<p>We rarely eat fast food, but this weekend James and I lunched at Greek Souvlaki No. 1, a local chain restaurant. The "yeeros"* were o.k and the fries barely passable. All in all, the experience made me miss <a href="http://www.eattuscaloosa.com/Restaurants/Tuts.html" target="_blank">Tut's Place</a> in Tuscaloosa. My eye sharpened by having recently encountered <a href="http://thegurglingcod.typepad.com" target="_blank">The Gurlgling Cod's</a> <a href="http://thegurglingcod.typepad.com/thegurglingcod/2006/09/pizza_hut_is_bu.html" target="_blank">"Pizza Hut is Bullshit"</a>**, I couldn't help noticing the sign advertising "Philly Cheese Yeero" displayed behind the register. 
<p>Philly Cheese Yeero? </p>
<p>According to the sign, a Philly Cheese Yeero is concocted of: yeero meat, green peppers, grilled onions, steak sauce, along with mozzarella, provolone, AND cheddar cheese. Sounds disgusting. But dangerous? As the Cod neatly points out: </p>
<p class="quote">The same mental laziness that permits haphazard formulations like Sicilian Lasagna Pizza also permits haphazard formulations like "war on terror."</p>
<p>I blame advertising for the pervasiveness of this kind of slippage&mdash;or rather, for the fact that most people don't notice it. In fact, I blame advertising for a lot of things. But the moment I began trying to explain the reasons, I remembered why I'm always so happy to find a neat articulation of some inchoate thought that's been floating around in my mind. Another day, perhaps.</p>

<p class="note">*I guess the proprietors of Greek Souvlaki wanted everyone to know that they don't serve jy-ros (my knowledge of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" target="_blank">IPA</a> fails just when I need it most&mdash;I suppose the fact that I rarely need it explains why I have mostly forgotten it).</p>
<p class="note">**A post inspired by Pizza Hut's "Sicilian Lasagna Pizza." All the posts in the Cod's <a href="http://thegurglingcod.typepad.com/thegurglingcod/fast_food_is_bullshit/index.html" target="_blank">Fast Food is bullshit</a> category are well worth reading.</p>
