/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19622009
Elk Tenderloin. Makes some fine steak. Really any game meat is better.

>>19268586
No fucking shit. I had this experience at a Red Robin in a nice suburban part of town.

> Go have lunch at Red Robin I frequent regularly with my mother because I care about her and we like bottomless fries.
> Sit down.
> Five minutes later the waitress and the manager sit this disheveled, clearly high/mentally disturbed homeless lady next to us.
> They give her fries, a milkshake, and a cheeseburger.
> She proceeds to scream, yell, and ask everybody if it is Christmas (it is March 3rd), and splatter ranch everywhere. She reeks of shit and mildew and piss
> Small children are terrified, parents eyeing her closely.
> Finally get up, pull the waitress aside, and ask her what possessed them to allow a mentally disturbed homeless person in.
> Sputters off an excuse "We are a compassionate group of people here at this Red Robin and want to aid the homeless. It's cold outside and she has no place to go."
> Manager comes over and advises me not to be discriminatory.
> We finish our food and pay zero tip.
> Call corporate that night and advise that it was the worst treatment I had ever received from staff and the most uncomfortable experience I ever had.
> Meal refunded via EFT, send me a 25-dollar gift card.
> Leave a nasty review.
> Pass by a week later, walk in, notice the manager has been replaced by an older corporate type.
> Turns out that had been his sixteenth complaint since they were treating the homeless to whatever and somebody finally sicced the health department or some shit so corporate sacked the manager.
> Still a bit wary about that place.

>>18636394
There's definitely a stigma. Try talking to an average joe about wine and you get called a wine connoisseur, a fruit basket, or a girly man. Honestly, I just like French table wine, Bordeaux, and those cheap ass Beaujolais that cost 12 USD a bottle. Can get fucking slammed for cheap.

Really though, it just shows insecurity. Drink what you want and fuck judgmental cunts. Life's too short to waste cycles on that shit.

>>18623125
Honestly, I've been doing this for the last ten years. I refuse to buy name brand on most things unless there is a damned good reason to do so. Pasta is not one of those things. Pasta sauce is a different matter. Really what matters is the ingredients. RAO pasta sauce is superior to whatever slop in a can Hunts puts out.

>>18623234
Seriously, you might as well get bennies if you can. The government is just going to hand them out. There used to be a guy with a question mark suit in the 90's who told people how to do that and it was cool.

>>18623254
The sad part is that Sysco can actually deliver a decent product, i've eaten hospital food from preem hospitals and university cafeterias, and it was very good.

>>18622564
Good luck, everything is suffering from shrinkflation, which used to be a term only budget minded consumers knew about, but now your average joe knows about it. Shit, I think a few months ago costco reduced their bacon bits to 1.25 lbs from what, 2 lbs?

>>18621984
We shop at discount stores whenever possible. Ethnic stores USED to be the place to go, but now white people are not afraid, and they hiked prices. The discount stores are dying because their stock is disappearing since demand for any sort of deal is up. We fish and hunt as much as possible where I live.

>>18542924
Marie Sharp's brand of hot sauces are some of the best for the money. They have a decent heat profile and a nice fresh backing. Versatile, good for a lot of foods. It's also run by an old Belizean lady and not some beaded hipster cunt or a boomer faggot.

>>18171453
Fuck these cunts. If you have somebody with that many allergies, make them a bowl of lentil soup and butter and serve everybody else a nice meal of chicken, steak, with a nice, paired wine.

If they throw a fit, tell them they are welcome to it. If your friends stand behind the other friend, fuck them, find new friends who don't support SJW-tier Narrative Complex Alphabet People Delusional Faggotry.

>>6780457
because he doesn't tip