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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it's boring and white bread and there are healthier and more adventurous things to try. I never had them growing up, and I think they taste disgusting. It's sad when kids eat them at restaurants with good food. [/quote]

They have their whole lives to branch out. As long as they are healthy, why do you care? [/quote]

I don't really, just answering the question. I used to work at an amazing Italian restaurant and only the most annoying tables ordered buttered noodles for their kids--so my experience has colored this opinion.[/quote]

I think about mess making when eating in a restaurant.  Ordering buttered noodles is much safer than ordering red sauce in a restaurant.[/quote]

But strangely enough, the buttered noodle families left the biggest messes and the smallest tips, and were whiny and critical to boot. The osso bucco families usually kept their tables tidy or left big tips to compensate, and were pleasant and relaxed. Small sample, of course, but enough to make me never want to be that buttered noodle parent. [/quote]

LOL. Judgmental waitresses? WTF?

What do your kids order at amazing Italian restaurants? 
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Not judgmental; just observant. Food service employees get to see, observe (and, yes, categorize) a huge cross-section of people and their eating habits. If you think you're exempt from this, you're mistaken.

My kids eat the same foods the adults eat, off the menu. [/quote]

I guess all those Italians eating classic caccio e peppe are total boors ...[/quote]

Well, I'm not talking about them, but about typical, middle-class American families who ignored the menu and instead asked for "noodles with butter and nothing else." I also have opinions about people who order ranch dressing, people who make tons of substitutions, and people who let their kids play video games at the table. Somehow, those people always seemed to be dining together. Go ahead and eat your buttered noodles, but don't think that you're somehow "classic" or "traditional" because of it. [/quote]

Don't forget that you're the servant here.[/quote]

Um, no. Thinking that restaurant employees are "servants" is a great example of why food culture is better in places like France, where the restaurant employees are rightly viewed as professionals and experts in their crafts. You can think that they are "servants" all you want, but that doesn't make it so.[/quote]

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