Did anyone besides me read the Hobbit video graphic as “Denny’s Manure View”?

Also, between this and the “Cheesecake Factory” piece a month or so later, I’m starting to wonder if there’s not, well, an ax being ground here.  If so, no prob, I just like to know what’s what.

Another side-point: I don’t fault restaurants for giving people what they want.  I fault people (me, for example) for wanting it.  If many of us, as Americans, are so fouled-up in body and mind and soul that we need single-sitting 3000+ calorie plates of comfort food to get us through our day, there’s something very wrong with our day, our culture, and our way of life.  Same with my take on guns: there’s something fundamentally wrong with us, if we’re so quick to fill someone/s fulla lead for so little as looking at us funny.  There’s an…insecurity and paranoia and basic unkindness/self-centeredness at play with most of us that really worries me.  American, individually or in groups, scare me a lot more than do plates of food or guns.  In my opinion, the idea of limiting access to guns (or high-calorie foods) doesn’t address the real issue: there’s something wrong with us that needs to be fixed.

I got the Hobbit Hole, which would have been rather good had the eggs been cooked properly.  I like over easy, where the whites are cooked and the yellows oozing, but the whites were under-done.  I left half my meal on the plate, probably a wise decision.

They never offered me the trading cards. As I didn’t need them, and the waitress was a complete ditz, I didn’t bother asking.  They were not what drew me, although they may have amused me.

So we had a 50% satisfaction rate.  We avoided the fried donut holes obviously made with artificial color, etc.  If we’d both gotten the skillet, we may have both ended up happy.

My favorite is the one where he compared the Taco Bell 7-layer burrito to Dante’s 7 layers of Hell; as each layer progresses through your digestive tract, you are subjected to feelings akin to those of the suffering souls that line the concentric walls of The Pit.

I notice that you failed to link to http://www.dennys.com

The Pizza Hut precedent clearly applies in this case. Please fix.

Thank you.