I was planning on going out for pizza and beer tonight but instead I'm going to go home and whip up a lasagna just like my sweet Sicilian Nonna used to make. *
Also I missed this brilliant gem of an earlier comment from an anonymous Luxembourg-ian (Luxembourg-ite?): "Trivia : The Chi-Chi's restaurant in Luxembourg is next door to a Pizza Hut and there is a "secret door" used by the staff to pass from one restaurant to another." WHAAAAAAAAT. Rad.
* everything about this sentence is a lie except for the recipe, which is swear-to-god-real.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
I'm really just kidding, I swear. Even if you are all afraid of the dark.
Of note: there are still Chi-Chis Restaurantes in Montreal and Toronto, apparently.
"Restaurante!"
God Canadians, will you ever stop being so cute with those superfluous "e"'s, so very foreign to people like me, who's terrible ancestors are from Arkansas and probably think you are all French commie lesbians?
So how many people Did I just offend there? Two? Three? 33,212,696?
If anyone's Canadian and has photos of these still-functioning joints (jointes?) please email.
"Restaurante!"
God Canadians, will you ever stop being so cute with those superfluous "e"'s, so very foreign to people like me, who's terrible ancestors are from Arkansas and probably think you are all French commie lesbians?
So how many people Did I just offend there? Two? Three? 33,212,696?
If anyone's Canadian and has photos of these still-functioning joints (jointes?) please email.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Creepy! Abandoned! Weird Star-Wars-ish public art!
whoops. i kind of had a kid and forgot all about this. it happens.
in the comments, some kind and gentle soul posted the link to their public photos of a Creepy Abandoned Shopping Mall, once home to a (now Creepy, Abandoned) Chi-Chis and then a (now Creepy, Abandoned) "Backstage Restaurant"
http://picasaweb.google.com/mcbabb/20080712WaverlyPlace#
Hooray! I love Creepy, Abandoned things that were turned into other Creepy, Abandoned things.
in the comments, some kind and gentle soul posted the link to their public photos of a Creepy Abandoned Shopping Mall, once home to a (now Creepy, Abandoned) Chi-Chis and then a (now Creepy, Abandoned) "Backstage Restaurant"
http://picasaweb.google.com/mcbabb/20080712WaverlyPlace#
Hooray! I love Creepy, Abandoned things that were turned into other Creepy, Abandoned things.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
welcome to the internet
You can send an online Chi-Chis gram! A perfect way to tell your loved ones "I'm thinking of you!" is by sending them an animated..... Cyclops?
WTF. I am terrified.
WTF. I am terrified.
Friday, May 30, 2008
creepy abandoned highway kmart chichis
So, hey internet. Have i ever talked about the CACC in Springfield, VA? If not, I'm dumb. It's not far from my house, and it's been there forever (right off 395/old keene mill road, before you reach the KMart Shopping Center. Also, KMart/Trader Joes/BuyBuyBaby? Riddle me this: those three places seem totally incongruous.)
Ok, so. John has sent the below in, because he is awesome and has a camera with him at all times apparently. Or, even better, made a special trip to that crazy-ass KMart/TJ's/Baby shopping area right off the craziest-assest highway (the Mixing Bowl, three superhighways merge, it's insanity) just to capture the glamour that is Chi-Chis.
Woot, thanks John!
Ok, so. John has sent the below in, because he is awesome and has a camera with him at all times apparently. Or, even better, made a special trip to that crazy-ass KMart/TJ's/Baby shopping area right off the craziest-assest highway (the Mixing Bowl, three superhighways merge, it's insanity) just to capture the glamour that is Chi-Chis.
Woot, thanks John!
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
wait, what?
So. I was puzzling over the "Bankets" menu on the Brussels site, and what do my little blue eyes spy? Tumbleweed Restaurant is the "US Chi-Chis brand"?
Apparently they are only in Ohio and Kentucky, with smattering of T-weeds in Indiana and Wisconsin as well.
More on this shocking discovery as it develops. And by "develops" I mean my husband and I spend the next 30 minutes on IM frantically joke-planning a roadtrip to Zanesville.
Apparently they are only in Ohio and Kentucky, with smattering of T-weeds in Indiana and Wisconsin as well.
More on this shocking discovery as it develops. And by "develops" I mean my husband and I spend the next 30 minutes on IM frantically joke-planning a roadtrip to Zanesville.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Salsafication!
Updates:
- Commenter Peg gives us a photo album of Wisconsin-Mexican Destruction (Wisconsin 1, Chi-Chi's 0).
- Emailer and former CC busboy Greg reports on his Wikipedia entry and the heartstring-tugging rumors that somewhere, a Chi-Chi's is still operational - Belgium (?) and Luxembourg (???????) Greg. Don't toy with my emotions like that, Greg.
Speaking of emotional:
Declaration of Salsafication which, at one point, appeared on the back of the menu: [3]
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to
solemnly declare the right to be free and salsafied, absolved from all
connection to the shackles of the bored, the ordinary and the bland.
We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all Chi-Chi's are
created to salsafy our lives through good food, festive drink,
and the pursuit of some serious fun.
Further it is the right of the people to abolish routine. As a free
and salsafied people. You have the full power to come together,
to eat, to drink, to be loud, to relax, to goof off, to pause.
On support of this declaration, we pledge to you these
articles of salsafication for as long as the sun does rise.
For life always needs a little salsa.™
OMG YOU'RE WELCOME, INTERNET.
- Commenter Peg gives us a photo album of Wisconsin-Mexican Destruction (Wisconsin 1, Chi-Chi's 0).
- Emailer and former CC busboy Greg reports on his Wikipedia entry and the heartstring-tugging rumors that somewhere, a Chi-Chi's is still operational - Belgium (?) and Luxembourg (???????) Greg. Don't toy with my emotions like that, Greg.
Speaking of emotional:
Declaration of Salsafication which, at one point, appeared on the back of the menu: [3]
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to
solemnly declare the right to be free and salsafied, absolved from all
connection to the shackles of the bored, the ordinary and the bland.
We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all Chi-Chi's are
created to salsafy our lives through good food, festive drink,
and the pursuit of some serious fun.
Further it is the right of the people to abolish routine. As a free
and salsafied people. You have the full power to come together,
to eat, to drink, to be loud, to relax, to goof off, to pause.
On support of this declaration, we pledge to you these
articles of salsafication for as long as the sun does rise.
For life always needs a little salsa.™
OMG YOU'RE WELCOME, INTERNET.
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