Damn it, I'm not fool. I know grade A government inspected beef and pork when I taste them. I've been eating bacon and chittlin's since I came out of the womb!  Don't try to feed me Chinese beef and tell me it's been through US inspections and pass it off as edible. Cause it ain't, it ain't the same and damn it, I can taste it!

I didn't feel like cooking last night and neither did Shawn. After a day of potty-training and having Andrew pee and poop all over the house, I was worn out by the time Shawn got home and was ready to eat.  So we decided to go to Davanni's, a regional pizza chain that sells everything from solo meat lover pizzas to hoagies!  It's pretty reliable, we ain't never had a bad experience yet.

But last night, they left a bad taste in our mouths, LITERALLY!

Now, we don't do much fast food since we got the little one here, we try to eat home cooked meals. But sometimes, er're  now and again, we gotta run out and get a piece of chicken or a burger (rarely a burger) or some french fries!

Andrew loves KFC, and we get him a thigh there at least once a week, he likes original recipe (just like his momma). Anyway, when we first started getting his one piece of chicken, it was $1.75.  That price done gone all the way up to $2.25, in just a few months. Needless to say, I make my own original recipe thighs at home, and we don't do KFC no moe!  I can't do the increase. I need them two quarters for something else.

But er're fast food restaurant is going up on prices.  McDonald's done eliminated their dollar menu, hell, even Wendy's done gone up a few pennies here and there!  So they wouldn't have to compromise the quality of the product.  I appreciate that though. I'd rather you charge me more and keep the food tasting the same, instead of the old "bait and switch" that Davanni's pulled on me last night.

So I order a meat lovers solo pizza for my husband and I got a calzonne.  I went there, and it was the same price it always was.  No increase with the rising cost of fuel and food? OK, well, perhaps they had some lay offs. I didn't question it, UNTIL I got home and took a bite out of my food.

I opened my calzone and it had four pieces of meat in it.  And when I say "meat" I'm using the term loosely!  It wasn't USA Grade A government inspected beef as we know. It damn sure didn't come from a traditional cow.  I'm thinking it was Taiwanese beef bi-product.  Cause I done been all over this country, and ain't never tasted anything quite like that before--disguised as beef!  And the cheese wasn't their traditional Kraft, the kind that melts in your mouth and leaves a string from your lips to the pizza as you pull it away. This damn ghetto cheese didn't even melt when they put it in the oven.  I took a bite out of it and it was still cold. When I got ready to chew it, I instantly knew where I had remembered that familiar taste from: THE DAMN PROJECTS! It was government cheese.  I know government cheese when I taste it and that was the cheese I grew up with back when we were living below the poverty line.

Shawn tried to choke down his 5 meat solo pizza, but he couldn't.  He chuckled when he told me "Baby, my five meat done turned into two meats, and I can't tell which two I'm eating.  I think it's dog meat and cat ass."