Americans love mediocrity!
Most Overrated Restaurants
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Americans love mediocrity!
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Hope you get your cholesterol checked frequently. These dishes are a heart attack on a plate! :eek:
Don't tell me you order a diet coke to go with them. :1orglaugh
Meh. I eat there VERY rarely. I can't remember the last time I was there, but pretty sure a couple years ago on my b-day with my girl. We had a few cervezas, a cheese fry and a bloomin' onion. If I remember correctly we got half orders of each.
And I think people in this thread need to make a distinction between a restaurant (you know, somewhere where you go in, sit down with a menu, friends or family and order something and make an event of it) and fast food slop. :2 cents:
You shouldn't expect anything resembling decent food from a chain that has outlets all around the country. In order to be acceptable to so many people they have to appeal to the lowest common denominator, which means fairly bland & mediocre food. Try some local restaurants, mom&pop joints well away from the malls/interstates/big box stores & those are the places where you will find decent food. But chain restaurants? Never.
StanScratch
My Penis Is Dancing!
When I see the word "restaurant," I think of food. When I see names like McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, etc., I do not think food. I think feeding troughs for the lard asses of the U.S. who are content on allowing their stomachs and minds to be weakened by the shit these places are trying to pass off as food. If it takes less than 15 minutes for your meal to be prepared, you are not being given food, you are being given a semi-digestive, processed collection that contains 5 percent food, 95 percent things that you cannot pronounce and should not be attempting to digest, held together with grease and fat.
And if I am in a place that does have a server, but one who needs a collection of flashing buttons to distract from the fact that the junk was created in a sweat shop, then I need not attempt to cram it into my mouth.
No, I cook for myself, and use ingredients I am familiar with. On the very rare occasions I do go out to eat, it is a small locally owned Italian restaurant in which the people work quite hard to create meals, not churn them out.
So, as far as I am concerned, they are all overrated, except La Piazza in Troy, Ohio.
And if I am in a place that does have a server, but one who needs a collection of flashing buttons to distract from the fact that the junk was created in a sweat shop, then I need not attempt to cram it into my mouth.
No, I cook for myself, and use ingredients I am familiar with. On the very rare occasions I do go out to eat, it is a small locally owned Italian restaurant in which the people work quite hard to create meals, not churn them out.
So, as far as I am concerned, they are all overrated, except La Piazza in Troy, Ohio.
bahodeme
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I'll also add Morton's Steakhouse as well.
Pretty much every restaurant within sixty square miles of where I live is over priced and overrated. My area is just over run with bullshit organic gourmet bistro crap that is just absurdly over priced. Nobody locally eats at any of those places they are usually filled with either tourists or sanctimonious douche bag food snobs. Hmmmm a Whopper and an ice cold beer sounds really good right now.
TGI Friday's and Domino's
Outback fell out of favor for me years ago. They don't have the bloomin' onion on the menu at all anymore in CA, because everyone got so uppity about the calorie/fat count so they managed to strong arm OB into taking it off the menu altogether. I'm glad to live in a state that looks out for my health so paternalistically as I am completely bereft of self control and the power to make my own choices.
Wow. Is it that insane in San D? That's just fucking ridiculous. You see, I eat there maybe once every couple years (if that - I think I've been there maybe 5 times in my life) or so to enjoy a greasy thing like that and a few cervezas and watch the game. That's just crazy that they would ban it.
At least you can get the copycat recipe online:
http://www.food.com/recipe/outback-bloomin-onion-11874
Others:
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-....,cf.osb&fp=55ec5d59dd72fa0b&biw=1024&bih=673
I just cut the onions in rings when I do and make them onion rings. The spices are so good in that recipe.
Outback Steak House - mediocre steaks and bad service
In 'n Out Burger - I don't get the fanaticism. New ones built around here, and they had to have cops for traffic control.
Come to think of it, most any national chain restaurants don't live up to the image they present by advertising.
In 'n Out Burger - I don't get the fanaticism. New ones built around here, and they had to have cops for traffic control.
Come to think of it, most any national chain restaurants don't live up to the image they present by advertising.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
Wendy's sea salt fries. Made me sick. Stay far away. 
I would not recommend them. :eeew:
I would not recommend them. :eeew:
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