Train restaurant car

[Anonymous No.17796542]

Have you tried it? How was it? Last time I used it:
>overpriced as heck
>80% of the menu wasn't available
>everything I had was tasting of chicken stock cube
... is there a single good train restaurant experience?

Bonus vid: https://youtu.be/AOFlFk_Gx_A?t=400 (06:40)

[Anonymous No.17796552]

>Swedish X2000 train buffet cars are mostly self-service. Customers pick their food from a shelf, pay for it, and heat it themselves in a microwave oven

[Anonymous No.17796555]

>>17796552
every parent ever

[Anonymous No.17796565]

It was quite nice though I was too young to enjoy the wine tasting
wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Washington_Dinner_Train

[Anonymous No.17796571]

The end of an American tradition: The Amtrak dining car

“There’s something fantastic about dinner in the dining car,” said Keely, 32, a writer from Brasstown, N.C., who swears by the Amtrak crab cake and steak dinner. “You get to meet other people and hear so many great stories. It is to me one of the best parts about traveling.”

That experience is about to change. Amtrak says it is reinventing its dining service on long-distance trains, killing the traditional dining car to create more “flexible” and “contemporary” dining options.

The carrier says the change, starting this fall on the one-night routes east of the Mississippi River, is driven by the desire to save money and lure a younger generation of new riders — chiefly, millennials known to be always on the run, glued to their phones and not particularly keen on breaking bread with strangers at a communal table.

With the transition, Amtrak is doing away with the traditional onboard kitchen, switching to serving prepackaged meals and easing restrictions on the traditional serving times. The change allows the railroad to cut costs associated with cooking aboard and keeping up with the white-tablecloth service that was once known to rival high-end restaurants and clubs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/the-end-of-an-american-tradition-the-amtrak-dining-car/2019/09/21/d63cca3a-d888-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html

[Anonymous No.17796595]

[Anonymous No.17796596]

>>17796555
checked and keked

[Anonymous No.17796636]

Ladt Amtrak dining car I visited was all convenience store grade pre-packaged white bread sandwiches and microwave burritos...except the "premium" options which were essentially TV dinner/airplane meal type reheated garbage. Next time we took the train we brought an assortment of cheeses and bread/crackers and sausages and nuts and other nice picnic style foods and a gallon jug of wine and were without a doubt the most popular people on that train. Especially when the "dining" car refers took a shit and they closed it down.

[Anonymous No.17796644]

>>17796636
my condolences

[Anonymous No.17796685]

Still exists on the cross Canada “Canadian” train.

>Each table in the Canadian's dining car sits beside a picture window, perfect for sightseeing. The Canadian's dining car has the ambiance of a fine restaurant. Fine china, fresh cut flowers, and white tablecloths create a charming view on board too.

>By morning, choose from a range of breakfast options. Sweet and savory dishes abound, from French toast to made-to-order eggs to creamy oatmeal. Complete your meal with sides such as bacon and sausage. Try something new each day. Omelets of various kinds, pancakes with various toppings, a continental breakfast: the choice is yours. Other mornings feature brunch, with meals like lobster ravioli, stuffed French toast, duck confit benedict, a citrus salad, or a chef's omelet. Begin your day with your favorite foods.

>Lunchtime has just as much variety. Try a sandwich or wrap one day, a salad another, and a burger the next. One afternoon's menu might include a Canadian bison burger, a brown rice veggie burger, a grilled salmon-loaded salad, or a delicious chicken brochette. You are spoiled for choice. As you dine, look out at the passing sunlit waters and towering trees.

>Finally, a typical dinner aboard the Canadian offers soup or salad to start, followed by a spectrum of entrées. Every main course guarantees a meat dish, a fish option, and a vegetarian alternative. One evening, the menu might feature a Cajun-spiced veal chop or Canadian lake trout, as well as gluten-and-lactose-free choices from pan-seared duck to stuffed Portobello caps. Other nights might include prime rib of Canadian beef, halibut with fresh fruit salsa, or rack of lamb coated with Dijon mustard and breadcrumbs. As you dine, enjoy Canadian wines from across the provinces, available by the glass or bottle. The menu will even recommend the ideal wine for your chosen meal. Then, top it all off with dessert, before relaxing in your berth or cabin for the night.

[Anonymous No.17796699]

>>17796685
>spectrum of entrées

[Anonymous No.17796708]

>>17796636
Popular because you shared it around, right?

[Anonymous No.17796711]

>>17796571
millennials are killing dining service! can these people not be stopped?

[Anonymous No.17796719]

>>17796685
All non-municipal rail travel in north america has gotten crazy expensive compared to air and cars...that level of train travel is essentially like taking a cruise ship, only more expensive...

Just looked it up and what is described there starts at around $3500 and can double with more stops and a few side excursions'

https://www.vacationsbyrail.com/tours/canada-coast-to-coast-by-train/

[Anonymous No.17796722]

>>17796571
>said Keely, 32, a writer from Brasstown, N.C
>a writer

in other words a NEET

[Anonymous No.17796726]

>>17796708
Yes, even more popular because we refused multiple offers of payment for a morsel of real food and a drink that didn't cost half a days wages.

[Anonymous No.17796732]

>>17796699
Fuck you that wording could have been from anytime by anyone in the last 200 years.
You just have a gut cringe reaction to any text that isn't immediately and effortlessly comprehended, that French loanword threw you off, and for lack of any readily known putdown for it you imagined whoever wrote it is soy and so no one else should read it.
C'mon son.

[Anonymous No.17796733]

>>17796685
>((fine dining))
>food served is toast, eggs, oatmeal, bacon, sandwich and soups

why did restaurants become such a scam?

[Anonymous No.17796734]

>>17796571
Good. Hopefully Amtrak will finally fold and we can get rid of passenger trains forever in the US.

[Anonymous No.17796737]

>>17796719
>Hints of yesteryear are detectable on the fully restored 1950s railcars

Translation :
Imagine the smell.

[Anonymous No.17796738]

>>17796732
tldr

[Anonymous No.17796739]

>>17796734
I love how Americans self-balkanize.

[Anonymous No.17796743]

thread reminds me of this anon. did he do it?
https://i.warosu.org/ck/thread/17588397

[Anonymous No.17796747]

>>17796738
Fuck you if you didn't read more to get to that "soy" phrase you were skipping text to get to something to soijak.
C'mon son.

[Anonymous No.17796751]

>>17796739
America is literally 50 sovereign states united by a federal government, you fucking retard foreigner.

[Anonymous No.17796758]

>>17796739
I love how even when a social concept generallyvseen as negative is literally named for a region on the other side of the world that is known for little else, some seething mong has to try to associate it with Americans.

Also we have cars, so we don't need daddy government's cattle transport to visit each other.

[Anonymous No.17796760]

>>17796758
>>17796751
I love how Americans self-balkanize.

[Anonymous No.17796768]

>>17796747
>C'mon son.
>>17796732
>C'mon son.

[Anonymous No.17796775]

>>17796732
not that anon, but fuck you. it's an NPC buzzword to try to convince you their shitty meals are worth the jewish prices

[Anonymous No.17796835]

>>17796775
selection/assortment of entrees can be used that way, yes.
Because it's used in nearly every food advertisement gushing about their entrees.
What's a non-NPC way to say that? "several different entrees" ?

>>17796768
Yeah, I expect something interesting or that actually makes the replied person come off worse than yourself, and yet you fail to do so.

[Anonymous No.17796870]

>>17796835
>Yeah, I expect something interesting or that actually makes the replied person come off worse than yourself, and yet you fail to do so.

[Anonymous No.17796877]

>>17796870
Precisely.
Could pull out onionsbooru and find something too, but I find it an actual waste of a post to say nothing.

[Anonymous No.17796891]

>>17796542
>have you ever ordered a meal on a transoceanic flight in economy?

/thread

[Anonymous No.17796901]

>>17796542
I would love to travel by train but around me its not much of an option. I would like to hang out in the bar car. Keith Floyd has a cool video of himself making a drink on a train

[Anonymous No.17796904]

The Glory Days of Train Travel: Inside the Pullman Train Cars
https://www.vintag.es/2017/04/the-glory-days-of-train-travel-inside.html

[Anonymous No.17796907]

>>17796904
menu from a Pullman train

[Anonymous No.17796908]

>>17796835
>What's a non-NPC way to say that? "several different entrees" ?

a "range" or "variety" gets the multiple choice aspect across without the misuse of a technical term that describes a range of a measurable physical properties that together are an ordered and all inclusive continuum.

A "spectrum" of entrees would need to include all entrees just as the spectrum of visible light includes all visible wavelengths.

[Anonymous No.17796913]

>>17796907
>Dry Toast ¢10
>Butter Toast ¢15
>Dipped Toast ¢15
>Hot Biscuit ¢15
>Milk Toast ¢25

[Anonymous No.17796918]

>>17796904

[Anonymous No.17796923]

>>17796908
>A "spectrum" of entrees would need to include all entrees just as the spectrum of visible light includes all visible wavelengths.
"A" vs "The", you can have indefinite spectrums in the same sense as varieties or assortments.
There is a spectrum of light within the spectrum of light which contains visible colors. Within this spectrum you can find the spectrum of yellow light.

[Anonymous No.17796924]

>>17796907
>Spring Chicken, whole, $1
>Spring Chicken, half, $0.75

>whole: 1
>half: 0.75

>>>>>>half: 0.75

[Anonymous No.17796945]

>>17796923
>i put a spectrum... inside your spectrum

[Anonymous No.17796947]

Dining car Queen on the B&O Royal Blue in 1895

[Anonymous No.17796949]

>>17796945
hehe feels good morty

[Anonymous No.17796957]

>>17796924
probably didn't want half a chicken to sit

[Anonymous No.17796973]

>>17796947
A dining car on the Union Pacific's City of Denver, ca. 1950s.

[Anonymous No.17796980]

>>17796957
>go to restaurant
>order two halves a chicken
>0.5+0.5=1
>costs 1.5x more than ordering a whole chicken

[Anonymous No.17796985]

>>17796973
Air travel used to be classy too. Now its just a bunch of slobs heading to shitholes like Vegas and Disneyland

[Anonymous No.17796991]

Imagine working like this

[Anonymous No.17796998]

>>17796985
can't wait for starbucks airplanes

[Anonymous No.17797020]

luv me sum food carts

[Anonymous No.17797022]

>>17796734
Are you retarded?
It can’t fold. Not in the “omg we can’t let that happen” sense, but in the literally impossible sense.
Amtrak has never turned a profit. Not once. They had a “record year” a while back where they “almost turned a profit for the first time”.
It’s a government company. It’s a for-profit company on paper, but the federal govt is the majority shareholder.

[Anonymous No.17797034]

one brown, please

[Anonymous No.17797050]

>>17796980
gee, its almost like economy of scale is a thing.

[Anonymous No.17797055]

>>17796552
America has too many negros for that

[Anonymous No.17797074]

>>17796685
>>17796737
My friend took a train from Central Canada to Vancouver and he said it was one of the most beautiful rides of his life

[Anonymous No.17797089]

>>17797074
Interesting, since my friend took a train from Central Canada to Vancouver and he said it was one of the most horrible rides of his life.

[Anonymous No.17797094]

>>17797089
Was that supposed to be witty?

[Anonymous No.17797241]

>>17797094
your mum