Texas Roadhouse was a couple of stops after Pappadeaux, they made me work on New Year's Eve even though I was violently ill from food poisoning. I get why they didn't believe me to start with but I think they might have sent me home when I was running from trashcan (to puke) to table to bathroom (to try to not shit myself).
I worked a couple more shifts then decided that was really fucked up and never went back.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:27 (three years ago) link
I even lasted at Chevy's through a rat infestation.
i'm talking mutant sized, Rat Fink rats, that kept coming down the pipes onto the soda fountain after hours.
well....and on one unfortunate occasion, during hours. and climbed up on the seat next to a customer.
she screamed "RAT! RAT!", and apparently a bunch of tables up and walked out (I wasn't there). the weirdest part of that story to me wasn't that part, but who in the fuck would STAY after that? apparently some people needed another margarita.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
(I am very squeamish w/rats also)
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:33 (three years ago) link
I definitely grew up looking down on Red Lobster but that was more because in New Orleans you can get much better seafood for much cheaper. Just seemed like a white middle-class suburban status thing. Can see why landlocked people might like it. Y'all are making me want to track one down for the biscuits, tho.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:33 (three years ago) link
hell there are a ton of better seafood places in FL - I found a great peel shrimp place in Ocala, FL (the only nice thing I'll ever say about Ocala)
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
If you live next to seawater there are always a billion places better than the chains discussed in this thread.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:49 (three years ago) link
i eat my seafood straight out the ocean
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
I’m thinking way too hard about how I would deal with the rat situation described above. Yeah, walking right the fuck out is the correct move.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
This thread is actually making me miss restaurants even though it’s basically all stories about systemic labor issues, food poisoning, and rodentsThat’s how bad lockdown’s gotten for me I guess
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
cruising for new restaurants is one of the things I miss the most about dating.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 05:10 (three years ago) link
I like to pretend once this is all over that a bunch of new places are going to take over all the spots that have permanently closed since March, and I’ll get to try them out. Ha ha, ha, ha ha.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 05:20 (three years ago) link
Amazon Automats coast to coast
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 05:25 (three years ago) link
enjoy your "Amazon Ham 'n Cheese Classic" which will be thrown at Roger Clemens speed at your chest from the back of a truck
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 05:28 (three years ago) link
-Neanderthal's 1985
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 05:29 (three years ago) link
How have we gotten this far without
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVALgcE2JSI
― imago, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 06:00 (three years ago) link
Well! This thread blew up.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link
Two of my great aunts ate at Red Lobster in suburban Chicago every Thursday for more than twenty years. When they died, their favorite waitress was mad that she didn't get anything in the will.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
I wouldn't eat a bug that crawled out from under my couch. I don't know why people eat the bugs that crawl around on the bottom of the ocean.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
I used to think that way, but then I remember that shrimp are delicious.
I also have eaten plenty of bugs.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
sea bugs are juicy (in an appetizing way)land bugs are crunchy (in a mostly not good way)
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
Texas Roadhouse locations are all actual portals to hell, icymi
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
crunchy land bugs are the good ones
I draw the line at gooey land bugs and critters - my friend lived with a woman from Zimbabwe for a while and she tried to introduce us to thesehttps://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/zimbabwe-favorite-snack-mopane-worms-article-1.1247669
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
good crunch: https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/chapulines-grasshopper-tacos-oaxaca
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
i would eat that
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
although "salt and vinegar potato chips, but a bit wetter" gave me pause