Sorry, I found this burger bar more offensive than a lapdancing club

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Liz Jones

[Larry Lucido]

The girls at the office are taking me to Hooters this Friday for my birthday. I’m gonna be a very happy almost-54-year-old.

[DakotaGator]

Liz Jones; skank with a column. She'll never understand Hooters because she'll never understand men.

And she'll never, ever be the girl next door.

[aruanan]

I’ve been in a few Hooters restaurants in different states. There’s nothing trashy about them. Hooters is a family restaurant.

[ConservativeStatement]

I don't watch much TV but the series “The Office” had an episode where two of the main characters went to a Hooters for a birthday. Supposedly, one character was unprepared for the greeting/song the waitresses perform and his reaction came across as genuine. Have fun!

[allmendream]

Because your children should be treated to the sight of t!ts and a$$? Hooters is absolute trash, and trashy, and proud of it. It is a half step up from a strip club at best.

[muawiyah]

Was that the three story Hooters up there in the Oceanside/Carlsbad area?

They are kinda' dense there aren't they.

[Tax-chick]

Go to a grocery store. Buy some meal ingredients, including vegetables. Take them home; cook them and eat them.

Wasn’t that easy? And inexpensive, too!

[TheOldLady]

Ooooh! Have a giant, sloppy burger and a nice beer for me, and Happy Birthday to you.

The rest of the beers you’ll have to have for someone else, LOL!

I’ll be nine years older than you for the next couple of months.

[DemforBush]

I tried, but I just couldn’t finish the article. Too much whining.

The bottom line for me is, if you don’t like a place, don’t go. Hooters isn’t my thing, but I’m not going to tell any of you that there’s something wrong with going there, ‘cause where you eat is your *own darn business*.

Man, I wish these old liberal busybodies would do us all a favor and pull the stick out of their rear ends!

[DemforBush]

Or if not Liz, Ms. Garofalo before she puts on her makeup...

[aruanan]

Because your children should be treated to the sight of t!ts and a$$? Hooters is absolute trash, and trashy, and proud of it. It is a half step up from a strip club at best.

There is less skin at Hooters than in Olympic figure skating or a day at a municipal beach. Your comments show one of two things:

1. you, like others, haven't been there at all, preferring to ride the horse of self-righteousness by relying on reports by critics, or

2. you're simply deranged.

You're incorrect on all counts.

[Sergio]

Bookmark.

[ZOOKER]

It's not that you're not welcome, Liz, but they didn't start up this business with you in mind. If you want to eat there, it's a free country, go on in. If you don't like the food or the decorations, don't go there.

Did you not KNOW what this place was?

[Ole Okie]

Poor Liz...not exactly a ‘Page 3’ girl, is she?

No, she'd need more than silicone to get to Page 3.

She says she was in the Playboy Club on Park Lane in the 70's and found it superior to Hooters.

I also was in the Playboy Club on Park Lane in the '70's and thought the atmosphere there was pretty sad. The Hooters girls at least smile.

[Nik Naym]

Well, the one holding the sign certainly isn’t. (Decoration, I mean)

[Verbosus]

I always thought having an owl (and owl eyes) as a logo
was a good business decision.

[allmendream]

Nope, the one in downtown mission valley.

They came wheeling out of the parkinglot swerving, saw my wife from across the street, rolled down passenger window and screamed out to me what was obvious to all and sundry....

Yes, she has really nice t!ts you lowlife scum. Now why don't you go choke on a hotwing!

Place is no better than a stripclub with about the same level of clientele, other than the people who think it is a “family restaurant” and bring their family! Because what 9 year old doesn't like seeing the bottom part of a gal's bottom poking out of her shorts?

[Mears]

And I’ve got ten plus years on you.

Tempus fugit,eh ?

[Moose Burger]

“Hooters was started in 1983 by six Florida businessmen with no experience of catering...”

Calling Hooters “catering” somehow sounds like an insult for both parts.

[allmendream]

I have been there. Several times. With some of my more low brow and less refined friends. (delightfully tacky and yet unrefined is their freaking motto, tacky amounts of skin, real family place!)

At the beach they pay women to be scantily clad while they hustle you for tips? Olympic figure skaters have to show a minimum amount of cleavage and/or HAVE a minimum amount of cleavage? Sorry, not even close.

It is a place for MEN to be MEN, drink beer, watch sports, eat hot wings, and gawk at (and talk to, the real losers even try to hit on) a beautiful woman.

It is no more a family restaurant than a stripclub is a singles bar.

The men coming out of the Hooters sound and act like men coming out of a stripclub.

“Your girlfriend has nice t!ts” was my experience.

“Show us your tits, if you had any.” was hers.

Sounds like a real family environment to me! If your family is from the trailer park.