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re: I feel bad for people who's dining experiences are Applebees, Olive Garden, etc.
Posted on 1/4/12 at 8:35 am to HeadyMurphey
Posted on 1/4/12 at 8:35 am to HeadyMurphey
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I wouldn't say people are scared, they just don't care. Some people eat because they have to. Others make it a way of life. It is the same as those that scoff at someone buying yellowtail or barefoot wine. Sure there is better, but for most, it is enough.
I'm just judging from what I witness people do with restaurants, and especially menu items that they are unfamiliar with, or are faced with trying it for the first time. I think marketing reinforces the point that most people fall into the bandwagoner group rather than the smaller percentage of people who are willing to try new things and test the waters to see if it is safe. If there's one thing people are here, it's safe. Only when it becomes a trend are they then willing to try something different.
Hamburgers and fries my dad could eat every single day according to his own words on the matter. He likes things safe and what he is unfamiliar with he doesn't care for. He feels uncomfortable around a crowd that aren't wearing the BR attire, loves to order the same thing on the menu every time he goes, and sees no reason to look to anywhere but Destin FL for vacation. Every one of his friends are just like him. That is the norm with most people here as far as I can see, as it is with people all over. They like their comfort zone, and don't care to venture out of it, and why bandwagoners are the largest target market there is.
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Posted on 1/4/12 at 8:40 am to notiger1997
my point is, it's not the majority of the population, maybe this board, but, not to the majority that keeps the doors opening, very briskly, i might add..
quote:='s the majority..
the masses
quote:I don't eat there, but, I don't feel sorry, or, look down on the people that do..
Good for you if you like it and want to eat there
quote:People certainly do, and people have a right to look like an arse, looking down their nose at people...But, hey, if it makes people feel good, people should do it.
We have a right to bitch about the places
Posted on 1/4/12 at 8:43 am to Ole Geauxt
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People certainly do, and people have a right to look like an arse, looking down their nose at people
Sorry if I'm coming off like that. It just sucks that these places that aren't all that great continue to grow and expand and really just ruin the culinary landscape of this country.
Posted on 1/4/12 at 8:46 am to Mike da Tigah
I just ate breakfast at a chili's. Western omlet, side of soybean sausage. It pretty much sucked and will probably force me into the tiny airplane crapper somewhere over alabama. At least spoony luv feels bad for me.
This post was edited on 1/4/12 at 8:47 am
Posted on 1/4/12 at 8:47 am to notiger1997
Are you talking minority viewpoint in general ? or minority viewpoint on the food board ?
Posted on 1/4/12 at 8:50 am to notiger1997
quote:meh, you're probly not, too much.. it's just that there are tons of different reasons for people to feel that way, income, security, kids, small town, different tastes.. I like nilla milkshakes, but, i try and not get too angry, or, feel sorry for all the stupid idiots that like chocolate (which would probably be the majority)...
Sorry if I'm coming off like that
Posted on 1/4/12 at 8:56 am to LSUballs
quote:You dumbass, why in the heck did you do that? Why didn't you take a taxi, ask around and go to one of the great local breakfast spots, before heading to the airport and catching your plane? I feel sorry for you, you un Kewth sob..
I just ate breakfast at a chili's
Posted on 1/4/12 at 8:58 am to LSUballs
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I just ate breakfast at a chili's. Western omlet, side of soybean sausage. It pretty much sucked and will probably force me into the tiny airplane crapper somewhere over alabama. At least spoony luv feels bad for me.
Were you super excited about in anticipation for your breakfast at Chilli's?
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:00 am to Spoonie Luv
There's cerainly a difference between feeling sorry for someone that is not enjoying things available to them and snubbing my nose at someone.
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:02 am to Ole Geauxt
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Why didn't you take a taxi, ask around and go to one of the great local breakfast spots
Probably because there aren't many food options, especially breakfast options available in most areas of this country outside of the mega chains, not without having to really go out of your way and search for them.
But then that gets back to what's wrong with those chains in general dominating our landscape and limiting our local food options.
This post was edited on 1/4/12 at 9:05 am
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:04 am to TigahRag
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why do you fricking care ??
so it's wrong to care about the uniqueness and creativity of local restaurants as opposed to local places that give towns some character? sorry if not all of us are okay with the new American landscape. big box stores, chains and overall poor-quality, boring food and atmosphere. should I apologize to you that I find no redeeming qualities in having thousands of the exact same retail strip malls/restaurant blocks across the entire country that saps the soul out of our culture?
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:05 am to Rohan2Reed
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so it's wrong to care about the uniqueness and creativity of local restaurants as opposed to local places that give towns some character? sorry if not all of us are okay with the new American landscape. big box stores, chains and overall poor-quality, boring food and atmosphere. should I apologize to you that I find no redeeming qualities in having thousands of the exact same retail strip malls/restaurant blocks across the entire country that saps the soul out of our culture?
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:08 am to BayouBengal
Well, there is no good food north of I-10. So it doesn't matter where we eat.
I think a lot of this can be contributed to what feels comfortable. Also, some cities, espescially the ones tha thave sprung up recently around interstate exits, probably have little choice between a local greasy spoon and Applebee's.
I know in Huntsville, Al, the vast majority of the restaurants are franchise chains and there is little choice for local cuisine.
I think a lot of this can be contributed to what feels comfortable. Also, some cities, espescially the ones tha thave sprung up recently around interstate exits, probably have little choice between a local greasy spoon and Applebee's.
I know in Huntsville, Al, the vast majority of the restaurants are franchise chains and there is little choice for local cuisine.
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:11 am to Mike da Tigah
quote:Mike, my point was, he's in a different city, probly has an early flight, rushing, and didn't have the time, or, the want to snoop out a great local place. BUT, if he had started a thread about having a great omelet at Chilis, he would have had his arse handed to him about not supporting the local food scene and people feeling sorry for him, for not knowing better...Dis be re dick a lus!
take a taxi, ask around and go to one of the great local breakfast spots
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:12 am to Spoonie Luv
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They act like it's a huge, go all out on a Saturday night, deal.
So they're just acting? They couldn't possibly be enjoying themselves. Let's feel bad for people who obviously don't know that they're having a bad time, eating bad food with friends and family.
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:17 am to Spoonie Luv
I used to care where other people ate but then I grew up
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:19 am to Ole Geauxt
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Mike, my point was, he's in a different city, probly has an early flight, rushing, and didn't have the time, or, the want to snoop out a great local place. BUT, if he had started a thread about having a great omelet at Chilis, he would have had his arse handed to him about not supporting the local food scene and people feeling sorry for him, for not knowing better...Dis be re dick a lus!
I can't fault the guy for it. I'm just saying it's a sad state of affairs we live in today in the lack of really good food options that are available to choose from, ESPECIALLY when it comes to breakfast options. It's pathetic really. A man/woman's got to eat, but it's the chains that have a commanding death grip on most every single area in this country that rubs me the wrong way because they and their advertising dollars are what really dumbs down food and limits the options we have to choose from at the end of the day. Contributing to their delinqueny is a path I've personally choosen to try and avoid at all costs. I realize that's not an option when you're hungry and out of town and that's all you see before you are the mega chains. I just see my contributing to them and their dominance as one in the same as me feeding the problem.
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:28 am to Mike da Tigah
Mike, I partially see where you're coming from, but I think you're sort of missing the flip side of all of this.
While, yes, there's a proliferation of mediocre chain restaurants across the hinterlands of this country, where unknowing rubes flock to in earnest, there are a lot more interesting local places serving fresh innovative local food, in pretty much every little hamlet and burg I've visited of late.
30 years ago, you might find ONE place serving "Continental" cuisine, likely presided over by some sort of tired Austrian transplant, in most small or midsized towns, with the rest of the dining options being no less completely ordinary than what the chains you are deriding are now offering.
Not everyone is going to feel as passionate about dining on every meal as you are, and that's probably okay.
With the availability of the internet, however, and the "foodie" movement (yes, I hate the term as much as anyone), it's much more easy than ever to find an interesting place or two pretty much anywhere you go these days.
While, yes, there's a proliferation of mediocre chain restaurants across the hinterlands of this country, where unknowing rubes flock to in earnest, there are a lot more interesting local places serving fresh innovative local food, in pretty much every little hamlet and burg I've visited of late.
30 years ago, you might find ONE place serving "Continental" cuisine, likely presided over by some sort of tired Austrian transplant, in most small or midsized towns, with the rest of the dining options being no less completely ordinary than what the chains you are deriding are now offering.
Not everyone is going to feel as passionate about dining on every meal as you are, and that's probably okay.
With the availability of the internet, however, and the "foodie" movement (yes, I hate the term as much as anyone), it's much more easy than ever to find an interesting place or two pretty much anywhere you go these days.
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:32 am to Spoonie Luv
My wife absolutely loves Olive Garden. We go there when she picks where we go eat. We don't count it as a "big going out" night though.
The food is good and quick. There aren't many other Italian restaurants in the South Baton Rouge/Ascension area that I know of. DeAngelo's isn't that good, we go to Bravo occasionally and Little Village sometimes too, but she really jsut loves Olive Garden.
The food is good and quick. There aren't many other Italian restaurants in the South Baton Rouge/Ascension area that I know of. DeAngelo's isn't that good, we go to Bravo occasionally and Little Village sometimes too, but she really jsut loves Olive Garden.
Posted on 1/4/12 at 9:43 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Mike, I partially see where you're coming from, but I think you're sort of missing the flip side of all of this.
While, yes, there's a proliferation of mediocre chain restaurants across the hinterlands of this country, where unknowing rubes flock to in earnest, there are a lot more interesting local places serving fresh innovative local food, in pretty much every little hamlet and burg I've visited of late.
30 years ago, you might find ONE place serving "Continental" cuisine, likely presided over by some sort of tired Austrian transplant, in most small or midsized towns, with the rest of the dining options being no less completely ordinary than what the chains you are deriding are now offering.
Not everyone is going to feel as passionate about dining on every meal as you are, and that's probably okay.
With the availability of the internet, however, and the "foodie" movement (yes, I hate the term as much as anyone), it's much more easy than ever to find an interesting place or two pretty much anywhere you go these days.
It's coming. I'm just impatient I guess, but I see supporting local restaurants (THE GOOD ONES that is) as more than just supporting local good food and options, but also in supporting the local economy more and the local culture of the area, giving more back to the state and local than we do when we give money to chains, even franchises that don't contribute as much back in revenue to the state as does a local vibrant restaurant does especially in where their product comes from.
But in a perfect world, I'd rather contribute to the restaurant that not only does good principled food, but also buys local as well, supporting our local farmers and merchants, etc. I know we are a long ways off in that regard, but I see that as a winning recipe for all of our success both in the local flare of the area as in supporting our local infrastructure, creating a more vibrant local economy, supporting good and fresh food, etc. It's a win win for everyone in the long run because WE live here, and it's here that I care about, not the home office of the chain restaurant or the state it's in.
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