Mmmm Fuddruckers. We love us some Fuddruckers in our house. We hadn’t been in a while, what with the wife trying to look even hotter in her bikini and with me being generally fat. My interest in visiting was rekindled when I recently read somewhere that their veggie burgers are quite good. I even read on the internets that their veggie burger with bun has only 170 calories! Though I didn’t believe that I still wanted to try the veggie burger so we piled into the family truckster and headed to Fudds.
It was good. Mostly. The veggie burger, not so much. I washed the taste of it out of my mouth with onion rings and the usurial “daddy tax” I levied on the kids’ milkshakes…standard practice when I’m buying the tasty treats.
Unable to locate official nutritional information on Fudds food I contacted the company through their website. They asked for which items, I answered, they provided:
Here’s the available nutritional information you have requested:
Menu Item
Total Calories (kcal)
Saturated Fat (g)
Sodium (mg)
Total Carbs
(g)
Original Burger, 1/3 lb
500
9
439
27
Veggie Burger, 1/2 lb with Wheat Bun
359
2
1114
63
Turkey Burger, 1/2 lb with Wheat Bun
627
11
974
42
Original Grilled Chicken Sandwich
540
4
1074
38
Kids Macaroni and Cheese (1 serving)
340
3
830
48
Fries, Small
296
3
572
36
Onion Rings, Regular
566
6
1367
58
Sweet Potato Fries
485
2
373
61
Vanilla Shake
630
18
411
86
Vanilla Shake with Malt
660
18
444
91
Cookies N Cream Shake
677
18
591
89
Cookies N Cream Shake with Malt
707
18
624
94
Thank you for your interest in Fuddruckers.
I thanked them then asked for the whole list. They couldn’t go for that…no can do:
Hello Paul,
Sorry for the delayed response. I wish I could send you the information I use; however it’s an unofficial list and I am unable to do so. We hope to have this information available in the near future.
Thank you for your continued loyalty and patronage.
So here’s the plan…everyone ask for a different item and post it in the comments here. Eventually we’ll have a more complete list.
In the meantime, I think I’ll stick to my regular turkey burger, skip the fries, and tax the hell out of the kids’ shakes…and my wife’s sweet potato fries!
Happy May Day, my communist brothers. To remember the day we hosted my nephew Chris for dinner. He’s visiting from California with his girlfriend and we decided to celebrate the workers of the world like we did back in the old country…crab cakes and beer.
Swedish meatballs and affordable furniture for all the workers of the world!
As often happens when family gets together the conversation naturally turns to IKEA. IKEA’s one of my favorite stores, so filled with hope and promise…truly an uplifting experience even if it’s impossible to turn their carts when fully loaded. The carts, that is – I’ve never shopped at IKEA when I was fully loaded.
Chris asked, “Hey, have you heard the IKEA song?” This may have been a ruse to give himself the opportunity to pull out his new iPhone and play the song through it but it failed. The lyrics were difficult to understand so it was TiVo to the rescue. In short order we had the video up on the TV, the family gathered ’round, and it was good:
I have several Billy bookcases myself, I noted with pride.
“What’s this about IKEA banned commercials’”, I think, eyeing a related search result. Click first, ask questions later is what I always say*. Watch it below and meet me after, or navigate away now because the rest of the discussion won’t make sense.
When I wrote “the family gathered ’round” I meant all of us, including my 3 kids (ages 12, 10, and 7). The only thing that saved me from having to come up with a good explanation for the 3rd commercial was the kids themselves. “It’s a missile!” one of them announced and they proceeded to crack up about the little boy playing with a missile. “Yes”, all the adults agreed, “a missile!”
Is that an IKEA product I missed as I aimlessly wandered the displays of “six rooms of furniture in 250 square feet!”? The “håppybringûn” perhaps? “Climákks”? “Steêlydån”?
Speaking of IKEA names (smooth, ain’t I?), check out the “Swedish Furniture Name Generator“. At first I thought it was a cute idea, even if I ended up as an uninspired product.
I spend the best years of my life sitting on my ass and I come back as a chair. Just great.
Plugging in my daughter’s name, though, gave me a more worrisome product.
Translation: Swedish boys entering my yard will beaten with my large collection of Allen wrenches and tiny pencils.
Really? Don’t I have enough to worry about without you throwing that out there, not-IKEA website? If it’s any consolation to me, my stepdaughter (now 21) told me tonight that she still remembers what I said when she got her first menstrual cycle. I told her on the first anniversary of her cycle I’d bake her a red velvet cake using my hemispherical cake pan…you know, the one that looks like a 3-D period.
Wow, and I always thought she never listened to a word I said. This is great! I just need to find the right thing to say to my daughter and…and…
Forget it. Any outcome depending on me saying the right thing will never come to pass. I guess I’ll just have to stock up on lingonberry wine and ride out the red storm rising the best I can.
I think I said previously my next post would be amusing. Sorry, I lied…get used to it, for I will play fast and loose with your trust and emotions.
I’d also said our basement had flooded. That was true. One of the casualties was a scanner – the power supply was underwater and did not come back to life when it dried.
The scanner sits idly by in the background, unaware it is already dead.
Besides scanning in magazine articles of Maggie Gyllenhaal (to make desktop wallpaper, of course) I use the scanner to deposit checks. Our bank is cool that way. With my bank being in Texas and I in Maryland, it’s a nice service.
She looks good even wearing, uh, tissue paper?
I searched (sorry, Microsoft, I can’t bring myself to write “I binged”…not only does it sound retarded it’s a word that should either be followed by “and purge” or “and fell off the balcony of my frat house”) but came up empty. As a last resort I wrote to Canon, not expecting anything beyond an automated response for weeks.
31 Mar 2010, 8:32 pm
Hi,
I need a new AC adapter for my Canon Canoscan 8800F scanner. Mine was ruined in a basement flood. I don’t see the adapter on your website – where can I get a replacement?
Thank you,
Paul
A few minutes later came the autoresponse…
31 Mar 2010, 8:36 pm
Dear Paul:
Thank you for your inquiry. We value you as a Canon customer and
appreciate the opportunity to assist you. We are sorry to hear that
your CanoScan 8800F adapter was ruined in a flood.
We would be happy to send you out a replacement as a gesture of
goodwill. So that we can do this, please reply with the following:
[etc etc]
Thank you for choosing Canon.
Sincerely,
Devin
Technical Support Representative
…except that’s not an automatically generated reply. Not only did they get back to me in 4 minutes, they’re going to send me a free replacement!
At 8:47 pm I wrote them back with the required information, and they wrote back:
31 Mar 2010, 10:20pm
Dear Paul:
Thank you for your response.
Your information has been processed and we have ordered a replacement AC
Adapter and Power cord for your 8800F. Please allow a few business days
for the items to arrive.
Thank you for choosing Canon.
Sincerely,
Naomi
Technical Support Representative
That was last Wednesday night. The replacement part came today, Monday, by 2 day FedEx. Amazing service.
Now I can get back to my scanning. Stupid Sandra Bullock, hogging all the magazine space.
Our basement flooded Saturday in the torrential rain, ruining the 2 month old carpeting among other things. No insurance coverage on this event. We’re on a hill…I thought of floods in terms of rising water so I figured we were safe. I didn’t think about water rushing downhill.
We’re remodeling our unused dining room into a home office. To save money I’m installing the floor.
The hard drive in our Series 3 TiVo failed. The first clue? Hearing the japanese audio channel for “The Perils of Penelope Pitstop” coming from one speaker. The nail in the coffin was the frequent rebooting when watching a show or using the menu.
My oldest son is bridging to Boy Scouts this Friday and I have yet to finish painting his career arrow, which will be presented to him then.
This same son got in a fight today at school and has been suspended for two days.
My stepdaughter was in a car accident today.
I still haven’t taken the written test for my private pilot’s certificate.
Which one of these pressing issues do you think I tackled first?
Fixing the TiVo, of course. It makes perfect sense because I rarely watch TV.
(I actually dealt with my son first…besides receiving lectures from both parents and a chore list from mom, he owes me oral reports on the 2 volumes of “Shakespeare Can Be Fun!” I checked out from the library on the way home from work.)
When I found out TiVo wanted $149 to replace the hard drive I thought, “hey, now I have an excuse to buy one of the new ones coming out next month!”. I came to my senses and realized I could upgrade our Series 3 with a new, 4x larger hard drive for less than the repair cost and certainly less than the cost of a new TiVo.
And heck, it would probably take me 30 minutes, max. How hard could it be, right?
I ordered a 1 TB drive from Amazon.com. Fancy. $90. Western Digital 1 TB Hard Drive WD10EVDS With WD drives you should see item 29 in this post. There’s a link to a bootable CD there with a utility program (wdidle3) used to tweak the settings on the WD “green” drives so they don’t cause problems with the TiVo.
I downloaded this free software in the hopes of not having to pay any more to restore my TiVo. WinMFSThis post explains opening your TiVo and using the software beautifully.
I watched this video to see how to take out the hard drive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca5EUGZsqvU You will need Torx 10 and Torx 15 bits, though. It looks like he uses the T10 on the screws holding the drive to the bracket but those are T15 screws.
I bought this software because my disk was bad in the wrong places so the free software did not work. $40. InstantCake Read each screen carefully, so you won’t have to start over like I did.
It took longer than 30 minutes, probably about 3 hours total. Here are some pictures. This is one of those “archival” or “documentary” posts, not meant for entertainment. Next post will amuse you.
