Candidates are learning about land mines, hostage
situations, nuclear and biological attacks and medicine in developing countries.
If chosen, they'll be offered a six-month contract in Afghanistan.
Helluva bootcamp program for a job slinging crullers and coffee.
In early March, Tim Hortons announced it would be opening a Kandahar branch of the popular coffee-and-doughnut chain. Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan had lobbied for the move for weeks…
The 2,300 Canadian soldiers around Kandahar can line up at the converted trailer for a familiar taste of home: timbits, cookies and double-doubles.
The first Tim Hortons doughnut shop was opened by its namesake, hockey player Tim Horton, in Hamilton, Ont. in 1964.
Horton died in 1974. His partner, Ron Joyce, later sold the chain to U.S.-based fast food chain Wendy's International, which spun part of the company off in a share offering earlier this year.
And here is the original announcement of Operation Double-Double.
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Just a tip for those unfamiliar with Southern California lingo: a double double will always… ALWAYS… refer to a two patty and two slices of cheese hamburger from In ‘n Out. See…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger#Menu_items
So this was extremely confusing for me. But I coped.
Ah, I see we need a Canuckistan/Yankee translator. I shall apply to the UN.
One day I shall taste the pleasures of In 'n Out. We just got our first Fatburger, and I must say they are tasty, although it's a close call between that and our local guys, Vera's Burger Shack. Vera's has better onion rings, though, if I recall.
And what are you doing online at three in the morning on a Saturday, young man? You should be passed out by now!
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about all double doubles. It’s far more complicated than I thought:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_double
Actually, I left Ontario when I was too young to drink coffee, and I don’t like Tim’s coffee, so I don’t actually know what a double double is. I don’t know what a bodega is either, come to that. Although SoCal is closer than Ontario, so I know which I’m probably gonna learn first.
In ‘n Out is a mystery to everyone not from California and select parts of Nevada and Arizona – Canadians are as ignorant to the bliss as your average gent from London Towne.
I was a bit drunkish at 3 AM, to answer the question.
And, finally, Fatburger isn’t bad. It’s not half bad. But to illustrate how wide the gap is between In ‘n Out and Fatburger, a quote from the book Gaiman and Pratchett’s Good Omens, which stole it from Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which itself picked up said quote from Van Loon’s History of Mankind…
Crowley: Just you think about it. You know what eternity is? You know what eternity is? I mean, d’you know what eternity is? There’s this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the universe, and once every thousand years there’s this little bird-
Aziraphale: What little bird?
C: This little bird I’m talking about. And every thousand years-
A: The same bird every thousand years?
C: Yeah.
A: Bloody ancient bird then.
C: Okay. And every thousand years this bird flies-
A: -limps-
C: Flies all the way to this mountain and sharpens it’s beak-
A: Hold on. You can’t do that. Between here and the end of the universe there’s loads of- loads of buggerall, dear boy.
C: But it gets there anyway.
A: How?
C: It doesn’t matter!
A: It could use a spaceship.
C: Yeah, if you like. Anyway, this bird-
A: But it is the end of the universe we’re talking about. So it’d have to be one of those spaceships where your descendants are the ones who get out on the other end. You have to tell your descendants, you say, When you get to the mountain, you have to-what’s it got to do?
C: Sharpen it’s beak on the mountain. And then it flies back-
A: -in the spaceship-
C: And after a thousand years it goes and does it all again.
A: …seems like a lot of effort to sharpen a beak.
C: Listen, the point is that when the bird has worn the mountain down to nothing, then…then you still wont have finished watching the Sound of Music.”
Go ahead and replace eternity with infinity and that, good lady, is the gap between In ‘n Out and anywhere else.
Well I shall have to try it. I have heard of the multi-orgasmic experience that is an In ‘n Out, but frankly I could not bring myself to credit such wild tales. Especially from people who shop at places called Piggly Wiggly and eat at places called Koo Koo Roo.
Don’t knock Koo Koo Roo until you’ve tried it; it’s both tasty and… roo. I’ve never heard of Piggly Wiggly, though.
Anyway, I’m convinced blackmailing Aussies came up with those names in between wallywanging their didgeridoos at the billabong.
Nope, Susan Powter, recovering Aussie that she is, specifically said that America will never be the great nation it was meant to be until people refuse to shop at places with silly names like Piggly Wiggly. Can’t blame this on the furriners.
Can you get roo at Koo Koo Roo? You can get it in Aus and my friends say it’s quite tasty!