Monthly Archives: November 2011

Tom Galloway writes to note that Penn & Teller are back performing at the Rio in Vegas now and that the hotel's website allows one to book tickets to see them through next April. That would seem to put the last nail in the coffin, so to speak, regarding that newspaper report that they were splitting up. Robin Leach reported that and it would seem he was having fun with the fact that they were going to be apart for a while, making a temporary separation sound permanent.

Many fast food chains have secret "not-on-the-menu" offerings. We all know about In-N-Out's Secret Menu, which is about as secret as William Shatner's hairpiece. But here are some others.

And you may be curious about McDonald's Land, Sea, and Air Burger which includes a beef patty, a chicken patty and a filet-o'-fish patty. Sounds like a joke but if it was, it isn't one any longer. People are going to go to their local Golden Arches and demand one of these.

Bruce Feirstein has dug up some of the Lost Tweets of Hollywood.

We've talked here occasionally about items McDonald's no longer has on its menu. Here's a list of five such items. The only one of them I ever tried was McPizza, which my friend Paul Dini and I sampled at the McDonald's inside Circus Circus in Las Vegas. Hey, what I can say? It was Vegas, baby. You take gambles when you're in Vegas.

Paul and I had denuded a buffet two hours earlier at another hotel. We were walking through Circus Circus. We saw McPizza. We decided to try it. We regretted it: Two bites apiece. The second ones were because we couldn't believe how bad the first ones were. We tossed the rest out in a trash receptacle we could see was filled with McPizzas, all missing two bites. Makes you wonder how this concoction got through test marketing.