lost my job today. it's gonna be frozen pizza. although until i find a new job i did get a 20k payoff. redundancy as they call it down under. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Nickhead:
lost my job today. it's gonna be frozen pizza. although until i find a new job i did get a 20k payoff. redundancy as they call it down under. :-)
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Yikes. Sorry to hear that man. Seriously.
Spoiler!
i was surprised at first, until i found out seniority didn't count. it was specific machines. i say it didn't matter if the other worker did the same, but it was what church you went to. theirs. :-)
i guess i can't complain, between this buyout, and the 60 grand they had to pay out for my hand injury, they think i am in front of them :-)
Originally Posted by Spider2YBanana:
Strange to think that just 40 or 50 years ago it wasn't this way. I talk to my parents about the restaurants they had available at that time and it's not even close. In most cities that weren't NY or LA you were lucky to have a decent Italian place, forget about Indian or Thai or Greek.
even Tex-Mex/Mexican was relatively unheard of most places into well into the 70s. [Reply]
Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.:
even Tex-Mex/Mexican was relatively unheard of most places into well into the 70s.
Not sure how 'well into the 70s' it was, but I remember Patrikios, Dos Hombres and Chi-Chis being around as far back as I can remember.
My grandpa used to make Patrikios his destination for his B-day dinner with friends when I was pre/grade-school age.
Also, although my paternal side was as 'English' [2nd/3rd gen Scot/Welsh immigrant by time I came to be], the grandparents/dad were besties with Greek neighbors, so we went to the bi-annual festival at the Greek Orthodox church. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Not sure how 'well into the 70s' it was, but I remember Patrikios, Dos Hombres and Chi-Chis being around as far back as I can remember.
My grandpa used to make Patrikios his destination for his B-day dinner with friends when I was pre/grade-school age.
Also, although my paternal side was as 'English' [2nd/3rd gen Scot/Welsh immigrant by time I came to be], the grandparents/dad were besties with Greek neighbors, so we went to the bi-annual festival at the Greek Orthodox church.
Big thumbs up for Chi-Chis, I worked there for a few years before joining the Army... not exactly "authentic", but it was very tasty, they had a killer chimichanga
They used to let underage me drink at the bar after work [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Not sure how 'well into the 70s' it was, but I remember Patrikios, Dos Hombres and Chi-Chis being around as far back as I can remember.
My grandpa used to make Patrikios his destination for his B-day dinner with friends when I was pre/grade-school age.
Also, although my paternal side was as 'English' [2nd/3rd gen Scot/Welsh immigrant by time I came to be], the grandparents/dad were besties with Greek neighbors, so we went to the bi-annual festival at the Greek Orthodox church.
Chi-Chis started in 1975. The chain followed.
Accoridng to their defunct Facebook, Dos Hombres started in 1980.
All I could find on Patrikios was "1970s". Sounds greek to me...
