• h3doublehockeysticks [she/her]
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      351 year ago

      You know what, I get hooters. I understand wanting to be served by busty ladies in tight uniforms. I’m only a woman. But why would you ever order take out from a place where the whole point is ogling the staff.

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        221 year ago

        i got dragged to hooters by a bunch of chud coworkers at the worst manual labor job I ever had, and it was embarassing. married guys nearly twice my age trying to hit on women 5 years younger than me. the food was shit. the drive was extremely out of the way and we passed 5 superior joints

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    451 year ago

    Why on God’s green Earth would someone get Hooter’s delivered!?!? I hate the restaurant but it’s like buying alcohol to go from a strip club. Being there is the point!

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    381 year ago

    yes yes consumer choices don’t make you moral/immoral

    all i’m saying is that spending 3000 dollars at chilis is a death sentence, okay?

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      191 year ago

      Yeah i’ll argue til I’m plue in the face against “communism is when you don’t have stuff” but some kind of intervention is needed here even before we get to eating at Chikfila.

  • biden [he/him]
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    Btw the tweet he’s quoting was cropped out, he’s replying to a stat about the majority of Nashville workers making under $40k. When I first saw this I assumed “I really find this stat hard to believe” meant he’s surprised he spent $25k on doordash, but nope he’s surprised poor people exist.

    https://nitter.net/jasondotnews/status/1628377547267313664

  • Historical_General
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    Very cool to see a server that shitheap dotworld instance defederated from, on all.

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    281 year ago

    I do self-criticism constantly because I’m trapped in a Maoist cult where comrades (white terrorists) criticize me mercilessly for having a fascist credit card (VISA Silver Signature Rewards)

    They won’t let me order vegan pizza anymore because the phone is fascist and “summoning my pizza slaves with a bourgeois app” is “bad vibes”

    This is the moment that I finally realize that the Maoist cult was right all along.

    • Some years back I got sucked into the “My executive dysfunction won’t let me do the dishes so I can’t cook” loop and ended up spending some 25k in door dash that year.

      I’ve since uninstalled the app, I can’t be trusted. Now I recognize that paper plates can be a disability tool and if I’m having a rough day and can’t handle cooking I just air fry some tofu and call it a day.

        • My environmentally conscious side kept me from using paper or plastic for years until I realized I was doing more damage having delivery in take out 4 nights a week.

          Now that I have the OPTION to use paper plates and plasticware it has been significantly easier to make the CHOICE to wash dishes and cook my own food.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    251 year ago

    At some point we went from Going to Getting. Instead of “going to” a restaurant, you’re “getting” restaurant.

    The whole verb of “getting” is obligatory consumerism without enjoyment. It is quintessentially American.

    People in the upper class gorge themselves on the exploitation of the workers, and they still hate their lives.

    • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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      101 year ago

      Getting X has more to do with not eating there than specific things about lack of enjoyment. “Going to a Chinese buffet”

      "Getting Chinese takeout "

      I think you’re reading too much into this.

    • @BigNote@lemm.ee
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      21 year ago

      I think you are a little confused on the meaning here. In this context “getting” just means take-out or something you ordered and will be delivered to your house.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        11 year ago

        I think you are perhaps lost.

        This instance is Hexbear.net, where we all believe that parasitic Western civilization with America at its core is in permanent moral decline, and are often venting about consumerist depravity.

  • Sasuke [comrade/them]
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    also, slightly off topic here…

    it’s maddening the way the fast food industry has been able to sanitize its image to the point where you now have nominally ‘progressive’ people americans insist that there’s no such thing as ‘bad food’ and that’s it’s actually great that we’re clogging our arteries with buckets of addictive grease

  • VHS [he/him]
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    171 year ago

    $68.50 on doordash a day? for one person? also i find it hard to believe that someone would be ordering chili’s, applebee’s, and hooters when those are some of the worst quality food and people only go there to sit down

    • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]
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      i had to do some gig delivery at one point and I can assure you that people are absolutely ordering that shit on the apps. And this was in a large city where you could get pretty much anything you want

      • VHS [he/him]
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        71 year ago

        i believe you but i seriously question those customers’ judgement. i’ve delivered ubereats/doordash as well and it sent me to those places like 1% of the time, most of what i delivered was Chinese places, five guys, and a local taco place

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          71 year ago

          I used to be embarassed about my sushi habit in college and it was like 60$ every 3-4 months. Man, i miss those nights. We were all so young and dumb and horny and sushi was new and cool. We thought we were so cool in our “fancy” thrifted clothes (back when thrifting was cheap) that didn’t really fit, driving beater old cars downtown. It all seems so quaint looking back but at the time it was just amazing being alive.

          • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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            51 year ago

            I still religiously hunt for good sushi and deals for it. Before covid I found a place that still did really good, unique, specialty rolls for $15 and had a happy hour section of also based rolls that were $5. I mean this is a place that still insists on putting asparagus into rolls and it works so fucking well. Good sushi/seafood IMO is one of those foods that money really does make the difference for, compared to steak or cocktails.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      21 year ago

      A lot of people have appalling taste, often just for lack of options or experience. You wouldn’t believe the shit Minnesotans eat on purpose even though they don’t have to.

    • @hglman@lemmy.ml
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      01 year ago

      Bc the overhead on delivery is so high; they couldn’t afford more premium food.

    • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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      61 year ago

      Dude probably doesn’t tip on that order and writes in “you got to awooga and I didn’t, there’s your tip” in the notes, so it’s actually saving money on the order vs other places.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      61 year ago

      I know people who order pizza from Chuck-E-Cheese? Who goes there for the food? You go for the weird Star Wars arcade game and the scary animatronics

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          41 year ago

          Yeah those kinds of places can’t survive when working people have no disposable income. It’s part of what’s driving all the isolation and lonliness. All the free third places are long gone except libraries, and many of the paid third places are collapsing because there isn’t enough disposable income going around to keep them open. People stay home and doomscroll because they already paid for the phone plan and can’t afford to do anything else.

        • uralsolo [he/him]
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          51 year ago

          The ghost kitchen is at least priced competitively with other low-rent pizza joints. Last time I went to a Chuck E Cheese the pizzas were like $10 each and worse than Little Caesars.

      • uralsolo [he/him]
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        51 year ago

        the scary animatronics

        Last time I went they replaced the scary animatronics with a big LCD screen sicko-wistful

          • uralsolo [he/him]
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            51 year ago

            If Chuck e Cheese hasn’t done some kind of FNAF crossover event that’d be really surprising to me, literally money on the table.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        31 year ago

        There’s some meme about getting greasy cardboard in the dirty robot place where the mascot is a rat but I can’t find it.