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I find it interesting how many lament the cost of eating healthier food, so opt out for cheap unhealthy food instead. Has anyone factored the long term healthcare costs into the equation?
Give it a whirl if you like. I think you will find it an impossible task since you don't know what people eat in or out.
I doubt that places like diners and other family-style restaurants that have huge menus use all fresh ingredients, either. You see the Sysco trucks rolling up to mom and pop restaurants, too.
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If going to Brooklyn for some Italian then on to China town to have some authentic Chinese food isn't getting out in your book I don't know what would be.
You can do that in any decent-sized city in the country. One person of Italian or Chinese descent living in Louisville or Kansas City or Milwaukee or Chicago or Cleveland or Denver is no less Italian or Chinese than another person of Italian or Chinese descent living in New York or Philadelphia.
Every now and then, I do get a hankering for Olive Garden's soup, salad, and breadsticks. I won't touch anything else they serve.
I think I am the only one that doesn't like their breadsticks (of people I know that go there). I have only been 2X so not a large sampling but they too salty in my opinion. I have my own things that I like super salty though (tortilla chips) so I don't understand why I can't take the breadsticks being salty.
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I like Red Lobster but don't have one close enough to go. I would happily visit weekly just to have a cup of clam chowder, small house salad, and cheddar bay biscuits, YUM!
I was shocked to hear that two families I know went to Cracker Barrel for Thanksgiving, and they thought it was great. There are no words.
What is the saying? "You'll never go broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
As for the OPs question, when I see a full parking lot at a chain restaurant on a Tuesday night, I think some parents just got off work and have to get several kids to a few sports in an hour.
Since I'm slowly returning to being a vegan, it's hard for me to go out since everything in most restaurants have some animal product in them and everything is served with meat, even salads!! Olive Garden I love their salad, but I heard that the dressing has eggs with the mixture so that's out, then I use to love Red Lobster's cheddar biscuits, but nothing else, but no more dairy so ex it out! Let's not forget butter, beef or chicken stock in soups and what not. Not to mention that yes eating out is VERY expensive, but I'm seeing that my very diet change is friggin expensive! But I'm hanging in. Oh and Joe's Crab Shack had some VERY good crab nachos! No longer can eat that as well. I need to find someplace that is vegan friendly, like more vegan restaurants around and stuff.
When I'm on the run, from time to time, I've enjoyed the 500 calorie entrees at Applebee's (there's a chicken dish with grilled vegetables) that not pricey--and tasty!
But oh! The salt content is so very high, I'm thirsty for hours afterwards. Most chain restaurants are off my radar screen because of my salt-restricted way of eating.
I wish more/some restuarants would let us add the salt and not serve their food already highly salted.
I wish more/some restuarants would let us add the salt and not serve their food already highly salted.
I certainly understand that there are some places, particularly the chains, that serve overly salted foods at times perhaps. However, from a culinary/fine dining perspected salt and pepper are a must in cooking. Without it things just don't taste right, and no real chef is going to put out bland, blah food. Salt, Pepper and real butter are staples of good cooking.
how can you act all high and mighty and then talk about smoking in the dining room lol
i like going out to eat at cheap-ish places every once in a while because its nice to get out around other people and its nice not to have to do any work
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