/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17953525]

Does anyone else get existential dread when they think about mid-tier chain restaurants like Olive Garden?

It's not even the food being terrible or anything. It's just something about like, the lack of personality, the American consumerism, the dystopian nature of it all. Same feeling I get about malls. Anyone else?

[Anonymous No.17953536]

>>17953525
i know what you mean, its just so goddamn depressing, and youre right about the dystopian nature of it.

[Anonymous No.17953565]

its like when i worked in a mall and id go to the food court and people would eat the disgusting fast food slop prepared by wageslaves who live a miserable existence, these people would shovel that shit in and gorge on the pure greasy fucking slop and then go spend money on designer clothes they dont need, and be a mindless consumer.

i hate consumerism so goddamn much its unreal

[Anonymous No.17953606]

>>17953525
It ain't got no soul and you're sensing that.

[Anonymous No.17953651]

>>17953525
>plebbit spacing
>triggered by restaurant

[Anonymous No.17953663]

>>17953525
No, I want to go eat there.

[Anonymous No.17953680]

>>17953525
It's just always so boring. Like my extended family will vote on places to go and these boring restuarants always win because they're the only ones that everyone has heard of.

[Anonymous No.17953685]

>>17953565
Lol I do this. I like going to places like red lobster because it’s good quality and consistent everywhere you go and if it’s not consistent you should complain. It’s easier than going through my closet. Also get a new car every few years. Just doing my part to support the economy

[Anonymous No.17953698]

>>17953525
Just here to say that "muh consumerism", "muh suburbs and shit nigga" is just poorfag cope.

[Anonymous No.17953729]

>>17953525
>i-i-is that spaghetti and white people?
>do they even use authentic olive oil from the vesuvian mountains of upper italy?
Ahhhh I'm going insane save me italian chefs I think they just used bacon instead of (insert faggy italian word for bacon) in their dried wheat strings and egg dish.

[Anonymous No.17953939]

>>17953525
Olive Garden drove a great local Italian restaurant out of business. Fuck them.

[Anonymous No.17953955]

>>17953525
>Does anyone else

No.

[Anonymous No.17953980]

>>17953525
you sound emotionally unstable. get help.

[Anonymous No.17953982]

>>17953525
Look I'm not defending fucking olive garden, but you have to be a specific breed of urban hipster faggot to feel "existential dread" at the thought of a restaurant that people you don't like eat at

[Anonymous No.17953985]

>>17953525
I'm too old to care about that shit. water under the bridge.

[Anonymous No.17954034]

>>17953525
Meds now

[Anonymous No.17954319]

>>17953939
Guess the place was pretty shit if they couldn't even compete with Olive Garden.

[Anonymous No.17954334]

>>17954319
No, it was a little divey with almost no parking, but they had fantastic food for about 30 years. People in this town are just whitebread.

[Anonymous No.17954338]

>>17953525
you're reading too much into it, snowflake

[Anonymous No.17954345]

>>17953525
>Anyone else?
None of what you describe is existential dread.
How is any of that related to your own, or anyone elses existence?
Stop using Reddit tier buzzwords that you don't understand like a pendantic, 14 year old redditor.

[Anonymous No.17954367]

>>17953525
There's something strangely comfy about those places. Feels very... safe. Like living in a suburb in some cookie cutter home with an easy office job and you've got a bunch of those corporate office park type stores and restaurants and that's basically your entire life. Ever have a burger at Chili's with some pints in the afternoon? Man, what a treat. And I know better, too. I know that's an empty existence but it's got that easy familiar appeal... like vaporwave or muzak. Despite being well beyond that kind of life now I cant help but fantasize sometimes. Gettin my dick sucked by some 5/10 almost babe with a nice rack and low expectations of the world. Everyone around me so downtrodden and robbed of real ambition that anything I do is immediately impressive and intimidating. Big fish, small pond. Simple as.

[Anonymous No.17954543]

>>17953525
Did you miss your HRT/SSRI cocktail today?

[Anonymous No.17954545]

>>17953729
lmao based

[Anonymous No.17954546]

>>17953525
out of all the things that could cause you existential dread, you picked a place where average people get mediocre food. these places existed since forever.

[Anonymous No.17954547]

>>17954334
>luigi mad that he will never be white
haha, going to the Garden just for you

[Anonymous No.17954549]

>>17954345
>pendantic
Stop using Reddit tier buzzwords that you don't understand like a pendantic, 14 year old redditor.

[Anonymous No.17954550]

>>17954367
You sound like a narcissist sociopath.

[Anonymous No.17955901]

It's easy to disparage these middle America chains that are oriented around consumerism and capitalism, but I grew up eating olive garden and still enjoy it, just like I still enjoy pizza hut. Sure its not great, but its familiar and its fine. Yes there are better options now though. And somebody from a big town can hate all they want, but those are people of privilage and they should know that.

[Anonymous No.17955923]

>>17953525
Yes, OP. Fuck corporate chain restaurants. No chef, no passion, no freshness. Just consistent, test marketed, lowest-common-denominator food for profit only.

[Anonymous No.17955925]

i get sad when i go to fly over america and all the mom and pop burger places are empty but the mcdonalds next to it has a 10car long line of suv's and luxury crewcab trucks

[Anonymous No.17955929]

>>17955923
>no passion
bruh

[Anonymous No.17955934]

>>17953651
Separating parts of the post so as not to have one continuous retard screed sure is something to look down upon.

To be "one of us" you must dumb yourself down and forego all formality or else you'll be exposed as less scummy.

[Anonymous No.17955938]

Why are you here OP?
Who put you here and what do you do?

[Anonymous No.17955941]

>>17953525
hating on Olive Garden is so 2010

[Anonymous No.17955943]

>>17955934
not even joking but your post seems like something that i'd read on reddit.

[Anonymous No.17955948]

>>17953565
Food courts are totally different from what OP is talking about. They have variety, animation, life.

[Anonymous No.17955966]

>>17955943
Fair enough. I've never used reddit because it seems PC and I know you need to register so you can be held "accountable" for what you post.

Just one of the longtime 4channers who has always been a little embarrassed to be here because I don't embrace sloppy posting.

But there ain't much "Wild West" left of the internet so that's why I'm here.

[Anonymous No.17955975]

>>17955966
>>17955938
Pls answer my question, Mr Existential OP

[Anonymous No.17955979]

>>17955975
>>17955966
Who put you here all those years ago, and what do you do? Only then can I give you my opinions of olive gardens.

[Anonymous No.17956050]

>>17953525
>>17954367
>>17955923

i'll take chilis for my dystopian hellscape of choice, klaus.

[Anonymous No.17956096]

>>17953939
>great

getting dunked on by OG is a surefire sign that the place sucked

[Anonymous No.17956110]

>>17953525
No, I had an acceptable childhood so family friendly sit down restaurants do not scare me.

[Anonymous No.17956166]

>>17953525
>Same feeling I get about malls.
I've started getting a really fucking dystopic feeling in malls ever since I became anti-capitalist. I feel ya. the only think that doesn't trigger it for me is McDs because nostalgia. and a few soda brands.

[Anonymous No.17956197]

>>17953729
>white people
>olive garden
Kek olive garden is where hood creatures take their dates to look fancy

[Anonymous No.17956216]

>>17953525
No I love olive garden

[Anonymous No.17956312]

>>17953729
This

[Anonymous No.17956322]

>>17954550
You sound upset about me getting my dick sucked. Might be time to grow up and work on those insecurities, bud.

[Anonymous No.17956406]

You aspire to more, but for some people they just want the ideal of going out to a generic restaurant. It's very similar to people who treat cars as appliances and only care if it runs.

[Anonymous No.17956421]

>>17953565
>I hate being poor and I can't afford basic clothing so I'm going to tell other people they are disgusting

[Anonymous No.17956439]

>>17953685
>red lobster
>good quality
lmao... k.

[Anonymous No.17956454]

>>17956322
right.... but still go check those mental issues with a doctor before you hurt someone.

[Anonymous No.17956458]

>>17956454
Time to grow up, champ. Simple as.

[Anonymous No.17956466]

>>17953525
>gaining existential dread by merely going somewhere
pic related makes millennials scream in terror apparently

Imagine how horrific working a job must be to these people.

[Anonymous No.17956608]

>>17956466
Millennial here. Your pic related is peak comfy and ~a e s t h e t i q u e ~ af.

[Anonymous No.17956622]

>Does anyone else get existential dread when they think about mid-tier chain restaurants like Olive Garden?

Yes, except literally. There is nothing transcendent in America. And it literally causes me to think of my mortality.

[Anonymous No.17956633]

>>17953525
Malls in the 90s had culture. I miss those days. I feel you with the chain restaurants though and I refuse to go to any restaurant that has 4 or more locations. If they’re doing something that right, it’s obvious that their food is watered down to appeal to the untrained normalfags child palate. Smaller places with less locations tend to have more focus on doing what they do well vs use a cookie cutter restaurant menu with all the chicken parm, quesadillas, wings, burgers like everyone else.

[Anonymous No.17956651]

>>17956096
You have so much to learn, young Anon. Maybe this will help you.

[Anonymous No.17956663]

>>17956651

[Anonymous No.17956711]

>>17953525
I get the same thing with food courts in malls here in Australia. It's not existential, its just depressing. The rampant advertising, the shitty unhealthy food, the unhappy people, the unnatural setting. It makes me sad. I understand what you mean OP, and I agree with you.

[Anonymous No.17956724]

>>17956711
Wow my local mall was pos compared to this. Must be even worse now laat I heard half of the stores were empty

[Anonymous No.17956755]

>>17956622
how long is a dog capable of feeling pain after the head is removed? when we lived in china we would eat dog but on occasion they would do stuff like remove the hind legs swiftly and prepare the dog's legs often while the rest of the dog was alive. this doesn't actually kill the dog like some may thing, if removed just above the knee equivalent, the bleeding stops relatively quickly and the dog pretty much goes into shock and chills for a while after the initial panic subsides. only real downside to this is for dogs, below the upper leg there's really no meat, it's mostly sinew and cartilage but this didn't stop the locals that we saw. the meat itself was not the worst, and we're actually going to be trying it again we just hope that the experience isn't needlessly painful for the dog like before on the few times we saw/ate it.

[Anonymous No.17956760]

>>17956755
probably a second or three

[Anonymous No.17956773]

>>17953939
i dont give a shit lol, fuck them all. i make my own food and i dont care about your dumb fuck sentimental attachment to a shithole resturant ran by low rent hacks who the best they could do is operate a fucking resturant and pay their employees next to nothing. eat shit.

[Anonymous No.17956796]

>>17953729
>is someone attacking my multi-million dollar corporation?
>I must defend it!!
>im going insane, save me rabbi-man!!!

[Anonymous No.17956799]

>>17956773
Based retard child who just learned how to make pasta and has deemed the concept of enjoying food prepared in different ways to be obsolete.

[Anonymous No.17956802]

>>17956799
didn't ask plus you're american and probably fat and gay too.

[Anonymous No.17956917]

>>17953525
>getting existential dread over shitty restaurants
Really faggot? Do you also get "existential dread" over top 40 pop songs? Do you feel like killing yourself because other people just dont understand your high intellect? Do you cut your wrists while masturbating at the thought of how unique and special you are?
2/10 got me to reply

[Anonymous No.17957109]

>>17953525
No. It's just a restaurant. A shitty restaurant, but just a restaurant.
>Same feeling I get about malls.
Okay, malls are fucked; I will agree with you there. They're these weird, stagnant zombie buildings that are both born of and being killed by excessive consumerism.

[Anonymous No.17957118]

>>17955943
what does that actually mean
you could find any kind of post on reddit
it's like saying "this sounds like something a human would say"

[Anonymous No.17957149]

>>17953525

Yeah I feel like when I think of dinners with my family at places like that it feels off. I don't want to linger, it feels like a chore and I always offload the leftovers to someone else.

[Anonymous No.17957201]

Is Maggiano's better than Olive Garden?

[Anonymous No.17957209]

Yes. The worse is when you come across someone who genuinely gets excited for this shit. It's just sad. My dad had an Applebee's phase and that was heartbreaking.

[Anonymous No.17957212]

>>17957201
yeah, definitely.

[Anonymous No.17957225]

>>17957201
Absolutely.

[Anonymous No.17957230]

>>17953565
>miserable existence,
I mean it beats slinging speed and single cigarettes in Canada but fuck me if your police actually do their fucking job.
I hate it here, I truly do, I wish my mother never brought me here.

[Anonymous No.17957231]

>>17957212
Holy shit, are the scarves okay?

[Anonymous No.17957234]

>>17956197
>hood creatures
So Americans have truly fallen.

[Anonymous No.17957242]

>>17956755
>how long is a dog capable of feeling pain after the head is removed?
Former Canadian here, I think they stop feeling pain after a few pints of blood gushes out.
I dunno, I only worked at a slaughter house for a few days.
Personally, I think most of the animals I beheaded only felt pain for a minute or two.
So y boy can fucking tuckit and fuck it.

[Anonymous No.17957255]

>>17953982
Agreed

[Anonymous No.17957254]

>>17956755
>needlessly painful for the dog
Ball peen hammer, center dome, knocks em out pretty quick but they might twitch a bit.
Personally I preferred to just used a war club or something heavy, cracks the fuck outta their skull.
Dogs are terrible meat, you need something lazy like a cat or a chicken to fatten up with food you won't eat.
Rats and other varmints are good for that.

[Anonymous No.17957259]

>>17953982
It's a soulless corporation with shitty food, get over yourself, middle class faggots from suburbanite places are scum.

[Anonymous No.17957262]

>>17953980
>emotionally unstable
Projection.
>>17953698
>poorfag cope.
Give me a billion dollars and I'm still not eating at olive garden, how's the baldness going? You losing some more hair? Fucking homo and his GMO.

[Anonymous No.17957272]

>>17957225
>>17957212
Alright good because I recently ate a shitload of it and thought it was amazing. The chicken parm was so goddamn good.

[Anonymous No.17957275]

>>17954367
>>17956050
Imma just eat at home, Americans are off putting.

[Anonymous No.17957292]

>>17957275

[Anonymous No.17957297]

>>17957275
Here's you white race bro, fuck poorfags am I right fellow white people.

[Anonymous No.17957406]

>>17956466
As a Millennial that place looks like they have some of the best cheeseburgers in town

[Anonymous No.17957516]

>>17953525
>mid-tier chain restaurants
>Olive Garden
>mid-tier

[Anonymous No.17957534]

>>17953525
It's the definition of mediocrity. If you want to be mediocre, go to one of these restaurants.

[Anonymous No.17957539]

>>17953525
I love Olive Gardens

[Anonymous No.17957550]

>>17954550
>narcissist sociopath.
Literally the only people capable of being happy

[Anonymous No.17957570]

>>17957259
>Everyone with a civilized life living like an educated human being is scum
What did he mean by this? What is the alternative? Its not like anybody WANTS to farm for a living - even back in the day people were obviously incentivized to find a labor force.

[Anonymous No.17957603]

I worked in restaurants and bars in my entire 20's before settling into a good job with normal hours, but still remote. Every once in a while, I think about what it would be like of my wife and I separated, and I relocated to a small Midwestern town and got a job at one of these places without telling anyone what I really did. The people always seem so accepting and hospitable. I just want to blend in and make 28k a year making sugary drinks and chatting with the sweet but super slutty waitress, all while being perfectly well off.

[Anonymous No.17957630]

>>17953525
No, I save those feels for Sanderson, the soulless fuck of fantasy.

[Anonymous No.17958406]

>>17953525
Used to happen to me, just don't worry about it. Most people are drawn to the hivemind. Most people won't even be able to attain high quality food. There's nothing you can do as an individual to change it other than live your best life

[Anonymous No.17958412]

>>17957259

[Anonymous No.17958419]

>>17954549
It was used correctly

[Anonymous No.17958421]

>>17957603
You're a hateful prick looking down your nose at those people and they would sniff you out immediately

[Anonymous No.17958444]

>>17956050

[Anonymous No.17958449]

>>17956197
That's red lobster though, the OG is for boomer(actual boomer) whites

[Anonymous No.17958458]

>>17956711
You guys are allowed to go outside now?

[Anonymous No.17958475]

>>17957259
>soulless
Meaningless buzzword
>shitty food
Again, not defending them
>angry hipster noises
>"people beneath me eat somewhere I wouldn't eat? Unacceptable! Existential dread!"
>lol what a fag
>"get over yourself! don't you know I'm better than you!?"
ok retard

[Anonymous No.17958493]

>>17958458
Yeah, for a long time now, and once again our economic hardship during economic turmoil is far more slight than everywhere else in the world because we made smart decusions. Dot com crash, GFC, covid. We were too smart to be badly hurt by any of them. We declared a recession during covid lockdowns then didn't technically have one because we responsed early and intelligently. We're only seeing a small fraction of the accelerated inflation that the rest of you are. We're fucking geniuses compared to the rest of the world.

[Anonymous No.17958503]

>>17958493
Don't bullshit a bullshiter we've all seen your food prices posted here

[Anonymous No.17958507]

>>17956711
this is like a cathedral of burgerpunk

[Anonymous No.17958510]

I don't really go to chain resteraunts and malls and shit like that often so when I do for whatever reason the reaction is more meh this is nice enough than being creeped out, but I probably avoid them because if I didn't I would feel like that

olive garden is just shitty food though, the other big chains are fine just overpriced, but olive garden sucks

[Anonymous No.17958511]

>>17958503
You obviously haven't seen it in context. The only thing that is genuinely expensive here is property, because it is treated as a priviliged investment class that all the rich people shovel their money into as a tax dodge.

[Anonymous No.17958517]

>>17958493
You and Canada are in a race on who can become a chinese colony the fastest don't > me

[Anonymous No.17958534]

>>17953525
yeah but endless soup and breadsticks

[Anonymous No.17958542]

Olive Garden is kind of fucking expensive, same with Cheesecake Factory and Red Lobster. Idk why they're seen as "poor" or "tacky",

[Anonymous No.17958679]

>>17957212
I like to think that was water rushing into the car at the very end.

[Anonymous No.17959509]

>>17953565
You’re just standing above them all in your white sketchers aren’t you big boy?
I could easily kill you in hand to hand combat, post body you fat piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.17959517]

>>17955923
>no passion
There is likely no passion where you eat at locally
Only mom and pop hole in the walls have that. Every other restaurant, chain or some new hip and young shit is full of druggies and ex cons and teenagers.

[Anonymous No.17959529]

>>17956711
This looks fuckin based I wish we had this in America. All you fucking whiners, in 30 years you’ll back and long for the “aesthetic” of this food court or whatever bullshit you complain about. Just don’t eat it, it’s not hard.

[Anonymous No.17959639]

>>17953525
If you want a real bad time, try walking into a Sam's Club.

[Anonymous No.17959660]

>>17953525
No. Just don't go if you don't like it.

[Anonymous No.17959709]

>>17956166
>ever since I became anti-capitalist

[Anonymous No.17959770]

>>17956711
I went to one of the westfields on boxing day because there was a sale on a phone I wanted and had some gift cards to use, and you walk right through the food court to get to the jbhifi..
parking wasn't that hard to find but inside was a clusterfuck and the amount of people milling around doing nothing but wasting space in the store was ridiculous. I felt sorry for the workers for having to put up with that shit, they would probably have 10 hours getting their ears blasted by overly loud music with no room to move.
And the food court was just utterly trashed, no-one cares, the food is all garbage.
>>17958503
The biggest increase in food prices recently is in vegetables and that's because the crops were wiped out by rain.
>>17958517
>the goy from the jewish colony strikes out when confronted

[Anonymous No.17960138]

>>17957118
Exactly. People really into 4chan-speak and dumbing down and speaking in memes don't identify with "humans". They think anyone with clear thoughts or punctuation is some sort of "reddit elitist". 4chan is vulgar and flippant and edgy extreme and to post here in any other manner is to reveal oneself as a "redditor", which basically means "not-a-proud-4chan-scumbag".

[Anonymous No.17960159]

>>17957603
Well off working for 28k in the service industry or well off from your good job/normal hours savings after you decided to move away and slum it again?

Don't tell me you wouldn't be struggling paycheck to paycheck returning to that level.

[Anonymous No.17960166]

>>17953525
when you're here, you're olive

[Anonymous No.17960171]

>>17958493
kek, Australia is about to collapse into anarchy because of your totalitarian government. You're ahead of everyone else in that you'll be the first to implode.

[Anonymous No.17960181]

>>17959517
Yeah, I only eat at mom and pop holes-in-the-wall. Which isn't to say that they are old-school at all.

New young and hip shit IS full of passion, it's just more likely housed in food trucks these days. It does take a discerning eye to spot what is worthwhile.

[Anonymous No.17960663]

>>17959709
ironically pic related is how we generally picture ancaps. at least post some gay catgirl commie or something t b h (to be honest) with you f a m (family)