/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16716981]

>That mediocre restauraunt that friends and family drag you along to way to often
what's her name, /ck/

[Anonymous No.16716993]

>>16716981
You fucking posted it.

>300 cars in the parking lot, hour wait time for a seat
>Not even good
WHY

[Anonymous No.16717000]

>>16716993
Its all about that cinnamon butter.

[Anonymous No.16717001]

>>16716981
Five Guys

[Anonymous No.16717006]

>>16716981
Texas Roadhouse is actually pretty good what are you talking about.

[Anonymous No.16717012]

>>16717006
Not since they changed their chicken critters.

[Anonymous No.16717033]

[Anonymous No.16717035]

>>16717012
If you're not getting a steak that's user error

[Anonymous No.16717052]

>>16716981
>>16717001
>>16717033
These and some catfish place. Catfish tastes like catfish. There is no significant difference between fresh caught, prepped hourly, and fried in brand new oil catfish and frozen catfish baked in the oven. You may as well go out of the way to go to a hot dog stand.

[Anonymous No.16717068]

There’s a few local places but as far as chain places go, Applebee’s and Buffalo Wild Wings.

[Anonymous No.16717071]

>>16716981
I enjoy this place quite a bit if you don’t have an hour wait. I’ll take the 26 ounce bone in rib-eye medium rare with a side salad with ranch dressing and a baked potato loaded with butter, sour cream, cheese, and bacon

[Anonymous No.16717077]

>>16717071
Post hand

[Anonymous No.16717084]

>>16717052
Literally never seen a more misleading an egregiously false post on here before. The difference between some shitty fucking farm-raised channel catfish, and wild caught local blue catfish fried the same day is literally the biggest jump in quality. Are you trying to throw off the coasties from your little catfish hole?

[Anonymous No.16717087]

>>16717006
they only have like 3 non-beef items on the menu

[Anonymous No.16717089]

>>16717077

[Anonymous No.16717093]

>>16716993
>>16717052
just call in ahead and you can skip the wait entirely

[Anonymous No.16717096]

>>16717084
Forgot to mention that blues are only better if they're younger.

[Anonymous No.16717106]

>>16717084
He might be a coastie. Ive never personally tried catfish but my older bro fished and caught some, told my pop how gross it was. Turns out if you get em out of a dirty river they're gonna taste dirty according to my dad

[Anonymous No.16717109]

>>16717033
I don't get what it is with olive garden, when I was a kid I thought it was like the best pasta ever, but as an adult I prefer almost any local italian place

[Anonymous No.16717111]

>>16717077
I more or less order the same thing. That's an acceptable amount of food for a grown man.
Post height, manlet.

[Anonymous No.16717133]

>>16717106
Sit them in a horse trough with water running to it from a hose overnight.
That's what I do for channel cats.
It can be pretty good and they're fucking everywhere so I eat them when I can.

[Anonymous No.16717150]

>>16717133
Ah, I'll try to remember that next time I talk to him. I've never liked fishing personally but he goes now and again still.

[Anonymous No.16717164]

>>16717111
You misunderstand. I just have a hand fetish. Yours is very cute. :)

[Anonymous No.16717171]

>>16717164
Awh you little rascal :^)

[Anonymous No.16717180]

>>16717087
>steak house chain
>com-pains about non-beef menus items
Just go to Chick a filet

[Anonymous No.16717210]

the government says im not allowed in restaurants anymore haha

[Anonymous No.16717213]

>>16716981
>salty steak
>miserable sides
>dry skimpy ribs
Best part of the meal is the free peanuts and Coke

[Anonymous No.16717237]

I drag my family to good local places and luckily they're pretty receptive. They still don't like sushi tho.

[Anonymous No.16717257]

>>16717213
>[Up
they don't do peanuts anymore

[Anonymous No.16717269]

>>16717237
I had a friend who hated sushi but one of our local places does "chinese" food as well which got him in the door.
Now he likes sushi.
Made him try uni the other day which was a laugh and a half. HAHA.
-Bill

[Anonymous No.16717293]

>>16717001
>Five Guys
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Argue all you want about the price point, but it certainly isn't "mediocre".

>>16717071
>I’ll take the 26 ounce bone in rib-eye medium rare with a side salad with ranch
>dressing and a baked potato loaded with butter, sour cream, cheese, and bacon
Wow. If true, I'm impressed.

For my money, Famous Dave's is mediocre at best. I ordered brisket, and they mix it 50/50 with fucking beef sausage.
I'd rather eat at Burger King.
Or for BBQ, Mission BBQ is great.

[Anonymous No.16717308]

>>16717293
You're right, it's not mediocre, it's just shit
The fries have the consistency of being undercooked, and the taste of being overcooked, it's impressive to be that bad at making the simplest fast food on the planet

[Anonymous No.16717321]

>>16717293
You’re right, 5 guys is below mediocre. Imagine not even seasoning the patties and having it clumsily wrapped in foil, having it batted around the kitchen by employees for a few minutes, then it getting it thrown into a generic paper bag from across the room, followed by them dumping soggy and greasy fries into the bag, then they hand it to you and charge you $20 for the privilege.

[Anonymous No.16717359]

>>16717321
Wow, I'm so sorry you never got enough attention from Mommy, but please don't take it out on others,
Five Guys burgers are better than any other fast food burgers available herre in Virginia, and are on par with "real restaurant" burgers for the same price.
The fries are certainly greasy, but I've never had any that were soggy.
And I have no idea what you're complaining about with the alleged lack of seasoning.
Don't be a hater.

[Anonymous No.16717376]

>>16717359
>alleged lack of seasoning
kek

[Anonymous No.16717381]

>>16717359
Wow, I feel bad for you not having a Wendy’s or a BurgerFi anywhere near you. Nevertheless, it’s considerably worse than most fast food and nowhere near the caliber of a nice burger at a sit down restaurant. Same price and I can get pic related with table service (gratuity included), nice presentation, access to beer and wine, and relax to chill tunes.

[Anonymous No.16717385]

[Anonymous No.16717402]

>>16717381
>Wendy’s
Five Guy's is vastly superior to Wendy's, Hardees, Burger King, Arby's, McDonald's, In-and-Out, Denny's, Buffalo Moe's, etc.

p.s. That bun in your pic _might_ be absolutely delicious. But it's a horrible presentation, since the black seeds look like mouse droppings.

[Anonymous No.16717411]

>>16717402
>Burger King
Correct
>the rest for burgers
lmao no (except maybe Buffalo Moe's which I've never heard)

[Anonymous No.16717416]

>>16717308
I honestly really like their burgers but you’re right, the fries are appalling. There’s an Arby’s like, 30 yards from the Five Guys closest to me so the one time a year I eat there I’ll just get a burger and then run through the Arby’s drive through for their curly fries.

[Anonymous No.16717429]

>>16717257
Not him, but they still do the peanuts where I live.

[Anonymous No.16717468]

>>16717359
I've eaten at several different five guy's around town where i live because my friends insist that it's great, and every single time the food is shit. pure shit. i get their whole gimmick is frying everything in shitty peanut oil, but it completely ruins every single thing they cook because they basically never change it out and cook everything in the same batch of shit oil. or at least that's what it tastes like. the fries don't even taste liek fries, just a mouthful of peanut-flavored mush, id rather eat peanutbutter off a spoon and call it a meal

[Anonymous No.16717477]

>>16717402
Wow, I’d go to any one of those over 5 guys greasy and bland burgers.

> since the black seeds look like mouse droppings.
>what are black sesame seeds
The bun is fantastic, made locally and then it’s toasted. They make their own aioli, use meat from local cattle, source the produce from local farmers, and get the cheese from a nearby creamery. The fries are cut in house and yes, they even make their own ketchup from scratch.

Same price as 5 guys, lol. There’s no competition of where to go between them.

[Anonymous No.16717532]

>>16717402
Five Guy's is alright at best, especially with their shit tier prices. It makes no sense that I can go to a fucking Wendy's and get a similar burger for half the price.

[Anonymous No.16717546]

>>16716981
I just went there yesterday and it fucking blew. Boring, overpriced food. Place was packed, too. Don't get it.

[Anonymous No.16717548]

>>16717532
I don't find Wendy's to be comparable but would be more likely to go there so I agree.
If you want a good burger just cook your own.

[Anonymous No.16717617]

>>16717035
I took a friend to Roadhouse who thought it was supposed to be some kind of BBQ joint so he ordered the Pulled Pork and ended up hating it. I don’t know how someone can fuck up that bad.

[Anonymous No.16717628]

>>16717293
Is true. I was there 2 weeks ago and that was my exact order with sweet tea. I took home two rolls and the bone fro my steak and gnawed on it at home on the couch while watching TV then my dogs had a go at it

[Anonymous No.16717669]

>>16717477
...except for the part where the bun looks like it's covered in mouse poop.
Not sure why anyone would make a product like this.

[Anonymous No.16717752]

>>16717669
It’s literally just unhusked sesame seeds.

[Anonymous No.16717756]

>>16717752
Still looks like mouse poop.
Not sure how this is unclear.

[Anonymous No.16717802]

>>16717756
And cream sauce looks like cum, ketchup looks like blood, chili looks like diarrhea, etc. what’s your point?

[Anonymous No.16717812]

>>16717802
>And cream sauce looks like cum, ketchup looks like blood, chili looks like diarrhea
No, no, and no.

>what’s your point?
The bun is disgusting,
No sure what part of this is difficult for you.

[Anonymous No.16717827]

>>16717812
>it wooks icky!! >:C
Okay little guy, run along now.

[Anonymous No.16717839]

>>16717827
Presentation is important, especially for restaurant food.
Why not just use regular sesame seeds?
FFS.

[Anonymous No.16717844]

>>16716993
Large groups go to places with mass appeal because the more people you're eating with, the more likely it is that at least one of them is a tastelet.

Eg: You never see a large group of white people at an Indian restaurant, because at least one of them "doesn't like curry" (ie, is an idiot).

[Anonymous No.16717854]

>>16717839
Flavor, duh. If you’re not a tastelet, you’d know what they actually are.

[Anonymous No.16717882]

>>16716981
Texas roadhouse is based. Are you getting the wrong items?

[Anonymous No.16717906]

>>16717854
I wouldn't know, I've never actually tasted mouse poop.

[Anonymous No.16717936]

>>16717906
You probably have, but whatever. More black sesame seeds, forbidden rice, and truffle for the adults.

[Anonymous No.16718126]

Texas road house is good for how cheap it is. I have not been in a few years but it was the cheapest ribeye in my state by far even before my veteran discount.
Unless prices have gone way up I am gonna put it on my to do list next time I am in a city

[Anonymous No.16718132]

>>16717000
its ok bro
i enjoy the hardcore wagie dancing though

[Anonymous No.16718152]

>>16717936
>forbidden rice
W-What makes it... forbidden?

[Anonymous No.16718154]

>>16718132
>wagie dancing
???

[Anonymous No.16718169]

>>16717381
That looks like something a teenager would make on a backyard bbq for his stoner friends.

[Anonymous No.16718180]

>>16718169
What high class fucking teenagers are you friends with that their stoner food looks like THAT?

[Anonymous No.16718192]

>>16718154

[Anonymous No.16718233]

>>16718180
Its a burger, iceberg lettuce, curly fries and a sesame seed bun with a ramekin of heinz ketchup.
>high class

[Anonymous No.16718240]

>>16716981
here in Texas, we just call that "Roadhouse"

[Anonymous No.16718252]

>>16718233
Teenage stoners can barely put together nachos, let alone grill a burger or source black sesame or make curly fries.

[Anonymous No.16718257]

>>16718180
unevenly cooked unseasoned curly fries
burnt sesame seed bun.
burger patty is black as charcoal

sticking a knife through a burger doesnt make it fancy

[Anonymous No.16718264]

>>16718257
Find me a teenager even capable of cutting a potato into fries, let alone cutting one into curly fries.

[Anonymous No.16718266]

>>16718252
>cant source sesame seeds or curly fries
Ever heard of a grocery store?

[Anonymous No.16718273]

>>16718266
Do you not know how inept and poor teenagers are?

[Anonymous No.16718283]

>>16718273
you overpaid for a meal that any idiot could have made at home, Take the L and move on

[Anonymous No.16718305]

This absolutely fucking retarded place called eggman. It's the most hipster pseudo-californian shitstain of a restaurant I've ever been to, they even replaced the lights with Edison bulbs. 2 eggs and toast is $8. A side of gravy is $4. Biscuits and gravy is fucking $16. I don't know what stupid assholes patronize this place to keep it in business but it pisses me the absolute fuck off.

[Anonymous No.16718322]

>>16717052
t. based swampjack who doesnt want people going and fishing his holes

More for us brother :^)

[Anonymous No.16718325]

>>16716981
Buffalo Wild Wings
>Hey it's payday let's fucking spend 1/4th our paychecks in one night on overpriced beer and chicken nuggets in sauce!
And it's every payday. I stopped going along after the 7th time.

[Anonymous No.16718430]

>>16718325
How little money do you make? I can't imagine spending $350+ at BWW.

[Anonymous No.16718701]

One time I ate here and didn't shit for a week and needed prescription strength laxatives. Worst week of my life, thought I was gonna die.

[Anonymous No.16718745]

>>16716981
>>16716993
Same. I'm forced to meet the trashy side of my family here for Christmas every year and literally everything I've tried there has been bland at best.
>>16717111
fatty

[Anonymous No.16718886]

>>16718233
>>16718257
Read>>16717477

[Anonymous No.16719148]

>>16718701
The bourbon chicken and rice is good, nothing else though

[Anonymous No.16719177]

>>16719148
>>16719148
>nothing else though
The ribeye is great
I always get it and its always cooked exactly as I specified rare

[Anonymous No.16719206]

>>16719177
they only have steak on certain days of the week

[Anonymous No.16719253]

>>16718745
>everything I've tried there has been bland at best
Went their twice. The chili is the only thing I'd call good. The chicken with gravy on it is decent. Don't order anything with barbeque sauce on it, it's incredibly bland

[Anonymous No.16719268]

Me and my frens used to rotate between Chili's, Applebees, TGIFs, and Pub 99. They're all different but in the grand scheme of things they're all the same.

Honestly I can't stomach that shit anymore but back in the day I enjoyed all of them. Gold Fever Wings from 99 is pretty much the only thing I still crave occasionally

[Anonymous No.16719277]

>>16716981
Almost all restaurants suck. I rarely ever go out to eat anymore. If I do, I honestly couldnt care less where it is, because the only reason I'm going is to hang out with friends. So, for me it's all about the company. Just be glad you're spending time with your family anon.

[Anonymous No.16719289]

frenchbros...

[Anonymous No.16719290]

>>16716981
>went on date with girl I had recently met
>she wants to go to Texas Roadhouse
>take her there
>she tells me it's her birthday tomorrow
>i figured they bring cake or something for birthdays, so i tipped off the wait staff
>things aren't going that well, not really feeling her
>get up to go to bathroom to think over exit strategy
>walk out and begin to walk towards table when i see conga-line of staff pushing over wooden horse and saddle device towards table while clapping
>way too awkward to go back now, make break for exit
>my last sight of her is through the window, sitting alone on saddle with a cowboy hat while wait staff sing her happy birthday
>she had to pay the bill
>blocked her number in advance

[Anonymous No.16719294]

>>16719277
This is the best attitude to have. If you wanted the best quality food, you could make it yourself. If you want to spend time with friends and family and a restaurant happens to be that opportunity, then who cares where you go if you're just there for the people anyway?

[Anonymous No.16719301]

>>16719290
You just left your sex doll at the Texas Roadhouse???

[Anonymous No.16719342]

>>16718240
>here in Texas, we just call that "Roadhouse"
What do you call Texas Toast?

[Anonymous No.16719359]

>>16718180
>What high class fucking teenagers are you friends with that their stoner food looks like THAT?
That might be the best burger on Earth, but it certainly doesn't look like it.

[Anonymous No.16719375]

>>16718264
>let alone cutting one into curly fries.
You do understand there's a machine for that, right?
Those aren't hand-carved by a master craftsman.
If you can turn a crank, you can make curly fries.

[Anonymous No.16719387]

>>16719342
toast

[Anonymous No.16719394]

>>16719268
>Me and my frens used to rotate between Chili's, Applebees, TGIFs, and Pub 99.
I will say Chili's is better than Applebees, but still nothing to write home about.
Not familiar with the other two.

[Anonymous No.16719400]

>>16719342
Panure au beurre et parfois au Texas

[Anonymous No.16719408]

>>16719277
>Almost all restaurants suck. I rarely ever go out to eat anymore.
Where I live, I'd say most restaurants suck, but the high end ones are a delight.
If you're going out rarely, then splurge.
Go to the kind of place that'll run two people $100-150 plus a good bottle of wine and the tip.
Almost always worth the price (at least where I live).
Ruth's Chris is going to cost you $100 per person, but just don't go there every week.

[Anonymous No.16719425]

>>16719294
>If you wanted the best quality food, you could make it yourself.
>Anyone can cook as well as chefs at a Michelin x-star restaurant.
Anon... I just, I mean, just wow.

[Anonymous No.16719457]

>>16719394
I haven't been to either in like 10 years so it's hard to say, the menus change enough where every couple years pretty much everything is different

Pub 99 is based in MA and has about 100 restaurants around New England. Same vibe, casual dining with piles of shit nailed to the walls.

[Anonymous No.16719462]

>>16719206
That can't be right

[Anonymous No.16719470]

>>16719342
Holla bread

[Anonymous No.16719540]

>>16719462
my bad
It's steak in evenings on weekdays, steak all day on weekends
My family are cheap bastards so we only ever go on weekdays

[Anonymous No.16719572]

>>16717133
Oh yeah put em in a horse trough why didn't I think of that? Gee thanks farmer brown, next time I go fishing I'll be sure to take my tractor down to the barn with my cooler full of live catfish and let em swim in my horse trough for a few days with the hose constantly running thanks for the great idea.

[Anonymous No.16719588]

>>16717416
Lol why is this always the case every 5 guys has an Arby's in close proximity to it.

My town has 2 Arby's and 2 five guys and both are right next to each other.

[Anonymous No.16719602]

I'll take the 16 oz ribeye cooked medium rare with mushrooms and onions, a Caesar salad with extra dressing on the side, a baked potato with butter and sour cream, a glass of Coke, and a bottle of A1 that I won't use but will have my wife put in her purse before we leave the restaurant. Thanks, hun.

[Anonymous No.16719607]

>>16717385
every single graduation, holiday, birthday. i hate the place. not a single thing on the menu that is worth eating. i will never eat at a restaurant with a view because of that place.

[Anonymous No.16719627]

>>16719602
what does that run you?

[Anonymous No.16719628]

>>16717385
A fellow WA fren. The trick with Anthony's is go for their all you can eat prawn basket and their seasonal desserts. Their crab cakes used to be awesome

[Anonymous No.16719649]

>>16719627
$25 or so before tax and tip.

[Anonymous No.16719662]

>>16717617
I ordered the pulled pork there once and it was frozen in the middle

[Anonymous No.16719672]

>>16719425
It could be that if you go to a particularly high-end restaurant they'll make food that's more complicated or unique-tasting than what you can make at home, but I said QUALITY. Even those high-end restaurants cut costs with cheaper ingredients that sacrifice quality where possible as long as it doesn't affect the taste too much. You think they're putting high-quality pasture-raised eggs and meat in everything? You think they're not using canola oil? Sorry to break it to you, friend... and that's just a couple examples. What you make at home can EASILY be of better QUALITY than ANY restaurant just based on ingredients like that alone. Restaurants are for novel experiences like having some unique/complicated dish you would never put the time in to make at home, and for spending time with people you care about sharing in an experience like that, but food at home is real nourishment.

[Anonymous No.16719687]

>>16717477
Lol no they don't. you are right about 5 guys but you are fucking crazy if you believe all the bullshit that restaurant is saying.
>Local bun
Large scale bread factory that delivers to half your state

>Aoli
put garlic in heavy duty industrial mayonnaises

>Local cattle
Cheapest 80/20 ground chuck u.s.
Food provides.

>Local creamery
Cheapest cheddar from u.s. foods

>Hand cut fry's
Maybe but it's literally a 50/50 shot it's just "natural style or rustic style curly fry's" from u.s. foods

>Home made ketchup
This one would be hard to fake but they could just serve normal ketchup and lie people wouldn't give a fuck if they knew and the average retard thinks all ketchup looks like Heinz

(side note: there is a bunch of brands from Cisco and us foods that are named local, from scratch, and homemade, scratch made, house made, ect. this is so restaurants can call something "local" or "house made" with out getting sued. I think one I know was a dessert and bread company and one was an appetizer and meat company like meatballs meatloaf lasagna ect)

[Anonymous No.16719702]

>>16717812
You are autistic

>>16717827
You are retarded
1) for believing that restaurants bullshit
2)for arguing with an autist

[Anonymous No.16719711]

>>16716981
Some local Japanese restaurant. What pisses me off the most is that it gives me diarrhea most of the time but they still insist on eating there a few times each month. Service is good at least.

[Anonymous No.16719726]

>>16716981
My step-mother used to steal ketchup bottles from Texas Roadhouse every time we went there. It wasn't a coincidence the ketchup bottles were always new looking and nearly full on the tables.

[Anonymous No.16719727]

>>16719672
Sorry, but there's just no way in hell the average /ck/ user can cook as well as a high-end chef.
I didn't say a damn thing about unique or complicated.
I AM talking about quality, don't fucking straw-man me.
The rest of your post convince s me that either:
A) You live in some shitburg fly-over town without a decent restaurant, or...
B) You're deliberately closeted, and refuse to accept reality.

Canola oil?
Jesus fucking Christ.

If the average cook could do as well as a high-end chef, we'd all be working at Ruth's Chris, ffs.
Either way, I feel sorry for you.

[Anonymous No.16719732]

>>16718745
>Your family goes to Texas road house FOR CHRISTMAS

Shut the fuck up you hillbilly inbreed trailer trash country bumpkin red neck

>Don't fuck your sister
>Don't go to TEXAS FUCKING ROADHOUSE for Christmas

For Christ sake man what the fuck have you ever considered telling your retarded family to cook a home made meal I mean fuck maybe try telling them if they stay home they get to watch Nascar Texas Roadhouse doesn't show NASCAR

[Anonymous No.16719738]

>>16719702
>You are autistic
Probably not, but I did fuck your Downy sister last night.

[Anonymous No.16719742]

>>16716981
They loved cracker barrel on road trips
of course this is back when cracker barrel was pretty good in the '90s and mostly in Tennessee. There were long wait times before you could be served so they could take breaks from driving.
everyone is dead now though

[Anonymous No.16719744]

>>16719727
I prefer eating at home to literally any restaurant. Restaurants exist to provide an entertainment experience, not actually nutritious and satisfying food. Fight me, faggot.

[Anonymous No.16719753]

>>16717844
shut up shitskin

[Anonymous No.16719756]

>>16719425
>You just outed your self.

Get the fuck back to the fast food thread adults are talking.

Almost anyone is capable of making an excellent meal unless you're severely retarded or handicapped, with the vast amount of cooking shows YouTube channels and millions of free online recipe websites and cookbooks there is no excuse for anyone to not (at the worst) be an okay cook.

[Anonymous No.16719759]

>>16719744
You're either a better cook than 99% of /ck/ or just an super-opinionated asshole.
Either way, let's not pretend the average cook is better than a high-end chef.
Oh wait, are you like so poor you can't eat out, maybe?

[Anonymous No.16719762]

>>16719756
>there is no excuse for anyone to not (at the worst) be an okay cook.
If you don't live somewhere where a good restaurant does better than an "okay cook", PLEASE move.

[Anonymous No.16719780]

>>16719738
>I don't have a sister but I have a fat brother who I think is autistic also.

>Retard and faggot confirmed

[Anonymous No.16719785]

>>16719727
You just sound like a shit cook

[Anonymous No.16719795]

>>16719785
You sound incoherent and delusional.

[Anonymous No.16719810]

>>16719759
>>16719762
Tell me, exactly what does a restaurant do that a normal person can't do at home? Again, barring very complicated or time-consuming things that would take a home cook a whole day or multiple days to do at an individual scale. I'm not going to be making beef wellington at home or anything, but what's the difference between me cooking up a medium-rare ribeye at home and basting it in butter with garlic and herbs, and a restaurant cooking up the same meal? The main difference I can see is the amount of control I have over what goes into it, like being able to buy local pasture-raised beef and higher quality butter when I cook at home, plus the cost will be way better overall despite buying better quality ingredients.

Restaurants and restaurant chefs aren't some magical things, there are some things they can do better because of their scale, but for the average meal people get from restaurants they could make it at home just as well. You're paying for convenience, atmosphere, and entertainment, not quality.

[Anonymous No.16719811]

>>16719762
1) fuck cities
2) that's not what I said and you know it faggot, what I said was there is no reason for anyone to not be able to make at the worst an ok meal by ok meal I am referring to restaurants that are the tier above their tread like say a good local Italian place or a steakhouse.

Are you telling me you can't cook an ok meal and need restaurants in order to have meal that is more complicated then dino nuggets and Kraft dinner?

[Anonymous No.16719813]

>>16719795
At least I can cook faggot

[Anonymous No.16719822]

>>16719813
So can I.
But your claim was restaurant chefs can't do as well as "okay cooks", and/or high-end restaurants skimp on the ingredients.
Sorry, but you're just wrong.

[Anonymous No.16719847]

>>16717111
Those are the hands of an overweight man

[Anonymous No.16719903]

>>16717381
Thumbnail looks like a pasta pirate wielding a scimitar

[Anonymous No.16719964]

>>16719753
Found the aforementioned tastelet.

[Anonymous No.16720203]

>>16717385
There's one in the fucking Tri Cities now

[Anonymous No.16720225]

>>16717033
Went there for a friend's birthday party, got there a little late, paid $16 bucks for a square inch of lasagna. Asked "when's the second course" as everyone was getting up to leave. Was so baffled by how shitty it was and I've never been back since.

[Anonymous No.16720266]

>>16717180
The best stuff is always whatever the restaurant DOESN'T specialize in

[Anonymous No.16720270]

>>16719759
Upvoted! But this xir some gold

[Anonymous No.16720297]

>>16719289
I looked at some food pics, and it doesn't look too bad. But then again I think a French chain would have better presentation than a 'murrican chain.
I'm guessing it just tastes bland?

>>16717359
Southerner here, I would rather bring friends to a checkers than a 5guys. And if I'm in Texas a whataburger.

[Anonymous No.16720372]

>>16719810
>complicated or time-consuming things that would take a home cook a whole day or multiple days to do at an individual scale
There you go.

[Anonymous No.16720767]

>>16720297
It's really bland yeah. You basically only pay for the meat/fish and the sides are an all you can eat buffet.

[Anonymous No.16720997]

>>16717385
I had their crab linguine and it was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.16721003]

>>16720372
But that's not the most common type of thing people get at restaurants. Plenty of people go to restaurants and buy burgers, steaks, chicken wings, salads, sandwiches, etc, etc. You saying you can't make any of those things just as good or better than any restaurant, even if you follow a recipe? In >>16719727 you literally said:
>I didn't say a damn thing about unique or complicated.
So that tells me you think a fancy restaurant can make a steak or burger so good you could never hope to replicate it. To me that's just incredibly sad.

[Anonymous No.16721044]

>>16721003
>You saying you can't make any of those things just as good or better than any restaurant, even if you follow a recipe?
If we're talking about a decent restaurant, then the cook is better than you are.
Far more experience, and will get sacked if he's not better than average.
Not sure why you think a good chef is a below average cook.

[Anonymous No.16721073]

>>16721044
The measure of a good cook at a restaurant is being able to work quickly, consistently, and make dishes pleasing to the eye. If you follow a recipe at home, it might take you a couple hours to make the food and it might turn out kind of ugly and you might not be able to consistently recreate it so it looks the same every time, but it will TASTE just as good as long as you don't completely fuck it up.

I don't understand this idea you have that a nicely seared medium-rare steak basted in garlic butter and herbs somehow magically tastes different and infinitely better in a restaurant than it could ever at home. You haven't even explained it, you just keep repeating, "Hurr, if restaurant cooks didn't make food better then how come they exist, durr." It just sounds like you're a dumb teenager who's never cooked anything in his life. Tell me what makes a steak from a fancy restaurant taste better than a steak you make at home with the same ingredients, since you ruled out both complexity and uniqueness earlier and keep insisting that all restaurant dishes automatically are superior no matter what. So qualify it and explain it.

[Anonymous No.16721074]

>>16719375
I cooked pretty good as a teenager but I still thought curly fries came frozen only. The burger doesn't look like a Michelin star meal but it is clearly not the work of a teenager.

[Anonymous No.16721123]

>>16721073
Not gonna read all that.

>The burger doesn't look like a Michelin star meal but it is clearly not the work of a teenager.
Bun aside, it looks like crap.
Burger is pitch black,
Iceberg lettuce, congealed cheese. mystery sauce.
No thanks.

[Anonymous No.16721142]

>>16721123
>Not gonna read all that.
I accept your concession.

[Anonymous No.16722210]

>>16716981
My Boomer Mom loves Chilis. We don't go often, I think last we went to a chain was maybe 8 years ago. When I take her out we go to local places that actually make the food there.

[Anonymous No.16722236]

>>16719290
what kind of mental illness causes someone do do such a heinous thing

[Anonymous No.16723124]

I will never step foot into a Boston Pizza ever again, never have I seen so many human hairs in my food. Even more hair when I sent it back for a new plate. I refuse to set foot in anything that resembles a boston pizza.

[Anonymous No.16723126]

>>16716981
This mediocre Mexican place that my dad can't get enough of.
I've never craved a meal from there, everything tastes the same and me and my dad work together so I get dragged back in several times a week. At this point I've had a chance to try most of the menu and I still haven't had anything that impressed me.

[Anonymous No.16723135]

>>16716993
You forgot
>covered in peanut shells
>everything 2X as expensive as it needs to be
>can't cook a rare steak

[Anonymous No.16723151]

For me it's this shithole

>what if we served southern food
>except made everything really bland
>and also forced you to walk through a giant overpriced gift shop
>where your wife will spend 20 minutes looking at dumb knicknacks after the meal

[Anonymous No.16723157]

>>16717293
Five Guys is probably the biggest culinary disappointment I've experienced.
It's just Burger King with bland fries.
Oh, but twice the price, of course.

[Anonymous No.16723168]

>>16719572
Imagine actually being a citycuck

[Anonymous No.16723173]

>>16722210
My mom loved Applebees and Red Lobster. I think part of it was that her taste buds were worn out, part of it was the nostalgia factor, and part was that she spent the last half of her life in Cincinnati, not exactly a food mecca.

[Anonymous No.16723212]

>>16719290
What a man, that'll teach that roastie to like dating guys

[Anonymous No.16723231]

>>16723212
cunt detected

[Anonymous No.16723344]

>>16717381
>BurgerFi
Shitty hipster memburger place that can't cook to order.
Burger joints outside of fast food were a mistake.

[Anonymous No.16723352]

>>16717936
>forbidden rice
Please tell me you aren't Sicilian

[Anonymous No.16723358]

>>16718325
They sell wings there too retard

[Anonymous No.16723372]

>>16719342
>What do you call Texas Toast?
Williams

[Anonymous No.16723664]

>>16723157
>It's just Burger King with bland fries.
Nope, that's just factually incorrect.
But hey, you do you.

[Anonymous No.16723672]

>>16723344
>can't cook to order.
>>16723344
>Burger joints outside of fast food

Ummmm....
Please name a fast food burger joint that _does_ cook to order.

[Anonymous No.16723728]

>>16723151
>>16719742
This. I fucking hate Cracker Barrel. At one time, they did at least have a great selection of candy behind the registers in those glass canning jars. But the place was packed, the food sucked, and I seemed to always have a dirty glass. Yet my parents thought the place was great.

[Anonymous No.16723732]

>>16717293
>it isn't "mediocre"
you're right, it's irredeemably awful and a certain waste of money.

[Anonymous No.16723756]

>>16723732
What's with all the hate for Five Guys?
You do understand that they're very popular, even at their price point, right?

[Anonymous No.16723839]

>Gf constantly goes here
>Literally a 15 minute wait because the lines are always wrapped around the building
Bojangles has better chicken for less of a wait time

[Anonymous No.16723858]

>>16723151
>>16719742
is decent food dirt cheap. I got a 4 piece fried chicken with 3 sides for 15 bucks last time, and it was good fried chicken

[Anonymous No.16723868]

>>16723839
sounds like you're not hitting her enough or at all. start off with a heavy slap on the top of her head. this will be very shocking for her. while she is recovering, slap her face hard with your palm. you also need to shout and yell at her either before or after. shouting and yelling can be replaced with cold silence as necessary

[Anonymous No.16723886]

>>16716981
black bear diner...
cheap generous servings of mediocre

[Anonymous No.16723931]

>>16723839
I don't get it, kfc is so much fucking worse than chick fil a, bojangles, and popeyes yet it feels like there are 5 KFCs for every non-KFC chicken joint

[Anonymous No.16723947]

>>16717385
Yup, fuck this place. All the servers at the gig harbor location are on heroin

[Anonymous No.16723961]

>>16717111
Nice hand. Good job.

t. another lady who likes hands.

[Anonymous No.16723980]

>>16717033
Delicious fresh frozen Italian

[Anonymous No.16723992]

https://www.yelp.com/biz/colemans-smoke-house-alexandria-bay

[Anonymous No.16723996]

>>16723886
Black Bear is great for the hangover and much better than Denny's/ihop, but normally second banana to your local diner

[Anonymous No.16724006]

>>16723151
go fuck yourself

[Anonymous No.16724016]

>>16723839
kfc is a money laundering operation where i live
no one is ever inside or in the drive thru, yet they somehow manage to stay in business

[Anonymous No.16724032]

>>16716981
golden CORRAL
the only western town buffet in our area.
there's a really nice asian buffet but the exterior looks like nothing's inside

[Anonymous No.16724160]

>>16717844
it's not worth the 16% fecal content

[Anonymous No.16724182]

>>16719290
Wow what an asshole.

[Anonymous No.16724867]

>>16716981
Sonny's BBQ
They used to be top tier in the 90's though.

[Anonymous No.16724905]

>>16716981
Local teppanyaki place that my friends insist on us all going to for any birthday, holiday, accomplishment at work, or just bored. Enough that we end up eating there twice a month on average.

The place is always busy for dinner, so expect a 1 hour wait minimum to be seated. Once you ARE seated, expect another 20 minute wait for a party of exactly 2 to show up so the table is full (the tables seat 12 and they absolutely refuse to send over a chef until every spot is filled). Then another 20 minute wait for the chef to actually come by. Then a good hour and a half for the chef to make their way around the table, cooking everyone's meal one at a time, while randomly banging metal spatulas against the table as though people found loud noises entertaining. Then wait around for another 20 minutes for the last person served to finish their meal. Then someone will invariably order desert: grilled pineapple, banana, whipped creme, and chocolate sauce on a crepe so we have to wait another 20 minutes for the chef to come back, followed by 20 minutes for it to be cooked and eaten.

Whole experience comes out to be around four hours, which normally wouldn't be terrible since it's spent with friends, except that the inside of the teppanyaki place is so noisy you can't hear beyond the people directly next to you. Why couldn't I be born some sort of anti social loner?

[Anonymous No.16725063]

>>16724032
Eating at a buffet.
In the middle of a pandemic.
I shiggy diggy.
ngmi

[Anonymous No.16725090]

>>16724905
We had a place just like that which enjoyed a complete monopoly on the local large format teppanyaki market for about 20 years. It was gigantic with like 5 rooms and multiple tables per room, plus a buffet, and booths, a bar and cocktail lounge, etc.

The staff were miserable and management abused waitstaff in front of customers, the wait for every part of the process was horrendous just like you describe, and the noise and chaos of the place was completely overwhelming and you just couldn't hurry things up at all.

Know how they finally went under? A much smaller, more modest, teppanyaki place opened up not even nearby but like 25mins away. And within 6 months they folded.

[Anonymous No.16725154]

>>16723151
The coca-cola chocolate cake is really good.

[Anonymous No.16725163]

>>16724016
I think in Texas or Arizona there was a KFC that was being used to funnel immigrants, the owner had a tunnel that crossed the border. I have a Taco Bueno in my town where I suspect it's a front for similar reasons.

[Anonymous No.16725173]

>>16724160
I'd settle for 12% if I got free naan like an Indian Olive garden.

But I've been dieting and just really really miss carbs :(

[Anonymous No.16725207]

>>16725173
>I'd settle for 12% if I got free naan
You do understand naan is so fucking easy to make (compared to even sourdough), that you might as well wistfully wish for mashed potatoes?
This is /ck/ for fucks sake, learn to cook!
Note: I said "cook" not "bake", you make it in a frying pan.

[Anonymous No.16725261]

>>16725207
Mashed taters sounds good right now too. I like it with mushrooms and brown gravy

[Anonymous No.16725270]

>>16716981
Logan's roadhouse, outback (with the sole exception of the bloomin onion, which I love), or red lobster

[Anonymous No.16725279]

>>16721044
I graduated culinary school and I've been in the industry for 10 years some retard spick at Applebee's is not a better cook than me

[Anonymous No.16725284]

>>16721044
Because they are all average Cooks
You really think an illegal at Chili's is a better cook than the average person fuck no

You're telling me some redneck at cracker barrel working for $11 an hour chain smoking cigarettes is a better cook than you?

[Anonymous No.16725302]

>>16725284
He's just a faggot teen who's never worked in food service and thinks all restaurant cooks must be expert chefs who went to culinary school.

[Anonymous No.16725309]

>>16723151
It's cheap it's filling and it's fun it's peak comfy for an atomic family. When we were kids me and my brother liked to sit in the rocking chairs as we would wait for a table and we liked to look at the cool stuff on the walls then the whole family would play checkers and would try and beat each other at that peg board game then after the meal we go and look through the gift shop and my dad would buy us an old school candy bar.
I loved cracker barrel as a kid I remember the cheeseburger being so big I couldn't finish it.
I'm not saying the food is spectacular or anything it is bland like you said but I think only old people go for the food.

[Anonymous No.16725312]

>>16725261
Me too.
But I' rather make it myself than put up with Indian food to get it.

[Anonymous No.16725319]

>>16723168
No I'm rural but why would I own a horse or horse trough?
You are either rich or one of those stupid fucking rednecks that spends all this money on a horse and taking care of a horse but never actually fucking does anything with it or you are put of the like 2% that actually do some stuff when the rodeo comes to down, if so then you have my respect.

[Anonymous No.16725324]

>>16723756
It's a burger and shity fries for $25 and is fast food but still manages to be slow. The only people that go there are people that want a better Burger than McDonald's but don't know how to cook one at home.

[Anonymous No.16725327]

>>16725270
Outback makes a decent steak.

>>16725279
And you're not the average cook either, are you?
And fucking Applebees??? Wow, that's a low bar. Factory food microwaved to mediocrity.

>>16725284
>illegal at Chili's
A small step up from Applebees, but not a big step. Do you cocksuckers not have any decent restaurants where you live? Is that the problem here? Don't you have access to a single restaurant that takes reservations and requires a collar to get seated? A place with a wine list?

[Anonymous No.16725328]

>>16723839
I'm sorry man I think your girlfriend's retarded KFC is the worst fast food restaurant and the fact that there is a Bojangles nearby is like the helmet on the tard Bojangles has the best fast food chicken

[Anonymous No.16725330]

>>16723868
This

[Anonymous No.16725331]

>>16725324
>people that want a better Burger than McDonald's
You're an idiot.
Wendy's makes a better burger than McDonald's.
Burger King makes a better burger than McDonald's.
Hardee's makes a better burger than McDonald's.
Denny's makes a better burger than McDonald's.
...but none of them can get away with charging what Five Guys does, because they aren't that good.

[Anonymous No.16725335]

>>16724905
I'm sorry anon this sounds like my personal hell maybe try suggesting a different place once then no matter how bad it is keep talking about how good it was and how much you love that place and guilt your friends into going there, because fuck this I bet that place is expensive as shit too

[Anonymous No.16725345]

>>16725302
This

[Anonymous No.16725365]

>>16725327
Even the best restaurants have line cooks that are simply practiced at cooking consistently and fast. There is nothing a restaurant can do to a steak or burger or salad or anything else that you can't do at home. It's really sad that you think this way because it just shows how incapable you are of doing even the most basic things for yourself.

[Anonymous No.16725376]

>>16719687
Lol holy shit take your meds, faggot.
Not everyone lives in some shithole where nobody makes a really good burger.
>there is a bunch of brands from Cisco and us foods that are named local, from scratch, and homemade, scratch made, house made, ect.
You know you can look up lists of these brands, yeah? You’re full of shit, schizo.

[Anonymous No.16725381]

>>16717000
Lots of restaurants serve the same rolls and cinnamon butter but then have better food

[Anonymous No.16725413]

>>16717106
For good catfish you just need to process it properly. Cut the gills to kill it and bleed it out in running water immedietly, Fillet the meat off and throw out the fat/skin. Remove the blood line then wash the fillets under cold water.

[ieatinmycar No.16725425]

Bertuccis. I actually don't hate it and the one I go to with my friend and his mom has been there since we were both kids 20+ years ago so it has some nostalgic value to us. Had at least a couple birthday parties in there years ago.

[Anonymous No.16725432]

>>16725365
>here is nothing a restaurant can do to a steak or burger or salad or anything else that you can't do at home.
>I've never been to a Ruth's Cris, or any other five star restaurant.
Have fun living in Arkansas.

[Anonymous No.16725440]

>>16717033
I took my first date to an Olive Garden back when I was in high school

[Anonymous No.16725450]

>>16725432
Please describe the methods and ingredients that Ruth's Chris uses on steak that cannot be replicated in your home kitchen.

[Anonymous No.16725481]

>>16725450
1,800° grill.
Plus, I'm pretty sure they hire better chefs than the average /ck/ poster.
You ignorance betrays you, flyover.

[Anonymous No.16725488]

>>16719289
My best friend in France’s favorite place. We went, but I had to tell him about Golden Corral afterwards.

[Anonymous No.16725489]

>>16725312
Sure, I was mostly joking. I'm just really hungry so even shitty Indian bread sounds good at the moment.

[Anonymous No.16725512]

GOLDEN CORRAL
Ate there years ago as a kid and the pasta tasted like absolute shit. Ten years later I was dragged there again and lo and behold, it tastes the EXACT FUCKING SAME.
Overpriced and disgusting.

[Anonymous No.16725531]

>>16725481
>1,800° grill.
Unnecessary meme shit that's more about finding a way for a steak to come to the table sizzling hot in a restaurant environment where food typically has to sit before going out than it is about the actual taste or quality. Good job falling for the marketing, though.

[Anonymous No.16725591]

>>16725335
Meal is $35 for the pick any 2 combo, such as New York steak and scallops, and comes with fried rice. The non combo items are only like $5 cheaper and then charge an extra $3 for fried rice. It's not cheap but everyone in my work social circle does well for themselves so price isn't a huge issue.

There's a dozen better restaurants in the area but someone the 'show' of seeing the chef cook the food is considered special. Chef literally just alternates between rattling the spatula against the table and banging it loudly, guy's got no fucking clue what he's doing as far as performance goes. Not that seeing a guy juggle a single spatula, toss empty egg shells into his hat, or do that stupid onion volcano thing at higher quality teppanyaki places is particularly interesting, but at least it feels like you're actually getting something for the huge wait times.

[Anonymous No.16725610]

>>16725488
>>16725512
whats golden corral?

[Anonymous No.16725618]

>>16725531
OK, Cletus. Whatever you say.

[Anonymous No.16725628]

>>16717077
friendly reminder that fit people eat a lot of food
as i've aged, i've observed an increasingly apparent positive correlation between fitness levels and food consumed
it's like a reward for having discipline earlier in life

[Anonymous No.16725630]

>>16725610
It's a chain buffet. It's only popular because it's literally the only non-chinese buffet in most of the country

[Anonymous No.16725631]

5 guys IDF in full force LMAO

[Anonymous No.16725645]

>>16716981
The Sassy Onion

[Anonymous No.16725650]

>>16725610
All you can eat buffet place, that leans towards southern united states food. Fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, hamburgers, trash tier poorly cooked steaks, ect. They have a huge selection and lots of deserts, but the places only has 2 settings and both of them are terrible.

1) You arrive during rush hour. The food is somewhat fresh due to the volume being eaten, but you also have to deal with the type of people who eat there during rush hour. Screaming children running up and down the line, piss smelling hobos who haven't bathed in weeks stuffing food into their pockets, filthy tables as the wait staff are completely overwhelmed, disgusting slobs picking up food off the tables with their bare hands taking bites then placing it back, and screaming hippos running up and down the line. Picture the absolute worst humanity has to offer in the middle of a feeding frenzy.

2) You arrived at a non rush period of time. Most of the food on the buffet has been sitting on the steam table for over an hour so it's soggy, crusty, dry, or otherwise terrible.

[Anonymous No.16725652]

>>16725618
>three kids
>chad physiognomy
>trigger discipline
This "redneck" is based, unlike your faggot ass.

[Anonymous No.16725654]

>>16717077
I get the same thing and I weigh 140 pounds.

[Anonymous No.16725688]

>>16725618
I hope you get brave enough to cook for yourself one day and realize making delicious food isn't actually difficult and doesn't require tens of thousands of dollars in industrial kitchen equipment. Stop putting restaurants and their cooks on a pedestal, learn to cook for yourself and you'll realize the only benefit of restaurants is convenience.

[Anonymous No.16725725]

>>16725610
All you can eat buffet.
Hamburger - If you order a hamburger cooked to order, you have to walk back up to the guy 10 minutes later and there's a 50% chance he gave your burger to someone else. Defeats the purpose of going to a buffet. If you take a cooked hamburger from the steam tray, it's been sitting there for hours because everyone gets there burgers cooked to order.
French Fries - Fucking terrible, always soggy without fail, and usually cold and under cooked.
Bourbon Street Chicken - decent so long as it hasn't been sitting on the table so long that it's dry.
Fried Chicken - Always dry, but tolerable.
Meatloaf - Tastes steamed rather than baked so no decent crust. Bland.
Fish (fried or baked) - No one ever takes the fish so it's always been sitting on the steam table too long.
Pulled Pork - actually decent.
Ham - decent if it's not been sitting out sliced for so long it's dried out.
Pot Pie - Terrible. I'm convinced the shit is previously frozen and heated in a microwave.
Pizza - Terrible. I'm convinced the shit is previously frozen and heated in a microwave.
Veggies - Cooked in a southern style, which means over cooked and under seasoned.
Mashed Potatoes - I've never seen loaded mashed potatoes from them, just plain re-hydrated crap.
Gravy - If it's fresh its good, otherwise it's got a clumpy skin on top.
Rice - It's southern rice, so terrible.
Macaroni and Cheese - Decent if it's fresh.
Pasta - Terrible.
Yeast Rolls - Delicious.
Salad Bar - It's usually fine, so long as you like iceberg.
Deserts - Decent and a large selection, just stay away from the chocolate fountain. People put their hands directly into it or weird shit all the time.

They offer steak during dinner, but I've never seen a steak from them properly cooked and they use way too much salt.

[Anonymous No.16725728]

>>16725688
>I hope you get brave enough to cook for yourself one day
Honest to God, what shithole do you live in where a good restaurant doesn't exceed the average cook's ability?

[Anonymous No.16725730]

>>16725652
Cope

[Anonymous No.16725754]

>>16723151
Dumb knicknacks that your wife will look at!! LOL!

[Anonymous No.16725757]

>>16719290
Classic SUPREME GENTLEMAN move

[Anonymous No.16725761]

>>16718701
>Driving home about 5 hour drive
>Hungover
>Fat as fuck buddy asks if we want to go to Golden Corral
>Never been, so sure. I'm hungry
>Eat there
>Walk out, hangover cured
>Never been back but that shit was magic

[Anonymous No.16725766]

>>16723839
She must be very fat

[Anonymous No.16725775]

>>16719290
BASED

[Anonymous No.16725798]

>>16716981
This. Often forced to eat at Pizza Hutt while in high school. Such gross shit, but it eventually made me clean up my diet at an early age.

[Anonymous No.16725809]

>>16717133
Only do this with well water, chlorine will kill them...

[Anonymous No.16725812]

>>16725728
Cook for yourself and you'll see. You still haven't even been able to quantify what restaurants do differently or how their supposed skill can make food taste better to a non-replicatable degree. The only thing you came up with so far was a piece of equipment (1800 degree broiler) which has absolutely nothing to do with cooking skill, isn't necessary for cooking a quality, delicios steak, and ultimately could be purchased by a home cook if they really wanted it for some reason: https://www.bluestarcooking.com/cooking/broilers/salamander-broiler/

[Anonymous No.16725827]

Shit is boomer & chink tourist central.

[Anonymous No.16725848]

>>16725827
what is it?

[Anonymous No.16725865]

>>16725848
local place called Kanonesteppel (Frankfurt/Germany)

[Anonymous No.16725899]

>>16721074
>came frozen
What in the fuck

[Anonymous No.16725901]

>>16716981
Looks comfy as fuck though. I love this cheesy, cheap American aesthethic

[Anonymous No.16725906]

Why are Americans so obsessed with ''ALL YOU CAN EAT''?

[Anonymous No.16725910]

>>16725754
How old are you nigger

[Anonymous No.16725975]

>>16725090
Ah Worcester.

>>eating this shit when George's Coney >>Island exists

[Anonymous No.16725988]

>>16725906
Why are you so obsessed with Americans?

[Anonymous No.16726002]

>>16725988
Because I am one? Now answer the question, fatty.

[Anonymous No.16726021]

>>16725906
If you ever want to eat a dinner of nothing but steak for under $20, an all you can eat buffet such as Golden Corral is your only option. If you ever want to eat a dinner of nothing but sushi for under $20, an all you can Japanese place or a hybrid Chinese/Japanese place is your only option.

[Anonymous No.16726074]

>>16725906
Because people who eat big like the idea of getting multiple pounds of meat for $15 plus tip.

[Anonymous No.16726123]

>>16719759
>high-end chef.
Anon I've worked in many restaurants. From chains like applebees / chilis / outback to mom and pop shops and even fine dinning establishments. If there's anything I've learned it's that a majority of cooks are fucking retards and can barely follow instructions. There's maybe 1 dude at each restaurant that is the key to holding it all together and it's often not the head chef. Most the fucking places these days are purchasing preparaed trash and passing it off as fresh or their own recipe. You'd get an equally good meal from the frozen food section at your local grocery store.
>>16719810
I prefer cooking for myself 100% of the time, even if I can't produce particular styles of food perfectly. It's cleaner, cheaper and a much better experience. There's very little you can't do at home that is done at a restaurant anon. 99% of food can be made with just a spoon, tongs, a pot and a frying pan. The biggest disadvantage you have is some items are just cheaper for them because they order in bulk and you're buying singles. There are some niche items that take a lot of practice to perfect but those are edge cases and still very fun to make on your own.

[Anonymous No.16726139]

>>16725812
>Cook for yourself and you'll see
I DO you monumental retard.
I'm not talking about Applebee's or fucking Chili's.
No, I don't know what a high end, or even Michelin Star restaurant does better than I do, BECAUSE I'M NOT A BETTER CHEF THAN THEY HIRE, and don't have years of experience in the industry.
Jesus what fucking part of this eludes you?
If your idea of a good restaurant is some factory food microwave joint, you've never been to a good restaurant.
Now please tell me what shithole you live in that's left you so fucking deprived of superior cuisine?

[Me. Noodle No.16726152]

None. Only time I ever go to sit down places is when I'm out of town. Fast food however I fucking hate when one of the chains has spicy whatever cause no one can shut up about it even though it is always pussy tier hot.

[Anonymous No.16726206]

>>16726139
You clearly aren’t 4chan material, bro.
I can cook a steak on par with any fine steakhouse.
Do I actually do so? Fuck you for asking. I watch YouTube so I can theoretically do it. And yes, I can do it just as well as a chef who cooks as much steak in a day as I do in several years. Because YouTube.
The most important thing is my equipment. It’s all you need. If you own something that costs more than what I have, it’s a meme and you use it as a crutch because you can’t cook.

[Anonymous No.16726240]

>>16726206
>he thinks he can cook as well as a guy who prepares the same item in one day more times than he will in his lifetime
Anon your meal might be good, but it'll never be as good.

[Anonymous No.16726249]

>>16726206
>You clearly aren’t 4chan material, bro.
I can't blow myself if that's what you mean.
> I watch YouTube so I can theoretically do it.
Jesus Titty-Fucking Christ, Ctrl F4.

[Anonymous No.16726316]

Any Massholes here? I got dragged to one of these for some after work bullshit and it was basically a chili's but somehow shittier.

[Anonymous No.16726325]

>>16716981
used to be unos but now I don't have friends so I can decide where I want to sit alone and eat

[Anonymous No.16726619]

>>16725327
>outback
I agree, but they're nothing special. Hence: mediocre. Like, my dad wanted to go there for his birthday, as opposed to a really nice steakhouse. If you're on the road tho, yeah, the consistency and ubiquity of logans/outback/line star is fine. Can't really go wrong with a big old slab of meat, some sauteed veggies, and a baked spud.

[Anonymous No.16726721]

I took my gf of 6 years to Chiles for out first date. I remember being obnoxious and drinking like 6 blue moons. They had some kind of 2 for 1 beer deal. She got a quesadilla and ate like 2 pieces. I got chicken fajitas and ate like a sloppy asshole. Also ate the whole basket of chips and salsa. Then we went to Baskin Robbins, where she apparently fell in love with me. Got laid after the second date, though I don't remember where it was. Thanks Chiles.

[Anonymous No.16726839]

>>16718305

[Anonymous No.16726926]

>>16726721
>Got laid after the second date
On the first date, I'm sure she was thinking "Who could fuck after eating and drinking all that?"

[Anonymous No.16726961]

>>16726316
but at least they have gold fever wings anon

[Anonymous No.16726968]

>>16726721
>take girl to restaurant
>orders quesadilla
Why do basic bitches do this?

[Anonymous No.16726984]

>>16725975
>Jorje's Coney Island
I'm a Hot Dog Annie's guy myself

[Anonymous No.16727005]

>>16726968
Because she's "not really hungry" and is too insecure to decide for herself what to eat. Instead of asking your advice because of muh feminism, she's going to wait until your food comes and try to eat that.

[Anonymous No.16727026]

>>16725618
dude's living the dream and you're probably living in your mom's basement