Chicago MMXII

I still don't understand why Kenan walked out while ordering a Jimmy John's sandwich. Because they were going to put it on... bread?

A whole loaf of bread?

http://www.tinynewyorkkitchen.com/files/2011/04/Dagwood-Sandwich-2.jpg?

Aw goddamnit. Don't make me explain a joke. There's nothing more tedious, for everyone involved. Just let it go.

I didn't know there was a joke.

Alright, you guys love bread and I don't. I see how it is.

brag brag

Only beef I have with Jimmy Johns is that I get the Slim 2 (roast beef, bread, that's it) and it's priced a bit high for just that.

Nice write up, E!

I hate sandwich shops altogether. They push giant cheap loaves of bread wrapped sloppily around shitty pieces of meat and TONS AND TONS OF MAYONNAISE if you don't say say out loud, "STOP putting mayonnaise on that!" It's crazy. It's like they can skimp on every other ingredient as long as they put a whole ass-crack load of oily mayonnaise on every sandwich. It's truly disgusting. It's the worst food yet invented by someone other than the evil Queen in Snow White.

Wow, nice, EZ!

FYI Potbelly doesn't put anything on your sandwich without asking 1st. I always get mustard and not mayo.

Also, that article is awesome Eazy. Congrats!

xp

Did anyone else see tHe sunset tonight? I've never seen another like it. I took this shitty iPhone pic, which is not worth more than a vague description

http://i.imgur.com/c0cC3.jpg

Whoa. Well done.

Gah, that picture is shit.

The western sky was black except at the horizon where the sun was blazing as seen in the pic, but sheets of rain obscured the glow, and big white lightning arced amid the black and red clouds. Just amazing.

jesse that picture is amazing. it looks like an a-bomb is going off.

thanks. i'm happy with it as a snapshot, but there was actually blue-white lighting in the shot. and the contrast between the black, black clouds and the terrifying sunset isn't there. at least you can see a little bit of the sheets of rain.

i have a point and shoot Canon camera, but for the life o' me that would have been way better, i can't find the damn charger.

I never eat at subway/jimmy johns downtown because I'm always close to a Hannah's, which is infinitely better.

oops - see if you can spot the mistake in that last sentence

xp

everyone should go to Z&H in hyde park for a sandwich sometime, I'm sure I've evangelized for them before

also I saw that sunset while leaving the laundromat and grocery store, and with the added lightning it was awesome indeed

i feel like we have the sandwich chain every week or two. for the record, i find jimmy john's more palatable than most of the sandwich chains because i like their thick sandwich bread and their fake guacamole. however, their sandwiches always give me heartburn for some reason.

we ate at big bricks last night. it was good (had pizza with pureed artichoke sauce instead of tomato sauce), seems like it would be a chill hang-out place. wasn't that busy (at 6:30ish) and they were playing old reggae at a reasonable volume. they have some tvs but the one in the back room wasn't even on. looks like they'll have a back patio set up soon too.

we also went to black dog gelato. i had cinnamon brown sugar gelato and salted peanut gelato.

Chicago threads always make me hungry.

sorry that should have been "i feel like we have the sandwich chain DISCUSSION every YEAR or two." i'm having serious serious allergy problems and it's messing with my brain.

maybe you need a sandwich on a loaf of bread

I love JJ's sub roll bread. I've said it a million times before, but it's delicious with just butter or butter and cheddar cheese.

And they sell it for 50 cents when it's "expired," a few hours after it's baked.

going out for lunch today if anyone wants to meet up (not at jimmy johns). flexible as to time and location. but if no one wants to meet up, i'll just go to chipotle.

I'm going home early because I feel decidedly unwell.

pobrecita -- get well soon carl!
having an earache is the pits.

I'm so pitiful right now! It's really sad. I keep pawing at my ear and whining like a dog.

go home! take a cab. i firmly believe in taking a cab home when sick after i barfed in the clark/lake station.

that was the judy baar-topinka brochure incident

I have to do something at 1 pm (which is why I didn't call in altogether) and then I am definitely cabbing it home. I am sort of afraid I'll fall down the El steps or something because I'm a dizzy rascal. I should be on the couch and snoozing to episodes of Arrested Development by 2.

judy baarf topinka

(sorry you're unwell homie)

i have loled at that woman's name so many times

judy braaaaap topinka
judy barf topanga
judy "barf" topinka

i am still laughing tbrr

Ugh, your stupid ears! Why won't they just work right?

A doctor wanted to put tubes in my ears when I was a kid and my mom said no so I blame her.

unfortunately i read that as pubes and am STILL LAUGHING
this is not appropriate final exam behavior

I am ready to try putting pubes in my ears if I thought it would work.

pube-based ear hair extensions --> no more ear infections
you read it here first, folks

Definitely trying it after work.

judy "barf" topinka

XD

it's the gift that gives more each time it's regurgitated!

If Q continues to have ear infections at the rate he's had them so far, we may have to consider tubes in his ears (not ready for the highly experimental pubes approach just yet). I'll take carl's situation into account if and when we need to consider that option.

tbf to my mom, I don't know if tubes would have mattered. I think I basically have the eustachean tubes of a three year old.

Like, it would probably be useful for me to have tubes in my ears now, but I don't know if it would have mattered if I'd had them as a kid.

What do the tubes do? Are they permanent?