Fuckit. Here's where we're going out to next week. Bubba's PBR & Ramen Kitchen!

[Shardik]

Have a beer and a bowl of Ramen noodles. For fifty cents more, you can have egg or a hotdog added to the mix. For the real big spenders, you can get a dose of veggies by the addition of a tablespoon or two of Kim-Chee for only a dollar.

Other new businesses in the future here in the States include Rickshaw drivers/pullers, shoe-shine boys and domestic servants. With the official dismantling of the middle class, the upper class has promised to be good to us by not re-instituting the poorhouse (so far), will not beat us too often and will allow us to breed within certain parameters.

In the last days of the Republican's control, the treasures of our Republic were given to the businesses that have held the purse strings here for so long to assure their victory over the rest of us. The new Corporate Masters also bring good news in the form that we do not need to worry about paying for a college education for our children as it is now forbidden to those outside their station.

Rejoice, ye proletariat! The society in this country has been made and those dissenting shall be absorbed and will agree when we make them our own or gone.


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[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. New business opportunity. Guillotine builders

[Shardik]

2. Yeah, but that's a few years down the road. German Chocolate or Red Velvet? n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Careful. I had a thread locked and yanked for showing a picture of one.

[Shardik]

15. A business oportunity????

[Eric J in MN]

3. "shoe-shine boys and domestic servants"

...have existed in the US for a long time and exist today.

John & Cindy McCain spend $273,000/year on household employees.

[Shardik]

4. Yes, they have.

But not as a job that people flock to as a rule. And the McCain's see no problem with that as they are just "helping" the "have-nots" as GWB so nicely named the majority of Americans.

[csziggy]

5. Hormel is turning out Spam as fast as they can - boom times for their workers!

Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More
By ANDREW MARTIN
Published: November 14, 2008

AUSTIN, Minn. — The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, times have never been better. They are working at a furious pace and piling up all the overtime they want.

The workers make Spam, perhaps the emblematic hard-times food in the American pantry.

Through war and recession, Americans have turned to the glistening canned product from Hormel as a way to save money while still putting something that resembles meat on the table. Now, in a sign of the times, it is happening again, and Hormel is cranking out as much Spam as its workers can produce.

In a factory that abuts Interstate 90, two shifts of workers have been making Spam seven days a week since July, and they have been told that the relentless work schedule will continue indefinitely.

Spam, a gelatinous 12-ounce rectangle of spiced ham and pork, may be among the world’s most maligned foods, dismissed as inedible by food elites and skewered by comedians who have offered smart-alecky theories on its name (one G-rated example: Something Posing As Meat).

But these days, consumers are rediscovering relatively cheap foods, Spam among them. A 12-ounce can of Spam, marketed as “Crazy Tasty,” costs about $2.40. “People are realizing it’s not that bad a product,” said Dan Johnson, 55, who operates a 70-foot-high Spam oven.

Hormel declined to cooperate with this article, but several of its workers were interviewed here recently with the help of their union, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 9. Slumped in chairs at the union hall after making 149,950 cans of Spam on the day shift, several workers said they been through boom times before — but nothing like this.

Spam “seems to do well when hard times hit,” said Dan Bartel, business agent for the union local. “We’ll probably see Spam lines instead of soup lines.”

Even as consumers are cutting back on all sorts of goods, Spam is among a select group of thrifty grocery items that are selling steadily.

MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/business/15spam.html?hp

[Shardik]

6. God, I really don't care much for Spam.

I hope things get better when Obama takes over.

OTOH, I do like Ramen. Guess I have a thing for Sodium. :0

[csziggy]

8. I've never had Spam - just the idea is kind of creepy to me

OTOH, I have had Vienna sausages which I think of as a cross between Spam and hotdogs.

[shanti]

16. it's pretty nasty right out of the can

maybe it tastes better after it's been fried...

[Shardik]

17. It does.

And with hash browns & eggs is a good breakfast!

[csziggy]

18. Yes, add more grease to it - just ask Paula Deen. She'd probably fry Spam in butter! n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. MMMMM I loves me some Spam and fried potatoes. Pinto beans on the side please!

Call me crazy. The first part of my childhood was pretty thin. My mom used to buy three day old bread from the bakery, something like seven loaves for a dollar. She'd put it in the freezer. We ate an awful lot of breakfast for dinner as well, eggs or pancakes etc. Thousand island dressing was catsup, mayo, and relish mixed together.

There is nothing wrong with Spam. Substance Posing As Meat LOL.

[Shardik]

11. Fried spam, egg & lots of mayo sanmich is a guilty pleasure.

sometimes with a slice of tomato.

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. I think I'll have to try that! n/t

[Shardik]

14. Not healthy, but tastes good.

But then again, I go for a good bologna sammich dressed the same way from time to time.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Kick and rec for some damn good satire. n/t

[Shardik]

12. Thank you.

I was beginning to think no one saw my intentions.