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Here's something just for facts, not trying to prove anything.
But a GPS search I did found 20 McDonald's within a 5 mile radius from downtown Elizabeth, NJ. I did the same search for Tyler, TX and only found 7. However it should be noted that there were more Mickey D's in the City of Tyler than in Elizabeth, and of course Elizabeth is much denser. But the fact remains that there were still more McD's establishments closer together in Jersey.
^ Of course. It's called population density.
Also, northern NJ has way more diversity in terms of food...Asian, Middle Eastern, etc. Of course, some of those people down south aren't real big on diversity, so I guess I can see why they wouldn't like it.
New Jersey all the way. Having NYC next door would be pretty cool too.
I found an article that will prove my case. The state of New Jersey has 5.0 fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents with an obesity rating at 19%. Now, South Carolina has 9.4 fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents with an obesity rate at 25.8%. Now, since Texas posters are arguing on the SC side lets show Texas too. The state of Texas has 8.5 fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents with a 25.5% obesity rate. You do the math! Obesity and Fast-Food Restaurants: A State-by-State Breakdown - Prevention.com (http://www.prevention.com/cda/article/best-and-worst-fast-food-states/ea86d08f88803110VgnVCM20000012281eac____/nutrition.recipes/nutrition.basics/eating.healthy - broken link)
Why are you just checking one chain? Do every American chain while you are at it.
Hell, YOU do it if it's of that much interest to you. I was just curious about the claim and decided to check the stats for TGIF for each state. I've got better things to do.
Exactly, that poster new that TGI Fridays for some reason are not in South Carolina.
LOL, what the hell are you talking about? I most certainly know that there are TGIF's in SC, even though the first one I ever ate at in my life was in Philadelphia when I was about 13. I just looked at TGIF because it was the first restaurant mentioned by the person I quoted. If you want to know the stats on the other chains, do like I did and LOOK THEM UP YOURSELF.
Edit: just to satisfy some of y'all lazy bums, I looked up Chili's and Applebees. NJ has 26 Chili's and 64 Applebees. SC has 12 and 43, respectively. So NJ has less Applebees per capita, but more Chili's. So as of now, for the restaurants I looked up, it's 2-1 in favor of NJ. Keep in mind that I never made the claim that more restaurant chains is necessarily a bad thing; I was just interesting in the stats themselves.
A couple of things. First of all, I am not doubting in any way that good food exists in SC. Obviously, there is some fantastic comfort food that you can find in your state.
I've done a pretty good amount of domestic traveling for both business and pleasure. I've found, in ANY region, that the quality of food in extremely rural areas, is generally much lower quality than in urban areas. Yes, rural areas have "mom and pops", but I've found a lot of real dumps in rural areas.
NJ is known for extremely high quality food, and also for it's absolutely huge, and I mean huge, variety in terms of types of cuisines, from all around the country, and all around the world. The fact that we are a stone's throw from Manhattan, NYC really rubs off on the culture of NJ (I guess I'm focusing on North NJ for the time being). NYC is world-renowned for it's restaurants, and overall culture. All of that leaks over into NJ (as well as to the other side - Long Island). So NJ people generally do not have a high tolerance for poor quality food - hell, we grew up going into NYC for entertainment and dining. Many NYCers move across the river to Northern & Central NJ once they settle down with families.
I'm trying not to convey the northern superiority and bigotry that I think you sense, and loathe ... but from my experiences, people in the NYC metro area tend to hold food to a much higher standard than folks in the south (including SC).
So, while SC has some great southern hospitality type food ... it really isn't known for having great food from any other region, or nation. Vice versa, in NJ, you can actually find some really great southern cuisine restaurants -- just not as many as in SC. And that's the way it should be!
Well, sir, it's like you said: from YOUR experience. But that doesn't make it so.
And South Carolina is not just about southern cooking. You'd be surprised where in the south you can find QUALITY rustic Italian, Jamaican, Greek, South American, Indian, and Caribbean cuisines. But if you did not find these places after living down south for 20 years, I'm sorry but I'm just going to have to insist that you simply weren't searching hard enough. Since things down here are so spread out, it's not going to be as easy to find places as it is in Jersey.
Exactly, he knew that TGI Fridays was founded in NYC in 1965.
Oh yes, that's common knowledge that I just spout off in random conversations to folks I meet. We learned that in elementary school along with "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" and that our nation gained its independence in 1776. I mean it's such an important fact, how the hell could I have let it slip my mind? [/sarcasm]
I had absolutely NO IDEA that TGIF was founded in NYC, but thanks for that bit of info. And even so, you need to tell whoever it was who made the claim in the first place to know THEIR info before spouting off unfounded info because I never brought up chain restaurants anyway; all I did was look up the stats for a few of the restaurants that were mentioned.
I found an article that will prove my case. The state of New Jersey has 5.0 fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents with an obesity rating at 19%. Now, South Carolina has 9.4 fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents with an obesity rate at 25.8%. Now, since Texas posters are arguing on the SC side lets show Texas too. The state of Texas has 8.5 fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents with a 25.5% obesity rate. You do the math! Obesity and Fast-Food Restaurants: A State-by-State Breakdown - Prevention.com (http://www.prevention.com/cda/article/best-and-worst-fast-food-states/ea86d08f88803110VgnVCM20000012281eac____/nutrition.recipes/nutrition.basics/eating.healthy - broken link)
Everybody please click on that link ... this will end the fast food argument. NJ is DEAD LAST in terms of fast food chains per capita ... meaning it has the LEAST fast food chains out of all 50 states. The reason? BECAUSE NJ PEOPLE DEMAND A HIGHER QUALITY. There is more culture here.
I found an article that will prove my case. The state of New Jersey has 5.0 fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents with an obesity rating at 19%. Now, South Carolina has 9.4 fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents with an obesity rate at 25.8%. Now, since Texas posters are arguing on the SC side lets show Texas too. The state of Texas has 8.5 fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents with a 25.5% obesity rate. You do the math! Obesity and Fast-Food Restaurants: A State-by-State Breakdown - Prevention.com (http://www.prevention.com/cda/article/best-and-worst-fast-food-states/ea86d08f88803110VgnVCM20000012281eac____/nutrition.recipes/nutrition.basics/eating.healthy - broken link)
That is so sad that the south has so much obesity. Obesity is such a problem in this country. I also contribute this obesity problem in the south to completely unwalkable cities and suburban sprawl.
Oh yes, that's common knowledge that I just spout off in random conversations to folks I meet. We learned that in elementary school along with "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" and that our nation gained its independence in 1776. I mean it's such an important fact, how the hell could I have let it slip my mind? [/sarcasm]
I had absolutely NO IDEA that TGIF was founded in NYC, but thanks for that bit of info. And even so, you need to tell whoever it was who made the claim in the first place to know THEIR info before spouting off unfounded info because I never brought up chain restaurants anyway; all I did was look up the stats for a few of the restaurants that were mentioned.
Exactly, there are six TGI Fridays in the whole state of SC. The reason for that is because TGI Fridays for some reason are not there. You knew this and I knew this because I lived in Charleston for a short stint. While I was in Charleston, I visited Myrtle Beach, Greenville and Columbia and I never saw ONE TGI Fridays. You knew what you were doing because you are from SC and you picked TGI Fridays on purpose. So, you claim not to have time to look up the Olive Garden, but you have time to look up TGI Fridays and continue to post in this thread? You won’t look up the other restaurants because you know that I am right. Look at the link that I provided that SC is dominated by fast food, which proves the south equals fast food.
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