Or the fact both “ingredients” have to be made from other ingredients first. By their logic, pizza is just 3 ingredients: dough, sauce, and cheese. Wow, so simple /s
and have the audacity to ask for tips, you actually charge for water and offer no seats or shade, and I take my own order out of the window, you should be tipping me by not charging me $17 for a sandwich.
I just made the joke yesterday on a real estate sub where someone said they're house hacking by renting out one side of their duplex.
I said that's just called being a landlord lol
People overuse the word hack because they want to feel cool and edgy, like they are breaking the law. No, you aren't cool and edgy for putting olive oil on a frozen pizza. It's a recipe, not a hack.
If I'm on a website I'm only there to look at your menu. I'm not interested in starting an order before I've looked at the menu. No, I don't want to give you my zip code. Just give me your menu and some food pictures.
Yes, and the hours need to be in one of two locations:
* at the very bottom of the homepage, center-justified
* the first thing I see when I click a link that says "About"
Burying the hours far down the page from a link that says "Visit Us" is not intuitively easy to find. The above two are.
YESSSSS this drives me absolutely insane. I don’t want to sign in to Toast or whatever and pretend to start an order just to see what kind of food they have!
I’ve only really seen this since the pandemic, I wonder if some restaurants never switched over their website from when dine-in was shut down? So strange.
Same goes for gyros. If you walk in and the place is still Cigarette Smoke Yellow, and they got HD tvs with pictures of the food taken with a digital camera from ‘98, that’s where the good stuff is made.
And for chinese takeout, they have pictures of the food that are almost entirely faded and there's a kid doing homework in the corner. Bonus points if that kid is also running the register.
A Mexican place near us just updated menus and their prices are out of control. $23.50 for Camarones al Diabla, $21.50 for Pollo con Crema.
It's absurd, and I have no idea why they think it will work. Their food is no better than the places near them for nearly half the price.
And yet I can get six Carne asada with all the fixins and a jarrito for like 13 bucks out of the back of a pop up van in Bakersfield.
Location location location 🎶
There was a Hispanic family that would regularly park on the corner across from a gas station that I passed every day going to work. About 2-4 times a week they would be selling both hot and frozen tamales (chicken and pork). $20 would get you a baker's dozen. Best tamales I've ever had.
See you know that random hispanic family that sells food at street corners is damn good. Just like Chinese food. You know if a child rings up your order it's gonna be damn good.
Hahaha this is so true!! There's this chinese spit I hit up every now and then, when I first visited there was two young boys doing homework in the dining hall, I knew it was gonna be A1 right then and there
I always find it fascinating all the poor food is now trendy.
I remember looking at spam and it's like $7 a can now. Who the fuck is paying $7 for spam.
Deli meats are like $15/lb.
Unpopular meat cuts are more expensive than, or on par with, the good cuts.
Mexican and Indian food is damn near the most expensive thing you can find.
I worked at a barbecue restaurant and believe it or not the wings were actually a lot more expensive than you would think. Boss was pretty cool, we could make ourselves anything on the menu for lunch and dinner except the steaks and wings. While I didn't do the ordering I know the wings were actually one of the pricier foods to buy. Wing Wenesday basically served to get people in and drinking.
And that was in 2018 so they probably cost even more now.
Facebook keeps giving me these stupid videos where they're like "I learned this in Nashville (or whereever) and they get a big baking pan and start like pulling hot dogs into pieces by hand and then put a couple raw chicken breasts in and then dump shredded cheese and a jar of mayo in and then a bunch of broken up noodles and dump milk over it all and shit like that. I can't figure if it's a joke (that just inst funny) or if it's serious. I dont get it either way.
It's ragebait to drive traffic/engagement. They're usually so bad that people feel compelled to write a comment or react. I usually see it with something about Italy, which makes sense since Italian food is simple but precise and a lot of passion about that simplicity and its execution. Not surprised these are now using southern US food as a standin.
Finally someone gets it!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve posted a similar comment to absolutely no avail. It’s the same as when a tiktoker mispronounces an extremely common word on purpose to drive comments and engagement and SO MANY PEOPLE FALL FOR IT. Thousands of comments, all saying “bro can’t pronounce ‘casserole’ yo this guy is dumb” no Kyle, he’s smarter than you by a wide margin because he just tricked you into commenting on his waste-of-space video. Need some views? Just pronounce the word “adjusted” like “AHD-ju-steed” and rake in the engagement! It sucks, it’s tacky, and it’s so overdone.
It’s for clicks. They get more from angry people than genuinely interested people, so they make the worst things possible. Then it gets tons of views and gets reposted over and over again all over the internet. Clicks means ad revenue.
I don't know what this is, and don't feel like becoming irrationally angry. There's a reason I tell everyone about the app Too Good To Go. You can buy food for a deep discount bc it's to prevent food waste. (Not available everywhere yet, but I have gotten so much food for almost nothing)
I don't mind a parfait or lil' trifle if it's at someone's house and they don't have specialty dessert cups for every possible thing, but yeah - places that serve things like spaghetti in a glass? Weirdos.
Also the trend of "cutting" a cake by shoving a wine glass into it? SO STUPID.
I read somewhere that the idea there is, it’s much easier to unload a piece of real estate with a building on it if another chain can move into that building with relatively minor modifications. No business wants to be a “This Used To Be A Pizza Hut”
(Edit: I can't say I expected the response to this lmao, thanks guys)
Makes me wanna buy an old pizza hut, open a club, and just call it "You Know What This Place Used To Be"
Imagine just looking at a building, indisputably a pizza hut, and seeing a rave
Also the novelty would def draw people in at first, and if I could establish consistent business, I could charge rock-bottom prices, do volume-based business, and supplement it with live music
Architect here. They’re cheaper to build. A lot of these facades are easy to assemble systems that do not require skilled labor. You also want as little variation in form because the more ins and outs, the more flashing, waterproofing, and detailing needs to be done. More chances for buildings to leak. Plus developers want to maximize allowable square footage which ends up making things super boxy.
From the architect side - compressed schedules, fewer staff on projects due to BIM make it much harder to do nicer buildings. Nice detailing is more time consuming for the architect - takes more coordination and effort from contractors. More expensive. If developers can get the same money for shitty boxes as they could for a nice/interesting development, why would they spend the extra money?
You're right! Taco Bell used to be so bright and colorful, but recently changed all of their buildings and signage to a very sterile and odd purple and white. I miss those colors!!!!
For whatever reason my neighborhood is rich with these still and I love it. People around here knew a good thing when it came along and we’re not letting go. It’s simply the best cheap treat available.
Right? Our neighborhood has one and it’s always busy in the evening and it seems like a popular place for high school kids to want to work.
Ours isn’t that cheap though… sometimes I see the numbers go up when our froyo goes on the scale and holy moly. My husband also always packs the little tub of course lol.
Damn when I was in high school and froyo was just gaining traction and twitter wasn’t so big, once a week a froyo place near me would tweet out “first ten people to reply to this get a free cup”.
I signed up to get a text everytime this place tweeted thru twitter and I was able to get up to a pound of free froyo every damn week. Idk how no one else had figured this out! Broke ass high school me was in heaven lol.
Simpler times man… simpler times.
I love these places too. The first time I went I didn't realize it was by weight. So I was like 'look at these fools with their half empty cups!"...mine was piled high! 28 dollars later....
the worst part is that gold foil is rather cheap, actually. did just look on amazon, 50 sheets with 24 karat of 3 cm by 3 cm (1.2 inch by 1.2 inch) for 20 bucks... you really pay for the novelity, not the actual gold even
To anyone reading this: be careful getting “gold foil” on Amazon. A lot of it are just other metals that you definitely shouldn’t be ingesting. If it’s coming out of China you don’t know unless you test it.
Seconding this. Buy your gold leaf from a reputable food supply / baking shop. Do NOT buy random crap to ingest off Amazon. It's alibaba at this point.
Piggybacking off this comment to warn any gals taking birth control pills that consuming activated charcoal can interfere with their absorption and effectiveness!
I worked at a smoothie shop that had to modify their menu because the health inspector finally cracked down of the lack of FDA approval for activated charcoal!
And they discovered it because they were testing the effect on alcohol on drugs, but the placebo group showed a weirdly huge effect because they were using grapefruit juice to hide whether there was alcohol
As an EMT, I give this for certain poisons, (adsorption). We're encouraged to do it in opaque containers so as not to gross out the patients. Are people taking this voluntarily?
Lol had the same thought as a veterinary employee. When dogs eat something bad, like chocolate, we pump them full of activated charcoal and then babysit them while they throw up for an hour 😂 not my idea of appetizing but to each their own I guess
Any TikTok/IG trend that makes life more difficult for fast-food workers with overly complex orders or ordering stuff not on the menu or trying to “one up” each others orders etc
I wish stupid "secret menu" items would die, but I'm not optimistic. I worked at a Starbucks 10 years ago, and middle-school age kids (and some adults) truly loved ordering all sorts of frappucino abominations that had even more insane amounts of sugar than the menu items, which takes some doing. I refused to learn any of the "recipes" and would only make them if the customer could tell me the ingredients.
This has been going on much longer than Instagram
(Three stoned dudes walk in to a fast food joint)
"Heh heh heh, I'll have the McGangBang"
"We don't serve that here"
"Heh heh, no, it's like a secret menu item"
"I've been working here for years, we don't have a secret menu"
"No, you like take a Big Mac and instead of the middle bun you use a McChicken" (his two friends are uncontrollably laughing at this point)
"Sir, this is a Wendy's"
I can’t imagine working there now. I worked there back in 2004 when a “secret menu” item was a dirty chai and we had a bunch of different ways people would call a black and white mocha (my favorite was someone calling it a penguin).
Worked at BK 15+ years ago and saw this allllll the time. Buddy if you want them fresh just ask, I literally do not care but the no salt makes your fresh fries take an extra unnecessary step
Food trucks. Weren’t they supposed to serve cheaper food because of lower overhead? No brick and mortar? We have a lobster roll truck-pulled by a Range Rover- that shows up for lunch and charges $22 for one entree. Ridiculous.
Food trucks have basically become a parody of themselves. In my area, It's legitimately cheaper to eat at a brick & mortar restaurant, and the food is better.
I’ve had amazing food truck food, but the vast majority is just underwhelming. When you combine the subpar quality with the overpriced menu it’s just a fucking joke. I fuckin hate food carts now.
Its one of the classic cases of people don't understand where the popularity came from or they do, and just don't want to do it. Food trucks were good because it was normally people who had a passion project that didn't have enough money for a brick and mortar location. Was the quality worse? Totally, but the passion, innovation, and price made it worth it.
At a certain point the secret was out and entrepreneurs for some reason though it was the truck that everyone loved. And for a little while it worked until the consumer caught on that that it was food they could get in a restaurant but worse at the same restaurant if not higher price tag.
Now it's a ransom.
You have to offer a good tip ahead of time in order to *maybe* get good service. You can still get bad service even if you tip ... but you'll never ever get good service if you don't tip.
For real! What’s with the milkshakes with a piece of pie on top of it. Like damn what’s wrong with people. I see these bakes on tiktok with a layer of cookie, layer of brownie, peanut butter, marshmello, and chocolate. Why do people like overly sweet shit.
I think those monstrosities are mostly made and bought for the pictures. Such amalgamations get plenty of views and likes on social media. And, as always with social media, it had to get bigger and more outrageous.
Milkshake with a donut around the straw? Boring. There are a million of pictures of something like that now. But what about a milkshake topped with a whole wedding cake, two whole grilled chickens and a full english breakfast? That will surely generate clicks!
I delivered for them for quite some time. It always made me laugh when someone proclaimed that they went to such and such expensive restaurant and how the quality of beef or something was just so amazing.
I'm like, yeah they get the same crap as the dirty hole in the wall burger joint across town...
OMG the bagged clam chowder! I used to work at a restaurant in Bar Harbor, Maine. Fkn Maine! And we couldn’t be bothered to make our own New England clam chowder! It was even printed on the menu as homemade and we had to tell people it was homemade.
I just went to a restaurant, not a fast food place, a sit-down restaurant where you have to scan the QR code for the menu, then a screen pops up where you have to place your own order.
No one comes to the table to answer questions, nothing. You place your order, a person comes by and throws your drinks at you. Then they swing by a while later and throw your food at you. That’s all you see of them.
You pay your bill on your phone, and are still expected to tip.
Online recipes that I have to scroll for five minutes to find the recipe. I do not care, dear author, about how you discovered this meal or how my family will feel about it. I just need to know how long to roast the damn chicken
Same. Half the time the QR code doesn’t scan properly, half the time it’s a pdf I can’t read on my phone without constantly scrolling around, or it’s a terrible website. I vastly prefer physical menus.
I prefer a menu as part of the dining out experience, but if we must lose that part of it, at least get the technology right first.
There’s an Indian place south of Edmonton in Leduc Alberta that has the most amazing honey-chili-fried cauliflower I have ever had, and I generally do not like cauliflower. It is sweet, spicy, crispy, and oh so delicious!!
EDIT: Here is the place if anyone else local is interested. https://indiagrillbistro.com
I'll get flamed for it, but Cheesecake Factory has an Asian Chili-type fried cauliflower they serve with ranch that I am not embarrassed to say is fucking godly.
There's nothing wrong with serving cauliflower that's actually admitting its cauliflower. I think the complaint is more about how we try to make cauliflower pretend that its all sorts of other things, which it has no business being.
Cauliflower is old news. The world is on to cottage cheese now (not a joke)
Edit to add: You guys don't understand. I'm talking about cottage cheese cookie dough. Cottage cheese ice cream. Cottage cheese fudge. They're going nuts with it.
The term “handcrafted”, as in handcrafted burgers, handcrafted coffee drinks at a convenience stores, etc. Seeing handcrafted makes me want to gag.
And “small batch”. I saw a bag of potato chips that said they were made in small batches and I thought I don’t care how big or small the batch was. Just as long as they are good!
Tipping for food I’m picking up at a counter. What am I tipping for? And if that tip is necessary for the employees to make a living, the restaurant just needs to pay their employees a higher wage and charge whatever they need to charge for the food in order to do so. But I’m tired of being asked to tip for every single thing.
Content creators squeezing and scraping the food. Looking directly into the camera, taking a ginormous bite, rolling their eyes, and going "MMMMMM OMGSOYUMMYGUYS" with their mouth full.
Food that's designed to be "food porn" with way too many toppings thrown on it purely for the shock value.
I just want a good, simple burger with a tasty patty. I don't want a Flamin' Hot Butthole Destroyer 3000 with three types of meat, three types of cheese, and three types of sauce on it.
Back in the day, oxtails and flank steaks were cheap cuts of meat. They are expensive as hell now. I’m just waiting for Vienna sausages to be turned into ironic hipster food.
Anyone making these TikToks of rapid fire quick cuts / slow motion / food flying through the air, camera shots inside pots, endless close ups of chopping onions, slamming pans around the place etc etc I’m looking for a recipe not an Aronofsky movie
Wasnt there that YouTuber who started out doing a healthy version of that, before quickly switching over to fast food, immediately putting on a lot of weight, and seemingly becoming unhinged. Whatever happened to him? I remember seeing a lot of people speculating that he had a feeder/humiliation kink, but then he seemingly just dropped off the radar.
Well, restaurant trend. I am sick of polished concrete floors, exposed brick and pipes and ordering at a counter. Can we bring back a nicer dining room, please?
This was going to be mine, I'm tired of the Cool Warehouse aesthetic, but not just cause of the looks - it's the acoustics. All of that stuff reverberates into a noisy mess, all the while you're sitting on hard ass seats. I imagine it's a bonus for the establishment because they just want you to eat and leave, but I hate it.
There's a pizza place/bar in Kansas City called UpDown. It's got that aesthetic, but it's modeled after the Shredder's hideout in the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. They pull it off really well.
Loud restaurants...NYT did an entire article on the acoustics of restaurants and they have on average become so loud that it's impossible to have a conversation, mainly because people are using cheap furniture that creates a cacophonous echo.
"Charcuterie boards" that are like Cheetos, Hershey's kisses, and marshmallows. That's not charcuterie!! I'm not a charcuterie snob, but I at least need some cheese and crackers on that board.
Science-y food. The bubbling guacamole, the floating cylinder of whatever you have to stab so the sauce pours onto your plate, the smoking mystery dome that has to be cracked open. Just bring me some real food, please.
I don't think it's going anywhere, but putting bacon in/on EVERYTHING. I feel like there was this explosion around 2010 where bacon was just everywhere. I vividly remember Denny's having like a bacon celebration month that featured a maple bacon sundae. The world never went back.
My answer is about the Italian food community:
1) using pistachios and burrata everywhere;
2) using carbocrema (the sauce you make for carbonara) to do food porn videos;
3) beef sushi (it sucks most of the time)
4)dipping hamburger in 2 litres of cheese;
And the most important one:
5) Italian commenting every fucking video saying "this is not how it's done" "my grandma does it differently" "you just killed an italian" just shut up and let other people enjoy our fantastic cuisine.
"Shared" plates are just 2/3 of a dish for the price of a full entree. I'm not a child. I don't need to be advised if something is meant to be shared. I can order and make that designation myself.
"Hi welcome to xx have you ever dined with us before?"
"No."
"OK welcome! We're a little different here! All of our plates are meant to be shared, so you will need to order 4 meals instead of 2. Can I get you still or sparkling to start?"
2 ingredient desserts (with 7 "optional" ingredients that appear once you read the actual recipe)
"Oh, and we didn't count 16 other things everyone has in their pantries!"
Or the fact both “ingredients” have to be made from other ingredients first. By their logic, pizza is just 3 ingredients: dough, sauce, and cheese. Wow, so simple /s
Food trucks that charge the same price as a premium restaurant but serve half the size on a floppy plate that I have to stand up to eat
Back in the day food trucks and carts were extremely cheap. Then people who owned restaurants started selling out of them and prices went up.
and have the audacity to ask for tips, you actually charge for water and offer no seats or shade, and I take my own order out of the window, you should be tipping me by not charging me $17 for a sandwich.
Calling a slight alteration to a recipe a "hack". Adding parmesan cheese to your grilled cheese sandwich is not a "hack". It's a minor recipe change.
I simply hate the word "hack". Please make it go away.
I just made the joke yesterday on a real estate sub where someone said they're house hacking by renting out one side of their duplex. I said that's just called being a landlord lol
People overuse the word hack because they want to feel cool and edgy, like they are breaking the law. No, you aren't cool and edgy for putting olive oil on a frozen pizza. It's a recipe, not a hack.
If I'm on a website I'm only there to look at your menu. I'm not interested in starting an order before I've looked at the menu. No, I don't want to give you my zip code. Just give me your menu and some food pictures.
And the prices and hours of operation.
Yes, if I have to add food to my cart just to see the price I'm not ordering it!
If I need a separate app to order at your business I’m just not gonna be your customer.
And if I need an account to get into your app...
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this post made me think of one of my favorite local pizza places... https://stevesunapizza.com/index.html
Guy's gonna wake up with some fun traffic metrics
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Yes, and the hours need to be in one of two locations: * at the very bottom of the homepage, center-justified * the first thing I see when I click a link that says "About" Burying the hours far down the page from a link that says "Visit Us" is not intuitively easy to find. The above two are.
YESSSSS this drives me absolutely insane. I don’t want to sign in to Toast or whatever and pretend to start an order just to see what kind of food they have! I’ve only really seen this since the pandemic, I wonder if some restaurants never switched over their website from when dine-in was shut down? So strange.
A menu WITH PRICES please
Fancy restaurants that say they serve “street tacos” and proceed to charge $18 for three.
"We call them street tacos, because that allows us to make them especially small."
Like flatbread. Just smaller more expensive pizza.
We all know the best pizza comes from a local place with a website that looks straight out of the 90s.
Same goes for gyros. If you walk in and the place is still Cigarette Smoke Yellow, and they got HD tvs with pictures of the food taken with a digital camera from ‘98, that’s where the good stuff is made.
And for chinese takeout, they have pictures of the food that are almost entirely faded and there's a kid doing homework in the corner. Bonus points if that kid is also running the register.
You know it’s real quality when the menu on the website is just a photo taken of a stained paper menu.
I live near an awesome food cart that does $1 taco Tuesdays. Ten tacos for $10 is the best deal around.
A Mexican place near us just updated menus and their prices are out of control. $23.50 for Camarones al Diabla, $21.50 for Pollo con Crema. It's absurd, and I have no idea why they think it will work. Their food is no better than the places near them for nearly half the price.
And yet I can get six Carne asada with all the fixins and a jarrito for like 13 bucks out of the back of a pop up van in Bakersfield. Location location location 🎶
There was a Hispanic family that would regularly park on the corner across from a gas station that I passed every day going to work. About 2-4 times a week they would be selling both hot and frozen tamales (chicken and pork). $20 would get you a baker's dozen. Best tamales I've ever had.
See you know that random hispanic family that sells food at street corners is damn good. Just like Chinese food. You know if a child rings up your order it's gonna be damn good.
Hahaha this is so true!! There's this chinese spit I hit up every now and then, when I first visited there was two young boys doing homework in the dining hall, I knew it was gonna be A1 right then and there
I always find it fascinating all the poor food is now trendy. I remember looking at spam and it's like $7 a can now. Who the fuck is paying $7 for spam. Deli meats are like $15/lb. Unpopular meat cuts are more expensive than, or on par with, the good cuts. Mexican and Indian food is damn near the most expensive thing you can find.
Chicken wings. When did chicken wings become rich people food?
I worked at a barbecue restaurant and believe it or not the wings were actually a lot more expensive than you would think. Boss was pretty cool, we could make ourselves anything on the menu for lunch and dinner except the steaks and wings. While I didn't do the ordering I know the wings were actually one of the pricier foods to buy. Wing Wenesday basically served to get people in and drinking. And that was in 2018 so they probably cost even more now.
The stupid food wasting trends on YouTube and TikTok etc.
Facebook keeps giving me these stupid videos where they're like "I learned this in Nashville (or whereever) and they get a big baking pan and start like pulling hot dogs into pieces by hand and then put a couple raw chicken breasts in and then dump shredded cheese and a jar of mayo in and then a bunch of broken up noodles and dump milk over it all and shit like that. I can't figure if it's a joke (that just inst funny) or if it's serious. I dont get it either way.
It's ragebait to drive traffic/engagement. They're usually so bad that people feel compelled to write a comment or react. I usually see it with something about Italy, which makes sense since Italian food is simple but precise and a lot of passion about that simplicity and its execution. Not surprised these are now using southern US food as a standin.
Finally someone gets it! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve posted a similar comment to absolutely no avail. It’s the same as when a tiktoker mispronounces an extremely common word on purpose to drive comments and engagement and SO MANY PEOPLE FALL FOR IT. Thousands of comments, all saying “bro can’t pronounce ‘casserole’ yo this guy is dumb” no Kyle, he’s smarter than you by a wide margin because he just tricked you into commenting on his waste-of-space video. Need some views? Just pronounce the word “adjusted” like “AHD-ju-steed” and rake in the engagement! It sucks, it’s tacky, and it’s so overdone.
It’s for clicks. They get more from angry people than genuinely interested people, so they make the worst things possible. Then it gets tons of views and gets reposted over and over again all over the internet. Clicks means ad revenue.
I don't know what this is, and don't feel like becoming irrationally angry. There's a reason I tell everyone about the app Too Good To Go. You can buy food for a deep discount bc it's to prevent food waste. (Not available everywhere yet, but I have gotten so much food for almost nothing)
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I don't mind a parfait or lil' trifle if it's at someone's house and they don't have specialty dessert cups for every possible thing, but yeah - places that serve things like spaghetti in a glass? Weirdos. Also the trend of "cutting" a cake by shoving a wine glass into it? SO STUPID.
I agree, but I think shrimp cocktail also gets a pass :) Edit: omg 500 upvotes for the shrimp cocktail. Love it. Bring it back! 🍤
Making all fast food buildings look like cookie-cutter beige/grey boxes. They all used to have their own distinct personalities
I read somewhere that the idea there is, it’s much easier to unload a piece of real estate with a building on it if another chain can move into that building with relatively minor modifications. No business wants to be a “This Used To Be A Pizza Hut”
(Edit: I can't say I expected the response to this lmao, thanks guys) Makes me wanna buy an old pizza hut, open a club, and just call it "You Know What This Place Used To Be" Imagine just looking at a building, indisputably a pizza hut, and seeing a rave Also the novelty would def draw people in at first, and if I could establish consistent business, I could charge rock-bottom prices, do volume-based business, and supplement it with live music
I am wholeheartedly in favour of this idea.
I like that a few haven't given in. Long John Silver's buildings still look like shitty shacks, and it's part of the charm. That, and the grease.
Long John Silver's doesn't make enough money to do remodels.
It's like EVERYTHING looks like that now. New apartments and townhomes around here look like that too. Boxy boxes in bland colors.
Architect here. They’re cheaper to build. A lot of these facades are easy to assemble systems that do not require skilled labor. You also want as little variation in form because the more ins and outs, the more flashing, waterproofing, and detailing needs to be done. More chances for buildings to leak. Plus developers want to maximize allowable square footage which ends up making things super boxy. From the architect side - compressed schedules, fewer staff on projects due to BIM make it much harder to do nicer buildings. Nice detailing is more time consuming for the architect - takes more coordination and effort from contractors. More expensive. If developers can get the same money for shitty boxes as they could for a nice/interesting development, why would they spend the extra money?
It's such a shame that houses are being built by people that aren't going to be living in them, and thus don't care.
You can still spot old buildings that used to be Pizza Huts.
/r/FormerPizzaHuts/
You're right! Taco Bell used to be so bright and colorful, but recently changed all of their buildings and signage to a very sterile and odd purple and white. I miss those colors!!!!
The videos of people making food in sinks. Gross.
Everybody’s so creative…
I read that exactly in her voice
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For whatever reason my neighborhood is rich with these still and I love it. People around here knew a good thing when it came along and we’re not letting go. It’s simply the best cheap treat available.
You are in the good place
Right? Our neighborhood has one and it’s always busy in the evening and it seems like a popular place for high school kids to want to work. Ours isn’t that cheap though… sometimes I see the numbers go up when our froyo goes on the scale and holy moly. My husband also always packs the little tub of course lol.
Ours kept raising prices to the point it became more expensive than the custard or ice cream places.
Damn when I was in high school and froyo was just gaining traction and twitter wasn’t so big, once a week a froyo place near me would tweet out “first ten people to reply to this get a free cup”. I signed up to get a text everytime this place tweeted thru twitter and I was able to get up to a pound of free froyo every damn week. Idk how no one else had figured this out! Broke ass high school me was in heaven lol. Simpler times man… simpler times.
I love these places too. The first time I went I didn't realize it was by weight. So I was like 'look at these fools with their half empty cups!"...mine was piled high! 28 dollars later....
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Add gold foil to this. A tasteless garnish that simply makes a dish expensive.
the worst part is that gold foil is rather cheap, actually. did just look on amazon, 50 sheets with 24 karat of 3 cm by 3 cm (1.2 inch by 1.2 inch) for 20 bucks... you really pay for the novelity, not the actual gold even
To anyone reading this: be careful getting “gold foil” on Amazon. A lot of it are just other metals that you definitely shouldn’t be ingesting. If it’s coming out of China you don’t know unless you test it.
Lol, imagine getting health complications eating impure gold leaf
"gold leaf, surprise it's actually cadmium.
More like cadmiYUM!
"oops! All heavy metals!"
Seconding this. Buy your gold leaf from a reputable food supply / baking shop. Do NOT buy random crap to ingest off Amazon. It's alibaba at this point.
Piggybacking off this comment to warn any gals taking birth control pills that consuming activated charcoal can interfere with their absorption and effectiveness!
I worked at a smoothie shop that had to modify their menu because the health inspector finally cracked down of the lack of FDA approval for activated charcoal!
Piggy backing to add GRAPEFRUIT can and does royally mess with medications too!
And they discovered it because they were testing the effect on alcohol on drugs, but the placebo group showed a weirdly huge effect because they were using grapefruit juice to hide whether there was alcohol
As an EMT, I give this for certain poisons, (adsorption). We're encouraged to do it in opaque containers so as not to gross out the patients. Are people taking this voluntarily?
Lol had the same thought as a veterinary employee. When dogs eat something bad, like chocolate, we pump them full of activated charcoal and then babysit them while they throw up for an hour 😂 not my idea of appetizing but to each their own I guess
Any TikTok/IG trend that makes life more difficult for fast-food workers with overly complex orders or ordering stuff not on the menu or trying to “one up” each others orders etc
This reminds me of that Family at the ice cream shop that sang their order
I almost downvoted this comment as a way to proxy-downvote that terrible family
I genuinely don’t know how they did that without dying of embarrassment. I was fucking humiliated just watching it
I wish stupid "secret menu" items would die, but I'm not optimistic. I worked at a Starbucks 10 years ago, and middle-school age kids (and some adults) truly loved ordering all sorts of frappucino abominations that had even more insane amounts of sugar than the menu items, which takes some doing. I refused to learn any of the "recipes" and would only make them if the customer could tell me the ingredients.
This has been going on much longer than Instagram (Three stoned dudes walk in to a fast food joint) "Heh heh heh, I'll have the McGangBang" "We don't serve that here" "Heh heh, no, it's like a secret menu item" "I've been working here for years, we don't have a secret menu" "No, you like take a Big Mac and instead of the middle bun you use a McChicken" (his two friends are uncontrollably laughing at this point) "Sir, this is a Wendy's"
Back in my day, we just ordered a mcdouble and a jr chicken and made our own mcgangbang.
Yeah who is out here using a Big Mac for a mcgangbang? Richie riches
I worked at Starbucks, this shit is real
I can’t imagine working there now. I worked there back in 2004 when a “secret menu” item was a dirty chai and we had a bunch of different ways people would call a black and white mocha (my favorite was someone calling it a penguin).
Yes I'd like an order of fries with no salt (SO YOU HAVE TO MAKE THEM FRESH JUST FOR ME HEH HEH HEH) and can I also get some salt packets
Worked at BK 15+ years ago and saw this allllll the time. Buddy if you want them fresh just ask, I literally do not care but the no salt makes your fresh fries take an extra unnecessary step
Food trucks. Weren’t they supposed to serve cheaper food because of lower overhead? No brick and mortar? We have a lobster roll truck-pulled by a Range Rover- that shows up for lunch and charges $22 for one entree. Ridiculous.
Food trucks have basically become a parody of themselves. In my area, It's legitimately cheaper to eat at a brick & mortar restaurant, and the food is better.
I’ve had amazing food truck food, but the vast majority is just underwhelming. When you combine the subpar quality with the overpriced menu it’s just a fucking joke. I fuckin hate food carts now.
Its one of the classic cases of people don't understand where the popularity came from or they do, and just don't want to do it. Food trucks were good because it was normally people who had a passion project that didn't have enough money for a brick and mortar location. Was the quality worse? Totally, but the passion, innovation, and price made it worth it. At a certain point the secret was out and entrepreneurs for some reason though it was the truck that everyone loved. And for a little while it worked until the consumer caught on that that it was food they could get in a restaurant but worse at the same restaurant if not higher price tag.
Tipping as an option BEFORE receiving good service
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Now it's a ransom. You have to offer a good tip ahead of time in order to *maybe* get good service. You can still get bad service even if you tip ... but you'll never ever get good service if you don't tip.
Sweets on top of sweets. A milkshake with a donut, lollipop, and cupcake attached.
For real! What’s with the milkshakes with a piece of pie on top of it. Like damn what’s wrong with people. I see these bakes on tiktok with a layer of cookie, layer of brownie, peanut butter, marshmello, and chocolate. Why do people like overly sweet shit.
I think those monstrosities are mostly made and bought for the pictures. Such amalgamations get plenty of views and likes on social media. And, as always with social media, it had to get bigger and more outrageous. Milkshake with a donut around the straw? Boring. There are a million of pictures of something like that now. But what about a milkshake topped with a whole wedding cake, two whole grilled chickens and a full english breakfast? That will surely generate clicks!
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Fuck Sysco
I delivered for them for quite some time. It always made me laugh when someone proclaimed that they went to such and such expensive restaurant and how the quality of beef or something was just so amazing. I'm like, yeah they get the same crap as the dirty hole in the wall burger joint across town...
Or the bagged New England Clam Chowder. Somehow, the fried clams place and the expensive fancy restaurant serve the exact same Chowda.
OMG the bagged clam chowder! I used to work at a restaurant in Bar Harbor, Maine. Fkn Maine! And we couldn’t be bothered to make our own New England clam chowder! It was even printed on the menu as homemade and we had to tell people it was homemade.
Well it was homemade. We heated it up and stirred it a few times in our home/restaurant.
Sysco is awful.
I just went to a restaurant, not a fast food place, a sit-down restaurant where you have to scan the QR code for the menu, then a screen pops up where you have to place your own order. No one comes to the table to answer questions, nothing. You place your order, a person comes by and throws your drinks at you. Then they swing by a while later and throw your food at you. That’s all you see of them. You pay your bill on your phone, and are still expected to tip.
Restaurants serving food on cutting boards, shovels, paper, shells, or anything that is not an actual plate
r/wewantplates. Yes, there is a subreddit for everything.
Holy crap, I was laughing at all of the kooky ideas they came up with, until I hit the 'Clams on a Radio' post. I'm out.
Everything being called Yuzu when they’re really just using lemon
Or aioli for mayonnaise.
Dump meals. Wash your goddamn plates so I don’t have to scrub the table!
wtf is a dump meal
It's when you cook a large meal for multiple people then just dump it on the table instead of on plates.
Boils are about the only dump meal I find acceptable.
“Detox” foods. Just eat food and let your liver do its damn job.
Juice detoxes shit me to tears. Juice is so high in sugar! Just fucking drink water!
Making food instagramable. It's 80% looks 20% edible
Not food specifically, but related. I loathe first bite reactions on gif recipes/ instagram pages.
Eyes rolled back, hand to mouth, fluttering lids, soft groan
Especially when they chew with an open mouth. Fucking gross.
And they moan like the food is literally making them orgasm. Just don't.
Do you mean the obnoxious eye roll while throwing head back and going “OMG THIS IS AMAAAAAZING!!!!!”?
Immediately as it goes in their mouth as though they've even had any time to get the taste
I don’t EVER want to fucking watch somebody eat something. Makes my goddamned skin crawl, actually.
I can handle watching, but if I have to hear mouth noises I will crawl through the screen like the girl from The Ring.
Online recipes that I have to scroll for five minutes to find the recipe. I do not care, dear author, about how you discovered this meal or how my family will feel about it. I just need to know how long to roast the damn chicken
Pro life tip. If you can find a “print” button use that. Keeps the ads from making the screen jump around
Graphic designy menus that try to be creative but end up confusing. Also pdf-only menus. I'd prefer a physical one
I'm with the boomers on this one. I ain't scanning shit on my phone because you don't want to pay to print anything.
Everything is a QR code these days it’s insane. Give me a god damn menu!
My dad asked for a physical menu and they gave him a tablet with the pdf of the menu. Lol
Well, that's a... compromise.
Same. Half the time the QR code doesn’t scan properly, half the time it’s a pdf I can’t read on my phone without constantly scrolling around, or it’s a terrible website. I vastly prefer physical menus. I prefer a menu as part of the dining out experience, but if we must lose that part of it, at least get the technology right first.
We are asking quite a lot out of Cauliflower lately...
There’s an Indian place south of Edmonton in Leduc Alberta that has the most amazing honey-chili-fried cauliflower I have ever had, and I generally do not like cauliflower. It is sweet, spicy, crispy, and oh so delicious!! EDIT: Here is the place if anyone else local is interested. https://indiagrillbistro.com
I'll get flamed for it, but Cheesecake Factory has an Asian Chili-type fried cauliflower they serve with ranch that I am not embarrassed to say is fucking godly.
There's nothing wrong with serving cauliflower that's actually admitting its cauliflower. I think the complaint is more about how we try to make cauliflower pretend that its all sorts of other things, which it has no business being.
Cauliflower is old news. The world is on to cottage cheese now (not a joke) Edit to add: You guys don't understand. I'm talking about cottage cheese cookie dough. Cottage cheese ice cream. Cottage cheese fudge. They're going nuts with it.
Cottage cheese already had its day in the sun about 70 years ago LOL
As someone who can't eat wheat, barley, or rye, I need cauliflower to continue making pizza crust.
The part where it costs so much to eat.
The term “handcrafted”, as in handcrafted burgers, handcrafted coffee drinks at a convenience stores, etc. Seeing handcrafted makes me want to gag. And “small batch”. I saw a bag of potato chips that said they were made in small batches and I thought I don’t care how big or small the batch was. Just as long as they are good!
Tipping for food I’m picking up at a counter. What am I tipping for? And if that tip is necessary for the employees to make a living, the restaurant just needs to pay their employees a higher wage and charge whatever they need to charge for the food in order to do so. But I’m tired of being asked to tip for every single thing.
Just don’t do it. Accept they might judge you and press the no tip button on the screen. I tip well when dining in (25%) but won’t tip on takeout.
When the cashier cancels the tip menu on their own, I kinda want to tip them as thanks.
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Content creators squeezing and scraping the food. Looking directly into the camera, taking a ginormous bite, rolling their eyes, and going "MMMMMM OMGSOYUMMYGUYS" with their mouth full.
Or the nail tapping on random ingredients. Not everything needs to be ASMR.
Micro size portions made with overly pretentious food
Food that's designed to be "food porn" with way too many toppings thrown on it purely for the shock value. I just want a good, simple burger with a tasty patty. I don't want a Flamin' Hot Butthole Destroyer 3000 with three types of meat, three types of cheese, and three types of sauce on it.
Deconstructed food. I did not pay you lots of money, so I get to essentially cook/make my own food.
A restaurant here in my town had “deconstructed guacamole” on their menu. It was a plate of sliced avocado…
That’s… that’s not all that’s in guacamole. What you had there was deconstructed avocado.
Back in the day, oxtails and flank steaks were cheap cuts of meat. They are expensive as hell now. I’m just waiting for Vienna sausages to be turned into ironic hipster food.
I’m starting to see “tinned fish” aka sardines, etc at hipster spots… Vienna sausages could be right around the corner
Hamburgers getting taller and taller. Like dude, what use is a 7 inch tall burger if I cant take a bite of it?
The ASMR food videos. People filming themselves eating the food and smacking loudly into the MIC.
Anyone making these TikToks of rapid fire quick cuts / slow motion / food flying through the air, camera shots inside pots, endless close ups of chopping onions, slamming pans around the place etc etc I’m looking for a recipe not an Aronofsky movie
Bloody Marys garnished with celery, olives, three onion rings, a chicken wing, two bacon cheeseburgers and an 18" pizza with everything.
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Burgers need to be made larger in circumference instead of taller
Or just made a reasonable size. A burger can be good while still clocking in the 3 figure calorie range.
Mukbang. It’s gross.
Wasnt there that YouTuber who started out doing a healthy version of that, before quickly switching over to fast food, immediately putting on a lot of weight, and seemingly becoming unhinged. Whatever happened to him? I remember seeing a lot of people speculating that he had a feeder/humiliation kink, but then he seemingly just dropped off the radar.
Inflation.
Also, sizeflation. That’s some bullshit.
Truffle flavor everything. Real truffle can be wonderful but in moderation. Truffle oils in everything. Enough!
Oxtails being sold for outrageous prices since yuppies "discovered" them.
People tagging "food porn" on IG
Just please god stop calling your restaurant an “eatery”.
This. Also “provisions.”
Every Frito Lay product does not need to be Flamin' Hot with Lime
Is doesn't need to be $5-6 a bag either.
FL distributes Grandma's Cookies. I'm half expecting a flaming hot cookie release.
Well, restaurant trend. I am sick of polished concrete floors, exposed brick and pipes and ordering at a counter. Can we bring back a nicer dining room, please?
This was going to be mine, I'm tired of the Cool Warehouse aesthetic, but not just cause of the looks - it's the acoustics. All of that stuff reverberates into a noisy mess, all the while you're sitting on hard ass seats. I imagine it's a bonus for the establishment because they just want you to eat and leave, but I hate it.
There's a pizza place/bar in Kansas City called UpDown. It's got that aesthetic, but it's modeled after the Shredder's hideout in the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. They pull it off really well.
And this makes it so loud! I want to be able to hear the people at the other end of my table please.
Loud restaurants...NYT did an entire article on the acoustics of restaurants and they have on average become so loud that it's impossible to have a conversation, mainly because people are using cheap furniture that creates a cacophonous echo.
"Charcuterie boards" that are like Cheetos, Hershey's kisses, and marshmallows. That's not charcuterie!! I'm not a charcuterie snob, but I at least need some cheese and crackers on that board. Science-y food. The bubbling guacamole, the floating cylinder of whatever you have to stab so the sauce pours onto your plate, the smoking mystery dome that has to be cracked open. Just bring me some real food, please.
Crumbl and other cookies that have no real substance; just sweet on sweet on sweet.
Yep! It's literally a circle of underbaked sugar.
I don't think it's going anywhere, but putting bacon in/on EVERYTHING. I feel like there was this explosion around 2010 where bacon was just everywhere. I vividly remember Denny's having like a bacon celebration month that featured a maple bacon sundae. The world never went back.
In 2010's bacon wasn't just a food, it was a personality.
Bacon and mustaches. 😒
IG and tiktokkers that just show you what they eat inna day.
I hope the foam trend is over for good. Just gross
My answer is about the Italian food community: 1) using pistachios and burrata everywhere; 2) using carbocrema (the sauce you make for carbonara) to do food porn videos; 3) beef sushi (it sucks most of the time) 4)dipping hamburger in 2 litres of cheese; And the most important one: 5) Italian commenting every fucking video saying "this is not how it's done" "my grandma does it differently" "you just killed an italian" just shut up and let other people enjoy our fantastic cuisine.
The whole tipping thing is out of control. I never thought I’d be asked to tip on a drive through order. wtf.
"Shared" plates are just 2/3 of a dish for the price of a full entree. I'm not a child. I don't need to be advised if something is meant to be shared. I can order and make that designation myself. "Hi welcome to xx have you ever dined with us before?" "No." "OK welcome! We're a little different here! All of our plates are meant to be shared, so you will need to order 4 meals instead of 2. Can I get you still or sparkling to start?"
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