Duh'Wayne Boatwright boasted:
>
> I live in Arizona and it's quite common for people to go absolutely
> everywhere with a beverage in hand, regardless of where they bought it.
> There are a couple of places that serve really nasty iced tea, and that's
> the only beverage I drink in a restaurant. If I know I'll be faced with
> the horrible stuff, I bring my own and drink it with the food I buy there.
> No one thinks a thing about it.

Some portions of the US are obviously less civilized... I don't think
Arizona has as of yet passed its trial status period for statehood, and
with how things are progressing you are probably very soon going to
need a *Mexican* green card.

In the northeast most establishments post signs saying:
"No food or beverages permitted"
"Shoes and Shirts required"
"No Smoking", natcherly.

Not because they choose to, it's the law.

I really don't want to shop at say the local mega pharmacy and pick up
a bottle of shampoo that's all iky with squirted ketchup transferred
from you biting into your burger, or have to look through greeting
cards all stained from you dribbling your tea any more than I want to
be confronted with your pleurisy afflicted sunken in unwashed cootie
infested bare chest, and I certainly don't want to spend the rest of
the day replaying images of your filthy-cheesey stinkin' hammer toes.

All I can say is that in NYC there is a health department and eateries
are inspected, often, and must pass muster to remain open... there it's
illegal to bring ones own food/drink into any establishment that serves
food, not even into the movies.... and has little to do with economic
reasons, it's an obvious health risk... anyone can't see that is
retarded. For yoose furiners, one can always tell when you've entered
the retarded portions of the US... you find Tex-Mex joints predominate,
and all of a sudden you find grits on the menu, fact!

Once an establishment (any establishment) begins making exceptions it
very quickly becomes the rule (that's why the employee handbook does
not permit certain fraternizing in the work place... wouldn't be too
very long everyone would spend their entire lunch hour gamahuching in
their cubicles). Many a fine eatery in the US has shut down and/or has
been shut down due to the bums coming in out of the cold/heat with
disease ridden food they scavenged from dumpsters and proceed to
concoct soup in cups they help themselves to with free hot water from
the tap and spray their spittle all about... that's the real reason why
there aren't any more Automats and very few Cafeterias... which of
course were the fast food joints of yesteryear, only far, far more
refined. I suppose in Arizona (and Tenn too) it's normal to walk into
a fast food rest room and encounter a syphalitic wino/crackhead or
three collapsed on the floor, reminds you of home.

I for one can't imagine anyone too classy choosing to eat a meal they
brought from home inside any fast food joint... to me such an
individual is highly suspect as to they not ten minutes ago wiped thier
butt with bare hand... I mean why would a normal person choose to dine
in close proximity to some rug rat who at any moment is gonna pollute
their space with the tangy aroma of a giant dump in its nappy... I
can't fathom why fast food joints even exist, except it proves how the
vast majority of folks are low life no account pinheads. I'd choose
the park bench to dine on my ham sammich with the squirrels and
pigeons, I'd rather go without than eat with the unfettered masses in
some filthy, noisy, stinky fast food emporium.

There's something the matter with your brain, Duh'Wayne... it's down to
its last few functioning cells.

Sheldon