If there is any of these restaurants I associate w/racism, it is Denny's, tho I suppose that is as timely as associating Jack in the Box w/E. Coli.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
They sent hundreds of thousands of lobsters to concentration camps in cattle cars.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I believe at that point one may refer to them as lobster cars.
― La religion est une fatigante solution de paresse (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought Cracker Barrel was the notorious political "baddie" among this bad bunch- superfundamentalist and hardline, I seem to recall some pretty horrible policies about HIV positive employees being fired and a nasty stink/protest in retaliation.
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The only one of these I have a distinct memory of eating in is Denny's. I guess they can get kind of gross at times, depending on the place, time of day, etc.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
"We got paid off by Cracker Barrel!"
http://www.famu.edu/headlines/UserFiles/Image/Cracker_Barrel.web.jpg
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit, A) your'e in south Jersey / B) you don't like Pat's??
― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Tuesday, March 2, 2010 11:31 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I'm from SJ and I also think Pat's sux and is kinda expensive. I'd rather go to Joe's or Mama Ciconte's any day. Scotto's in Woodbury is pretty good too ($6.99 large pizza special!).
Most authentic food on rt 45 imo is a Sicilian Deli hoagie.
― I gave'em anything that popped into my cabeza. (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ I am going to keep these in mind when I return home for the summer
― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
have always wanted to visit that sicilian hoagie shack, but it looked like a money laundering front so I'd always get the too-salty cheap hoagie from shoprite instead. :/ (I suppose all good hoagie shacks look like money laundering fronts tho)
― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
true. doesn't help that it is next to a tattoo parlor.
― I gave'em anything that popped into my cabeza. (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Guys can we have a SJFAP? We can all get pampered at Hello, Gorgeous! and then pop by Heritages for some sodas and then GO TO THE COLONIAL ON 45!
― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
NO SBARRO NO CREDIBILITY
― Jonsi's on a vacation far away (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
that's really stretching the definition of restaurant. which is their slogan, iirc.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Also I am usually not v pretentious/elitist but will willingly/sort of embarassingly admit I am a snob and a half when it comes to Comic Sans and Papyrus. Mostly I just don't get why other people don't get it.
― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not the pampering kind but wouldn't mind stopping by the 'lo. good flapjacks.
― I gave'em anything that popped into my cabeza. (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds good, if I'm back in time
― noted schloar (dyao), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
when i was stuck in stockton, ca a year ago for work, i ended up eating @ Macaroni Grill a LOT. the food was surprisingly pretty good, and it was one of the few good restaurants in what was otherwise a foodie's hell.
― Jonsi's on a vacation far away (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
do they actually grill the macaroni?
― Garden of "Eden" (get bent), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Say, when "dyao" get back? (ha ha!) No, they don't grill the macaroni. They just want people to know it's basically an Italian-ish Chili's or Applebees
― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
these places (like denny's) have gotten worse over the years, right? I mean I remember eating at IHOP as a kid (and Denny's, and the unfortunately named Sambos) and they were alright, for the 70's/80's. And I don't think this is just because my tastes have gotten refined; I'm pretty sure these places have gotten much worse. The last time I ate at IHOP it was barely edible.
― akm, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
IHOP has always been known as I-SLOP in my neck of the woods.
― Jonsi's on a vacation far away (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
def. gone down a notch or two: ihop, chili's, sizzler
― they want a fapz (tremendoid), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4632991n?source=search_video
― alimosina, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Denny's is like the nastiest place on the face of the Earth
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd imagine K-Lo's kitchen takes the cake, so to speak.
― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
kitchen? is that what you call it?
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd so much rather go to denny's than any of these. ruby tuesday chilis applebees can rot in hell
― Don't delay, we cannot do this forever. (Matt P), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i chose Applebee's mostly for selling something called a "wonton taco"
― richie aprile (rockapads), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
The nastiest food experience I've ever had was in a Denny's; it involved oil and vinegar carafes that had a thin film of dead gnats floating on top of the liquid inside them and undercooked food served on unclean plates with unclean silverware and water served in unclean glasses. It was beyond vile.
xp: woah that is compelling evidence tho
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know what Dennys considers coffee these days, but what I used to drink there late nights was better than Starbucks.
― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i wanna heart Denny's simply b/c of their Nannerpuss and Paulie Walnuts ads.
― Jonsi's on a vacation far away (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
wonton tacos:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q--bapvYnos/RvtwhMK60AI/AAAAAAAACOg/l0ukqP_mtW8/s400/Tuna+Taco+23082007498.jpg
― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf is that
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
do not wont
― go haim on em (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
needs cilantro
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
it looks like an overstuffed fish taco.
― Jonsi's on a vacation far away (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
when i was a little kid i wanted to go to red lobster so bad bcuz i had seen and ad for this like ten kinds of shrimp served ten different ways type deal & one of the ways was with lemon and garlic and theyd toss the shrimp as it glistened it seemed like the most fukken delicious thing ud ever taste. but my mom wouldnt take me cuz she thought these type a places were gross & unhealthy but i still think red lobster mb tastes p good.
havent eaten @ any of the places so i cant judge
― Lamp, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
The ever-present lemon hovering the Red Lobster shrimp looks tasty.
― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Red Lobster: A Good Value or Ghetto?
― Jonsi's on a vacation far away (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
when I was a kid, Red Lobster was where lower middle class people celebrated high school graduations and took people on first dates. I imagine it is like Applebee's or any of these other casual dining places today.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't wait to see the results on this.
― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Red Lobster gets my vote. I fucking hate seafood.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Macaroni Grill. I fucking hate macaroni.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i got ecoli from baja fresh in 2006
― owenf, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i knew that there was a story in the archives that accounts for Dan's aversion to all things Denny's -- and here it is:
The year was 1982. My family was in Colorado Springs visiting my oldest brother at the Air Force Academy. Before heading over to the campus, we stopped at the Denny's next door to our hotel where we underwent a series of horrifying restaurant experiences:- The silverware at our table was CAKED with food; it looked like the previous diners had eaten their meals and then reset the table with their used cutlery. We asked for more silverware but it took them three attempts to find some that was actually clean.
- Shaken, I went to take a drink of water. My mother abruptly shouted, "DON'T DRINK OUT OF THAT!" and grabbed my hand. Puzzled and slightly shocked, I took a closer look at the glass and finally saw the ring of orange juice pulp around the inside of my glass.
- At this point, most of the family had lost their appetites, but my dad is stubborn and wanted to eat right then. He ordered a salad with oil and vinegar salad dressing. He had poured on the oil and was going for the vinegar when my middle brother said, "Dad, before you do that, what's on the top of that vinegar?" Dad glanced at it and said, "Oh, that's just pepper." My brother said, "Since when does pepper have WINGS?" Dad put his gnat-topped vinegar carafe back on the table and ordered the check.
We walked out of the restaurant and went straight to McDonald's. I think I've set foot in Denny's maybe once since then (the whole "we don't like black people" thing from the early 90s was an unnecessary nail in an already-sealed coffin as far as I was concerned).
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:14 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark
― Jonsi's on a vacation far away (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
The lobster pizza @ Red Lobster if fucking awesome, btw. Pretty much the only edible thing on that menu.
I've been drafted to eat there tonight. Seriously considering a salad one of those...
― FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT IN THE PARKING LOT! (milo z), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
salad and one of those
otm if starbucks cut the shit and started serving good ol coffehouse coffee (even as a novelty or whatever) i'd be as much a sb stan as the next guy
― they want a fapz (tremendoid), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link