!

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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 14:06
anon@66.40
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 14:06
Jan 9, 2002, 14:06
anon@66.40
 
that doesn't prove anything. I applaud the good business
sense of companies that follow their demographic. I doubt
Wendys has any issue with serving gays, but they might lose
a good part of their (bigoted) customer base because they
openly supported Ellen. Come on, the show sucked to begin with. Besides, many of my gay friends have anti-gay remarks. They're people, just like everyone else - nothing special.
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The Voices In My Head
Jan 9, 2002, 13:59
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The Voices In My Head Jan 9, 2002, 13:59
Jan 9, 2002, 13:59
 
In life it only matters what you think of yourself, you are the only person living inside your head.

voice1: He's absolutely right you know.
voice2: Since when are you the voice of reason?
voice3: Will you guys shutup? I'm trying to enjoy my Bacon Double Cheeseburger and Biggie Fries.
voice1: The burgers are good; too bad the fries suck.
voice2: Oh, now you're a food critic?
voice3: Shutup!
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I thought Dave Thomas was "the Beaver"?

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Dining at Wendy's
Jan 9, 2002, 13:57
anon@216.101
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Dining at Wendy's Jan 9, 2002, 13:57
Jan 9, 2002, 13:57
anon@216.101
 
Wendy's, and the west-coast-only chain In 'N Out Burger, are the only fast-food burger chains that always make food to order (well, except things like chili).

One yardstick of fast-food places is whether people who used to work there will still eat there. All the people I know who worked at Wendy's will still eat there; nobody who used to work at Jack In The Box will still eat there. From the latter, I've heard stories like "we mixed the taco sauce in the same bucket we used to mop the floor".
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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 13:49
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 13:49
Jan 9, 2002, 13:49
 
So don't eat at Wendy's then if you feel uncomfortable giving your money to a dead guy who disliked gays. I don't eat at Wendy's because I prefer not to eat filthy, stinking cows and they are doing fine without my patronage.

If you are gay, ppl are gonna hate you. You should know that by now. As a matter of fact if you are black, jewish, arab, white, fat, blonde haired, a fucking alien, whatever, ppl will hate you. Get over it. Many, many ppl hate me for being ultra intelligent and extremely handsome. I live with it dammit!

In life it only matters what you think of yourself, you are the only person living inside your head.

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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 13:45
anon@65.24
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 13:45
Jan 9, 2002, 13:45
anon@65.24
 
It is people like you that truly disgust me. You always want to have bleeding-heart stories where the "news media" takes an action and totally twists how it goes. Gays have rights, just like every other person on this planet, but they do not deserve more rights than me just because they are "different".
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Re: The real Dave Thomas
Jan 9, 2002, 13:18
anon@65.89
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Re: The real Dave Thomas Jan 9, 2002, 13:18
Jan 9, 2002, 13:18
anon@65.89
 
Wendy's doesn't serve gays

If this is true (which I don't believe), just don't tell the cashier you're gay. Simple.
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