Difference is SAYING it. Think whatever.

I think it's weird to think this is weird. Why wouldn't I want to try something new, complicated or inventive when I see it on a menu? Sometimes I plan a special dinner date just to get a souffle when I'm craving one because I certainly cannot make that at home. By the same token, I try to order the strangest sounding dessert on the menu because my thinking is they wouldn't put it on the menu if it weren't delicious, and the fact that I've never tasted it before is definitely a bonus.

I usually order something the rest or some of my family doesn’t like. So a mushroom forward dish. Or eggplant. Or something with burrata. Something like that because I love those things and they do not.

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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.

It’s a “prole tell”.

You win DCUM today!

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Anonymous wrote:I feel this way about avocado toast .

Not saying avocado toast isn’t a rip-off but the toast they have at hip cafes is usually some distinct and fresh nutty bread, so you’d have to go buy an entire loaf. Good perfectly ripe avocados aren’t always easy to find. Often avos are too hard at the store and require a few days to ripen. If you’re craving avocado toast, just pony up the $10 or whatever. Don’t overthink it.

100%. The last few avocados I've bought were rotten on the inside (not from being over ripe). Waste of time and money.

Plus a giant loaf of fresh nutty bread from the bakery—if you can even find such a loaf nearby—is going to be like $10 or 12. I personally have zero use for such a loaf and I only crave avocado toast like once every month or two. Rather buy a good version of it than try to make it myself.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel this way about avocado toast .

Not saying avocado toast isn’t a rip-off but the toast they have at hip cafes is usually some distinct and fresh nutty bread, so you’d have to go buy an entire loaf. Good perfectly ripe avocados aren’t always easy to find. Often avos are too hard at the store and require a few days to ripen. If you’re craving avocado toast, just pony up the $10 or whatever. Don’t overthink it.

Agreed. I've had some REALLY delicious avocado toast out, and some REALLY bad avocados from the grocery store.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel this way about avocado toast .

Not saying avocado toast isn’t a rip-off but the toast they have at hip cafes is usually some distinct and fresh nutty bread, so you’d have to go buy an entire loaf. Good perfectly ripe avocados aren’t always easy to find. Often avos are too hard at the store and require a few days to ripen. If you’re craving avocado toast, just pony up the $10 or whatever. Don’t overthink it.

100%. The last few avocados I've bought were rotten on the inside (not from being over ripe). Waste of time and money.

Anonymous wrote:I feel this way about avocado toast .

Not saying avocado toast isn’t a rip-off but the toast they have at hip cafes is usually some distinct and fresh nutty bread, so you’d have to go buy an entire loaf. Good perfectly ripe avocados aren’t always easy to find. Often avos are too hard at the store and require a few days to ripen. If you’re craving avocado toast, just pony up the $10 or whatever. Don’t overthink it.

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.

It’s a “prole tell”.

I feel this way about avocado toast .

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe I'm lower class, but I often think the same. I don't want to order (for example) basic fettuccini alfredo when I can make this in 10m at home. If I'm paying to eat out, which is often 3-10x more than what it costs to eat at home, I want something different or special.

Thinking it is fine.

Voicing it is low class.

What is low class about talking through your decision, or sharing that you can cook?

Learning a servant skill like cooking is low class. My staff does that. It's not dressage and cotillion.

If you are a cotillion know-nothing you are lower class because you lack cultural capital.

It suggests you don’t go out to eat very often, if nothing else.

If I eat at a restaurant it’s because I don’t feel like cooking. I don’t consider whether I could make the dish or not.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe I'm lower class, but I often think the same. I don't want to order (for example) basic fettuccini alfredo when I can make this in 10m at home. If I'm paying to eat out, which is often 3-10x more than what it costs to eat at home, I want something different or special.

Thinking it is fine.

Voicing it is low class.

What is low class about talking through your decision, or sharing that you can cook?

Learning a servant skill like cooking is low class. My staff does that. It's not dressage and cotillion.

Unless you're learning recreationally then it's high class. Think Marie Antoinette's Hameau de la Reine where she played baker and shepardess. She was cosplaying a farmer because she was the queen.

I like to cook. I am absolutely more likely to order something with several components and different ingredients instead of a plain pasta type dish, even though I love a good pasta. Or a vegetable that everyone else at home hates so I'm unlikely to cook it. I can afford to eat out when I want but it does seems silly to order something that I can easily and cheaply make. I eat out when I don't want to cook or I want variety.