Die on the Chick-Fil-A Hill?

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82_VOL_83 said:
I was introduced to chicken sammiches at Smoky Mountain Market on the Strip (Shell Station). Rocky was the man....CFA doesn't hold a candle.
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There was a Smoky Mountain Market out Chapman Hwy when I was at U.T. 50 years ago. My roommate was drunk one night, and he kept saying he wanted to go to the "Smoky Market Mountainway." From that moment on, we referred to it as the Smoky Market Mountainway."
 
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VolStrom said:
I forgot about those! I think they were called a Rooster Sandwich. It was a regular part of my diet on the weekends after a mass consumption episode.
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Saturday night......3 Roosters all the way with cheese add mustard. Holy crap they were hot too. I burned my mouth so many times eating the first one going out the door.
 
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Velo Vol said:
How many people do you imagine were asking the business dean for a statement on the campus Chick-fil-A
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It's interesting that you inclination is to think she's lying or misrepresenting her position.

The administration hand out talking points for all administrators to use. She was given an official party line and decided she couldn't betray her personal values.

Watch an interview with her - she's quite level headed and doesn't trash the university. She clearly explains what she had a problem with and why after some consideration decided she couldn't be part of the party line. She didn't make a big fuss and isn't demanding anything.
 
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1972 Grad said:
There was a Smoky Mountain Market out Chapman Hwy when I was at U.T. 50 years ago. My roommate was drunk one night, and he kept saying he wanted to go to the "Smoky Market Mountainway." From that moment on, we referred to it as the Smoky Market Mountainway."
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I wanna say Rocky's mom owned both of them. When they closed the one on the strip he went to their other store for a little while. I always thought he bore a strong resemblance to the painter guy on TV.
 
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volinbham said:
There is zero wrong with the statement. The gay marriage issue was 7 years ago and CFA doesn't make donations to the groups that they did then. Hell, 4 years prior to that the POTUS (Obama) was openly opposed to gay marriage!

I get her point - saying the corporate values are not "sufficiently evolved" so that they are consistent with the university's tells anyone on campus if you share the CFA values then you don't fit the university; ironic since they (university) advocates "inclusion".

She was simply asking the university to reconsider the statement about the values; she was not challenging the decision about CFA.
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Clearly the college/university idea of inclusion these days is a one way street. Anything remotely conservative need not apply.
 
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volinbham said:
It's interesting that you inclination is to think she's lying or misrepresenting her position.

The administration hand out talking points for all administrators to use. She was given an official party line and decided she couldn't betray her personal values.

Watch an interview with her - she's quite level headed and doesn't trash the university. She clearly explains what she had a problem with and why after some consideration decided she couldn't be part of the party line. She didn't make a big fuss and isn't demanding anything.
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One is not supposed to have personal values, only those given to you by the management.
 
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1972 Grad said:
There was a Smoky Mountain Market out Chapman Hwy when I was at U.T. 50 years ago. My roommate was drunk one night, and he kept saying he wanted to go to the "Smoky Market Mountainway." From that moment on, we referred to it as the Smoky Market Mountainway."
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Yep. Right on the corner of Chapman Highway and Old Maryville Pike if I remember correctly. It was somewhat across the street from Baptist Hospital.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
One is not supposed to have personal values, only those given to you by the management.
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As I understand it there isn't a beef on either side. She explained how she thought the official statement was exclusionary to people with her values, the university disagreed and would not modify the statement. She decided she couldn't support the implication and resigned from leadership. They accepted the resignation.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
I was introduced to chicken sammiches at Smoky Mountain Market on the Strip (Shell Station). Rocky was the man....CFA doesn't hold a candle.
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My dad grew up in South Knox. When I was a kid we'd come up from ATL to visit my grandmother, at some point late at night he'd say, "let's step outside for a minute." That meant we were getting in the car and headed to Smoky Mountain Market (Chapman Hwy) for a late night chili dog. Damn good stuff.
 
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volinbham said:
It's interesting that you inclination is to think she's lying or misrepresenting her position.
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I don't contend she doesn't disagree with the university. But a lot of people have beefs with their employer and soldier on. This seems quite tangential to her job. It could possibly be an excuse so she doesn't have to discuss something else she doesn't like (e.g., fundraising).

Maybe I'm wrong. Pure speculation.
 
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VolStrom said:
Yep. Right on the corner of Chapman Highway and Old Maryville Pike if I remember correctly. It was somewhat across the street from Baptist Hospital.
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I was thinking it was much farther out than Baptist Hospital. Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe it was a different store.
 
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VolStrom said:
Yep. Right on the corner of Chapman Highway and Old Maryville Pike if I remember correctly. It was somewhat across the street from Baptist Hospital.
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I remember that there was a railroad trestle bridge somewhere back behind the store. The bridge went over the tracks. A guy in an MG Midget wrecked one night about midnight on a sharp curve just at the bridge, and walked in asking for help. I think he had a pretty long walk. We drove him back to where he wrecked, and it was a fair distance down the next road just past the SMM. Three of us were eating in there at the time.
 
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All this talk and not one mention of their waffle fries ? 🤨
 
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Velo Vol said:
I don't contend she doesn't disagree with the university. But a lot of people have beefs with their employer and soldier on. This seems quite tangential to her job. It could possibly be an excuse so she doesn't have to discuss something else she doesn't like (e.g., fundraising).

Maybe I'm wrong. Pure speculation.
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I don't understand the inclination to distrust her.
 
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VolStrom said:
Yep. Right on the corner of Chapman Highway and Old Maryville Pike if I remember correctly. It was somewhat across the street from Baptist Hospital.
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I think that you are right. My memory of it was farther out, but I got on Google Earth , and I'm thinking that the guy in the MG Midget was driving on Augusta Drive and tried to make a 90 degree curve over the bridge. The steering wheel rim part came of in his hands, and the wire spokes going from the hub cut his palms up pretty bad.

It looks like we may have taken Hawthorne to Augusta to take him back. The more I remember, there were 4 of us, and we were in my friend's 69 Camaro, and all 5 of us piled in the Camaro and took him to his wrecked car. This was about 1971, I believe.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I think that you are right. My memory of it was farther out, but I got on Google Earth , and I'm thinking that the guy in the MG Midget was driving on Augusta Drive and tried to make a 90 degree curve over the bridge. The steering wheel rim part came of in his hands, and the wire spokes going from the hub cut his palms up pretty bad.

It looks like we may have taken Hawthorne to Augusta to take him back. The more I remember, there were 4 of us, and we were in my friend's 69 Camaro, and all 5 of us piled in the Camaro and took him to his wrecked car. This was about 1971, I believe.
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1971 was a toke chug a lug toke chug a lug era. It's okay to not remember the bad times.
 
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VolStrom said:
1971 was a toke chug a lug toke chug a lug era. It's okay to not remember the bad times.
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If you had only seen that guy come in the store asking for help with blood streaming from both palms. He was sh!tfaced, said that he had broken up with his girlfriend, and thought he was "Mario Damn Andretti" and missed the curve.

His MG jumped the left front wheel , maybe both left side wheels over a wooden railroad tie at the bridge, and we literally picked the car up about a foot, swung it over the railroad tie, and dropped it right down on his foot. Talk about adding insult to injury. He picked the car up off his foot by himself. LMAO! The steering wheel was in the seat with about 3 sets of 3 wire spokes dangling. It was an early to mid-60's Midget. I need to look up a picture the steering wheel.
 
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volinbham said:
To clarify she wasn't objecting to CFA being barred from campus. The university made a public statement that CFA's corporate values are not consistent with those of the university.
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I don't know what's more ridiculous.
1. The fact that a fast food chain has corporate values.
2. Or a college has corporate values for.
3. They feel the need to advertise there corporate values.
4. Or we get all bent out of shape because they have corporate values.

I'm interested in one corporate value from chick-fil-a, make the tastiest hate-chicken possible and please please please add a buffalo sandwich to the dat gum menu.
 
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