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Wendy's International Inc.

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    January 9, 2009

    I Have Seen the Devil, and His Name Is Big Mac Snack Wrap

    You know, F. Scott Fitzgerald was right about American lives having no second acts. I found that to be sadly true yesterday as I sat down at the McDonald's near the bus station off Main and jumped teeth first into an American tragedy. Somewhere in a cold and sterile boardroom at McDonald's headqu ... More >>

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    September 14, 1995

    Press Picks

    You know, F. Scott Fitzgerald was right about American lives having no second acts. I found that to be sadly true yesterday as I sat down at the McDonald's near the bus station off Main and jumped teeth first into an American tragedy. Somewhere in a cold and sterile boardroom at McDonald's headqu ... More >>

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    September 11, 1997

    Dish

    You know, F. Scott Fitzgerald was right about American lives having no second acts. I found that to be sadly true yesterday as I sat down at the McDonald's near the bus station off Main and jumped teeth first into an American tragedy. Somewhere in a cold and sterile boardroom at McDonald's headqu ... More >>

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    December 27, 2007

    Capsule Art Reviews: "Jerry Kearns: Between Heaven and Earth," "Little Known Facts," "Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone," "Ryan Geiger: Secret Garden"

    You know, F. Scott Fitzgerald was right about American lives having no second acts. I found that to be sadly true yesterday as I sat down at the McDonald's near the bus station off Main and jumped teeth first into an American tragedy. Somewhere in a cold and sterile boardroom at McDonald's headqu ... More >>

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    December 2, 2004

    Grande Plans

    Houston's most famous chef talks about prostate cancer, turning 50 and what's next for Cafe Annie

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    November 25, 2004

    Puke Fest '04!

    Houston revelers spill their guts to The Nightfly

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    September 30, 2004

    Perfecting Peter

    Houston Ballet dances its way to Neverland

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    September 25, 2003

    Woodlands Wonders

    Meet Paris Green -- the newest entry in the next big thing from Houston sweepstakes

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    March 21, 2002

    Shockheaded Peter

    In the battle for the Houston Ballet, Trey McIntyre scores an early blow

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    Taqueria El Primo

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    Tea and Strumpets

    If feminism is dead, we don't care for its legacy: A choice between lunching or lapdancing

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    May 21, 2009

    $7 at Putty's Pizza

    Photo by Paul KnightWhere: Putty's Pizza, underneath One Allen Center, 500 Dallas St., 713-951-9369 What $7 gets you: A greasy slice of pizza and any item from a menu that would make any bar proud. Unfortunately, Putty's doesn't serve booze. The lunch options in the downtown tunnels are diverse, ... More >>

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    June 9, 2009

    Ten Classic Restaurant Commercials from the 1980s

    If you're a child of the '80s, much of your misspent youth was misspent in front of the television taking in shows like Mr. Wizard and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But just as those classic TV shows from your childhood have remained with you all these years, so have the equally classic commercials. ... More >>

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    June 30, 2009

    Frozen Fast Food Frenzy

    I, for one, welcome our new McFlurry overlords.It's hot as balls in Houston. You can do your best to hurry from air-conditioned house to air-conditioned car to air-conditioned movie theater / bar / restaurant / etc., but at some point you're going to be forced to spend more than 30 seconds out ... More >>

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    September 14, 2009

    It's 4:30 p.m. and Taylor Hicks, Clay Aiken, John Mayer, Nickelback and ICP Still Suck

    Er... no comment. OK, maybe one or two...​In the world of rock writing, there are just some artists' fans that you can't help but fuck with. While you're alternately enamored and disgusted by their chosen obsession, they exert a near religious fanaticism for their fixation of worship, making them ... More >>

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    April 19, 2010

    Aftermath: A Metal Reawakening With High On Fire And Priestess At Walter's

    Photos by Craig Hlavaty​So about a month ago Aftermath swore off metal shows. Well serious ones that is. Yeah, we hit up Steel Panther, who are in fact metal but that didn't count, seeing that they are hair metal which immediately disqualifies them. Anyhow, High on Fire's packed gig at Walte ... More >>

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    April 28, 2010

    Top 5 "Healthy" Fast Food Items Worse Than The KFC Double Down

    We've got your back, Double Down.​The poor, unfairly maligned Double Down. Yes, that's right -- we're here to take up the dubious mantle of Double Down Defenders. What did it ever do to deserve the kind of scorn that's been heaped upon it by the media? So it's a sandwich that doesn't have any ... More >>

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    May 11, 2010

    Top 5 Spots to Stay Away From: UH Area

    Ferran.​A lot of great places to eat have sprung up around UH campus lately. This article, however, is not about those places. Below is our top 5 spots to stay away from. Bon appetit!

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    May 12, 2010

    Breakfast at Cafe Express

    Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​Breakfast at Cafe Express might be one of the best-kept secrets in town...for now. Even though the breakfast menu launched a few months ago -- the efforts of Cafe Express' corporate chef Greg Martin finally come to fruition -- the crowds haven't yet found their wa ... More >>

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    June 4, 2010

    FAIL: Britain's Got Talent, Denver Juggalos, Face-Impaling Drummer

    ​English People Apparently Now Ridiculously Easy to Shock: Hard to believe that the once cutting-edge people of England, historically far less prudish than Puritan-descended America, were shocked and appalled by some of the same shit that Britney Spears did years ago, yet here we are. While pe ... More >>

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    June 11, 2010

    Juggalos Never Cease To Be Entertaining

    Marc Brubaker Two Juggalos at ICP's most recent Houston show, October 2009 at Warehouse Live.​ Tomorrow night, Houston-area fans of Insane Clown Posse will descend on Walter's on Washington for one of the periodic "Gathering of the Juggalos." We'll have a full report on the Faygo-doused eve ... More >>

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    June 11, 2010

    Health Dept. Roundup: Cold Treat Edition

    ​A bit late for the arrival of hot weather but in plenty of time for several more months of it, we tour the city's cool dairy confectioners this week on Health Department Roundup. At Dairy Land (310 Cavalcade), a June 3 routine inspection found an impressive 15 violations, and resulted in the ... More >>

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    June 18, 2010

    Jesus Campos, Daniel Garcia and Julio Cantu: Valley Gang Fails Attempted Crime Spree

    The Fail is strong in these younglings​You'd think the three Rio Grande Valley teenagers might have realized it wasn't their night after their second attempt at an armed robbery failed. You would underestimate the persistence of this Borderlands gang that couldn't shoot straight.Fail #1: It all st ... More >>

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    June 21, 2010

    Top 5 Fast Food Ads from the '80s

    I like to think that fast food advertising hit its stride in the' 80s with special promotions, movie tie-ins and celebrity endorsers. Okay, maybe that is because I am a self-centered child of the late 70's/early 80's but so be it, these are MY memories, dammit! Here's a Top 5 list of some of the mos ... More >>

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    August 3, 2010

    What Does Katy Perry Taste Like?

    ​Last week when we gave Kesha a bloggardly shellacking, we compared her and other female pop stars of her ilk to burritos. You may remember we said she was a gas-station burrito and Miley Cyrus was a Big Mac wrap. It was either a stroke of genius or the starved ramblings of a music writer subs ... More >>

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    August 3, 2010

    What Does Katy Perry Taste Like?

    ​Last week when we gave Kesha a bloggardly shellacking, we compared her and other female pop stars of her ilk to burritos. You may remember we said she was a gas-station burrito and Miley Cyrus was a Big Mac wrap. It was either a stroke of genius or the starved ramblings of a music writer subs ... More >>

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    August 31, 2010

    Gregory Chambers: Popped For Smearing Poop On Seawall Burger Joint

    Photo courtesy GCSOGregory Chambers doesn't have his shit together​Here's the poop on a low-down crime, a mystery worthy of Scooby Poo...Just who was that incontinent miscreant who has spent much of this long hot summer by creeping down to the Wendy's on Galveston's Seawall in the wee hours and sm ... More >>

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    September 3, 2010

    Heather Luv Boggs: Inside Job...At Wendy's

    Photo courtesy MCSOHeather Luv Boggs: Alleged mastermind​If your name is Heather Luv Boggs, well, more power to you. You're named after a cult `80s movie, a lame `60s movie and a sex-obsessed major league baseball player.So you've got your work cut out for you.But at some point, police say, you ma ... More >>

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    September 23, 2010

    Top 5 Dumbest Holistic Remedy Foods

    Photo illustrations by John Seaborn GrayYup, that's pretty much it.​Some people prefer to base their belief systems on things like evidence, logic, reason and personal experience. That's all fine and dandy if you want to go through life believing only in things that can be substantiated by rep ... More >>

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    November 2, 2010

    Health Dept. Roundup

    ​Health inspectors found some truly big-ticket offenders this week, and we bring them to you now on Health Department Roundup. At Pho 21 (11005 Fuqua), a complaint led to an October 25 visit that found a hearty 14 violations, among them that some food was not safe for human consumption or was ... More >>

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    December 14, 2010

    Wendy's New French Fries

    ​If it ain't broke, then why fix it? A tired phrase, to be sure, but it all I could think about as I ventured to a local Wendy's the other day to sample the new French fries. As the ads have tirelessly told us, they are fresh-cut with skin and use sea salt instead of that crappy salt salt.

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    December 21, 2010

    Top 5: Fast Food Chicken Dishes Done Right

    You can't beat the Whatachicken.​When I indulge in fast food, you can generally count on me ordering something chicken. Here are my top five. 5. Hartz's Fried Chicken First off, I hate fast food fried chicken (think KFC buckets), but given the title of the piece, felt obligated to include at ... More >>

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    December 24, 2010

    Dipping Fries into a Milkshake?

    ​In post a couple weeks ago about the new fries at Wendy's a commenter asked how they tasted dipped into a Frosty. That got my memory churning about a discussion I had with my wife once about my time-honored tradition of taking a salty, piping-hot French fry and dunking it headfirst into the ... More >>

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    December 24, 2010

    Ann O'Donnell: UH Police Lose An Officer In The Line Of Duty

    Photo courtesy UHPDAnn O'Donnell: UH police officer killed​It's a sad day at the University of Houston Department of Public Safety, which for the first time has lost an officer in the line of duty. Ann O'Donnell, who had been with UH Department of Public Safety a little over a year, was kille ... More >>

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    January 11, 2011

    Happy Birthday, Where's the Beef?

    Yesterday marked the 27th anniversary of a pivotal event in American culinary history: the first airing of the Wendy's "Where's the Beef?" commercial (above). I know what you're thinking. "Has it really been 27 years?" If you're like me, you can remember exactly what you were doing when the ad fi ... More >>

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    February 7, 2011

    Super Bowl: Five Non-Football Things We Learned

    The Vince Lombardi trophy, headed home​It's over. The Packers have defeated the Steelers, and now the NFL gets ready for a grim period that will probably lead to a lockout. It was a pretty good game, although not quite the all-time classic some post-game announcers were crowing about. We of ... More >>

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    April 12, 2011

    Fast Times: Wendy's Premium Fish Sandwich Combo

    ​Advertising got the best of me for this edition of Fast Times. How could it not? Wendy's is now offering a chance to "Get Hooked on a Real Fish Sandwich." That sounds like my kind of deal. I don't enjoy fake fish sandwiches. I ordered the combo meal, which came with the fish sandwich, a s ... More >>

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    July 15, 2011

    This Week in Deliciousness

    Root beer drinking games: none of the alcohol poisoning, all of the bladder damage.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we can't even remember the taste of non-booze-infused watermelon. We started the week off right with an in-depth review of some authentic po'bo ... More >>

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    September 1, 2011

    Health Department Roundup

    Does passing out on the light rail count as sleeping on the subway?​Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty How can you lose? Well, Petula, one surefire way to lose when you're downtown is by operating a restaurant without the ... More >>

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    October 24, 2011

    Wendy's New! Dave's Hot 'N Juicy Cheeseburger

    Photo by Christina UticoneStill hip to be square?​Thanks to the magic of DVR I don't watch a lot of commercials, so I have only been vaguely aware of the new ad campaign Wendy's has going on for its new "Dave's Hot 'N Juicy" cheeseburgers. I had to ask the interweb what was so new about these ... More >>

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    October 31, 2011

    Fast Times: Chik-Fil-A Chargrilled Chicken Club

    Photo by Christina Uticone​Lately I'm not sure which came first, the chicken or the egg--in which "the chicken" is my insatiable craving for hamburgers and "the egg" is Fast Times. Either way, I had to give myself a break this week and actually eat, uh, chicken. A girl can only eat so many ham ... More >>

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    January 19, 2012

    Rick Perry's Decisions Prove Fast Food Is Better Than Jogging

    The unfortunate results of running​Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race today, finally coming to grips with a reality most had accepted on his behalf four months ago. In doing so, he proved conclusively an important point: Fast food is better for you than jogging. At least when it ... More >>

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