“I can make that at home” while looking at restaurant menu

[Anonymous]

Pretty much most pasta dishes. I can often make them better too.

Pasta is the single biggest rip off on any menu. Paperdelle? Lol. What a joke. It's like the easiest pasta in the world to make. Consumers think it some kind of fancy BS. It's just thin lasagna noodles that are cut and zero time is spent for shaping. It's sooooo easy to make at home but they'll charge $18-30 per pasta dish for it when it is house made. So easy to do at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a raised lower class thing? I’ve never thought that while looking at a menu but sometimes my guests will say that out loud.

I think this all of the time! Why should I pay $30+ for a piece of grilled salmon and veggies that I can make at home for $9? If I'm eating out, I want to enjoy it and get something that I'm not going to cook for myself.

Now, I will order something like lasanga when I'm out. I can make it, but I don't because no one in my family eats it. So I won't something that I can cook, but also something I am likely to cook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much most pasta dishes. I can often make them better too.

Pasta is the single biggest rip off on any menu. Paperdelle? Lol. What a joke. It's like the easiest pasta in the world to make. Consumers think it some kind of fancy BS. It's just thin lasagna noodles that are cut and zero time is spent for shaping. It's sooooo easy to make at home but they'll charge $18-30 per pasta dish for it when it is house made. So easy to do at home.

I’ve made pasta at home. You know what I’d rather do? Pay someone else to make it for me.

[Anonymous]

Didn’t you start another thread on this? Who gives a F? Being obsessed if X belongs to XYZ class is low class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this a raised lower class thing? I’ve never thought that while looking at a menu but sometimes my guests will say that out loud.

I think this all of the time! Why should I pay $30+ for a piece of grilled salmon and veggies that I can make at home for $9? If I'm eating out, I want to enjoy it and get something that I'm not going to cook for myself.

Now, I will order something like lasanga when I'm out. I can make it, but I don't because no one in my family eats it. So I won't something that I can cook, but also something I am likely to cook.

Are you posting from the 90s? A good filet of fresh salmon at WF is going to be $20. So yes, I'll pay $30+ for a good piece of fish prepared perfectly because maybe I'm the only one craving fish in the family or I don't want the kitchen to stink of fish. And of course there's always some risk involved in cooking for yourself, while a good restaurant is expected to be perfect or we can send it back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s telling. It suggests you were raised low class, cheap and or don’t eat out much and look to eating out as some sort of special experience. The rich do not give this any mindshare. Rich just order what they like.

Different poster. You are absolutely correct. I used to live in Pebble Beach and Carmel.

The really rich - mostly inherited wealth - really aren't all that interesting. They don't care about the "experience." They have a craving - and it's often very basic - and they satisfy it and don't think twice and move on. If you genuinely enjoy food and the whole experience of a really good meal, never go out with the really rich. It's a buzz kill.

Where is everyone eating that there's this "experience" anyways? It's such a foodie thing to frame eating out like this. Most restaurants normal people frequent are pretty boring. Good but boring. We enjoy them because of their proximity to our home or office, the staff is nice, and the menu items are good enough. How many times are people blown away by some inventive restaurant "experience"? Probably not more than a handful of times a year, if that.

[Anonymous]

Normal people can’t afford frequent food experiences and rich people are bored by going out all the time.

[Anonymous]

I always think about this when ordering. There are a lot of things I make very well/often, so it would be boring for me to have them out and not worth it as an experience Whether is bad or not to think that way won't change how I think about it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much most pasta dishes. I can often make them better too.

Pasta is the single biggest rip off on any menu. Paperdelle? Lol. What a joke. It's like the easiest pasta in the world to make. Consumers think it some kind of fancy BS. It's just thin lasagna noodles that are cut and zero time is spent for shaping. It's sooooo easy to make at home but they'll charge $18-30 per pasta dish for it when it is house made. So easy to do at home.

I’ve made pasta at home. You know what I’d rather do? Pay someone else to make it for me.

Because you're lazy and unskilled.

Just made homemade pasta tonight. Done in 45 minutes. Pretty much no different than any other dinner.

Pasta is the single most overrated and overpriced food on any menu in any restaurant. So easy to do at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much most pasta dishes. I can often make them better too.

Pasta is the single biggest rip off on any menu. Paperdelle? Lol. What a joke. It's like the easiest pasta in the world to make. Consumers think it some kind of fancy BS. It's just thin lasagna noodles that are cut and zero time is spent for shaping. It's sooooo easy to make at home but they'll charge $18-30 per pasta dish for it when it is house made. So easy to do at home.

I’ve made pasta at home. You know what I’d rather do? Pay someone else to make it for me.

Because you're lazy and unskilled.

Just made homemade pasta tonight. Done in 45 minutes. Pretty much no different than any other dinner.

Pasta is the single most overrated and overpriced food on any menu in any restaurant. So easy to do at home.

Team person who is not you.

[Anonymous]

What a ridiculous way to think OP.

Is it low class to order BASIC food like seared salmon or chicken breast at a restaurant that has far more imaginative options? The chefs include those items on the menu for picky adult eaters, who in their opinion have the taste/preferences of a child.

Very close friends with a couple of head chefs at Michelin starred restaurants that are also tied to hotels. They totally despise the room service orders of chicken tenders or steak with A1 sauce from celebrities. This is not the kind of food that excites them or makes them proud to cook. It's just something to satisfy hunger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a ridiculous way to think OP.

Is it low class to order BASIC food like seared salmon or chicken breast at a restaurant that has far more imaginative options? The chefs include those items on the menu for picky adult eaters, who in their opinion have the taste/preferences of a child.

Very close friends with a couple of head chefs at Michelin starred restaurants that are also tied to hotels. They totally despise the room service orders of chicken tenders or steak with A1 sauce from celebrities. This is not the kind of food that excites them or makes them proud to cook. It's just something to satisfy hunger.

Where do you draw the line? Salads are probably the easiest meal of all to create; you're not even actually cooking anything! So you never order a salad anywhere? Most breakfast food is ridiculously easy to make, outside of like French pastries. You never go out to eat for breakfast? Sandwiches are very easy. Burgers are very easy. Now you're even claiming salmon and anything with chicken (breast) is unimaginative. I've had some spectacular salmon dishes in nice restaurants!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel this way about avocado toast .

Ha. We are less likely to have a perfectly ripened avocado than we are to have an interesting well-prepared dinner. I feel that way about fig and goat cheese salads.

That said, spouse cooks for the love of it, and I’m at the point where I look at restaurant menus and think I’d rather eat at home except for doing the dishes following my happy cooker.
We do think about trying things we have not made, or do not make.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much most pasta dishes. I can often make them better too.

Pasta is the single biggest rip off on any menu. Paperdelle? Lol. What a joke. It's like the easiest pasta in the world to make. Consumers think it some kind of fancy BS. It's just thin lasagna noodles that are cut and zero time is spent for shaping. It's sooooo easy to make at home but they'll charge $18-30 per pasta dish for it when it is house made. So easy to do at home.

Good for you. I can make pasta at home and enjoy it in a restaurant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much most pasta dishes. I can often make them better too.

Pasta is the single biggest rip off on any menu. Paperdelle? Lol. What a joke. It's like the easiest pasta in the world to make. Consumers think it some kind of fancy BS. It's just thin lasagna noodles that are cut and zero time is spent for shaping. It's sooooo easy to make at home but they'll charge $18-30 per pasta dish for it when it is house made. So easy to do at home.

Good for you. I can make pasta at home and enjoy it in a restaurant.

And overpay 3x for it.