Hey Chainlink, know what I think is lame?

When a website that claims to be promoting local cycling in the city of Chicago has a banner ad for a site which is one of the many internet discount outlets that make it hard for local bike shops.

Way to go Chainlink, bravo. Is the advertising dollar worth making things harder on the local shops here in Chicago?

Is this site about serving the local community or is it about being a profit center for it's owner?

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Permalink Reply by Craig S. on January 11, 2012 at 12:20pm

Ya going there soon? Can I place an order?

Bernard Joseph Hannigan said:

Best bacon in the UNIVERSE?....Bobby Nelson in WI...

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Permalink Reply by James BlackHeron on January 11, 2012 at 12:38pm

I like to mail-order my Lop Yuk bacon direct from China.

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Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on January 11, 2012 at 1:06pm

I like to go to Olivia's Market and pay 15 dollars for a pack of Oscar Meyer bacon.

Just keepin' the local businesses thrivin', yall.

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Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on January 11, 2012 at 1:16pm

Post #198.

Is the auto-close at 200 still enabled?

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Permalink Reply by notoriousDUG on January 11, 2012 at 1:36pm

Only one way to find out...

h' said:

Post #198.

Is the auto-close at 200 still enabled?

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Permalink Reply by Duppie 13.5185km on January 11, 2012 at 1:38pm

Really? You haven't had my home cured bacon then?

Start with a pork belly from a humanely raised pig from C&D Family farms in Knox, IN.

Wet cure it for 4-5 days in a nitrate-free cure in our Michigan made fridge.

Then hot smoke it for a few hours on my Georgia made grill, using the Amaze-n Smoker box, welded in Minnesota out of American steel.

Finish it off in our Iowan made oven to make sure it is fully cooked.

Slice nice and thick with my Wisconsin made Chinese-style knife

This what is what you end up with:

Fry it up with some eggs from our own backyard chickens, and serve on my wife's home made bread (usually made with Illinois grown wheat). Drink coffee that is roasted 100 yards from my home (Metropolis roasting garage on Clark).

Local enough for you?

Bernard Joseph Hannigan said:

Best bacon in the UNIVERSE?....Bobby Nelson in WI...

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Permalink Reply by S on January 11, 2012 at 2:07pm

I bet those coffee beans were grown in south america or the caribbeans.

Duppie said:

Fry it up with some eggs from our own backyard chickens, and serve on my wife's home made bread (usually made with Illinois grown wheat). Drink coffee that is roasted 100 yards from my home (Metropolis roasting garage on Clark).

Local enough for you?

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Permalink Reply by James BlackHeron on January 11, 2012 at 2:12pm

Damn ferriners!

S said:

I bet those coffee beans were grown in south america or the caribbeans.

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Permalink Reply by Duppie 13.5185km on January 11, 2012 at 2:32pm

Where did I suggest otherwise?

S said:

I bet those coffee beans were grown in south america or the caribbeans.

Duppie said:

Fry it up with some eggs from our own backyard chickens, and serve on my wife's home made bread (usually made with Illinois grown wheat). Drink coffee that is roasted 100 yards from my home (Metropolis roasting garage on Clark).

Local enough for you?

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Permalink Reply by Melanie K on January 11, 2012 at 2:43pm

Darn, maybe you could ask Metropolitan to buy its coffee from Hawaii:

http://www.blairestatecoffee.com/index.html

http://www.usacoffeecompany.com/Articles.asp?ID=121

Duppie said:

Where did I suggest otherwise?

S said:

I bet those coffee beans were grown in south america or the caribbeans.

Duppie said:

Fry it up with some eggs from our own backyard chickens, and serve on my wife's home made bread (usually made with Illinois grown wheat). Drink coffee that is roasted 100 yards from my home (Metropolis roasting garage on Clark).

Local enough for you?

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Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on January 11, 2012 at 2:49pm

It's a far cry from cooking squirrel roadkill with fire from locally fallen twigs on the side of a remote mountain/or a remote undisturbed plot of land somewhere in the great outdoors, but I'll give you an A for effort. Not bad for a D(y)uppie. ;)

Duppie said:

Really? You haven't had my home cured bacon then?

Start with a pork belly from a humanely raised pig from C&D Family farms in Knox, IN.

Wet cure it for 4-5 days in a nitrate-free cure in our Michigan made fridge.

Then hot smoke it for a few hours on my Georgia made grill, using the Amaze-n Smoker box, welded in Minnesota out of American steel.

Finish it off in our Iowan made oven to make sure it is fully cooked.

Slice nice and thick with my Wisconsin made Chinese-style knife

This what is what you end up with:

Fry it up with some eggs from our own backyard chickens, and serve on my wife's home made bread (usually made with Illinois grown wheat). Drink coffee that is roasted 100 yards from my home (Metropolis roasting garage on Clark).

Local enough for you?