The Post Where I Ramble On About Indecisive Chicken-Pickers
April 5th, 2005
“I’ll have the two piece chicken meal with a side of cole slaw,” she said.
The clerk behind the counter of the Los Angeles-based chicken restaurant seemed pleased with her order. Two pieces of chicken was enough but not too much. And cole slaw, well, cole slaw was a vegetable. Being a clerk of a fast-food chicken restaurant was hard enough without having to police America’s overweight overeaters, so it was nice when people did their part in taking America out of the “fattest nation in the World” column.
“Actually,” she changed her mind, “I’ll have the five piece dark meat meal with a side of macaroni and cheese.”
The clerk behind the counter was stunned. How could she.
