/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Only when I am trying to pick up high schoolers

>>10207459
What's a food court?

>>10207459
I miss going to the mall with my parents, my dad would always sneak off with me to the food court and we'd have lunch then go to the arcade. I miss my dad.

>>10207483
It is apart of many indoor American malls where there will be a group of fast food restaurants with only counter service surrounding a common dining area which is the court.

>>10207503
My family use to go weekly when I was a child and it is was nice but I prefer my freedom. As an adult I don't find them all that convenient. I almost never go to the mall and drive-thrus are faster but I rarely eat at fastfood since I am not out on the road as much.

>>10207530
Malls are dying since the large majority of shopping is done online these days. Food courts were more convenient when you had to spend hours shopping for clothes, appliances, etc and by the end of the day you were starving.

>>10207510
Sounds positively barbaric.

>>10207468
>lets run up and punch someone with a gun

>>10207546
Well we were making special trips to eat out. It was a custom my parents started when they were younger except back then they were going to restaurants. The area they came from had economical non-fastfood restaurant choices. I don't really even shop online so that's not why I rarely go to the mall.

>>10207483
it's where americans are sent to be tried for food crimes, such as letting their deep frying license expire

>>10207560

>>10207510
What's a mall?

>>10207569
A structure housing retail locations called stores from which you purchase with paper and metallic currency or credit/debit cards various items for sale.

>>10207459
i used to fap at full force over this gril until i heard a vocaroo from her. 5 minutes of constant whinging.

>>10207568
Heh. There's actually a comedy where a gangster hands a deep-fried gun to a carnival-goer who's marrying the bosses daughter.

>>10207546
>malls are dying
>live in a city where the only entertaining thing to do is go to the one mall
>If mall closes, there will literally be nothing to do

No wonder everyone here is shooting up heroin.

>>10207581
So a physical internet.
>ITT: mothball stinking fuckers

>>10207599
Heh.

>>10207599
>>10207657
heh

>>10207599
>>10207657
>>10207658
Heh

>>10207459
Yes but only if I know what I'm getting into. As a rule I avoid unknown booth restaurants after having the absolute shittiest Asian food one time about 4 years ago.

>hungry in mall
>go to food court
>get sentenced to life in pretzels

>>10207459
Oh boy, the pathetic roastie orbiters are infecting other boards now. No better than /pol/ at this point.

>>10207681
go figure. i thought that was a tranny

>people still go to malls in the year of our lord 2018

literally why

>>10207778
people with gineys in them go there. people with giney fillers go there to fill some gineys

>>10207778
Because it's the closest place to access quite a few different sorts of stores, and there's lots of parking.

>>10207669
>appeal and get probation
>have to get blood sugar levels tested every week

>>10207681
Wat

Ciara likes to swing by Neptune's every once in a while to pick up a footlong

>>10207778
To walk in un-niggered areas.

>>10207778
It can be a fun atmosphere with friends. Most of them aren't very fun anymore due to the clientele and the stores catering to said clientele.
I would say it's a snowball effect of less affluent people going of internet, so less stores catering to them which leads to less affluent people going, and on and on and on.

>>10207510
Oh wow I've just been to one of those last week. I got KFC and my friend got chinese and we shared each other meals. Then I went to another shop and got us desserts and we ate them and then we took our trays and put them in a place where the cleaning ladies take them and clean them up to take them back to the stores.
It was kinda fun. I didn't know that was a mainly American thing.

>>10207655
Yes, it's so primitive that it doesn't even have an adblock.

>>10207459
who exactly is this greasy 4/10 kid and why do I keep seeing pics of her (him?) posted around?

I go to food carts

I try not to, the seating is terrible, and there's always a kid screaming himself into a prolapse

>>10208020
Orbiters.

>>10207503
rip

>>10207546
I walked through the nearby mall today for shits and giggles. Over a quarter of the space had nothing in it, a lot of the shops had restricted hours, the Dilliards is closing down and has turned into an outlet center where they’re trying to get rid of all their inventory and is also now only one floor, and the only place that seems to have any regular business is the food court and the movie theater.

It’s a little strange to see something that was so ubiquitous growing up dying a slow painful death.

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>>10207599
What is the nature of the "heh"? Is it just a form of slight acknowledgement through quick oral expulsion of air?
Or does it have a sarcastic undertone to it?
It occurs to me that sometimes the "heh" can be rather low-tempo and downtrodden, is that another form of acknowledgement, in this case of something the one "heh"-ing perceives as negative? Or is it just an advanced form of the "sigh" which shares a lot of traits particular to the negatively intonated "heh"?

>>10208109
Must be how boomers feel about drive in theaters

>>10208129
>being this autistic

you can't simply categorize & summarize every human social nuance, dear anon

>>10208160
I can try

>>10208160
But the very idea of autism was conceived in an effort to do so.

>>10208137
Must be how boomers feel in general

>>10208220
>>10208137
So after a mall closes, what do you do with all that space?

>>10208224
amazon warehouse

>>10208129
its an abbreviated laugh, dumbass. obviously you aren't lol-ing out loud when you do it, but you still want to acknowledge something. and like any other word or phrase it can be inflected sarcastically. if you slow it down it's more of a sigh. but, again, you can say just about anything in a forlorn, breathy tone, so then it's just a sad abbreviated laugh.

>>10208338
It's not an abbreviated laugh as that would mean you are trying to express some form of joy/madness or any other emotion normally expressed by laughing

Using joy as an example, it's a much greater emotion than what is displayed by simply utilizing a "heh" to express yourself.

You don't laugh to acknowledge someone/something and you don't "heh" to actually express some emotion, it's simply a way to connect between the acknowledging of that emotion and the actual expression that follows afterward

>>10208380
Everything you wrote there is just wrong. Go away and rethink your analysis from scratch. This is a food and cooking board, so I'm not going to waste time here helping you.

>>10208224
Nothing. Someone either buys up the property, or the bank owns it until its inevitably due to be demolished.

>>10208394
Nice try, you can't just disparage me from analyzing your language usage by telling me I'm wrong without providing substantial evidence

>>10208419
>Failing in attempt to sound smart

>>10208380
"hehehehe" giggling/chuckling is a way of expressing entertainment and laughing, too. not a boisterous HAHAHA laugh, sure. but it is still a laugh.

it's analogous to a "HA!" as in "HA! I got you (and i find that funny)"

but instead it's "heh" as in "Heh. that was pretty good (and i found it amusing, but not necessarily hilarious)"

ultimately it's probably used mostly as an expression of acknowledgement that you heard and interpreted somebody else so they don't feel ignored/unheard. a courtesy to a lame joke, if you will.

>>10208129
it's a laughing noise you fucking spazzoid

>>10208427
At least I still try

>>10208380
>You don't laugh to acknowledge someone/something and you don't "heh" to actually express some emotion, it's simply a way to connect between the acknowledging of that emotion and the actual expression that follows afterward

by the way, this statement doesn't make any sense and i doubt it has any foundation in your psych 101 book. anecdotally: i chuckle and chortle to myself while i'm alone as much as i laugh out loud while i'm alone. which can be pretty frequent when i'm responding to tv, radio, books...

>>10208443
Yeah you'd have to

>>10208467
>being this mad at someone on the internet

>>10208480
respond to me>>10208428 >>10208449 then, brainlet.

>>10208559
(you)

>>10208563
thanks, dummie.

>>10208129
thanks, this post is like a window into the mind of autism. it will help me to study your kind

>>10208129
>>10208380
>being actually autistic

slow down, boys. we got a live one

Where else am I supposed to get cheap, greasy mongolian food?

>>10208701

>mongolian food

I didn't realize Mongolia was so big on shrimp... and basically everything else in that pic.

i do sometimes.
my local mall has this asian place that gives you a shit ton of food for like $6.
meanwhile, right across from it is panda express where you pay almost $10 just for like 5 tiny chicken nuggets drizzled with "orange sauce".

My shopping adventures are pretty quick these days. I already know what I'm buying and where from. I just park in the closest carpark to the shop I'm going to and be in and out within 20 minutes.
No time to sit and eat trash food.

>>10207503
anon :((

>>10208129
open your wrists

>>10208129
>What is the nature of the "heh"?

>>10208224
Demolish it and sell the land, or build something else on top of it. The mall near me that closed down became several stores, including a grocers and hardware.

>>10208746
This is all males and shopping. I don't understand why you thought this was special.

I was at somewhere with a food court for the first time in a while last year. Got an egg roll, arby's roast beef and curly fries and a taco.

>>10207459
Yeah, I just schedule my food court day for when the chef has his day off to avoid eating the ticket

>>10207459
I wish I could piss in that cup and make her drink it.

>>10208224
In my area that has happened twice. One of them was turned into a strip mall. The other was used in part as an indoor flea market until they carved out the center to drop a Home Depot in the middle.

>>10208129
heh

>>10208224
Massive parking lot.

>>10207655
basically yeah, they're obsolete and running out of business. used to be THE place to be in the 90's, now the only people who go there are Mexicans

>>10209426
Basically a carpark for the bus.

>>10208129
Every time I try and quit this place, there is a post like this that reminds me why I'm here

>>10210277
>check em man

>>10207459
I rarely go shopping at malls anymore and when I do I'm in and out as soon as possible.

>>10207546
I think it really depends on the area which the mall is at and the convenience of getting to that mall. Ever since this one mall in my city was built all the other old ass malls died quickly because getting to them was a chore and all the stores were at the new one. There's this one mall that seems to be stuck in the 90s with generic named stores and a food court that smells like Burger King. Even has a black light bowling alley/movie theater. Only thing keeping it alive is the massive Bass Pro Shop sticking out of it like a tumor.

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>>10208129
Heh heh

I go to malls specifically for pic related and nothing else

>>10210447
What, the dank men's room where they raped a kid back in '76?

>>10207459
The best chinese food is always in the food courts. Plus, Sbarro's and Corn Dog Seven is always good.

>>10207459
>Food Courts
Nobody has done this since like 2005

>>10207503
>my dad would always sneak off with me
is that who he said he was?

>>10207468
Based steven. You got more webms?

>>10207546
Malls were likely a covertly planned response to the cold war that turned into a “regular” societal “thing”. As the cold war supposedly ended thete’s “no more need” for them any longer, and the way the retail situation had evolved both in and out of many malls just sort of killed a large chunk of the business.

That’s some greasy hair

>>10207593
It's that chick from r9k, right? The one one with the checkered shirt who works in a store?
Yeah, I heard she's super autistic.

Cecilia or something like that?

>>10211817
She's all over /r9k/ and /b/ loves her too. She loves the orbiters. She is pretty friggin' attractive to be fair, her bod is ridiculously nice and there's something really attractive about her generally. Total pain in the ass to be around irl I'm sure, but I'd be lying if I said she's not hot. Ciara I think her name is. Something like that.

>>10211778
Probably more of a response to people relocating to the suburbs where there is more land to build on so you aren't limited to just having large department stores. Plus to have a shopping district like in the big cities you would need to build it and most towns would be too small to turn main street into one. Also the affluence of post-WW2 America from being the only developed country left standing and unblemished helped spur on development.

>>10211778

Malls were planned to keep people from having to go shopping in the city and stay in the suburbs, so you didn't have to go shopping around the uppity post-WWII niggers. With the advent of internet shopping and niggers moving out of the hood, malls are in sharp decline.

>>10211852
In my limited experience near NYC blacks mostly just move from the hoods of the major city to the hoods of the suburbs. It is a very lateral move.

>>10208701
Shrimp dish from a landlocked country? Sounds legit.

>>10211842
> ridiculously attractive


LOLOLOLOLOLOL

>>10211867
They're not shrimp. They are just really big head lice.

>>10211868
>Sobbed the jealous porkplanet
She's hot as fuck, go look around the site, constant threads all over the place. people are aching to get their mitts on her bits.

>>10211898
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

>>10211842
Those breasts look real nice.

>>10211898
All she has is a decent rack, the rest of her is 7/10 at best.

>>10211902
>Weeped the woefully inferior blubbernaut

>>10207593
She's some drug addled greasy haired chan autist literal whore.

>>10211916
Isn't 7/10 good enough? That's pretty good in my book.

>>10211927
Whatever your manlet ass can swing, I guess.

>>10211923
>Bawled the crying blubbernaut

>>10211842
>attractive
She's not, man. r9k are just so desperate for interaction with a real female that any girl who talks to them is automatically considered a 10.
You shouldn't give terrible people a free pass just because you think they have a pretty face anyway. Set the bar a little higher for yourself.

>>10207778
Haven't been to a mall in two years but malls used to have the best looking bitches. Granted they're either jailbait, housewives or gold diggers and they're all vapid af but grill watching was the best when you're 14 to 19 virgin years.

>>10211941
No sane man passes up a 7/10.

>>10207989
What are you a Korean exchange student with massive autism? How do you NOT know how food courts work?

>>10208020
Once she posted on xeddit and ever since /b/tards can't stop cyberstalking this autistic tranboy.

>>10211943
>orbiting this hard

>>10211849
>>10211852
The vast “expansion” of the “modern” type of shopping mall happenned during the start of the cold war.
“Mall construction in America was encouraged by the accelerated depreciation laws of 1954, which incentivized greenfield development on the urban fringe. A second stimulus came from legislation passed in 1960, which allowed investors to band together in REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) to avoid corporate income taxes.”
^A change in federal legislation helped spur the growth of malls.
“The fully enclosed shopping mall did not appear until the mid-1950s.”
“The idea of a regionally-sized, fully enclosed shopping complex was pioneered in 1956 by the Austrian-born architect and American immigrant Victor Gruen.”
“In the United States, in the mid-1990s, malls were still being constructed at a rate of 140 a year. But in 2001, a PricewaterhouseCoopers study found that underperforming and vacant malls, known as "greyfield" and "dead mall" estates, were an emerging problem.”
“In 2007, a year before the Great Recession, no new malls were built in America, for the first time in 50 years”

>>10211978
For a quick fuck, yes. Manlets pine over them though.

>>10211849
>>10211852
>>10212006
“The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period between 1947, the year the Truman Doctrine, a U.S. foreign policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism, was announced, and either 1989, when communism fell in Eastern Europe, or 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.”

>>10208224
Just imagine. In your town or city malls were made and took over whatever space that existed before. First forests then farms then houses and apartments then smaller stores then malls were made then they'll be made to parking lots. Thus is the urban cycle of death is complete.

>>10212006
>>10212012
Enclosed malls started to be built within ten years of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and the start of the cold war, and ended within ten years of the general end of the cold war.
“ Brutalist architecture flourished from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, descending from the modernist architectural movement of the early 20th century.“
“Brutalism became popular with governmental and institutional clients, with numerous examples in English-speaking countries (the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia), Western Europe (France, Germany, Italy), the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc”
“Examples are typically massive in character (even when not large), fortress-like, with a predominance of exposed concrete construction,”
“Brutalism became popular for educational buildings (especially university buildings),”
“Brutalism became favoured for many government projects, tower blocks (high-rise housing), and shopping centres.”
Brutalism started around the same period, and was popular in countries that were involved in the cold war, or stuck between the major powers.

>>10207459
Who is this whore?

All of the verbiage doesn't connect the appearance of malls to an era of Soviet aggression as if it was a planned response.

>>10207560
If only

>>10212100
Brutalist architecture looked like bomb shelters essentially because it was designed as bomb shelters. This is the reason it was used for goverment buildings, archives, communication hubs, and college campus buildings which in many cases were located at colleges and universities with major science and technology departments. Enclosed malls started to be built during the same time period, in a similar architectural style, with few windows, large parking lots, and insude open spaces for concerts or other large assemblies, playgrounds, fountains, plants, pretty much everything you might need if you had to hunker down inside for a while to avoid domething like nuclear fallout.
In major cities, enclosed malls were also constructed similarly, but connected to underground transportation systems like subways. These same subways in many cases also connect to goverment buildings, and transportation hubs. I know that many also had nuclear shelters in them.

>>10211966
>She's not
Damn well is. and qt3.14's deserve free passes, they have gineys in them which make my sprinkle my tinkle. Amazing stuff

>>10212143
Realfuckingneato.png

>>10207503
When I was younger and my mom would be gone on a work trip, my dad would make me cook him dinner while he drank whiskey. For a lot of it I was really young, like 8 or something, so I would often fuck up the food then he would scream at me and whip me with a belt till I cried. Now I'm terrified of cooking

>>10212695
Awesome. I had a peaceful childhood and envy people who have cool tortured stories like these.

>>10212009
Actually, 9 or 10 out of 10 is quick fuck material. You want somewhere from 6 to 8 for long term relationships with the hope of marriage. Easy on the eye without being so desirable that they never had to develop a personality.

Unfortunately, lonely nerds treating this particular 7/10 as a 10/10 has probably ruined her personality.

>>10212138
>your chopping license has been revoked due to tapping violations

>>10208224
Leave it to rot so urbex punks can have a good time in there.

The busted mall near me turned into a community college campus. It was a really good, practical use of the space.

>>10207468
what movie? i loved Seagal when i was young, might just watch it

>>10212143
They had to put up a lot of buildings in a short period because of a burgeoning society and population explosion so that meant simple, functional over aesthetic structures. You are seeing what you want to see when you characterize all of them as fortress-like and nuclear shelters.

>>10207459
That would imply that anyone even goes into a shopping mall to begin with.

Eastland mall in Charlotte N.C. Was nice
Three story mall
Ice skating rink was 1st floor in middle of mall
Huge arcade, last mall arcade I have seen
Then the low income government housing popped up all around it
“They” started coming to the mall in huge packs
Shoplifting was out of control
Brawls in the very nice food court
Robberies
Shootings
My mom stopped taking me and my brother
Most smart white people stopped going
Police there multiple times per day
Police were attacked
Businesses loses
Finally the mall closed and sits in a pile of rubble to keep the junkies and homeless out

RIP

There’s niggers at the mall

>>10212695
kill yourself.

>>10214650
How does that sentence not look wrong to you when you type it?
Why do so many Americans fuck up something as obvious as singular/plural in their own language?

>>10214663
U wot m8

>>10214661
Okay you edge lord

>>10214661
I wish one of these days somebody would respond to this meme by linking a live video where they kill themself. Imagine the media shitstorm. It would be hilarious.

>>10214668
It's "There ARE niggers..." you retard.

>>10212711
Kys

I wish pepes and wojaks were banned outside of /r9k/

>>10208224
In Huntsville alabama, they bulldozed an old, decrepit, derelict, shopping mall, (was over 140 acres with parking lot included) and build an entire subdivision, with houses, apartments, shops, and a park/green space. Much better use of land and added to the productive tax base,

>>10207459
*fills you up with a hot, greasy, and relatively cheap male in a mall food court in your path*

>>10214902

>>10207503
may he rip in peace, anon. i miss mine too

>>10211981
Korean food courts work exactly the same way though

>>10212138
*cocks knife*

>>10207503
>>10215489
Inb4 some edgelord ruins it. That was really sweet. You just made me appreciate my dad so much more, thanks anons

>>10207459
There is no food court left at what passes for the mall in town.

I used to, back when that was a thing.

Now, get off my lawn, newfags!

>>10207459
Did a few weeks ago. It had a cool fish and chips place.

>>10211842
She made some big post recently-ish saying how she regrets posting herself on 4chan and attracting orbiters. Apparently she was orbiting someone and it didn't go well. I feel mostly bad for her.

>>10207459
Hardly anyone over 18 and under 70 goes to malls any more. They're dying.

>>10207503
I miss your dad too

>>10218407
They're not dying, they're changing. Everybody goes to those sprawling outdoor parks now, which are the same thing except outside and bigger.

>>10214698
Is and are are the same word, just conjugated.

All the food courts at my nearby malls are just meeting spots for the elderly and delinquents from the local high schools. The only stall that somewhat cares about it's appearance is Subway. Every other place is shitty Chinese food with a burned out sign that was installed in the 90s. It's very depressing.

>>10215209
>hot greasy males
sign me up

>>10207459
what do her feet smell like

>>10207459
do you go to the mall anymore?

>>10207468
He's that fat now?

>>10212695
It's because you're weak. You were supposed to overcome it and bring an end to your dad's alcohol dependence

>>10220543
lol not where I live, who would want to go shopping outside when it's fucking -14 out?

Malls in America are dying because you have to do too much walking in them and they don't give out mobility scooters like Walmarts do.

>>10211927
7/10 is nice and above average but that really shouldn't be considered "ridiculously attractive". That designation really should only apply to 9/10's and higher.

>>10210447
this and for Chick Fil A

>>10211852
so what was different about pre ww1 ones?

>>10207459
Of course, thats where the best pizza is, hands down.

>>10221150
oh honey, he's much worse

>>10222346
He retired as a walrus in the Arctic so it all worked out.

>>10221183
It's your fault for living there.

>>10207554
We don't lynch niggers there anymore so it's ok.

>>10207459
No. I like the pizza, but the place sells slices for $5 each, and they aren't even all that big.

>>10211842
Those titties are fucking nice, would motorboat then blast my sperm all over them

>>10208200
But you'll still be alone and autistic.

>>10207832
your mall must be new

>>10208129
heh

>>10207593
links?

I still get food from food courts, but always to-go. Way too many brown people loitering around to stay.

>>10207503
>I miss my dad.
Me too anon

>>10221188
No, the internet is killing them. That and the death of the middle class in general.

food courts are great when you cant decide what to eat so you just buy value menu items from 3 different places instead of a large meal from one place

>>10207560
Law & Order: Food Court

>>10213055
Our city did the same thing

>>10207468
Pretty sure there is a huge double chin hiding behind that beard now lol

>>10225240
ha, I remember going to the food court at Highland before it turned into an ACC campus. The vendors see you walking up to look at the different food spots and they start hollering at you to come to them. There was no one in there but me. Truly a sad sight.

>>10224377
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ciara+horan

>>10207459
He/she/xe needs to take a shower.

>>10207599
Heh.

>>10207459
I get too conscious about whether people are watching me eat and if they think I eat like a slob doing so. Once I went to Wendy's only to find that the entire staff was just looking at me finish my food, throw my trash, and walk out. It was really unnerving and since then I just can't ignore my surroundings while I eat anymore.

>>10222027
They had a more southern folk vibe, it was more of a thematic shift.

>>10214687
There would be no storm from 4chan

>>10214687
happened yesterday on twitch, nobody seemed to care

>>10208129
All these retards not getting it. Thank you for this heh breakdown senpai

>>10207459
Most of the malls around the country are nearly deserted but there are three withing 30 minutes of me that are crowded nearly all the time and on the weekend you can spend another 20 minutes looking for a place to park.

I used to at at the Arundel Mills food court about once a month.

>>10209173

>her

lol

>>10226253
Fuck off with this retarded faggot meme.

>>10221150

Yes... https://youtu.be/0xLhARLQXks

I work in a mall, and I still don't. I went there one day because I was tired of being at work, got a wrap from great wraps

wasn't that great, fuck food courts

>>10226283
fuck you faggot kys

>>10208224
Let homeless guys squat in it and taggers cover it in graffiti.

>>10226720
living in a city must be hell on earth.

>>10212138
Autism

>>10207468
H-he's fast!

>>10207503
where did he go?

>>10207468
>>10210736

>>10229369
>>10207468
Too bad there's only one movie he's been in that's /ck/ worthy.

>>10212695
Let the past die, kill it if you have to. Kill the boy.

Malls are at least 75% women's clothing stores, not much reason to go in there at all. Several local malls demo'd their interior and switched to separate exterior access for each store anyway.

>>10229765
>Malls are at least 75% women's clothing stores
>Generation Z cannot remember it being anything but this.
Sad.

>>10207459
assuming other anons go to the mall where the food courts are