Cooking vs Restaurants

[Ranjr]

Grits ain't groceries.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

People - vegan or normal - are allowed to have avocado on their sandwiches, and I wish them nothing but happiness with it. I also wish they’d belt up with telling me I don’t know what I’m missing.

Boru

Food is not a dictatorship. The bottom line is that you either like something or you don't. I really hate people who act like you have to like or don't like what they do. If you are not eating it, why should you care?

I hate watching food shows where a restaurant owner  says, "We don't do this" for example, "We don't put ketchup on our hotdogs". Fine, then you don't get my money. 

I hate anchovies, but if I owned a pizza joint and a customer asked for them on their pizza, I damned sure am going to give them what they want.

I also hate mushrooms. But how successful would I be owning a pizza joint if I didn't offer that up as a topping?

Why is this reply directed at me?

Boru

[Spongebob]

Grits ain't groceries.

Well, there's no accounting for taste.  Personally, I absolutely love grits and always have.  Thanks to native Americans for providing us with maize.

[Ranjr]

Well, there's no accounting for taste.  Personally, I absolutely love grits and always have.  Thanks to native Americans for providing us with maize.

Growing up, we ate hominy.  Grits were deeper, eastern southern fare. 

The full line from Little Milton is:  If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries. Eggs ain't poultry.  And Mona Lisa was a man.

I see wiggle room there.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You're apparently one of the special ones.  And I appreciate a variety of grains.  Rice (different kinds), quinoa, couscous, sorghum, barley...etc.

One of my grandmothers made a ham soup loaded with barley.  I was never able to replicate it but that's okay as the rest of my family wouldn't eat it anyway.  <sigh>

Learning to like grits was a struggle for me.  So was making them.  Southern husband could eyeball the right amounts of water and grits but it took me a while to learn to make something similar.  Funny thing is that I thought he liked his better than mine till just a few months ago when he said mine were better...'course that could be his way out of ever making grits again...he's sneaky like that.

Barley and mutton stew with leeks and mushrooms. Beyond yum.

Boru

[Spongebob]

So, how about Chick-fil-A? I hear so many different attitudes. They make great fast good (my opinion) and their procedures allow them to do it with extreme efficiency for a fast food restaurant. They put all other FF joints to absolute shame. But their religious practices are a bit selective, so I understand the reason for people who aren't a fan.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So, how about Chick-fil-A?  I hear so many different attitudes.  They make great fast good (my opinion) and their procedures allow them to do it with extreme efficiency for a fast food restaurant.  They put all other FF joints to absolute shame.  But their religious practices are a bit selective, so I understand the reason for people who aren't a fan.

We don’t have those here. However, I can’t see their Christian corporate culture putting me off as long as they make decent food.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

So, how about Chick-fil-A?  I hear so many different attitudes.  They make great fast good (my opinion) and their procedures allow them to do it with extreme efficiency for a fast food restaurant.  They put all other FF joints to absolute shame.  But their religious practices are a bit selective, so I understand the reason for people who aren't a fan.

I like Chick-fil-A. There are two main reasons: 1)Their food is damn consistent and 2)The line at the drive thru can be 30 cars long and you will still get out of there with a hot, correct order in less time than almost any other fast food place that has 5 cars in line.

I'll add a third - their lemonade is amazing.

I get why some people don't want to go there but there are shops and stores I went to before COVID that were mom and pop places and I had no damn idea what their religious preferences are.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So, how about Chick-fil-A?  I hear so many different attitudes.  They make great fast good (my opinion) and their procedures allow them to do it with extreme efficiency for a fast food restaurant.  They put all other FF joints to absolute shame.  But their religious practices are a bit selective, so I understand the reason for people who aren't a fan.

I like Chick-fil-A.  There are two main reasons: 1)Their food is damn consistent and 2)The line at the drive thru can be 30 cars long and you will still get out of there with a hot, correct order in less time than almost any other fast food place that has 5 cars in line.

I'll add a third - their lemonade is amazing.

I get why some people don't want to go there but there are shops and stores I went to before COVID that were mom and pop places and I had no damn idea what their religious preferences are.

Puts me in mind of Washington’s attitude regarding the hiring practices at Mt. Vernon: 

‘If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mahometans, Jews, Christians of any sect, or they may be atheists.’

In context, it’s like saying, ‘I don’t care how you pray, just make me a sandwich.’ Hard to find fault with that attitude.

Boru

[Jackalope]

So, how about Chick-fil-A?  I hear so many different attitudes.  They make great fast good (my opinion) and their procedures allow them to do it with extreme efficiency for a fast food restaurant.  They put all other FF joints to absolute shame.  But their religious practices are a bit selective, so I understand the reason for people who aren't a fan.

Never ate there, never will. I don't care how good their food is.