Things Considered Normal in the US...

[ern-diz]

Originally Posted by KALISPEL II

Why would I want to eat out, when I can make MUCH better dishes at home myself from scratch, using MUCH higher quality, healthy hand-picked ingredients, MUCH better prep/handling/hygiene practices, at a fraction of the cost? No thanks. I try to vote with my dollars & not support business practices or products that I don't agree with for one reason or another. That's extra money for me to play around with in the stock market, spend on my hobbies/interests or to donate to animal rescue efforts every month.

Besides, what is enticing about being served dressed-up low-quality foods, comprised of estrogen-filled conventional meats, herbicide/pesticide-laden everything, who knows how many other ultra-processed chemical ingredients, all cooked up in chemically-refined, denatured oils? Have fun with that, while paying a premium in the process & dealing with a noisy obnoxious environment. Spit in your food is the least of your problems when dealing with restaurant foods. Why do you think that most Americans are unhealthy, fat & crying about health care all the time?

Eh, this is a complicated way to over simply the topic. Not all restaurants are McDonald's. There are some very fine restaurants that use high quality ingredients cooked by trained chef's, too.

[KALISPEL II]

Originally Posted by ern-diz

Eh, this is a complicated way to over simply the topic. Not all restaurants are McDonald's. There are some very fine restaurants that use high quality ingredients cooked by trained chef's, too.

I think those are the ones that serve $80-100 per-person meals that are about the size of a deck of cards. Don't forget the $20 per person in your party tip!

Good luck finding any normal price range restaurant that doesn't use chemically-refined oils of some sort at the very least, instead of something like raw, virgin, cold-pressed coconut oil (which isn't even that expensive really). Amazing how many people still believe that things like soybean, canola, etc. oil is healthy, or that buttery-spreads & margarine made of those oils are healthier than even regular butter, let along 100% grass fed butter.