Behold, Frederica Mathewes-Green, podcasting from the Taco Bell, and feeling a little bit crunchy, and therefore a little bit guilty. Tsk, tsk. Everybody needs them some Chipotle, says I. If you get the pork or the chicken, it's hormone and cruelty-free, and so dang good. (They're working on making all their beef meet the same standards, which is what I want to hear because their barbacoa is my fave -- the barbacoa burrito, no rice, black beans, hot salsa, corn salsa, cheese and lettuce, if you must know; and when I'm driving and eating chips and salsa, I drink the blazing hot stuff right out of the cup; bliss.). We ate tonight at a neighborhood sit-down, semi-fancy Mexican place, spent 3x what we would've at Chipotle, and were 1/3 as satisfied.
But I digress.
What I really want to say is: check out Ancient Faith Radio, whence Frederica's podcast. You can listen 24/7 via Internet streaming to Orthodox chanting and music live, get all kinds of Orthodox commentary and teaching via podcasts (I was a guest once on The Illumined Heart). It's a great resource. One of these days I'm going to get some Bluetooth speakers so we can listen to AFR anywhere in the house.
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I feel certain that the salt Chipotle uses has been blessed. Ahem.
Thor, I have no reason to believe Taco Bell's going crunchy, though Frederica's presence there crunches it up temporarily. In college, I used to be a big fan of their bean burritos. I had one a few years ago after a long time away, and it tasted like bean-scented sodium paste.
from: denverpost.com/business/ci_4242055
Irenaeus:
Chipotle Mexican Grill is a Denver-based restaurant chain with more than 525 restaurants nationwide and 14,000 employees. Chipotle workers start at $6.15 an hour in Colorado and can contribute to a health plan and retirement plan - both partly paid by Chipotle, said Chris Arnold, a company spokesman.
Chipotle also offers free language classes: English for Spanish speakers and Spanish for English speakers.
"For people who participate in language and cultural training, (the turnover rate is) in the neighborhood of 50 percent against the industry average of 200 percent," Arnold said. "It's a pretty remarkable feat."
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I've eaten at Chipotle twice, once in Dallas and once in Denver. Both, as I said, were fast days, do I've yet to try their organic chicken or pork. I don't know if the Dallas-area Chipotles do the same re: English and Spanish.
With Chipotle and Qdoba (and a small Wisconsin-based chain I frequent called La Bamba-- burritos as big as your head!), Taco Bell has for me become completely irrelevant. The only things they have going for them are their hours (post bar-time) and their cheapness. A hundred tacos for a hundred dollars-- adequate sustenance for a Dr. Who marathon! (hee hee)
Isn't Chipotle owned by McDonald's?
Chipotle Nutrition Calculator:
chipotlefan.com/index.php?id=nutrition_calculator
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