Liking a chain restaurant doesn't make you an anti-snob hero

[jpgray]

Neither does listening to overexposed overplayed music, reading bestseller paperback thrillers, nor watching reality TV.

The only meaning is that you enjoy those activities. If snobs like something it doesn't inherently make it better, but at the same time if snobs -dislike- something it doesn't inherently make -that- better either. I'll never understand why people can't just disagree about tastes without getting their identities threatened and acting like a bunch of fucking babies. To me the only thing stupider than snobbishly crapping all over someone's opinion as pedestrian is arrogantly championing oneself as in disagreement with snobs. Don't let someone else's views define you, like what you like and dislike what you dislike without whining about people who might not share that view.

That's all thanks! :D

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Are you married? I am, but little Midlo isn't and I would like to put a

bid in for her.

:hug:

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. jpgray is nearly twenty!

Don't sell your daughter out into Soon-Yi territory! :spank:

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Hey, she's 16.

and she is allowed to marry after she gets her college degree and her master's.

:P

[jpgray]

19. And strangely I'll be three years older than that this August

:D

[Magrittes Pipe]

20. You have bent the laws of time!

Genius man-child bastard. x(

[JVS]

45. It's a miracle!

[GirlinContempt]

2. Oh, so now you're gonna be snobby

about who's a snob, are ya? FUCK YOU BUDDY

[jpgray]

8. People with Megamark Mothersbaugh sigs shouldn't throw Mega Buster bolts

:eyes:

[GirlinContempt]

10. Sure yeah, I get it

You're just so much hipper than I.

[jpgray]

27. Half my wardrobe came from Savers

Zing!

[mwooldri]

57. No, we're anti-snobbish here.

We're sometimes proud of the fact that the percentage of functioning wheels is greater on our residence than our motor vehicles. We're proud of the fact that a posh dinner out is Golden Corral. We're proud of the fact that dining out does consist of everything from McDonalds upwards.

Welcome to DU, from your Democratic Rednecks :evilgrin:

Mark.

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. I have really been in the mood for Long John Silver's lately.

Bow before me, scum.

[GirlinContempt]

5. I hear they kill seals with

the legs of patrons with children.

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. As long as they batter and fry the seal afterward, that's a'ight.

:9

[Midlodemocrat]

16. hedges. Remember Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips?

Ahh, good times. Good times.

[Magrittes Pipe]

22. I am aware of their existence.

But they don't have them anywhere I've lived. :shrug:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

53. Are those any good?

There's one by my office, and I've come very close to stopping in a couple of times when I've been having a Long John Silvers craving. (There are no LJS's anywhere near where I live...which is probably a good thing, my heart can only stand a meal there about once a year, but still...)

[Midlodemocrat]

54. I used to love them.

But I haven't been in one in about 25 years.

[JVS]

50. Oooh good idea

[ghostsofgiants]

6. As a snob, I feel my identity to be quite threatened by your opinions.

If what I like isn't better than what these plebeians like, what's the point in living?

[Midlodemocrat]

9. That's how I feel. If I can't be superior in every conceivable

way, why get out of bed in the morning? It isn't worth it.


:hi:

[catbert836]

11. K&R. Excellent Post

Although I wasn't aware we were having Olive Garden Flamewars Redux.

[Sugar Smack]

13. Your wisdom fell over me like a silky blanket.

No wonder you're so cheerful; you live by de gustibus non est disputandum. I have a lot of different kinds of tastes and never appreciate getting looks based on my reading/eating/musical preferences. I do happen to think breaking spaghetti is evil, but people have asked me to get over that.

:D

[tinfoil tiaras]

14. Hear, Hear!

I personally LOVE Flavor of Love (and I'm UBER exited for Flavor of Love 2) and Nick Lachey....:blush: :P

[lildreamer316]

15. My life is WAY to valuable

to waste not doing something or doing something just because someone else doesn't think it's good or what have you.
I am doing what makes me happy. I'm a good person. I'm not killing anyone. If I choose to kill myself with food; that's my business.
I love life; I love good food; I love my friends and my family and etc.
Happy eating and drinking! Embrace joy wherever you find it! Feel good. If you feel good eating what you percieve as well; great.If you feel good eating Olive Garden; great. That's where me and my girlfriends like to go have breadsticks and salad and wine; and since at the moment I can only afford to do that about twice a year; I'll damn go if I damn please. There are more important things for me to spend my energy on than where the hell you are eating. I just want you to be happy; so you don't feel like making ME unhappy!! ...as well as for other reasons.
Yum!!

[Blue-Jay]

17. You're just saying that because you work at Sambo's!

Who USED to be bigots, but aren't bigots anymore.

Why? Because someone said so, that's why! (You ass!)

[Midlodemocrat]

18. Holy crap. They still exist?

Or are you just funnin'?

[Blue-Jay]

21. I'm just funnin'. Sambo's changed their name to...

CRACKER ASS CRACKER BARREL!

[Midlodemocrat]

23. Well, I walked right into that one.

Are you sure it wasn't Shoney's?


(I actually remember seeing a Sambo's on a trip to FL three decades ago. My liberal, now deceased parents were horrified. We were from CT and had never heard of it)

[Blue-Jay]

28. I remember people in college wondering why

Sambo's was closing (name-changing) way back when. My response was always "Are you fucking HIGH?"

[Cruzan]

47. The original Sambo's in Santa Barbara still exists

http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/

[XemaSab]

56. That's the original???

I drive by there all the time, and every time I'm like "Dude, that must be the only Sambo's in the COUNTRY," and frankly, you really couldn't pick a more incongruous place for it. On the beach in a very wealthy yet strangely diverse community in California.

[SeattleGirl]

24. Right on, jp! Let people like what they like without putting them down.

Good grief. Who cares if someone likes the local mom and pop greasy spoon (one of my very favorite types of restaurants), and another person likes haute cuisine? Maybe some people like both. People like what they like, and they shouldn't be degraded or put down for it. Nor should those who like the mom and pop variety of food, restaurants, etc., look down on those who like the four-star stuff. To each their own. Isn't there enough going on in the world right now to waste energy on putting others down based on their individual tastes in thing?

[Hardrada]

25. Can one chain smoke

in chain restaurants?

[jpgray]

26. I think I'm the last non-smoker on Earth not bothered by 2nd hand smoke

So if I am the only patron, then yeah.

[RevCheesehead]

29. Some of them aren't acting.

"I'll never understand why people can't just disagree about tastes without getting their identities threatened and acting like a bunch of fucking babies."

:yoiks:

[jpgray]

32. I tend to believe people are better than what they post on DU sometimes

And I think in most cases I'm right. :D

[RevCheesehead]

36. I certainly hope so.

With the exception of the freepers and trolls.
But then again, even they must be better off-line.

[SOteric]

30. You want to see some noses in the air? Check out one of the

IQ threads that spring up in the Lounge every so often. Apparently only Mensa-eligible geniuses post to DU. And when that's mentioned, people outdo themselves trying to appear humble and dumb.

Personally, I'm making some popcorn and sitting down for a good long snicker-fest.

[jpgray]

31. It's sad because insecure people make up high scores all the time

My score is proof that they're meaningless, and I can say that because it was a high score. :D

[SOteric]

33. Presumably then,

You didn't take the test in Italian.

[jpgray]

34. I'm soooo going to use that line at the clubs in Rome

:patriot:

[SOteric]

40. I'd be interested to know if that works any better than

"Anche tu sei simpatica. Hai un corpo stupendo. Facciamelo!

[jpgray]

41. I get all that but facciamelo

Which I read as "do me," despite not being familiar with imperative conjugations/pronouns. :D

[SOteric]

42. Yeah. That's the gist of it.

More like "Let's fuck."

[Midlodemocrat]

35. I took it in Latin.

And aramaic. I'm a friggin genius.


:bounce:

[SOteric]

37. Heeee!

I'll bet you took it in Urdu, too.

[Midlodemocrat]

39. And Farsi. How did you know?

:hi:

BTW Cook's Illustrated was the BEST thing that ever happened to this family. I can't thank you enough for telling me about it. I just renewed my subscription.

[billyskank]

46. I noticed that too

DU was showing an IQ bell curve with the mean around 140. Uh huh.

[Katina]

52. now that's funny

back in the ancient times of my youth, I studied psychology in college. THAT bell curve showed 100 to me the mean with an average range of 90-110. 140 was at the upper end (around the 90+ percentile if I remember correctly) Anyone who says 140 is the mean, is a moron! :bounce:

[Nye Bevan]

38. I like Applebees

because they have those really tall, cold draft beers.

[JVS]

43. And talking shit on one doesn't make you some kind of fucking gourmet

[jpgray]

44. It just makes me happy

O8)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

48. Speaking of which, I'm dying to get an obscure early 80's pop song

"A Woman's Got the Power" by The A's. Anyone has it? Is it available at iTunes or something similar?

It's one of many songs that were featured in a series of ads for a cigarette brand in Brazilian TV at the time*. We here call it the "Emphisema Hits." Other songs (which I have) include:

"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by The Police
"If Looks Could Kill" by Heart
"Get It While You Can" by Gary O
"Freeze Frame" by The J. Geils Band
"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush (the only Bush that ever did anything good)
"Pain Lies On The Riverside" by Live

and lots of others I can't remember right now.

*easy... TV ciggy ads are now banned here too.

[ScreamingMeemie]

49. My only problem (sort of ) with this whole restaurant thing is how

many people consider this a cheap restaurant. I do not consider Cracker Barrel to be a cheap restaurant. I consider the greasy spoon on the corner to be a cheap restaurant. It puts it into stark relief for me, that even we...the defenders of the poor, the rigteous left... are disconnected from the reality of what it means to truly not have any money. :hi:

[Katina]

51. maybe it's just me

but I wasn't aware that the discussion of the chain restaurants had anything to do with snobbery. In my opinion, it had to do with personal tastes in food styles, no more, no less.
If anyone thinks they are superior because they do or do not eat at chain restaurants, then they are just fools. Where a person eats has nothing to do with who a person is...unless you are very shallow.

As for me, my fun goal is to try and eat at least once at the top 50 Zagat rated restaurants in NYC. However, that doesn't preclude me from eating at TGI Fridays, Ruby Tuesdays or the Olive Garden or any other chain.

[bridgit]

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