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Nah, there's plenty of room for everyone
More seriously, those at best mediocre "roadside" chains rely almost entirely on people who either don't want to stray more than a few hundred metres from a motorway exit and/or will always go for predictable and mediocre as opposed to "taking a chance" on someplace they haven't eaten before.
I can't honestly say that I'd rather die, but I would never chose to live that way.
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For some reason, this thread is suddenly giving me a flashback to a road trip as a teenager which opened my eyes to different families doing things in different ways. I had a group of friends that I went on hiking holidays with in youth hostels once every summer. When we were 15, we wanted to go to the Peak District or possibly the Lake District, I forget which. My dad drove us there, my friend's dad drove us back. On the way there, my dad drove at his usual speed, which meant getting us there in 3 hours flat. There was exactly one pit stop at a service station to use the loos and grab sandwiches, where two of my friends confessed they had been so terrified of the speed we were being driven at that they had been independently planning their own funerals in their heads. On the way back, my friend's dad drove at his usual speed, which meant it took us 7 hours to get back, and included a 2 hour diversion where we went off the motorway and pootled around some country lanes until we found a nice pub for a sit-down meal. I found it infuriatingly slow and just wanted to be home already. Quite the contrast.
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I worked with a guy whose idea of a perfect vacation was driving around the wilds of Scotland or Finland or wherever took his fancy.
But not driving...stopping to look at antiques...driving...stopping for a distillery tour. No, he liked to just drive for 8...10...12 hours a day, then stop for the night and do it all again the next day.
He said it was the end of many relationships for him.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostThe US has a good selection of consistently decent roadside sit-down places; Applebees, Chili's, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, TGIFriday's, etc. You rarely get a shit meal, but nobody's confusing it with fine dining. It's consistently consistent.
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Originally posted by TonTon View PostMillennials kill everything. Also they spend all their money on avocado on toast. Which they call avocado toast because they can't afford all the words, due to spending all their money on avocado on toast.
McDonald's call their holes "restaurants". We shouldn't ever listen to "industry types".
Wahaca does some stuff that's spicy enough for me and some that's unspicy enough for my other half. That's part of the reason we like it.
BTW, has everyone seen The Founder? It’s about how Ray Kroc got McDonalds going and swindled the real McDonalds Brothers out of a fortune. It didn’t get any oscars because, I’m told, powerful interests worked against it.
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- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
Originally posted by TonTon View PostMillennials kill everything. Also they spend all their money on avocado on toast. Which they call avocado toast because they can't afford all the words, due to spending all their money on avocado on toast.
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Originally posted by Bordeaux Education View PostWhat is it with hipsters/Americans reducing perfectly good phrases? Actually, I will take it back about Americans, they can do what they want with their language but every macaroni cheese over here now is a mac'n'cheese. We have two perfectly good English words, why not use them.
I’m not sure when it became so widely known as “mac’n’cheese.” Perhaps Kraft used that in their advertising or maybe it just caught on with the young people as the Kraft version is popular with college students.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostI worked with a guy whose idea of a perfect vacation was driving around the wilds of Scotland or Finland or wherever took his fancy.
But not driving...stopping to look at antiques...driving...stopping for a distillery tour. No, he liked to just drive for 8...10...12 hours a day, then stop for the night and do it all again the next day.
He said it was the end of many relationships for him.
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- Mar 2008
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
That's a good point - I am arguing against my 'avocado toast' polemic. I suppose it ties up with cauliflower cheese. Actually, that doesn't help, does it? In thinking about it, it is a mental name as it suggests a cheese made of macaroni. Anyway, my point still stands.
I did love, in the Wikipdeia entry, it saying "In the United States, it is considered a comfort food." - as opposed to, in the UK, where it is regarded as haute cuisine.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostBTW, has everyone seen The Founder? It’s about how Ray Kroc got McDonalds going and swindled the real McDonalds Brothers out of a fortune. It didn’t get any oscars because, I’m told, powerful interests worked against it.
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