The Big Texan

Free 72 oz. Steak proclaims billboards for hundreds of miles on every road leading to Amarillo, Texas.  The Big Texan is an old style tourist trap-a place with a gimmick and a ton of odds and ends for sale.  In addition to a large dinning room reminiscence of Gunsmoke’s Long Branch, there is a pretty large gift shop filled with all manner of western themed items.  Among the more interesting things was a series of mugs in the shape of rattlesnakes, one of them just like the one Craig Ferguson has on his desk on the Late, Late Show. The…

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Breakfast at Burger King

I had one of those Undercover Boss moments at the Burger King in Lindale, Texas.  Lindale is right off of I-20 about five miles north of Tyler.  The Burger King I went to is just north of the freeway.  Undercover Boss is a reality show where the owners of businesses drop by and watch their employees without their knowledge.  It’s a great show. Working fast food is right at the bottom of the food chain.  These are jobs even Mike Rowe won’t take on.  The job sucks and the people who run these places don’t seem to care that the…

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