What's your Most Overated Place to eat...

[R8RFAN]

Ruby Tuesdays
And Japanese restaurants where you sit around the stainless steel grill...

[gblowfish]

You mean, people LIE on the internet????

[R8RFAN]

Wife just made me this and its not overrated








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[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by FAX

I don't know about some of these places ... like Applebee's, for example. I ate there once. But afterwards. I did some calculations and decided never to go back. Here's what I figured out ...

The average US male person lives 75.6 years. If you deduct the first 18 years on account of those are the years where you either eat pizza or don't get to choose the restaurant, that give you 57.6 total dinner years. Then, you have to deduct another 5.6 years because those are the years you either eat oatmeal or malt-o-meal or some other kind of porridge which leaves you 52 total dinner years.

52 years times 365 is 18,980 dinners. Now, you have to deduct about 4,290 dinners to account for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Picnics, Orgies, and other special events and that gives you a grand total of 14,690 dinners you can eat in your lifetime. That's it. Only 14,690 dinners. And you guys want to waste one of those eating at Applebee's?

FAX

I can see that invitation now

YOU'RE INVITED TO AN ORGY NEXT WEEKEND THE 17TH
BRING PLENTY OF CONDOMS AND A COVERED DISH

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

Chic Fil-A. The breading iss good, but it's a dry ass chicken sandwich on a cheap bun with 1 pickle. It's like reeruned Eddie got to design his own sandwich.

Their sandwiches are not good at all.

I always get the strips. Way better.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Dave

Their sandwiches are not good at all.

I always get the strips. Way better.

Yep. In fact, I will be eating those tonight. Tuesday's are buy one meal and gt a kids meal free nights. Plus their milkshakes are great.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by jspchief

Applebees is shit. Frozen premade meals. Try ordering a dish without an ingredient like onions. They can't do it.

Olive Garden is decent, but its overpriced and its not good enough justify how busy it always is.

Anyone who says PF Changs is over rated needs to shut their whore mouth. Kung Pao scallops and DanDan noodles is the food of the gods. And their tea is phenomenal.

PF Changs is HORRIBLE compared to actual Chinese food.

[Titty Meat]

Dunk N Donuts taste like dick

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Yep. In fact, I will be eating those tonight. Tuesday's are buy one meal and gt a kids meal free nights. Plus their milkshakes are great.

I like how the nuggets and strips have their own flavor.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Dunk N Donuts taste like dick

Still better than Krispy Kreme

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Dave

I like how the nuggets and strips have their own flavor.

I feel like the nuggets are dry. They seem overcooked to me.

[Start Croyle]

Hooters! The food is extremely overpriced and the wait staff do not live up to the reputation!

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

I feel like the nuggets are dry. They seem overcooked to me.

Somewhat, yes.

I don't get them often.

[BigMeatballDave]

White Castle is complete shit.

[Groves]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

My wife and I were going to dinner the other night and were talking about the rise of restaurants. I don't know much about this, but my theory is that at one point in time restaurants didn't exist, and then they were probably invented primarily for travelers while all the locals prepared their own meals.

Then at some point, perhaps in the 30s to 50s or so with the rise of cars, I think local people probably started going to restaurants occasionally for special occasions. No reason to go out when the wife was at home all day to prepare meals.

And then maybe in the 60s you had two changes that made an impact. Fast food started making meals cheap, and women started working. Now all of a sudden families had some practical reasons to start eating out. This probably outweighed advances in home foods like frozen dinners, better shipping to give us diversity of foods, and maybe even things like more mixes.

Now fast forward to today, and my wife and I are going out to dinner just because we're busy and working late and it's more convenient and easy to just walk to a restaurant than it would be to go home and cook. That's a long ways from the original mission of restaurants.

All of this is just a theory, so anyone can feel free to refute it or expand on it.

It's not only plausible, but true. There are some good documentaries on the subject.

One thing I'll add is the rise of the chain.

Back when travelers were searching for good grub (being away from their home kitchen and all) it wasn't uncommon to get stung by a place that had not only unappetizing food, but unhealthy.

Unhealthy as in sickness and death, not as in 6packs going to 2packs.

The rise of the chain restaurant was fueled by the wary public eager for a place they knew and trusted (not to give them botulism, for instance.)

Golden arches. Plaster Shoney's man. They're not simply marketing "I'm a restaurant", but "I won't have you hurling like Bob's Unknown-to-you Restaurant over there".

We bit on it. Local dives suffered.

On another note, sometimes another way to say "suffered" is "became uncrowded enough to finally eat there regularly", which is a good thing.

Moral of the story: Find people who know good food when they eat it, and find out where they eat.

[Gonzo]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Dunk N Donuts taste like dick

And you know this because....