Comments on: Bennett’s new craving

By: Myst

Myst — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:56:39 +0000

My son works at ‘Hungry Jacks’ which is Australian for Burger King - it’s identical. He gets to eat it every shift (2-4 shifts per week)….he’s not sick of it yet!

We pronounce a lot of our words just as you wrote ‘Whoppah’
so that bit cracked me up!

G
xx

By: Shannon W.

Shannon W. — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:30:43 +0000

This post makes me hungry! Although, it’s much easier to handle than your poop post:-)

I grew up on the border of VA and NC and believe me you have not heard the worst. I’ve always been a stickler for good grammar but it wasn’t until college, at LU, that I truly realized the extent of my accent. After a few months of being there, around my northern friends, my family said I sounded like a Yankee. That was not the case at all but to them, my accent had changed so much. I would say words correctly like…BED and not BIED and HOUSE and not HOSE, you get the point. I never added any haaaaaa in front of words though. Just a short 4 years changed my accent forever and I still scrutinize my family. I will never be free of some southern flare. I admit I leave the “g” off many words because I just talk so fast. I will say that I get so ticked off by people that think a southern accent equals a lower education. Bad grammar certainly equals a lower education.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:57:23 +0000

There is this one girl who is always telling me “My boss takes me for granite”. Hmmm really? Not marble?

By: Abby

Abby — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:09:56 +0000

For me it’s pizza from the Italian joint down the street. Cheese - tomatoey sauce. Yum. Of course at 14 weeks I’m STILL sick as a D-O-G, but it tastes good going down, dontcha know.

Why does the junk have to be what we crave? Viva la fast food!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:09:32 +0000

mmm welcome to whopper world.
you’ll never look back.
and really… why would you want to?

By: Whitney

Whitney — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:21:12 +0000

OK, ok, ok. your hwhoppah story cracked me up! I had a Marine Biology teacher when I was in high school in Lynchburg that was from Amherst and he always said my name like, “hhhhhaWHITNEY.” I can’t even tell yo how many variations I have in my senior year book that look like “Whhhhhhhhhhhhhitney” or haaaaaaaaaWhitney!” haha It cracks me up!

OK, bad grammar story…let’s keep in mind that Harrisonburg is in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of VA and borders the WVA line! My first year here I took a job at Hallmark at the mall, and this girl, bless her pea-pickin’ heart, and goes by the name of Billie Jo was my assistant manager. Well, whenever I was working on a project and I would take a “break” her way of getting my off my break would be to say…eh hmmm…”Now Whitney, was you gone do that?” WHAT?! What does that even mean?!!!!!! It cracks me up!

By: zanna

zanna — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:39:38 +0000

First of all, forget the Whopp-ahr and go directly to 5 Guys Burgers and Fries. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. But do take full advantage of the absurdly long list of ingredients included and load them on! And get some fries too. Oh yum. I can feel my hormones brewin’.

Secondly, my biggest grammatical pet peeve: 99% of people say “I could care less.” Oh really? Stop it! Then, clearly you are not making the pt you wanted to b/c I’m certain that you really meant to say “I couldn’t care less.” As in, I could NOT possibly care any less. Nuf said.

Wow. That’s the rudest this Competitor Relations gal has been in a while. The lowfat Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia made me do it. I pinky swear!

By: Holli

Holli — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:56:10 +0000

speaking of Old Wives Tales, the read meat craving is supposed to be one of the top tip offs that you’re having a little up and down of your own…could it be true? As for me, I started the pregnancy HATING and revolting at the site, smell or mere mention of read meat, but now I’m almost craving it…hmm….Haven’t had a Hwhoppah for yeeers, but it sounds good now that you mention it. To bad ours got shut down, pry a good thing because the power of persuasion is tooo strong for me right now. Everything I see I WANT HAVE TO HAVE IT LIKE RIGHT NOW. The other night I made Alex do his first midnight run to the store. We were watching tv and a woman was making rice crispy treats, haven’t had them in years, but suddenly was going to die if I didn’t get some. Not one, SOME. He was good to me and went out and bought the stuffs for it which I promptly made and ate most of that very night. YUMMM. I’ve made another batch since then that lasted half as long as the first. And i could eat some more right now if they were in front of me and I’m not even much a sugar holic. OH, and the “in” on the end of words: stompin, yellin, etc. That’s not southern, that’s just plain country. The red necks up this way, they still be talkin like that.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:42:06 +0000

Oh, girl….pregnant or no, I love me a whopper! I hardly ever eat them - maybe once a year - but only because a girl needs a little discipline and I’ve already told you about my badonkadonk butt.

Anyway, I’m a stickler for grammar, but can’t think of a good story. That eated-ed made me LOL!

By: Jude

Jude — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:02:55 +0000

One of my car-pool teacher buddies once said she had a ’sat-chet’ of porridge for breakfast. The word is ’sah-shay.’ Say it with me people “SAH-SHEY.” Spelled “satchet” yes - but never ever spoken that way!!!!