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We have been on a Cheesecake factory run lately, its putting a lot of other places to shame. Its pricey, but the portions are big enough to justify it. IE, the exact opposite of Five Guys.
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Bismarck.Josiahflaming said: » Viciouss said: » We have been on a Cheesecake factory run lately, its putting a lot of other places to shame. Its pricey, but the portions are big enough to justify it. IE, the exact opposite of Five Guys. I went to a Cheesecake Factory once, I was not impressed.
Then again, I live in South Texas, where food quality is much higher than other parts of the nation... Leviathan.Celebrindal
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Asura.Kingnobody said: » I went to a Cheesecake Factory once, I was not impressed. Then again, I live in South Texas, where food quality is much higher than other parts of the nation... As someone who grew up Midwest, I feel I can confidently say that restaurants like Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, and Outback are completely geared towards overweight midwesterners who think that giant portions are a must and that if there isn't cheese on something, there should be. Fake "fancy" food for people who don't care to know better, or who want to feel fancy eating what is still normal to them. The plus-side to something like the Olive Garden is that pasta is amazing as leftovers. Spend $25 (or whatever) for a meal and load up on all-you-can-eat breadsticks, soup, and salad included with the meal, and then bring your ridiculously oversized portions home and split it into two meals.
After that you'll have had 3 meals of food, and you didn't even have to cook it! Broken down, $8 per meal isn't bad. At least given the inflated Canadian dollar. That'd be I guess like $7 USD. EDIT: The real kicker is when you go to a place that serves, say, breakfast food. Or steak or something. Stuff that doesn't taste as good the next day. In that case, I'll usually try to order a little bit more than half a plate per person. I used to go to this one breakfast place where every plate was about $18, but was way too much for one person to eat. But if there were 3 of us, we'd order 2 plates, meaning the meal would only cost each person about $12 (or about $9 USD). Leviathan.Celebrindal
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Ragnarok.Jessikah said: » The plus-side to something like the Olive Garden is that pasta is amazing as leftovers. Spend $25 (or whatever) for a meal and load up on all-you-can-eat breadsticks, soup, and salad included with the meal, and then bring your ridiculously oversized portions home and split it into two meals. After that you'll have had 3 meals of food, and you didn't even have to cook it! Broken down, $8 per meal isn't bad. At least given the inflated Canadian dollar. That'd be I guess like $5 USD. I did used to think like that- then I realized how much damn salt was in all that crap. It does microwave up better than Italian food should, in particular at 2am stoned. Leviathan.Celebrindal said: » I did used to think like that- then I realized how much damn salt was in all that crap. It does microwave up better than Italian food should, in particular at 2am stoned. Bismarck.Josiahflaming
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Asura.Kingnobody said: » I went to a Cheesecake Factory once, I was not impressed. Then again, I live in South Texas, where food quality is much higher than other parts of the nation... As if each town across the planet didn’t have the exact same high-effort small business owners bringing hq local ingredient eats to their area Ragnarok.Jessikah said: » Leviathan.Celebrindal said: » I did used to think like that- then I realized how much damn salt was in all that crap. It does microwave up better than Italian food should, in particular at 2am stoned. Leviathan.Celebrindal said: » As someone who grew up Midwest, I feel I can confidently say that restaurants like Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, and Outback are completely geared towards overweight midwesterners who think that giant portions are a must and that if there isn't cheese on something, there should be. I mean, there are a few dishes that don't have some sort of cheese on them.... Leviathan.Celebrindal said: » Fake "fancy" food for people who don't care to know better, or who want to feel fancy eating what is still normal to them. Bismarck.Josiahflaming said: » Ah yes I remember the, “well I live here and x area is better quality than y area” sentiments that used to be huge everywhere. As if each town across the planet didn’t have the exact same high-effort small business owners bringing hq local ingredient eats to their area It's not our fault that the standards of cooking is so much lower, but then again, everything is ***-expensive there that you probably can't afford anything higher than Grade B food and ingredients. Leviathan.Celebrindal
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Considering the Oil Refinery, Chemical Plant, and other heavy industry factories from as far back as the 30's in my hometown (Lima, OH- look it up....classic Rust Belt town in the Midwest)- locally sourced food isn't something I look back on fondly.
I ***you not as a 9 year old I fished up a two headed bass. Asura.Kingnobody said: » I have had fancy food, it's not all that jazz. I don't want to spend $40+ a plate on smaller portions though. Some places in downtown San Antonio are bad about that... Asura.Kingnobody said: » Leviathan.Celebrindal said: » As someone who grew up Midwest, I feel I can confidently say that restaurants like Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, and Outback are completely geared towards overweight midwesterners who think that giant portions are a must and that if there isn't cheese on something, there should be. In fairness, it's just bastardized Mexican food. I have been to Texas (Just north of Galveston) and eaten at various places that the people I was there with raved about... It's not any better than we have in Denver. I do admit that I am spoiled as we have a huge Mexican / Peruvian community and lots of friends from Mexico, so I think I may have become somewhat of a snob pertaining to texmex. Asura.Tawhoya said: » Asura.Kingnobody said: » Leviathan.Celebrindal said: » As someone who grew up Midwest, I feel I can confidently say that restaurants like Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, and Outback are completely geared towards overweight midwesterners who think that giant portions are a must and that if there isn't cheese on something, there should be. In fairness, it's just bastardized Mexican food. I have been to Texas (Just north of Galveston) and eaten at various places that the people I was there with raved about... It's not any better than we have in Denver. I do admit that I am spoiled as we have a huge Mexican / Peruvian community and lots of friends from Mexico, so I think I may have become somewhat of a snob pertaining to texmex. I prefer American-style "Tex-Mex", not the southern Mexico version. Bismarck.Josiahflaming said: » Viciouss said: » We have been on a Cheesecake factory run lately, its putting a lot of other places to shame. Its pricey, but the portions are big enough to justify it. IE, the exact opposite of Five Guys. The pasta dishes, for sure. Their burgers are good too, the tons of fun burger is 11.95 for a double meat burger, so its great value. I was skeptical going in, but its been a good ride. Leviathan.Celebrindal
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Asura.Tawhoya said: » Asura.Kingnobody said: » Leviathan.Celebrindal said: » As someone who grew up Midwest, I feel I can confidently say that restaurants like Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, and Outback are completely geared towards overweight midwesterners who think that giant portions are a must and that if there isn't cheese on something, there should be. In fairness, it's just bastardized Mexican food. I have been to Texas (Just north of Galveston) and eaten at various places that the people I was there with raved about... It's not any better than we have in Denver. I do admit that I am spoiled as we have a huge Mexican / Peruvian community and lots of friends from Mexico, so I think I may have become somewhat of a snob pertaining to texmex. Yeah, I definitely feel that Colorado's Tex-Mex has a stronger Southwestern influence- sidenote those who haven't had Green Chili haven't lived. Leviathan.Celebrindal said: » sidenote those who haven't had Green Chili haven't lived. I second that! Yay I learned how to make the boxes today.
Still trying to figure out how to add artificial spaces... Anyone know that trick? I want it to look like this.... but without the | |
Oh... that does work... can I do it faster than typing 255 4400 times though lol caaaaaaaauuuuse that's a bit much
Actually I can make it work for the purpose, but would still like a faster solution for the future. Leviathan.Celebrindal
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dem foiling cats^^ Everything can seem totally fine, then one bear into the wind and it all goes to ***. <3
Are nodes just suppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppper laggy or is it me. It's impossible to do this when it keeps freezing up every minute.
Everything else working golden, but the node page is constantly seizing. More 2h to the start of my soccer team most important match of the current century.
Anxious af. Asura.Eiryl said: » Are nodes just suppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppper laggy or is it me. It's impossible to do this when it keeps freezing up every minute. Everything else working golden, but the node page is constantly seizing. Wouldn't think I was taxing anything (probably waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many tabs open)
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