/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5784326

I lived in Chicago for a year, I got this one guys.

Chicago's "food culture" is based on junk food. Since they have a chip on their shoulder about the importance of their city, and since their self image is based on being "kind of like New York (sic) but in the midwest", they read reviews of new restaurants in the New York Times, look around desperately to find something to "keep up" with, and since they already blew their load yapping about Alinea and they know they're starting to sound repetitive, they attempt to extend their affectations to hot dogs and greasy mystery meat slapped on a hot dog bun with pickled jalapeños.

So you end up with the absurdity of people saying "oh you came here and didn't like the food? well you went to the wrong portillos, you need to go to the one on clark and randolph not the one on lake and belmont, you IDIOT of course you wouldn't like the italian beef, dumb tourist". Seriously, they actually get THIS snobby about their local junk food.