Jesse James goes green and opens organic, solar-powered burger joint
Women do weird things to you sometimes, man. Case in point – Jessie James. Once the biggest badass west of the Rockies, the guy hooks up with Sandra Bullock and suddenly the couple is the sole proprietor of an organic, solar-powered burger joint named Cisco Burger. The new eco-friendly fast food restaurant is located east of the West Coast Choppers compound in which James' “Monster Garage” TV show is taped. According to TreeHugger the menu will include preservative and hormone-free Kobe beef burgers, low-fat burritos and organic toppings. The roof lacks arches but substitutes solar panels for additional amperage and the burgers are wrapped in biodegradable wrappers. We’re sure it won’t be long now before James builds a dump truck dragster powered by waste veggie oil from the Cisco fryer.
[Source: PressTelegram via TreeHugger]
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John Smith 6:17PM (5/02/2006)
He must have beeh reading that hilarious (in a bad way) website "Autoblog Green".
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Tim UF 6:45PM (5/02/2006)
this is along the lines of ben and jerrys: sure they are hippies and do good things for the environment... but if you eat enough of their ice cream, you wont be around too long to enjoy the environment you save by gorging, er supporting the company (and ergo their cause)
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Lee Gibson 6:55PM (5/02/2006)
You know, Tim, if you drink enough water, you'll die too. So you better not drink water.
Or you'll die. If you drink too much. water.
yeah.
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Spytap 7:10PM (5/02/2006)
I don't see how being a bad-ass, and wanting to take care of yourself and the environment (I had to resist writing "do the right thing") are mutually exclusive. Couldn't it be that the guy likes bikes, burgers, beer, and the environment as well?
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jl 7:43PM (5/02/2006)
His badass tattoo ink on his arm is not organic, as a matter of fact, it's toxic!!! Too late to get it out and it is damaging his brain, not that he has much to start with; but you can tell by the way he speaks!
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MikeC 8:14PM (5/02/2006)
Why does anyone even give a darn about that sorry excuse for a person? He's a sleeze ball who plays well only to the lowest common denominator in society.
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KBS 8:48PM (5/02/2006)
i really like watching the monster garage. i always noticed jesse james drinking those myoplex drinks during the show in the purple box. but i didn't know he was a big health organic freak... wow... i think solar panels should be subsidized by the government to be installed on most gov. buildings and homes... we could help reduce using less juice off the grid which would mean less fossil fuel burning power stations running at like 110% capacity... go jesse go! yay!
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Admiral Ackbar 9:50PM (5/02/2006)
Kobe Beef? Bullshit. That stuff is over $100 a pound in Japan (where Kobe beef comes from).
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Admiral Ackbar 10:02PM (5/02/2006)
Kobe beef? Bullshit. That meat is over $100 a pound in Japan (where it is raised).
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taipeileviathan 10:15PM (5/02/2006)
not that i didn't enjoy reading about the effect of bullocks on a man... but i'm having a hard time trying to find a good reason why this should be on autoblog...
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Krishna Das 11:19PM (5/02/2006)
If Jesse is turning a saint, why is he starting a venture to kill more cows? Idiot.
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naugahyde 3:19AM (5/03/2006)
Monster Garage jumped the shark sometime in the middle of the second season.
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masarak 9:25AM (5/03/2006)
Well, for whatever reasons he's doing this, I hope he sets a healthy precedent for thousands of impressionable American youths.
Mmmmmm, beef...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_beef
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Nicholas 11:21AM (5/03/2006)
Admiral Ackbar... You can now purchase American "kobe" beef. It is much cheaper than the Japanese variety. Evidently you have not had the opportunity but kobe beef burgers are unreal- and not much more than a regular burger at most restaurants.
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Brian 11:55AM (5/03/2006)
I don't very much Jesse and Sandra are serving real Kobe beef burgers. It's probably "Kobe-style" beef that's raised here in the US. We export a boatload of it to Japan where it's sold as a high quality, lower priced "second tier" choice. Most "Kobe beef" we find in steakhouses in the US is actually "Kobe-style."
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Mike 2:23PM (5/03/2006)
Why does everyone hate this guy? Because he has tattoos? Because he builds choppers? Because he married a porn star? Give me a break. Jesse is just a regular guy. Watch Monster Garage and the original Biker shows on Discovery sometime. As for his planned Burger joint, good for him. Now if McDonald's would follow along, and convert their million stores to solar power, that would be something. Good job Jesse, and to the haters out there, don't judge a book by its cover. Do some research about the man before you rip him.
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Secret Squirrel 3:54PM (5/03/2006)
#6 MikeC "6. Why does anyone even give a darn about that sorry excuse for a person? He's a sleeze ball who plays well only to the lowest common denominator in society."
I guess you missed the episode where he went to DC's Balou High School and surprised their auto shop class with a surprise build-off. He even went personally to get one of the kids that was trying to avoid school.
I guess you just think bikers and people with tats are scum... hmm... maybe you've seen too many Girls Gone Sturgis videos? ;)
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petel 4:25PM (5/03/2006)
If more people had his entrepreneurship, the USA would be much better off. People who who speak negatively about him, obviously don't know much about him.
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tony belligerent 4:27PM (5/03/2006)
Nice marketing ploy, you stereotypical douchebag. What kind of "eco-friendly" restaurant serves dead animals?
Many leading environmental organizations, including the National Audubon Society, the WorldWatch Institute, the Sierra Club, and the Union of Concerned Scientists, have recognized that raising animals for food damages the environment more than just about anything else that we do. Whether it's the overuse of resources, unchecked water or air pollution, or soil erosion, raising animals for food is wreaking havoc on the Earth.
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Brian 5:37PM (5/03/2006)
#18
Holy crap, Dude! If you keep whining like that I'm gonna have to call a Waaambulance. What kind of douchebag veg head cries, "meat is murder" on a car blog???
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