No Longer Stuck in Romania

HongKong isn’t SouthEast Asia. That’s generally considered Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia.

I know what I’m having for lunch tomorrow

And Sonic Burgers are not duplicates for In’N’Out. In’N’Outs are pretty easy to duplicate, however. And if the operation does not freeze their buns, it’s easy to be superior using the same recipe.

In’N’Out’s magic is not that they are uniquely incredible. It’s that they are fresh enough and simple enough and consistent enough, and merely better than the basic burgers at McDonald’s/Carl’s/Burger King/Wendy’s. And they stick to that limited menu so they can crank out their product like a machine.

Could the near In – N – Out place be a What-A-Burger? Made famous by fat texans and King of the Hill everywhere.?

It is pretty good.

that received a cease and desist letter from In-n-Out burger. They had the name In and Out, and it was close enough to make the owners/lawyers of the burger chain force then to change it.

had a lot of developmental problems. I understand this continued for quite a few years after the fall for various reasons including lack of training, not enough staff, overcrowding, lack of resources, and possibly lack of compassion, added to the lack of will to change and the confusion of a disorganized government.

This horrifying social experiment proved that you can’t just warehouse children and never talk to them or interact with them and expect them to emerge unharmed.

There was an article about a Riverside couple who tried to adopt two of these children about two years after the government changed, and the stories they told were heartbreaking. They had trouble getting permission from Romania to remove them and traveled there to deal with the red tape in person. The wife ended up staying there for about 8 months, volunteering in one of the facilities while they waited for a decision to be made. She said she saw very positive changes in the facility while she was there because so many Americans and Europeans had given money and equipment and their time as volunteers in the orphanages.
When they finally brought their two children to the US they had a lot of problems to deal with because of the incredible neglect they had suffered. The kids were a boy and a girl, two and three years old, and the older one, the boy, hadn’t started talking yet. Neither understood English but that seemed minor.
We lost track of this story when we moved so I don’t know the outcome, but this family was dedicated and had the resources to support their special needs.