Modern Food?

[Jayco-noslide]

We know we're getting old and times are changing but we can't seem to get really quality food at restaurants. Time after time we leave a restaurant with no good reason to return. Usually the food is "just OK" or worse. We usually like our own home cooked food just fine so it's not that we are losing our taste. Some of my theories are: Many of the young have not grown up with quality food so they set the bar low. Local small town cafes are disappearing. The young seem to want to cover everything with sauces, strong spices, multiple items, etc. so it covers poor meat. They are avoiding traditionals like roast beef, baked ham, etc. They don't cook their own quality food at home.Example: yesterday a "family restaurant". Catfish-bland no flavor, baked potato not thouroghly done and tasteless non-butter spread, funny tasting rolls. The cost is high but hasn't it always been. We do enjoy Steak n Shake, Texas Roadhouse, and the Iowa Machine Shed. Expensive places are sometimes better but some of the best past ones were reasonable.

[Grit_dog]

JAC1982 wrote:

Thunder Mountain wrote:
Unless you pay high dollars for a meal, everything just comes off the same Sysco truck everywhere you go. Even at high end restaurants much of the food comes from the same purveyors. It is just the way the chefs prepare it. We don't eat out much because of this. We have few favorites. None of them are chains. Many are mom and pop Mexican/Southwestern. One of our favorite places is Southern Vittles in Lake City Colorado. Home style comfort food. This summer the local campground owner told us about a place in Dubois, WY that was over the top including homemade pies.

Tell me about this spot in Dubois 🙂

Cowboy cafe?
Dubois, WY friendliest town in the country.

[rk911]

jplante4 wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:

bigred1cav wrote:

bpounds wrote:
If the food is so poor, how do we explain our fat asses?

I think most of you just resent having to pay for restaurants.

grease, growth hormone and engineered food.

And the biggie: laziness and sloth.

Ice cream.

and pie. don't forget the pie. gotta have pie.

[jplante4]

fj12ryder wrote:

bigred1cav wrote:

bpounds wrote:
If the food is so poor, how do we explain our fat asses?

I think most of you just resent having to pay for restaurants.

grease, growth hormone and engineered food.

And the biggie: laziness and sloth.

Ice cream.

[fj12ryder]

bigred1cav wrote:

bpounds wrote:
If the food is so poor, how do we explain our fat asses?

I think most of you just resent having to pay for restaurants.

grease, growth hormone and engineered food.

And the biggie: laziness and sloth.

[bigred1cav]

bpounds wrote:
If the food is so poor, how do we explain our fat asses?

I think most of you just resent having to pay for restaurants.

grease, growth hormone and engineered food.

[bpounds]

If the food is so poor, how do we explain our fat asses?

I think most of you just resent having to pay for restaurants.

[JAC1982]

Thunder Mountain wrote:
Unless you pay high dollars for a meal, everything just comes off the same Sysco truck everywhere you go. Even at high end restaurants much of the food comes from the same purveyors. It is just the way the chefs prepare it. We don't eat out much because of this. We have few favorites. None of them are chains. Many are mom and pop Mexican/Southwestern. One of our favorite places is Southern Vittles in Lake City Colorado. Home style comfort food. This summer the local campground owner told us about a place in Dubois, WY that was over the top including homemade pies.

Tell me about this spot in Dubois 🙂

[time2roll]

I believe the poor food is also a product of speed production to both satisfy impatient customers and to turn the tables over faster. Too much frozen food and microwaves. I remember going out used to be an event that was an hour or more. Now it is serve in 10 minutes and gone in 20. Maybe 30 max.

[Cfes]

My problem is getting the same quality TWICE in a row. One the the food will be great, next time the same order sucks.

[Grit_dog]

tdiller wrote:
Eating out while traveling is one of those things that can be dangerous. I know of several road warriors who have gotten food poisoning. So I make it a rule to stick with the chains unless some local person has made a reccomendations .

Paranoid much?

[JasseJackson]

I think it's Smoothie now) https://greenann.com/recipe/strawberry-oat-smoothie/
Really Modern Food!)
Healthy and tasty)

[ppine]

Restaurants come and go all the time. Support the good ones.
I used to travel all the time, and learned to avoid places with quiet parking lots.
I am retired, so I like to take my girl out maybe once a week and get cleaned up and have someone else do the cooking. Good service means a lot. Then we go home to a clean house. NOthing better than a good restaurant, and nothing worse than a bad one.

[goducks10]

Powertour wrote:

JAC1982 wrote:
Also, I'm a pretty good cook, so why would I go out to eat to get something like roast beef? I can make a good roast beef at home pretty easily. When I go out to eat, I want to eat something I either can't make at home, or would be a big pain to make at home (like good BBQ).

I've found that we can't eat out for a good quality meal for less than $50 including drinks anymore. Often it's closer to $75. So many people still expect a good meal for $10/plate or less. These days, even fast food can get near the $10/meal mark.

+1

+2

[Thunder_Mountai]

Unless you pay high dollars for a meal, everything just comes off the same Sysco truck everywhere you go. Even at high end restaurants much of the food comes from the same purveyors. It is just the way the chefs prepare it. We don't eat out much because of this. We have few favorites. None of them are chains. Many are mom and pop Mexican/Southwestern. One of our favorite places is Southern Vittles in Lake City Colorado. Home style comfort food. This summer the local campground owner told us about a place in Dubois, WY that was over the top including homemade pies.

[Tvov]

tdiller wrote:
.... I also have learned over the years that you don't eat pizza on the east or west coast ....

I live up the road from New Haven, Connecticut... home of Pepe's pizza, Sally's, and Modern Pizza. Always the "top 10" lists of best pizza have them, usually they are in the top 5.

Having said that... if you are fan of thick and/or Greek style pizza I can see your point.