Top Fast-Food Secret Menu Items in All 50 States
Alabama — Sweet Home Alaburrito – Fried chicken, black-eyed peas, and Velveeta cheese wrapped in a taco topped with a tiny Confederate flag make this Del Taco item a local favorite.
Alaska — Grizzly Tacos – Healthy helpings of ground meat explain why Taco Bell workers ring a bell in the kitchen for every order, before running like hell.
Arizona — “Senior Moment!” – Say this phrase and the staff at Wendy’s will double your order for free so you don’t hold up the line, and then escort you to the bathroom. Over 65 only.
Arkansas — “Possum in the Hole” – This confection of bubbly chunks of vinegar-stewed possum meat in a boat of instant mashed potatoes is an off-menu favorite for Roy Rogers fans from the holler.
California — Stoner’s Burrito – Pretty much the official state food of stoned people in the …
The Last Cigarette
No civilization worth preserving was built on vape pens and Nicorette gum
Manly habit that helps protect against Alzheimer’s and dementia is also key to finding love, solving America’s spiritual crisis, and winning wins.
If you’ve got ’em, smoke ’em
1989 was a foreign country; I go there often. A magical land where cell phones were still a distant threat, where McDonald’s still fried their hot apple pies in honest-to-God grease, and where every hamlet in America still had at least one conversation factory like LaGrone’s Drugstore.
Among my fondest memories are those in which I am crawling headfirst onto the bench seat of my papaw's 88 Ford, blue with a white stripe, savoring its rich masculine bouquet accented with notes of leather, Old Spice, and Lucky Strikes. When the last bell rang, he would be waiting for me in the parking lot of Portis Elementary with his windows rolled down, blaring Hank Williams’s “Why Don’t You Love Me Like You Used to Do” and puffing on what must have been his 60th cigarette of the day. Then we would cruise the quarter-mile down Main Street over to LaGrone’s.
Though Fred LaGrone had been our town’s lone pharmacist …
Agricultural Digest
According to the United Nations, 31 percent of human-made greenhouse-gas emissions come from the global food system, but the sector received only 4.3 percent of “global climate finance” in 2019 and 2020, per the Climate Policy Initiative. So, naturally, our almighty climate overlords gathering in the UAE have signed a new “Emirates Declaration” emphasizing how naughty the agricultural sector is for contributing to global warming (despite receiving so little financial support to adapt, retrofit, and off-set its systems). The document states, “We affirm that agriculture and food systems must urgently adapt and transform in order to respond to the imperatives of climate change.” And, they say, shifting “from higher greenhouse gas-emitting practices to more sustainable production and consumption approaches” will lessen food insecurity.
In spite of the newly articulated focus on greening the ag sector, the …
