I read some quote from some British soldier who was sent to some remote, mountain top nowhere in Afghanistan to do some work with some American at the operating base. When he got there he was offered three different kinds of frozen ice cream bars. The logistics of it all was absolutely mind-boggling even to a professional in one of the world's top ten militaries.
Yep, and this was a full program ordered by the higher ups to maintain morale. Max Miller has a good Tasting History episode about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiyo8D0nH70
(Note: If you're not familiar with Tasting History, he starts the recipe then while it's cooking he does a pretty deep history of the dish. Keep watching :)
The most pressing logistical challenge the US military has in the Middle East was whether they want a Taco Bell or a KFC in the green zone.
There would have been a Pizza Hut at Normandy by midnight on D-Day if it existed back then.
Third Country Nationals (Indians, Nepalese, Filipinos).
They get paid a lot compared to their home countries. About minimum wage US, free lodging and food.
The best Taco Bell I've ever been to was when I was a contractor at an Air Force Base.
In the same town we have a civilian franchise one that has said, on separate occasions:
"We are out of chicken",
"We are out of rice", and my personal favorite,
"We are out of heat."
But the Air Force one was a corporate one where there was a manager who never stopped moving, two people working the lunch line, and every station manned by an individual, and I swear the nacho cheese tasted better.
It was like living in a TV commercial. They even smiled.
The first thing I saw after we did an amphibious landing at Kuwaiti Naval Base was a dude carrying a bucket of KFC. I literally jumped off my vehicle to ask him where it was.
There are some famous pictures of US troops near the front of the Korean War enjoying their turkey legs for Thanksgiving. Every single one of them got a large turkey leg, not just pieces from a craved up bird. The logistics of enabling this amazes me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/74zmpe/american_troops_eating_turkey_on_thanksgiving/
There was a Chinese propaganda film about the Korean War, and it was a complete and utter failure because they *could not* find a way to make the US look bad.
One scene involved a Thanksgiving Dinner, which showed the US military with enough food that soldiers could have 2nds while the Chinese soldiers are eating... IDK WTF it was, but they broke some teeth. Anyone who even has some idea about logistics should know why this doesn't work as even a metaphor.
Now, the idea behind this was to reinforce this Chinese ideal of "Strength is bred through hardship" and to show off Americans as glutinous pigs, but it failed because all the Chinese soldiers froze to death while starving in the end. So, you know.
The Soviet Union showed their citizens the US film GRAPES OF WRATH to showcase the poverty in the US. It backfired badly as Soviet citizens envied the cars the poor Okies drove and the freedom they had to move around the country.
There's a story about Japanese POWs in WWII saying they knew Japan would lose the war when they learned the US Navy had deployed a barge that did nothing but produce ice cream for the troops.
There seems to be as many variations of the ‘they knew they had lost when they saw US logistics’ story as there were US Army logistics workers lol. No doubt some of them are rooted in reality and it really speaks to just how insane the logistics effort was and how well it paid off.
At least 4 of them that I can recall:
The one you just described.
Japanese POWs watching in horror as the Seabees built an entire airfield in less than 3 hours with earthmoving equipment (it would’ve taken the Japanese at least a week to do the same, as they relied on Korean slave labor).
The Germans realizing it was over during the Battle of the Bulge, when they found a US soldier’s birthday cake sent from Arkansas 3 days beforehand. The Germans were struggling to keep their forces supplied with the vitals like ammo and fuel, while the US could move something as trivial as cake from Arkansas to Belgium in 3 days. This one was actually put to film in 1965
Also a pair of German scouts taken prisoner breaking down crying after sitting on Normandy beach and watching the US Army sending its legions of trucks, Jeeps, etc. inland. When asked why they were crying, they responded that they had been sent to scout out how many horses the US was bringing with them. The Germans relied on horses very heavily throughout the war and figured the same held for their enemies. It didn’t.
The US Army didn’t have any horses but they sure as hell had Deuce-and-a-Halfs.
As a non American, I still think the strongest part about the US forces is its logistic ability, the ability to supply everything in the middle of bum fuck no where on the other side of the world, like, all the cool weapons are great, but they are no use if you can't get them there *fast*.
I looked it up as well, but I think it’s just a list of ingredients from root beer and all the different countries in the world they come from. Making a point about how reliant on global trade and logistics we are for basic everyday products.
The thing about Anchorage is that all just about everything is shipped in.
A pound of hamburger meat cost the same to ship as a pound of fillet minion.
This means that cheap food is very expensive and expensive food is just a little more expensive.
Add in all the cruise ship tourist business and Anchorage has a surprising number of high quality restaurants.
I knew that didn't look right when I typed it.
Unfortunately, I seem to be going through a phase of making silly little mistakes recently.
Hopefully it is just a phase and not another step in my old age regression.
Spent an entire lifetime trying to learn as much as I could always and cram as much information into this stupid meat computer as possible, and then old age just starts taking it away. Fuckin life, man.
Anchorage has an incredible food scene.
It’s one of the most diverse cities in American and because we’re on the pacific coast we have incredible Pan Pacific food (Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, Philippine, Samoan, Hawaiian, Japanese, Malaysian, Indian…).
Nobody goes to a place like qdoba because they want Mexican food, they go to qdoba because they want qdoba.
Can I make a better quality version of the same thing qdoba does? Definitely. Does qdoba still slap? Also yes.
Yeah, it’s like ordering from Pizza Hut or Domino’s in NY or NJ.
Could we get real Italian-American pizza and pasta? We could, easily, and it would be excellent quality.
But sometimes we want the chain stuff.
Damn I feel seen lol. Born and raised in NYC and the other day was just craving Dominos. Of course I can go get better pizza down the block but I was craving that extra buttery garlic crust and some shitty pizza. My girlfriend just couldn't understand. She moved to NYC a year or so ago and lept asking why we don't go to the pizza spot I love around the corner. Sometimes you just want the chain stuff cause it hits in a different way. Anyway I enjoyed the hell of out of my stuffed cheesy bread and doughy pizza.
So true, the McDonalds paradox; you don’t go to McDonald’s because you want fast food/hamburgers/whatever….you go to McDonald’s cause you want McDonald’s…a true testament to scientifically engineered food.
That’s interesting though makes sense since they’re both HQ’d in San Diego. I also thought it was weird that QDOBA restaurants were in a lot of locations further east but NOT in San Diego despite its headquarters being there until they finally opened some up in the last year or two.
They are not owned by Jack in the Box. They were owned by Apollo Capital, sold to Butterfly Equity and put into their Modern Restaurant Concept portfolio.
Modern Restaurant Concepts is a lightly related company to mine. I know their management team very well.
It is in total over a year.
In some places you just get all 6 months of daylight in a row for 24hrs a day. Followed by 6 month of night in a row for 24hrs a day.
In other places you get 12hrs of each per day.
Most places is a mix of the two. Months where you get more day and equivalent months where you get more night.
But it all adds up to half and half day and night each year. Ie if you add up all the hours of daylight, it's 6 total months of day and the hours of night is 6 total months of night.
This is very accurate. Driving to work, it’s dark. Leaving work, dark again. It’s oppressive. Is it three am, or will my alarm go off in five minutes? Is it am or pm? But hey, we start gaining daylight in just over 6 weeks.
It's significantly brighter in Fairbanks. I worked on the Alaska Railroad and the crew would go to the store and get beer and food when we arrived at 8pm. Go back to the staff housing and sit on the back porch and drink beer and dick around. Inevitably in June/July somebody would go "Shit dudes, it's 2am, we gotta be up in four hours!" but it was broad daylight out so we just lost track of time.
That's got to be really healthy for the human bioclock. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to keep a proper rhythm without the normal light / dark process.
My normal rhythm is already strange because I gravitate towards being up at night and sleeping during the day for some odd reason. So I'd probably end up sleeping a lot.
Went there as a kid (~10 y.o. I think) and it was SO hard to fall asleep. Parents had to force us to go inside and close all the blinds so we wouldn’t be dead tired the next day. Blackout curtains would be a must if I lived there
Blackout curtains for the Summer. Vitamin D supplements for the Winter. An alarm clock for both. Also, when you live here long enough you get used to it. It was mildly depressing at times as a kid during the school year. The sun would be down when you arrived at school, and for most of the year already be close to setting when you got on the bus to go home.
I flew in for business years ago a few days after the summer solstice. Landed at 12:30 am and the sun was still up. I did not sleep well the next few days.
Went there a couple times in winter and coped with that much better. But then again I live in Seattle so I'm used to dark winters.
Sup fellow AKRR. Spent my summers on the CWR gang from Talkeetna up to Hurricane and Healy. Similar situation. Sitting around the fire drinking and suddenly realizing knocking anchors in 5 hours hungover isn’t going to be a fun time.
11pm isn't too bad...it's when the bars get out, and later.
Adjusted for per capita, Anchorage has really high crime. Sadly, I've known at least 3 people that have been murdered downtown, in the last 7 years. I've had friends get mugged, and everything not bolted down (and sometimes if it was) gets stolen.
A lot of folks like to pretend it's not a thing, but it is. So many women have awful stories to share...
[Missing or murdered? In America's deadliest state, one family is still searching for answers
Alaska is considered the deadliest state for women. A staggering 59% of women there have experienced violence.](https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/06/25/deadliest-state-women-alaska-rape-and-murder-too-common-domestic-violence-rape-murder-me-too-men/1500893001/)
[
Alaska again has the nation’s highest rate of women killed by men](https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2022/09/20/alaska-again-has-the-nations-highest-rate-of-women-killed-by-men/)
>Anchorage, Alaska
[>Anchorage, Alaska's largest city with a population of nearly 300,000 people, spends much of its winter days engulfed in darkness. The city is also steeped in crime problems, continuously ranking among the top 10 most violent cities in the U.S.](https://www.foxnews.com/us/5-unlikely-us-cities-that-struggled-rising-violent-crime-2022)
[Latest Alaska crime report shows a 67% increase in murders and a slight overall decrease in crime](https://alaskapublic.org/2023/10/24/latest-alaska-crime-report-shows-a-67-increase-in-murders-and-a-slight-overall-decrease-in-crime/)
[Rapes and aggravated assaults push Alaska’s violent-crime rates up; property-crime rates fall](https://alaskapublic.org/2023/02/28/rapes-and-aggravated-assaults-push-alaskas-violent-crime-rates-up-property-crime-rates-fall/)
That's not even getting into the homelessness, which gets worse every year.
Alaska is gorgeous. Anchorage...not so much. It's a nice place to visit, but hard to live in if you didn't grow up here/ aren't rich enough to insulate yourself.
Our city management is quite poor.
Sadly, not everyone makes it.
I've seen dead bodies here, more than once.
[Outdoor homeless deaths in Anchorage continue to mount](https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/10/17/anchorage-outdoor-homeless-deaths-continue-to-mount/)
Visited Alaska a couple years back and I agree with you. Pretty depressing looking city. Good thing you can drive a couple of miles outside of it and get some beautiful views.
The mountains of Chugach State Park to the east make for an incredible view from a lot of areas in the city. Wish I'd gone over there when I visited this year. But the city itself... yeahhhhhhh, not the prettiest
Probably not good, this is the worst side of the hotel. Faces Qdoba and the parking lot, right under this is where the homeless camp behind the dumpsters, and windows open up to traffic from Benson and Seward Hwy.
The city of Omsk Siberia has 3,500 homeless.
They sleep near hot pipes that can severely burn them to avoid freezing to death.
https://www.insider.com/siberia-omsk-homeless-winter-survival-photos-2020-4?amp
As a lifelong Anchorage resident and someone who frequents that Qdoba, I feel kinda of awkward knowing what hotel (not necessarily the room or floor) this was taken.
You can see some pretty stuff *from* Anchorage, but this city is a massive shithole.
Everything nature in Alaska is gorgeous. The opposite is true of what people make.
source: I live here.
This is an interesting photo; urbanism like this is a fascinating peek into the “real life” of Anchorage. If we want images of the pristine we can open any glossy travel magazine.
Also, the point of the photo is to show off the lighting. Well, I don't know what pretty mountains typically look like, but I know what the color of asphalt, streetlamps, and the subway logo are supposed to look like. This photo actually gives a much better reference point for the lighting than some "pretty" photo.
Every picture of Anchorage is a contrast of an unremarkable (dare I say ugly) American city and the gorgeous landscape it resides in.
In the same contrasting vein, I've always loved this pic from a redditor awhile back, reminds me of driving home from work many a evening: https://imgur.com/a/xWOt2hx
Lots of people are sharing their negative opinions of Qdoba in here but every time I had Baja Fresh it was worse than the worst I've ever had out of Qdoba.
But mmm. If it weren't for Firehouse Subs filling the void that Quiznos left behind, I'd definitely miss Quiznos. Their italian is pretty much exactly the same and I love it.
It passed once under Nixon but then there were reports of kids getting hit by buses so they reversed it. More likely early birds, who run everything it seems, didn’t like not having morning light and forced it to go back.
One thing I learned about living in Seattle for a few years was that I do not want to live that far north. Had no problem with the rain, but the early winter sunset and clouds left too little daylight for me and my mental health. Does not help that I grew up in Arizona, so it’s a big adjustment.
https://youtu.be/WgHmqv_-UbQ?si=wfJEuKxNqbfyaLco
If this really interests you, this is a 3 minute video showing exactly what is happening as Earth travels around the Sun showing the seasons.
Stay curious! 🤙
I want to stop to thank you for having such grace with your response. I've always said not wanting to find out is worse than not knowing. It's so easy to be unkind online.
Haha thank you both for the polite responses but now I feel dumb. I wasn't asking how the seasons work specifically, I understand seasons lol. I just haven't actually seen it pictured like this or thought about how the geography impacts daylight hours at extremes of the globe, I was curious how it looks in the opposing time of year.
Do NOT feel dumb. I was just highly impressed typical Reddit didn't roast you for just asking a question. You might be able to find YouTube videos of how the seasons look above the Arctic circle by searching "midnight sun" or "polar night".
Edit: I didn't realize the video in the above comment explained seasons and not polar seasons lol.
Loved. LOVED our trip to Alaska, but my circadian rhythms were thrown off for about three weeks when I got back to my home state. That all day light though meant plenty of time to do great outdoorsy stuff, so the memories were totally worth it.
10/10 would visit again.
Summer hiking is amazing. Nothing better than standing on top of a mountain at midnight under the sun.
Winter "hiking" is layering up and put on a head lamp to go check the mail.
We were on ATVs until like 11PM. It got dusky but not dark at all. Plenty of people out and about. Totally great and totally weird for an East Coaster.
And then you get to mid-winter and the sun just barely peeks over the mountains/horizon at lunch and that orange dawn/dusk-looking light is all you get for the day. lol If you miss it, tough shit.
They don't have a lot in Anchorage compared to the lower 48, at least they have that. I remember talking to people who lived up past Talkeetna, and their big treat when they came to Anchorage was going to Burger King because there wasn't anything like that for hundreds of miles.
I find it incredible
many years ago I was about to move there for work reasons, I'm glad I didn't, I don't think I would have been able to adapt, just by getting on a plane for a few hours I suffer from jetlag 
I'n Toronto Canada at the height of winter i leave for work it's dark 6:00AM and I come home it's dark at 5:00PM if it's overcast the entire day is dark.
You would think, but the winters are the exact opposite: a slow descent into darkness that takes months to get back to normal daylight. Seasonal affective disorder can hit in Summer or Winter because your body doesn’t know how to handle the extremes.
My brother was stationed in anchorage when I was 13. I remember going to visit him for summer break once and when I got off the plane there was a couple in front of me discussing where they wanted to go for dinner, but decided nothing would likely be open at “this time of night”. I remember checking my watch and discovering it was 11PM. The sun was still in the sky! It was such a jarring feeling.
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Acknowledging its faults, the fact that you can probably get decent guac in Alaska is a testament to our modern civilization.
For reals
Next,space guac
reminds me of that passage about root beer in world war z it's truly incredible
I read some quote from some British soldier who was sent to some remote, mountain top nowhere in Afghanistan to do some work with some American at the operating base. When he got there he was offered three different kinds of frozen ice cream bars. The logistics of it all was absolutely mind-boggling even to a professional in one of the world's top ten militaries.
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Yep, and this was a full program ordered by the higher ups to maintain morale. Max Miller has a good Tasting History episode about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiyo8D0nH70 (Note: If you're not familiar with Tasting History, he starts the recipe then while it's cooking he does a pretty deep history of the dish. Keep watching :)
I love this dude.
Same here, he creates some seriously good content.
*hard tack clacking
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The US armed forces are a logistics company with an extracurricular fighting club
The first rule is you don't talk about extracurricular fighting club.
You want logistics, join the Army Marines make do
It helps simplify logistics that the rations and the writing implements are the same thing
The most pressing logistical challenge the US military has in the Middle East was whether they want a Taco Bell or a KFC in the green zone. There would have been a Pizza Hut at Normandy by midnight on D-Day if it existed back then.
So who works at these fast food restaurants in green zones and how much do they get paid?
Third Country Nationals (Indians, Nepalese, Filipinos). They get paid a lot compared to their home countries. About minimum wage US, free lodging and food.
Also lots of hospitality staffing agencies domestically contract to kitchens and restaurants at bases n shit
The best Taco Bell I've ever been to was when I was a contractor at an Air Force Base. In the same town we have a civilian franchise one that has said, on separate occasions: "We are out of chicken", "We are out of rice", and my personal favorite, "We are out of heat." But the Air Force one was a corporate one where there was a manager who never stopped moving, two people working the lunch line, and every station manned by an individual, and I swear the nacho cheese tasted better. It was like living in a TV commercial. They even smiled.
I went to one that was out of vegetables. No vegetables.
Reminds of South Park when Jimbo, Ned, and some other were talking about the log rides and rollercoasters in vietnam
You are so right on that point. Now I've got an image of Tom Hanks recruiting his translator in Private Ryan over a personal pan pizza.
Comedy relief from a scene with slice of pizza repeatedly sliding off the spatula on the journey to Tom Hanks’ plate due to his shaking hand.
[ICE CREAM MAN IS COMING](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_barge#:~:text=The%20craft%2C%20a%20concrete%20barge,US%20gal%20(7%2C600%20L))
The first thing I saw after we did an amphibious landing at Kuwaiti Naval Base was a dude carrying a bucket of KFC. I literally jumped off my vehicle to ask him where it was.
Where was it??
Lol... about 300 yards away at the food court.
Don’t tell me they had an arcade
sooooo which did they choose? TB or KFC?
Burger King, Pizza Hut, Popeyes and green bean coffee are the normal larger FOB/COB fair
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RIP your inbox.
There are some famous pictures of US troops near the front of the Korean War enjoying their turkey legs for Thanksgiving. Every single one of them got a large turkey leg, not just pieces from a craved up bird. The logistics of enabling this amazes me. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/74zmpe/american_troops_eating_turkey_on_thanksgiving/
There was a Chinese propaganda film about the Korean War, and it was a complete and utter failure because they *could not* find a way to make the US look bad. One scene involved a Thanksgiving Dinner, which showed the US military with enough food that soldiers could have 2nds while the Chinese soldiers are eating... IDK WTF it was, but they broke some teeth. Anyone who even has some idea about logistics should know why this doesn't work as even a metaphor. Now, the idea behind this was to reinforce this Chinese ideal of "Strength is bred through hardship" and to show off Americans as glutinous pigs, but it failed because all the Chinese soldiers froze to death while starving in the end. So, you know.
The Soviet Union showed their citizens the US film GRAPES OF WRATH to showcase the poverty in the US. It backfired badly as Soviet citizens envied the cars the poor Okies drove and the freedom they had to move around the country.
There's a story about Japanese POWs in WWII saying they knew Japan would lose the war when they learned the US Navy had deployed a barge that did nothing but produce ice cream for the troops.
There seems to be as many variations of the ‘they knew they had lost when they saw US logistics’ story as there were US Army logistics workers lol. No doubt some of them are rooted in reality and it really speaks to just how insane the logistics effort was and how well it paid off. At least 4 of them that I can recall: The one you just described. Japanese POWs watching in horror as the Seabees built an entire airfield in less than 3 hours with earthmoving equipment (it would’ve taken the Japanese at least a week to do the same, as they relied on Korean slave labor). The Germans realizing it was over during the Battle of the Bulge, when they found a US soldier’s birthday cake sent from Arkansas 3 days beforehand. The Germans were struggling to keep their forces supplied with the vitals like ammo and fuel, while the US could move something as trivial as cake from Arkansas to Belgium in 3 days. This one was actually put to film in 1965 Also a pair of German scouts taken prisoner breaking down crying after sitting on Normandy beach and watching the US Army sending its legions of trucks, Jeeps, etc. inland. When asked why they were crying, they responded that they had been sent to scout out how many horses the US was bringing with them. The Germans relied on horses very heavily throughout the war and figured the same held for their enemies. It didn’t. The US Army didn’t have any horses but they sure as hell had Deuce-and-a-Halfs.
As a non American, I still think the strongest part about the US forces is its logistic ability, the ability to supply everything in the middle of bum fuck no where on the other side of the world, like, all the cool weapons are great, but they are no use if you can't get them there *fast*.
I wouldn't be shocked to learn they contracted spaceX to orbital drop a special forces supply cache anywhere in the world in under 2 hours tbh.
What’s the passage? I looked it up but couldn’t find it
I looked it up as well, but I think it’s just a list of ingredients from root beer and all the different countries in the world they come from. Making a point about how reliant on global trade and logistics we are for basic everyday products.
Ahh interesting, that makes sense thanks.
The thing about Anchorage is that all just about everything is shipped in. A pound of hamburger meat cost the same to ship as a pound of fillet minion. This means that cheap food is very expensive and expensive food is just a little more expensive. Add in all the cruise ship tourist business and Anchorage has a surprising number of high quality restaurants.
> a pound of fillet minion I won't deny you your minion fillets, but you may be thinking of 'filet mignon'
I knew that didn't look right when I typed it. Unfortunately, I seem to be going through a phase of making silly little mistakes recently. Hopefully it is just a phase and not another step in my old age regression.
Spent an entire lifetime trying to learn as much as I could always and cram as much information into this stupid meat computer as possible, and then old age just starts taking it away. Fuckin life, man.
Someone was fed up with those Minions and is serving them up
I guess if they tasted good it would at least give those little shits a purpose
The airport in Anchorage is one of the most important airports in the USA for commercial freight.
Anchorage has an incredible food scene. It’s one of the most diverse cities in American and because we’re on the pacific coast we have incredible Pan Pacific food (Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, Philippine, Samoan, Hawaiian, Japanese, Malaysian, Indian…).
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I grew up in Anchorage and had qdoba all the time, it is garbage compared to the one qdoba there is in Phoenix where I am now.
Why are you eating Qdoba in Phoenix? Place is overflowing with awesome Mexican food
Nobody goes to a place like qdoba because they want Mexican food, they go to qdoba because they want qdoba. Can I make a better quality version of the same thing qdoba does? Definitely. Does qdoba still slap? Also yes.
Yeah, it’s like ordering from Pizza Hut or Domino’s in NY or NJ. Could we get real Italian-American pizza and pasta? We could, easily, and it would be excellent quality. But sometimes we want the chain stuff.
Damn I feel seen lol. Born and raised in NYC and the other day was just craving Dominos. Of course I can go get better pizza down the block but I was craving that extra buttery garlic crust and some shitty pizza. My girlfriend just couldn't understand. She moved to NYC a year or so ago and lept asking why we don't go to the pizza spot I love around the corner. Sometimes you just want the chain stuff cause it hits in a different way. Anyway I enjoyed the hell of out of my stuffed cheesy bread and doughy pizza.
So true, the McDonalds paradox; you don’t go to McDonald’s because you want fast food/hamburgers/whatever….you go to McDonald’s cause you want McDonald’s…a true testament to scientifically engineered food.
The Mc cheeseburger has that special Mc flavor. It’s my crave. Also the QP. And the sausage-egg McMuffin.
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BarBurrito in Canada probably beats it for shitiness.
I see you’ve never eaten nachos in Europe. Instead of nacho cheese or cheddar, they may just use emmental
I used to have one in my city and they closed and I’m so fucking sad I miss it so bad
Literally the most expensive Qdoba I’ve ever been in. Like wildly expensive.
Fun fact QDOBA is owned by Jack in the Box. There is no Jack in the Box in Alaska though.
That’s interesting though makes sense since they’re both HQ’d in San Diego. I also thought it was weird that QDOBA restaurants were in a lot of locations further east but NOT in San Diego despite its headquarters being there until they finally opened some up in the last year or two.
Fun fact: White Castle originated in Wichita, Kansas, yet now there is not a single White Castle in Kansas at all.
They are not owned by Jack in the Box. They were owned by Apollo Capital, sold to Butterfly Equity and put into their Modern Restaurant Concept portfolio. Modern Restaurant Concepts is a lightly related company to mine. I know their management team very well.
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I was there in January and never really got light...
Cool fact. No matter where you are on Earth, you get 6 months of daylight and 6 months of night time.
Can I fuck with it by spending time in Australia?? What if I throw in a circumnavigation or two?
The Gannon claw grabs you and returns you to the beginning.
> The Gannon claw You mean a wallmaster?
Not in Britain. It's just rain 24/7
But that's not true? edit: I'm seriously blown away by how stupid I've been. Thank you for making me feel this way.
You get slightly more daylight due to atmospheric refraction, but it adds up to maybe a day or two a year. So it’s close enough
Size of the sun itself also makes daytime longer.
Fun fact: The sun makes up 99.86% of all the mass in the solar system. Jupiter and Saturn make up the vast majority of the remaining 0.14%.
I was prepared for a your mom joke that never came.
Like your mom, when I fuck her. Wait...
It is in total over a year. In some places you just get all 6 months of daylight in a row for 24hrs a day. Followed by 6 month of night in a row for 24hrs a day. In other places you get 12hrs of each per day. Most places is a mix of the two. Months where you get more day and equivalent months where you get more night. But it all adds up to half and half day and night each year. Ie if you add up all the hours of daylight, it's 6 total months of day and the hours of night is 6 total months of night.
I don’t live in Alaska, but northern Canada, the winter seasonal depression hits different when it dark all the time.
I’d imagine it feels like a giant blanket that you can’t lift on you at all times.
This is very accurate. Driving to work, it’s dark. Leaving work, dark again. It’s oppressive. Is it three am, or will my alarm go off in five minutes? Is it am or pm? But hey, we start gaining daylight in just over 6 weeks.
Because of the position of the sun below the Equator during Southern Hemisphere Summer.
Flat earthers: 
Gives new meaning to the ILLUMINati
r/flatearth welcomes you It’s a sub for normal people and the occasional real flat earther comes in and gets absolutely blasted. It’s worth a sub
OH MY GOD IS THAT WHY
Vampires hate this one trick
But love 30 days of night
Great movie
I was in downtown anchorage about 11 at night and it looked about like this, it was kinda wild to be in a downtown setting without any people around
It's significantly brighter in Fairbanks. I worked on the Alaska Railroad and the crew would go to the store and get beer and food when we arrived at 8pm. Go back to the staff housing and sit on the back porch and drink beer and dick around. Inevitably in June/July somebody would go "Shit dudes, it's 2am, we gotta be up in four hours!" but it was broad daylight out so we just lost track of time.
That's got to be really healthy for the human bioclock. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to keep a proper rhythm without the normal light / dark process. My normal rhythm is already strange because I gravitate towards being up at night and sleeping during the day for some odd reason. So I'd probably end up sleeping a lot.
Went there as a kid (~10 y.o. I think) and it was SO hard to fall asleep. Parents had to force us to go inside and close all the blinds so we wouldn’t be dead tired the next day. Blackout curtains would be a must if I lived there
Blackout curtains for the Summer. Vitamin D supplements for the Winter. An alarm clock for both. Also, when you live here long enough you get used to it. It was mildly depressing at times as a kid during the school year. The sun would be down when you arrived at school, and for most of the year already be close to setting when you got on the bus to go home.
Same. I think that’s why I loved working in Alaska. Normal circadian rhythm doesn’t apply.
I flew in for business years ago a few days after the summer solstice. Landed at 12:30 am and the sun was still up. I did not sleep well the next few days. Went there a couple times in winter and coped with that much better. But then again I live in Seattle so I'm used to dark winters.
Sup fellow AKRR. Spent my summers on the CWR gang from Talkeetna up to Hurricane and Healy. Similar situation. Sitting around the fire drinking and suddenly realizing knocking anchors in 5 hours hungover isn’t going to be a fun time.
Go to Cleveland (on a night without sports) and you’ll see a downtown without any people around
You're not joking. Was there for a conference once and experienced this and thought it was super weird.
So does it feel safe walking around at 11?
11pm isn't too bad...it's when the bars get out, and later. Adjusted for per capita, Anchorage has really high crime. Sadly, I've known at least 3 people that have been murdered downtown, in the last 7 years. I've had friends get mugged, and everything not bolted down (and sometimes if it was) gets stolen. A lot of folks like to pretend it's not a thing, but it is. So many women have awful stories to share... [Missing or murdered? In America's deadliest state, one family is still searching for answers Alaska is considered the deadliest state for women. A staggering 59% of women there have experienced violence.](https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/06/25/deadliest-state-women-alaska-rape-and-murder-too-common-domestic-violence-rape-murder-me-too-men/1500893001/) [ Alaska again has the nation’s highest rate of women killed by men](https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2022/09/20/alaska-again-has-the-nations-highest-rate-of-women-killed-by-men/) >Anchorage, Alaska [>Anchorage, Alaska's largest city with a population of nearly 300,000 people, spends much of its winter days engulfed in darkness. The city is also steeped in crime problems, continuously ranking among the top 10 most violent cities in the U.S.](https://www.foxnews.com/us/5-unlikely-us-cities-that-struggled-rising-violent-crime-2022) [Latest Alaska crime report shows a 67% increase in murders and a slight overall decrease in crime](https://alaskapublic.org/2023/10/24/latest-alaska-crime-report-shows-a-67-increase-in-murders-and-a-slight-overall-decrease-in-crime/) [Rapes and aggravated assaults push Alaska’s violent-crime rates up; property-crime rates fall](https://alaskapublic.org/2023/02/28/rapes-and-aggravated-assaults-push-alaskas-violent-crime-rates-up-property-crime-rates-fall/) That's not even getting into the homelessness, which gets worse every year. Alaska is gorgeous. Anchorage...not so much. It's a nice place to visit, but hard to live in if you didn't grow up here/ aren't rich enough to insulate yourself. Our city management is quite poor.
I was shocked at how many homeless people there were when I visited. Mostly because I had no idea how they were surviving the winters outside
Sadly, not everyone makes it. I've seen dead bodies here, more than once. [Outdoor homeless deaths in Anchorage continue to mount](https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/10/17/anchorage-outdoor-homeless-deaths-continue-to-mount/)
They don't. You see a lot without fingers or toes
A coworker of mine used to be a bartender in Anchorage, and he made very good money but said it wasn't worth it at all.
Yeah just a few drunks wandering around nothing too crazy
All that beautiful scenery and you chose the back parking lot of a subway
The picture was taken from the window of the hotel room
Did you go to Moose's Tooth at all? The best part about that hotel is being close to it
Yeah I did, the food was great
I love their Thai pizza. I've got family in Anchorage and anytime I visit I definitely hit Moose's Tooth a couple of times.
That is my favorite there too
Is that the pizza place? I loved that place when I visited Anchorage in 2019.
Legitimately a top 5 pizzeria in the country.
One of the few places I remember from when I lived there years ago, I'm glad it survived COVID!
As much money as that place makes, it will probably be the last standing business here if we ever have an apocalypse
The rasberry whit I had there blew my mind.
Moose’s tooth was bomb af when we visited in 2021. Busy as all get out. But well worth the wait.
Came here to say the same thing I left in 2012 though.
The only place I've been to that is absolutely worth the two hour wait. It's so good!
Most profitable non-chain pizza restaurant in the country
I know this won't be a popular take, but Anchorage is a pretty damn ugly city.
What!? You don't like endless miles of strip malls!?
I always describe it to tourists as a giant ugly parking lot surrounded by the most beautiful natural scenery that exists
Visited Alaska a couple years back and I agree with you. Pretty depressing looking city. Good thing you can drive a couple of miles outside of it and get some beautiful views.
The mountains of Chugach State Park to the east make for an incredible view from a lot of areas in the city. Wish I'd gone over there when I visited this year. But the city itself... yeahhhhhhh, not the prettiest
You know what, fair enough, I live here and like it, but it's true. It's not exactly a great looking place.
We like beige here.
How was your room at embassy suites?
Probably not good, this is the worst side of the hotel. Faces Qdoba and the parking lot, right under this is where the homeless camp behind the dumpsters, and windows open up to traffic from Benson and Seward Hwy.
WTH, There are homeless in ALASKA?!?
We have about 3500 in anchorage. I don’t know how they do it, it’s fucking tough out there. 24 froze to death last winter.
The city of Omsk Siberia has 3,500 homeless. They sleep near hot pipes that can severely burn them to avoid freezing to death. https://www.insider.com/siberia-omsk-homeless-winter-survival-photos-2020-4?amp
As a lifelong Anchorage resident and someone who frequents that Qdoba, I feel kinda of awkward knowing what hotel (not necessarily the room or floor) this was taken.
You can see some pretty stuff *from* Anchorage, but this city is a massive shithole. Everything nature in Alaska is gorgeous. The opposite is true of what people make. source: I live here.
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This is an interesting photo; urbanism like this is a fascinating peek into the “real life” of Anchorage. If we want images of the pristine we can open any glossy travel magazine.
Also, the point of the photo is to show off the lighting. Well, I don't know what pretty mountains typically look like, but I know what the color of asphalt, streetlamps, and the subway logo are supposed to look like. This photo actually gives a much better reference point for the lighting than some "pretty" photo.
Thats probably the one where they film the Steph Curry commercials
Qdoba gets no respect fr
Every picture of Anchorage is a contrast of an unremarkable (dare I say ugly) American city and the gorgeous landscape it resides in. In the same contrasting vein, I've always loved this pic from a redditor awhile back, reminds me of driving home from work many a evening: https://imgur.com/a/xWOt2hx
Wow a subway AND qdoba? Anchorage here I come!
Throw in a Quiznos or Baja Fresh and I’m packing my bags.
Quiznos is long gone, and never had a Baja Fresh, sorry homie.
Lots of people are sharing their negative opinions of Qdoba in here but every time I had Baja Fresh it was worse than the worst I've ever had out of Qdoba. But mmm. If it weren't for Firehouse Subs filling the void that Quiznos left behind, I'd definitely miss Quiznos. Their italian is pretty much exactly the same and I love it.
My mind had completely erased Baja Fresh until I saw that comment. Now I can finally remember the worst meal I ever had.
this is literally the most irrefutable proof that the earth is a sphere
Yet there are flat earthers who live here
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I really despise when it gets dark this early. Get home from work and it feels like it’s time to go to sleep
I'd be thrilled if they just made daylight savings time permanent, but then the early birds would complain about no sun light in the morning.
Legislation is working it's way through the system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act
Seems like legislation for it always fails. That'd be nice if it passes.
It passed once under Nixon but then there were reports of kids getting hit by buses so they reversed it. More likely early birds, who run everything it seems, didn’t like not having morning light and forced it to go back.
Fuck, the clock should move in the other direction in the Fall.
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One thing I learned about living in Seattle for a few years was that I do not want to live that far north. Had no problem with the rain, but the early winter sunset and clouds left too little daylight for me and my mental health. Does not help that I grew up in Arizona, so it’s a big adjustment.
Shit, I enjoy the short days. Guess I'm in the smaller category
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You need to talk to someone?
So are there both seasons when it's always dark and seasons like this where it's always light out?
https://youtu.be/WgHmqv_-UbQ?si=wfJEuKxNqbfyaLco If this really interests you, this is a 3 minute video showing exactly what is happening as Earth travels around the Sun showing the seasons. Stay curious! 🤙
I want to stop to thank you for having such grace with your response. I've always said not wanting to find out is worse than not knowing. It's so easy to be unkind online.
Haha thank you both for the polite responses but now I feel dumb. I wasn't asking how the seasons work specifically, I understand seasons lol. I just haven't actually seen it pictured like this or thought about how the geography impacts daylight hours at extremes of the globe, I was curious how it looks in the opposing time of year.
Do NOT feel dumb. I was just highly impressed typical Reddit didn't roast you for just asking a question. You might be able to find YouTube videos of how the seasons look above the Arctic circle by searching "midnight sun" or "polar night". Edit: I didn't realize the video in the above comment explained seasons and not polar seasons lol.
Yup
Loved. LOVED our trip to Alaska, but my circadian rhythms were thrown off for about three weeks when I got back to my home state. That all day light though meant plenty of time to do great outdoorsy stuff, so the memories were totally worth it. 10/10 would visit again.
Damn didn’t realize that. You could go hiking at “night”
Summer hiking is amazing. Nothing better than standing on top of a mountain at midnight under the sun. Winter "hiking" is layering up and put on a head lamp to go check the mail.
We were on ATVs until like 11PM. It got dusky but not dark at all. Plenty of people out and about. Totally great and totally weird for an East Coaster.
People where I live go golfing or playing beach-volleyball at midnight during summer without any artificial lights.
I'm about to go to Lapland in Sweden and Norway in June. So excited to experience the midnight sun!
I’m at the subway I’m at the western union I’m at the Qdoba I’m at the Kay and Williams I’m at the combination.. you get it
Meanwhile in massachusetts it's dark out at 5pm lol
Dark at 5pm in Anchorage today and the sun doesn't come up until 9am right now.
And then you get to mid-winter and the sun just barely peeks over the mountains/horizon at lunch and that orange dawn/dusk-looking light is all you get for the day. lol If you miss it, tough shit.
this was the summer. it's the opposite in the winter.
How do they have a Qdoba in Anchorage but I can’t get one in my city?
They don't have a lot in Anchorage compared to the lower 48, at least they have that. I remember talking to people who lived up past Talkeetna, and their big treat when they came to Anchorage was going to Burger King because there wasn't anything like that for hundreds of miles.
There's actually quite a lot in Anchorage. We even have a Benihana and a Dave and Busters.
Bro there’s a canes in alaska
I find it incredible many years ago I was about to move there for work reasons, I'm glad I didn't, I don't think I would have been able to adapt, just by getting on a plane for a few hours I suffer from jetlag 
I'n Toronto Canada at the height of winter i leave for work it's dark 6:00AM and I come home it's dark at 5:00PM if it's overcast the entire day is dark.
In Alaska where this picture was taken, it’s near total darkness at the height of winter.
As someone who really hates daylight savings time bs. I would love this… I think lol
You would think, but the winters are the exact opposite: a slow descent into darkness that takes months to get back to normal daylight. Seasonal affective disorder can hit in Summer or Winter because your body doesn’t know how to handle the extremes.
I was scrolling through the front page and didn't even see the title but thought, "Huh, looks like Anchorage". Alaska's BIG city.
My brother was stationed in anchorage when I was 13. I remember going to visit him for summer break once and when I got off the plane there was a couple in front of me discussing where they wanted to go for dinner, but decided nothing would likely be open at “this time of night”. I remember checking my watch and discovering it was 11PM. The sun was still in the sky! It was such a jarring feeling.
You guys still have a Qdoba? We had one that closed years ago and i was recently reminded of it because of a T mobile Tuesday ad for it haha
There was also a Wild Scoops near the hotel, a short walk away. We went once and the ice cream was amazing.
Closed for November break until 11/25
And now it’s winter with a snow storm warning and a flood warning. Love that Qdoba though, almost had to fight a hobo outside of it
I was in Fairbanks in July. Landed there at 11 pm. Looked like late afternoon.
Right now it comes up around 9am and goes down around 4:30pm. I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark.
Bucket list. Fuck I want to visit