This is National Drive-Thru Day — noting the popularity of restaurants that take your order by intercom and then hand it out a window to drivers while they remain behind the wheel. The first such service was the idea of Robert Peterson, at a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant in San Diego in 1951, serving hamburgers for just 18 cents. At the time, drive-in restaurants were very popular, where staff brought food to people who stayed in their parked cars. Some even brought out the food on roller skates, and the order was delivered to a tray attached to the car door. Today, drive-throughs are a feature of many of the more than 211,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S., which generate over $151 billion in sales each year. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at <www.census.gov>.
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Stand up for traditional family values and buy some Chick-fil-A, I certainly am.
Which traditional family value are you seeking?
In the western world marriage originated with the Greeks as a way for the husband to own his wife and to know his virgin bride’s first born is his child. Is that the traditional family value you are seeking?
It took a few thousand years for society to allow the wife to divorce the husband. Is that the traditional family value you are seeking?
In the past fifty years women have been allowed to retain as much as half the combined family wealth upon a divorce. Is that the traditional family value you are seeking?
The new testament was appended to the original Jewish understanding of god and god’s law. Leviticus wrote that a bride must prove her virginity in the bridal chamber or is taken to the elders for stoning to death. Is that the traditional family value you are seeking?
Dazed, please see the first frame of http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion
the rest of the “comic” is well worth time
and I thought it was just about selling chicken…….
SS, I wish you had warned me about this link. I was not expecting these very funny religious themed cartoons. I started reading them and laughing so hard I spilled coffee down the front of my clean white dress shirt. Thanks for the link.
OiLF,
I love “The Oatmeal” … quite a few ‘laugh out loud’ cartoons on the site
Agreed and amen!