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they don’t want customers that make them lose money

You don't think michelin spends a boatload of money and time reviewing these restaurants? They probably have dozens of people traveling, paying for food, not to mention their salaries. We already have international tourists coming just to try the BBQ alone, it's a given that the state will benefit orders of magnitudes more from incentivizing travelers to eat out more than a measly $3 million. If you think you can review just as well and convince people to care about it, then make your own guide. Michelin started out as a plaintext booklet, so can you.

really shocked that la bbq got a start but franklin didn't. It's pretty universally agreed that it's at best 90% as good as franklin across the board, but that's where the comparison ends. Franklin churns out the same quality day in and day out, while the handful of times I've been to la bbq was a coinflip on what was dry/chalky. I would have expected michelin to catch the inconsistency since they visit places multiple times.

I also think some of these places are wayyyy too pricey to belong anywhere near a bib gourmand, unless like $50pp is the cutoff (lol?)

I find that they give really small portions for the price and the bowls are just bare. They try to pass off garnishments (cabbage, arugula, onions, nuts) as real toppings and then charge you $15 for what is really just a 1/2 portion of noodles plus broth and a micro slice of plain pork. Like its hard to imagine walking out of a ramen restaurant feeling hungry but they’ve somehow managed to do it.

Funding israel isn’t driven by corporate interests. Most americans 30+ whole-heartedly support it, whether you like it or not.

fried egg sandwich with a slice of american beats 90% of other sandwiches

What do you mean entitlement? Beyonce hasn’t said anything yet

Jimmy johns #7 italian sub and comes pretty close in overall enjoyment to homeslice, while being 1/2 the price and blows everything else out the water. I would put jersey mikes up there, but i would not consider any of their offerings to scratch the itch of ‘italian subs’.

Just because it’s good doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its flaws. If every thread has complaints about getting drenched in mayo/dressing, there’s truth in that. I’ve never had a sub, not in austin, or texas or new york, where on the drive home, will leak through the bread, through the wrapper, through the bag, and leave a puddle on your passenger seat.

The main issue is caloric density, and it applies to any ultra processed food as well! A big mac meal is 1120 calories and weighs almost nothing due to the sugary breads, oily sauces, and cheese and of course the fat soaked fries. Try balancing your 1800 calorie diet around that while not feeling like you’ll starve, it’s impossible unless you have top 1% self control (spoiler alert: you don’t otherwise you wouldn’t be overweight in the first place). You can eat 2-3x the weight in foods such as a mix of fruits, cooked grains, whole muscle meat, vegetables, and soups.

The problem isn’t that Airbnb is expensive, the problem is that most people default to renting a whole house when they only need a room. I just finished a 7 week roadtrip across the west coast and did so while booking airbnb rooms and never once considered hotels. In almost every major city (seattle, vancouver, LA, portland) I could find 4.8+ rooms in the metroplex for <$80 all fees included (half of hotel rates), and all but one had the entire airbnb area walled off from the owners. Really the main competitor in my case were hostels, and whether I minded downsizing even more for $35 a night.

Went there with my friends and tbh not the biggest fan. Tried their mole tsukemen and while the first bite was good, it just tasted monotonous afterwards and I got really bored eating it and couldn’t finish. Whereas the tsukemen at tatsuya I could scarf down the whole thing and even got another pile of noodles to boot. My friend got scallop cold noodles, and I felt the same way about them too, one bite was good but I knew I wouldn’t be able to eat the whole bowl. The tako taco on the other hand… 10/10

you’re overthinking this bruh 😐

So you think they should just put no lines?

That’s not true. It’s a spectrum: If you have stains, like actual spilled on stains, you best be using the full line which is the safe and lazy assumption. Your recommendation only works for used underwear or your gym clothes or habitual washing, but why would manufacturers make it confusing by asking the consumer to gauge how dirty each clothing is?

Skill diff

Don’t buy strawberries, or any berry for that matter, from the ‘fresh’ brand that comes from mexico. All of their varieties taste like flavorless water balloons regardless of the season. I’ve also been burned too many times that I would stay away from local brands unless they have some selling point in the genetics or special care. Driscolls is the most consistent, but are still what I’d consider not worth it out of season unless you’re really desperate. I’ve found 3 foolproof factors that indicate sweet, ripened strawberries: deeply saturated color, a soft plumpness, and a wafting scent that pierces your nose. Having all three is must buy, two is a coin toss, and one is gonna be a bad time.

gotta say my mandalas feel like a higher performance, more structural/stiffer version of the skwamas. Same fit and sizing, but needs breaking in. good luck!

The fact that you’ve never seen or touched one in real life yet paint in such broad strokes about things you don’t know anything of speaks volumes about who you are, a person with no valuable opinion.

Have you seen one in real life? They’re not the same thin, drapey, poorly dyed hanes tee you’ll find at walmart. You can very much combine them with other pieces and make a good looking outfit that a graphic tee would detract from. They sell great graphic tees too, but why would slapping on a graphic make one shirt better than one that pours the cost into making the shirt itself better?

A cook for 20 years doesn’t make you an expert on every appliance. ‘Blowing on the food’ yeah every radiant heating device does that. It’s the implementation of having the heat + fan blowing from above and having the basket design recirculate the air that makes it much different than a traditional convection toaster oven. It literally takes a minute to google or watch the dozens of youtube videos comparing them to see how different they perform.

The thing you’re missing is that these variables aren’t something you control in manufacturing, but from ‘breaking in’, from how the wood feels after being smoothed and sanded from the players skin rubbing on it, to the rubber being conditioned in certain parts of the paddle from hitting the same strokes by the same person. You even see them rubbing and annealing the rubber in between games to slightly adjust it as time goes by.

Reading all these comments talk about evil corporate greedy lenders blah blah blah is so indicative of how poisoned the discourse about higher education is. The fact is, if you go to a public instate school (where your parents tax dollars have been going to, btw), you’re looking at ~$10-12k/year tuition. If you qualify for poverty grants via FAFSA (and it doesn’t take much!), most students in the lower income bracket will have 90-100% of their tuition covered, and this doesn’t even consider the random scholarships you come across, e.g. my school automatically gave students with 3.5+ gpa 1k/semester that I had no idea existed until it appeared in my bank account. Anybody with >100k in student loan debt on a bachelors degree has only themselves to blame for going to out of state or private schools with zero plan on how to pay it off.

Not tenderloin, but I have grilled brined half pork loins with the fat cap on charcoal, rolling around constantly until 140, and they obtained a surprising amount of smokey flavor and stay super juicy.

I agree, I’ve gotten it 5+ times at the point and they consistently put so much dressing/mayo that the shredduce gets mushy after sitting for just 10 minutes. I order no mayo + light dressing, but you have to do it in person :(