Is 2Lincolns.com becoming a food blog?  Seems odd, though it would be fitting seeing as though I got the idea for the name from a commercial for double bacon cheeseburgers.  Food-related posts began with my post regarding a Fig Newton packaging faux pas.  Shortly thereafter, I wrote a post on Taco Bell cheating me out of what I’ve come to expect for around a dollar.  A few months back I expressed my disdain for rogue onion rings in my french fries.  Recently, my friend sent me a picture of a package of pizza bagels with one overturned, mockingly keeping with the spirit of the original post.

Another friend of mine has decided to keep the spirit alive by sending me what you see in Figure 1.  That, by his account, is supposed to be a McDonald’s Big Mac.  While vacationing in Chicago, he ordered this from a cafeteria in a museum.  Well, actually, this isn’t at all what he ordered. This is three patties, one and a half buns, what looks to be mustard, some very sad lettuce, and what I hope is small pieces of onion.

The Big Mac is a sandwich so popular that it has its own jingle.  I have never worked at a McDonald’s and even I know what goes on a Big Mac.  Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, and onions on a sesame seed bun.  Good, we all know that one.  I hope whoever screwed this sandwich up does not have lofty goals in life.  Of course, when you pay someone minimum wage, you can’t expect your employees are going to be above doing half ass work and doing whippits in the cooler.  Perhaps this particular employee is just putting forth the appropriate effort that aligns with his or her wages.  In that case, I applaud the fast food fuck-up.

I don’t know what special sauce is, nor do I want to know what makes it special.

HBO has put out some quality programming over the years, but if you’re anything like me, the cream of the crop aired in 2001 when Band of Brothers aired.  Following the success of Saving Private Ryan, Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks set out to tell the story of E Company (”Easy Company”) of the 2^nd Battalion, 506^th Parachute Infantry Regiment assigned to the 101^st Airborne Division during World War II.  The duo is at it again, this time focusing on the United States Marine Corps’ actions in the Pacific theater of World War II.  With a budget of over $200 million, it seems they’re pulling out all of the stops.  Lucky for us, the first trailer of The Pacific has surfaced, and it looks pretty sweet.

If you haven’t seen Band of Brothers already, head on over to Amazon.com and pick it up on Blu-ray for the criminally low price of $43.99.

“I believe in ammunition.”  Video after the break.

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