the worst is going to one of these in a brand new super wal-mart dress barn asphalt colony and looking out the window at big piles of dirt while you eat your buffalo bbq sliders.
― Don't delay, we cannot do this forever. (Matt P), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
dudes, the count is at two.
Just sayin'.
― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Denny's makes a great milkshakethat alone should've kept it from losing (winning?) this poll
― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
these are all the same restaurant
― mark roflr (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, March 2, 2010 3:40 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
― Don't delay, we cannot do this forever. (Matt P), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I've eaten at all these chains, and the only one I will never go back to is Claim Jumpers.
― Jaq, Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
gross food, uncivilized portions, other?
― Religious Embolism (WmC), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
every time you came back from the bathroom, someone else would be in your chair eating your meal
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ I lol'd
― Leigh Bowery Sidibe (Stevie D), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Upstate New York? Not so big on diners. :(
― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:29 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not true ime?
― harbl, Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Well there weren't any in Geneva sadly.
― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.cardcow.com/images/set199/card00406_fr.jpg
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― gabourey weaver (get bent), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
would absolutely eat at Roscoe's
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
it's just "roscoe" cuz the town is called roscoe
― gabourey weaver (get bent), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I LOVE THE ROSCOE DINER!!!! I used to stop there every time I did the drive from Long Island to the Finger Lakes. :D
― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Ample Parking
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Was actually going to mention it earlier but I didn't think anyone would know it.
Thought I'd posted, maybe to the wrong thread.
I'm still flustered by the fact that there is a subset of chains that are "fancy," especially for people who live in rural areas without a lot of restaurants. A lot of friends have relatives from small towns who always had to eat at Olive Garden or Red Lobster when they went to the big city. Now the fancy place of choice seems to be Macaroni Grill.
― mh, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
would still eat there regardless, although I am now sad that meeting a jovially friendly owner named Roscoe is off the table
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a great diner, but it's probably better-known for its ubiquitous bumper stickers than its food. (xxpost)
― gabourey weaver (get bent), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
there's still roscoe's chicken & waffles in l.a.
― gabourey weaver (get bent), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
been there, would go again
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
me too
― gabourey weaver (get bent), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
next time I'm in CA we should have a FAWAC meetup
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Giant portions of crap food with this emphasis of "Look how supersized we made THIS!"
― Jaq, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
http://jiveturkey.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/boss-hog.jpg
― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Whether Long Beach, Pasadena or elsewhere, I am ALL over the 'Scoe's. Let me KNOW.
― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
a 'dena thing would be fun
― gabourey weaver (get bent), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, I got the Dena plans covered if it comes to that. 'Scoes, followed by Lucky Baldwins.
― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 11 March 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
we might be in LA/pasadena area memorial day weekend, would be up for a FAP.
BLAM, if you're lucky i'll bring some more of that whittaker's chocolate back from NZ (we're going there beginning of may) for you!
― just1n3, Thursday, 11 March 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I sometimes think of that kiwi/chocolate bar you sent. That was the BUSINESS.
Let me know if you all want to do a Pasadena area fap. I'd be glad to host.
― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 12 March 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://snippets.com/what-is-the-nutrition-information-for-claim-jumper-restaurant.htm
WOW
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I've never been to this restaurant -- do people actually clean their plate or is the point that you take half home in a doggie bag? I mean, I am a big eater at times but I don't think I would want to, maybe even physically couldn't, put down 4200 calories at a sitting.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit
― millions now zinging will never lol (WmC), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
4,301 Calories
can I just what is this I don't even
― etrian odysseus (cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll bet the items on the children's menu at this place are actual children.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Not toddlers, I'm talking fifth-graders.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
don't even think my li'l bro wd be 4301 cals
― etrian odysseus (cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
the baked potato (side dish) has more sodium than the meatloaf and mashed potato dinner
o_O
― Maurice, the Kraken (brownie), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
One of those rolled-in-coarse-salt baked potatoes, then.
― millions now zinging will never lol (WmC), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
The place is huge, but it’s invariably packed, and you can see why. The typical entrée is under fifteen dollars. The décor is fancy, in an accessible, Disney-cruise-ship sort of way: faux Egyptian columns, earth-tone murals, vaulted ceilings. The waiters are efficient and friendly. They wear all white (crisp white oxford shirt, pants, apron, sneakers) and try to make you feel as if it were a special night out. As for the food—can I say this without losing forever my chance of getting a reservation at Per Se?—it was delicious.
The chain serves more than eighty million people per year. I pictured semi-frozen bags of beet salad shipped from Mexico, buckets of precooked pasta and production-line hummus, fish from a box. And yet nothing smacked of mass production. My beets were crisp and fresh, the hummus creamy, the salmon like butter in my mouth. No doubt everything we ordered was sweeter, fattier, and bigger than it had to be. But the Cheesecake Factory knows its customers. The whole table was happy (with the possible exception of Ethan, aged sixteen, who picked the onions out of his Hawaiian pizza).
I wondered how they pulled it off. I asked one of the Cheesecake Factory line cooks how much of the food was premade. He told me that everything’s pretty much made from scratch—except the cheesecake, which actually is from a cheesecake factory, in Calabasas, California.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande#ixzz22sJRPuVm
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Cheesecake Factory is ironically a factory of everything BUT cheesecake.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Was that written by Marilyn Hagerty?
― o. nate, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2012/10/25/1226503/093989-denny-039-s.jpg
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Denny's has been doing that for a few years now, still makes me lol
Moons Over My Smaugy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
This is old and I think was probably posted in a Marilyn Hagerty thread, but it deserves to be memorialized herein:
http://www.theawl.com/2012/03/our-week-with-marilyn
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
one egg to bind them
― brownie, Monday, 24 March 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
nice
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
Chili's has food that tastes like the crap you'd shovel in your mouth while playing Twisted Metal back in 1996
― def jeftones (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
what were you doing in a Chili's
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link