Posted on 07/22/2018 6:15:31 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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The Red Hen is where the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, took her family for a bite to eat, and from which she was evicted when the homosexual staff recognised who she was. Her rude defenestration was supported by the restaurant’s owner, citing Donald Trump’s reluctance to allow transgender people to serve in the US military. It is, clearly, a liberals-only restaurant. They should write that on the front door, so that everything is clear, but as a sop maybe have a water fountain out front labelled ‘for conservatives’.
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But support for the horrible Red Hen was outweighed by about five to one by enraged conservatives, one of whom advised immigrants that the restaurant was offering free meals to illegal aliens and all they had to do was ring the number, which they quoted in full. My favourite, though, came from a local bloke who said that people in the area were disgusted with the Red Hen and that the owner was ‘a New York transplant’ and related to Meryl Streep. Enough said!
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Cooking is not terribly difficult. Nor is it an art. It is at best what Orwell referred to as a ‘half art’, like photography. We have undoubtedly benefited from the increased prestige conferred upon people who can put stuff in a frying pan and stir it quite adeptly, these past 40 years. But latterly it has also bred within the restaurateurs a distance from and even a contempt towards the people they are serving. So that they are now agreed that the feedback they receive from their customers is utterly worthless: they know what they are doing and nobody can tell them otherwise.
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Actually, new restaurants fail at an alarming rate anyway, and have been doing so for as long as I can remember.
I’ll say that working in food service, especially management, is very hard work, if you want to be successful. I’ve never met a restaurant manager (with the exception of some family owned and run restaurants,) over the age of 35 who isn’t divorced, if ever married.
Mark
But "deported" (lit. "thrown out the door") isn't politically correct....
Had a similar problem with a local restaurant that we had frequented for years. One time food poisoning is one time too many.
I am with you. I hardly eat out and prefer to cook as much as I can myself. We list the art of home economy that allows effective planning coupled with skill. Earlier this evening my sister wanted to serve some peppers but didn’t want to cook them because they would take too long to cut up. I had them done in less than five minutes. I also invested in a couple of knife skills classes at one point.
Like you I want to control my salt intake. I also want to control my sugars and fats. Both of those can also be misused and overused in restaurant cooking.
Knowing how to shop and use a freezer can go along way in saving time and money.
“Actually, new restaurants fail at an alarming rate”
Good food, good portions and a fair price. The rest(80%) is very good food/kitchen management. There is a restaurant owner up the beach who buys all the joints that fail. He changes the name, jiggles the menu a bit and turns them into very profitable eateries. When he has the cashflow high, he sells them, then waits for them to fail so he can buy them back at a song.
He’s been at it for 30 years.
“That is good eating and usually much less expensive!”
yeah, i quit eating out a lot because my cooking tastes better and is healthier than most restaurant food. exceptions are restaurants that prepare dishes that are a pain to make at home well or, say, Indian buffets that have a dozen different dishes that would take a few days to make at home ...
lol
5 stars!
I give him 100 points for his Wikipedia entry:
“...“Defenestration” in a sentence. It means to throw someone out through a window.
Who knew we needed a word just for that?”
One of my personal favorites is desultory. We know it now as meaning something without a plan, or lacking good order, a mess.
But originally...
“The Latin adjective desultorius, the parent of desultory, was used by the ancients to refer to a circus performer (called a desultor) whose trick was to leap from horse to horse without stopping.” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desultory
Some defenestrations are famous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
now combine it with “Overton window” for an eternally-useful and clever turn of phrase
Hate to bust the bubble...
Consider the time it takes to go to the restaurant....park...be seated...decide what to get...be served...eat...pay the bill...and drive home...cleaning dishes and oven and pots and pans may not take that much time...dont forget tips and transportation....overpriced liquor..soda...coffee...once in a while ok.
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Bisbee Breakfast Club in (of course) Bisbee AZyou should try and compare as I will try the Blue Moon Grill if I ever have the misfortune to be in MA again.
The restaurant business is what Las Vegas would describe as a “Slow Crap”. Probably one of the highest failure rates around.
Could you smoke on that spit of land out there in the ocean or would that be illegal too in that pussy state?
So true!
At the local hospital where I work Saturday is Goulash day for patient meals. Nothing fancy, egg noodles , beef cubed and gravy. Believe me when I tell you it’s very good.
It still slays me how they treated her arrival as an emergency, and had to call the owner, then the owner also treated it as an “emergency”. Bunch of drama queens.
I think the popularity of cooking shows and advent of so-called celebrity chefs has given some restaurant people an uppity attitude, instead of remembering they are in a service industry.
Good thread to note: at Olive Garden, I ordered salad/soup to save money at dinner. Small amount of salad, crummy soup. Price jacked up to 12 dollars for supper! I never plan to go back.
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