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I hate restaurants that ENTER business thinking they're 'exclusive' or 'high end'... that is something EARNED- not 'declared'.  but that isn't how it works down here- these places open with $35 plates of pasta with overdone seafood covered in sauce from a jar, and well dressed servers in a decent atmosphere, and think they've arrived... meanwhile, there are high school kids cooking in the kitchen.  

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and obviously the consumers aren't savvy enough to know the difference

pertaining to this thread a while back...............

Huskers’ new quarterbacks coach, Verduzco, a native of Pittsburg, Calif., participated in a round of a modified Proust Questionnaire. The questionnaire was made popular by French novelist Marcel Proust, who believed answering these questions would reveal a person’s true self.

Q: What do you consider as your favorite meal?

MV: Pasta. Absolutely bolognese, and I can get after it now. I can cook anything you want. It’s also so relaxing because you’re only thinking about the task at hand. You know there is nothing else in your brain. For me, cooking is relaxation. It’s awesome.

One of the selling points when we’re recruiting a quarterback is that I tell them when they come over for dinner, I’ll cook them any Italian food they want. That’s awesome. They’re sold. It’s a done deal.

Amen

Couldn't you just dump a bunch of sugar packets into the normal tea? 

Never understood the po boy thing either.

Let's see. Take a perfectly good batch of fried oysters (carbed up, of course) and add more carbs with bread.

WTF.

When I was 19 I went to Niagara Falls. Since that's the drinking age in Canada, I bellied up to the bar, and ordered a Long Island Iced Tea.
She looked at me sideways for a few seconds, and finally said "We're, um, out of iced tea."
So apparently they have no idea what a Long Island Iced Tea is up there. Kind of strange, since they are just outside of NY State.

When we were in Italy last month, we ended up trying to hit this restaurant for a nightcap in the Cinque Terre. They boasted about their cocktails. 
So my wife ordered a lemon drop martini.
Yeah, I've been ribbing her over that one ever since 

Sweet tea isn't much of a thing in Texas, though that's changing slowly.  The further east you go, the more common it gets.  It's definitely not a required drink for a  BBQ meal.  And around here hushpuppies are a common side for fried seafood (especially catfish), but not BBQ.  Here in Texico, potato salad, cole slaw, and pinto beans are the traditional sides.  And nanner puddin for dessert, of course.

Brutus: sweetening tea with sugar packets doesn't produce the same effect, since typically sweet tea is super-saturated with the sugar while still hot, right after brewing, so it absorbs a lot more of the sugar.   But like I said, it's not much of a big deal around here, and I don't personally like or drink it.