{"id":7677,"date":"2006-11-13T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7677"},"modified":"2006-11-13T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T05:14:00","slug":"extra-judicial-victory-for-common-sense-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7677","title":{"rendered":"Extra!&#160; Judicial Victory for Common Sense! [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Is a burrito a sandwich?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Panera Bread Co. bakery-and-cafe chain says yes. But a judge said no, ruling against Panera in its bid to prevent a Mexican restaurant from moving into the same shopping mall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPanera has a clause in its lease that prevents the White City Shopping Center in Shrewsbury from renting to another sandwich shop. Panera tried to invoke that clause to stop the opening of an Qdoba Mexican Grill.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke cited Webster&#8217;s Dictionary as well as testimony from a chef and a former high-ranking federal agriculture official in ruling that Qdoba&#8217;s burritos and other offerings are not sandwiches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe difference, the judge ruled, <b>comes down to two slices of bread versus one tortilla<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Qdoba, owned by San Diego-based Jack in the Box Inc., called food experts to testify on its behalf.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmong them was <b>Cambridge chef Chris Schlesinger<\/b>, who said in an affidavit: &#8221;<b>I know of no chef or culinary historian who would call a burrito a sandwich. Indeed, the notion would be absurd to any credible chef or culinary historian<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSo, bite me, actus.&nbsp; And you, too, monkyboy.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Related?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2006520669,00.html\" title=\"the worst that could happen\">the worst that could happen<\/a> if we sent a Citizen Journalist to chronicle Rosie O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s charity cruise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a burrito a sandwich? The Panera Bread Co. bakery-and-cafe chain says yes. But a judge said no, ruling against Panera in its bid to prevent a Mexican restaurant from moving into the same shopping mall. Panera has a clause in its lease that prevents the White City Shopping Center in Shrewsbury from renting to another sandwich shop. Panera tried to invoke that clause to stop the opening of an<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7677\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}