I do this in OC....I go to Thrasher's and get my fries, go to Dumser's and get my milkshake, then take them to Caruso's where I eat them with my pizza.

I have contemplated getting McDonald's fries to go with a Burger King burger and a Wendy's Frosty, but I just don't think it would work.....

jl -- your dining a la car concept is suspiciously close to the dreaded progressive dinner that was probably all the rage in the Ladies' Home Journal in the 1950s.

MMEE Lindner, (my hero, in case anybody later questions my intent)

Not to be a glass-half-full kind of a guy, but while you see the beauty in this and I see the beauty in this, there are a lot of serious food people who frequent this blog.

They will almost certainly see traveling from the top Fois Gras place (for their appetizer) to the top Heirloom Tomato Gazpacho place (for their soup) to the top Duck Breast Prosciutto Salad place (for their, you know, salad) to the top Lamb Chop with Balsamic Reduction place (for their entree) to the top hot fudge sundae place (for their dessert) as, at best, requiring too much of a time comittment and, at worst, interrupting the rhythm of their writing.

But for those of us who know how to live right...excellent idea!

(And, by the way, I see absolutely no reason to limit your intake of calories or your use of the ellipis. Live fast, die young and leave a well-punctuated legacy, is my mantra.)

What constitutes "an" ellipsis? ( or ( )? In the first case, three ellipsis (ellipses?) looks to be either grammatically challenged, of inviting the overuse of emoticons.

John, this is an idea whose time has come. Even lowly fast food can be vastly improved upon following Carey's suggestion. Five Guys burger and fries coupled with a Chik Filet Shake. Heaven.

By the way, sorry about the pet squirrel.

OK, I'll bite. (How appropriate for a food blog.) What's with that video?

There's a video? I just see a big blank spot, which I wasn't going to bring up. But if there's a video...

(The problem may be on my end; I'm working in the office today and the filters may be protecting me from the evil-doers who post on restaurant blogs.)

I have a video of a duck swimming -- I figured it was regarding the duck fries reference but if it's deep than that, I missed it!

I can see the video. You're not missing much, unless you have a thing about ducks.

Yea, there's a video. Sometimes the blogware lets you see videos, sometime, not.

(The video show a duck eating bread being tossed into the water. But sometimes a shadow comes up from below the surface (a fish) and the bread disappears that way.)

Actually, the YouTube video's title is "A DUCK AND A STRIPED BASS EATING FRENCH FRIES". It shows somebody tossing french fries into the water. While the duck in the water eventually comes over and eats some of the fries, a striped bass actually gobbles one of the fries about 0:11 into the video.

What video?
There's a video?

Now that I'm home, I can see the video. Our filters at work block You Tube. That was likely the problem.

Bucky -- be thankful that the filters where you work don't block D@L, The Only Blog You Will Ever Need.

hmpstd - it's probably just a matter of time. If I suddenly disappear, you'll know why.

I always post from work. I am always protected from videos, youtube and sound. Also, many pictures, especially those posted by Sessa.

The last time I had the opportunity to visit Ocean City (MD), the arrival evening involved a delightful dinner followed by drunken romping on the sand - seriously, all we did was romp. Back at the loaned condo, my two companions gabbed through the night (one is a priest, the other one of his best life-long female friends). She was contemplating separation from her husband. They chatted and chatted while sipping wine - in my "bedroom" which was the den of the condo. Not wanting to be a part of this potential confessional secrecy, I stayed glued to the cable TV, occasionally excusing myself to smoke on the deck. Finally, the two of them managed to find their way to the two bedrooms. Ah, alone at last! I didn't even need to pull out the pull-out couch, as it engulfed me the moment I settled in with a last hit of vodka and an HBO movie at 4AM. Amazingly, when I woke up (and not hung over or still drunk), it was only 8AM. I proceeded to make coffee, slice up the bagels we had purchased the day before, set out the cream cheese, and open the champagne for mimosas. Thinking that the coffee aroma would arouse my condo-mates, I poured a cup for myself, toasted a bagel, and situated myself on the deck. Lo and behold, as I bit into my bagel, I heard a flurry of wings. The gull left when it realized that there would be nothing left for his/her nosh. Thus began my experiment. I went inside and grabbed another bagel. All at once I noticed that there were many winged companions. Someone told them that there might be free food. I felt like Suzanne Pleshette in "The Birds." I would break off a piece of bagel and a gull would swoop down to capture it, sometimes in mid-swoop. At the time I thought this was a fun game until there were hundreds of birds flitting or soaring above, all fighting for a taste of bagel. Who told whom? This should be a scientific study!

Sorry - this sounds like a FOX special of "When Avians Crave Food."

I think "avian" has too many syllables for FOX.