https://twitter.com/cliffordlevy/status/1339566779518119937?s=21
Eating/drinking things in the snow is pretty nice in my experience. Looks like they just had soup and booze, which go well with snow.
Not sure how it is in a restaurant environment though, most of the appeal for me is that it gets so quiet during a heavy snowfall.
I think the people eating there know it sucks. We're all just desperate for a bit of normal life and this is them trying to find some.
When you have no culture and no meaningful social gatherings (even outside a pandemic), going to eat in a restaurant is an incredibly exciting thing. People are around! Good food! You're in a mild position of power! What's not to love?
That's definitely a factor too, and with things like movie theaters or museums or whatever having limited capacity/closures, I understand why people are currently defaulting to eating out, cause it's often the only thing to "do" if you want to go out
how it started: pay everyone to stay home for two months? are you insane? once the summer comes it will be fine
how it's going:
And for making their server do this, a fat 10% tip
I am not speaking from experience, no
The Virgin whatever the fuck is going on here vs the Chad impulsively deciding to go camping in the middle of winter with a bunch of hot couch guys that results in eating baked beans while massively crossfaded in a blizzard
i did that once. got stuck on top of a mountain in the rockies with a grizzly bear nearby and a completely frozen lake
was fun sliding on it though
Spontaneous winter camping is definitely something that's worth doing once, probably not something that's worth doing often. Where I live the grizzly bears weren't a factor, that probably made it a fair bit more intense.
he stayed on his side of the lake and we stayed on ours. idk why he wasnt hibernating it was weird
Maybe it's just because I have a weird relationship with food and eating with people but like, I seriously don't understand the NEED to go to restaurants and eat in. I don't get why people enjoy it.Just fucking cook for yourself or get takeout. Why do you NEED to wait 30+ minutes to get seated in a dark, closed in space that's so loud you can barely hear yourself think much less the person on the other side of the table to discuss your $50 burger that you'll never admit tastes worse than if you just got some cheap takeout from the place at the edge of town in between a sketchy gas station and an overgrown empty lot.
A little while ago Citations Needed got me into researching the elimination of the restaurant industry and I haven't thought of restaurants the same since. I like eating out as much as anyone but the pandemic has really broken that habit and made me reconsider how exploitative the whole industry is for the workers.
💯 and iirc the origins of modern restaurants is just the bourgeoisie imitating the lifestyles of the feudal aristocracy. So calling if regressive would be an understatement
Of course it's at "The Smith," the Quintessential mediocre brunch place in NYC that wh*tes flock to. Just get a BEC at your local bodega you freaks, the food is way better than a $35 waffle.
You can have my brunch when you pry it from MY COLD DEAD HANDS
you cropped out the part of the photo that shows its The Smith, which is basically just "elevated bar food" for people with marketing degrees and parents helping them on their apartment even though they make 6 figures
Is this the same guy that tweeted "nothing stops new yorkers" when people were calling for New York to shut down and then two weeks later they were essentially dying in the streets like the Month Python bit?
while this inspired me to have a snow picnic in the park...
GO HOME YOU FUCKING FREAKS,
Either that place does not wipe down tables (and is a health risk) or these people ate food while ~half an inch of snow landed on everything at the table. Why would you want to do this
At this moment in time, New York was experiencing snow accumulation of around 2 inches every hour. So it's definitely the latter and these people are psychopaths.
Drinking in driving snow can be a ton of fun.....if you're in your back yard standing around a fire pit, just crushing beers.
But at a restaurant....that's ridiculous. Don't do that to the servers.
I have two friends with a fire pit, and we have discussed hanging out around the fire pit on semi-nice days this winter just to see some human beings face-to-face now that we're being plunged into the misery of winter. But this does not look fun to me. Then there's the staff to think about--bad idea, folks.
Yeah, I have a fire pit and have met people for a beer at parks, but not since it's gotten south of freezing, and not since the massive spikes
Yup, things are extremely bad in my state right now, so the fire pit idea is on hold for now, but I think we'll do it on a few sunny days even if it's very cold. You know how it is once you get far enough into winter that a sunny day feels absolutely balmy even if it's below freezing.
A point of pride for those in the Midwest that above freezing is t-shirt weather in February. I should post in !diy@hexbear.net, but you can buy propane fire pit kits on Amazon, along with a Weber grill and some volcanic rock makes a very portable, aesthetically pleasing firepit. I have it on my balcony, great for even 20 minutes of hanging outside.
Oh interesting! My dad has a Weber grill--I might see if we can have some outdoor family hang out time this winter. Thanks for the suggestion!
