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Title: All For Around $10
Post by: Alkie on May 09, 2010, 03:59:17 pm
Really?   Have we really reached a point in society where all-you-can-eat ribs for $9 sounds like a good idea?

Does that actually sound appetizing?

Maybe it was just the 2 years in the restaurant biz, but rock-bottom-beef-prices never sounds "yummy."
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: rifraft on May 09, 2010, 04:31:53 pm
Really?   Have we really reached a point in society where all-you-can-eat ribs for $9 sounds like a good idea?

Does that actually sound appetizing?

Maybe it was just the 2 years in the restaurant biz, but rock-bottom-beef-prices never sounds "yummy."

where was this catastrophe?
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Alkie on May 09, 2010, 04:51:30 pm
where was this catastrophe?

I saw it in the ads for Golden Corral today.   A man goes into mid-priced restaurants that also sell awful processed-and-microwaved food but have the common courtesy to not sell it in buffet form and "embarrasses" himself by asking for a bunch of food for around $10 before being laughed out of the Red Lobsterish place, the Chilisish place, and the something elseish place.   Then he finds comfort at Golden Corral, where they remind me that for around $10 right now, they have all I can eat ribs.   

It just sounds so awful, I wondered who watched this commercial and went "fuck yes!   Finally, a place where I can eat the lowest quality food possible, and lots of it!"   The ribs don't even look good in the ad.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Fredia on May 09, 2010, 08:08:57 pm
bakc away from the buffet. put down the fork and run. if you need intervention let us know
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: rifraft on May 09, 2010, 08:59:40 pm
It just sounds so awful, I wondered who watched this commercial and went "fuck yes!   Finally, a place where I can eat the lowest quality food possible, and lots of it!"   The ribs don't even look good in the ad.

That's what you get for watching commercials.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Rebel Jew on May 09, 2010, 10:36:22 pm

It just sounds so awful, I wondered who watched this commercial and went "fuck yes!

poor people
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: chuck on May 10, 2010, 01:11:40 am
Really?   Have we really reached a point in society where all-you-can-eat ribs for $9 sounds like a good idea?

Does that actually sound appetizing?

Maybe it was just the 2 years in the restaurant biz, but rock-bottom-beef-prices never sounds "yummy."

I don't know, Alkie, you're starting to sound like an elitist.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Gizzmonic on May 10, 2010, 10:08:50 am
They closed down the Golden Corral by my place.  Then it got tagged by a gang.  Those $9 ribs are Barrio property now, ese.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Ron Brand on May 10, 2010, 10:12:18 am
The Latin Kings need rib tacos tambien, homes.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Alkie on May 10, 2010, 11:22:13 am
I don't know, Alkie, you're starting to sound like an elitist.

Starting?

I AM an elitist prick, but that's not what I'm getting at here.  I'm not asking how you slobs can get by without a nice seared foie gras each meal; I'm saying I remember what the Ramen and store brand cereal days were like, and $9 all I could eat "beef" and "pork" sounded fairly disgusting if not dangerous back then.

And even so, I assume Golden Corral is making money.  How?
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: MusicMan on May 10, 2010, 11:23:41 am
And even so, I assume Golden Corral is making money.  How?

Because nobody ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Ron Brand on May 10, 2010, 11:24:02 am
Golden Corral is...PEOPLE!
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Alkie on May 10, 2010, 11:28:38 am
Because nobody ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Totally agree.  A phrase I use all the time myself, but this is somewhere in the middle.

I TOTALLY get why broke people eat fast food.   $.89 taco?   $.50 bag of chips?   $.75 for a soda.  I get that.  I completely get that.  I remember those days quite well and I don't feel bad about it.

But this isn't that.   This isn't "what is the LEAST I can spend to eat and fill myself until the next meal."   This is "alright, we're going to spend about $15 per person after tax and drink and intentionally eat something that is so heinous, so awful, that this restaurant must GIVE it away.   
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: MusicMan on May 10, 2010, 11:32:41 am
This is "alright, we're going to spend about $15 per person after tax and drink and intentionally eat something that is so heinous, so awful, that this restaurant must GIVE it away.   

Because MORE is BETTER.  If I can pay thirty cents more to get a soda twice the size of my bladder, then by god, I'm getting a DEAL!
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Alkie on May 10, 2010, 11:34:53 am
So you're saying that most people are total fucking morons.

I seeeeeee.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Gizzmonic on May 10, 2010, 11:36:33 am
Golden things to cherish: rings, sunsets, Grahams.

Golden things to avoid: sombreros, Corrals, showers.

Am I missing anything?
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: MusicMan on May 10, 2010, 11:37:00 am
So you're saying that most people are total fucking morons.

I seeeeeee.

I know this isn't news to you.  Just hurts when you're reminded in a manner like this, doesn't it?
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: MusicMan on May 10, 2010, 11:37:41 am
Golden things to cherish: rings, sunsets, Grahams.

Golden things to avoid: sombreros, Corrals, showers.

Am I missing anything?

Judging by the first funny SNL in ages:  cherish Golden Girls.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Alkie on May 10, 2010, 11:48:31 am
I know this isn't news to you.  Just hurts when you're reminded in a manner like this, doesn't it?

It is upsetting.  You keep hoping to find out that people are getting "better" or that the collective intelligence is somehow progressing.

Then you see $10 all you can eat flimsy microwaved ribs and realize...no.   We are fucked.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: MRaup on May 10, 2010, 12:13:38 pm
Golden things to cherish: rings, sunsets, Grahams.

Golden things to avoid: sombreros, Corrals, showers.

Am I missing anything?

R. Kelly called and said you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: MusicMan on May 10, 2010, 12:41:02 pm
R. Kelly called and said you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

"We can see your Soul Train award on the table!  Best new artist!!"
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Gizzmonic on May 10, 2010, 12:58:03 pm
R. Kelly called and said you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

So, R. Kelly likes $9 ribs?
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: rifraft on May 10, 2010, 01:03:10 pm
So, R. Kelly likes $9 ribs?

That would be 9 year old ribs.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Fredia on May 10, 2010, 01:07:53 pm
just solve the hole argument and go to ryans
btw the new large and improved golden coral is opening on parmer and 35 by the walmart.. at least it will be clean
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Bench on May 10, 2010, 01:14:38 pm
just solve the hole argument and go to ryans

Yes, Alkie.  Why didn't you think of that?
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Andyzipp on May 10, 2010, 01:25:39 pm
just solve the hole argument and go to ryans
btw the new large and improved golden coral is opening on parmer and 35 by the walmart.. at least it will be clean

What exactly is the hole argument?  Something to do with Alison Brie, I hope.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Limey on May 10, 2010, 05:42:29 pm
Judging by the first funny SNL in ages:  cherish Golden Girls.

The Galifinakis one was pretty good.  The old-lady-making-dick-jokes theme got a little tired by the end of this one.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Alkie on May 10, 2010, 06:45:39 pm
Yes, Alkie.  Why didn't you think of that?

I can honestly say "I hadn't thought of that."
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Alkie on May 10, 2010, 06:47:03 pm
The Galifinakis one was pretty good.  The old-lady-making-dick-jokes theme got a little tired by the end of this one.

It was tired before the episode started.   That being said, Betty White making dick jokes will always be funny.   SNL will never be funny.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Limey on May 10, 2010, 11:37:07 pm
It was tired before the episode started.   That being said, Betty White making dick jokes will always be funny.   SNL will never be funny.

I disagee.  Lots is funny - they just can't find an end to their sketches.  Python used to shoot people for exactly the same reason, or leap unceremoniously to a fish-slapping dance (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2002541459944162494#).  SNL don't have that luxury because they have to go to commercial.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on May 11, 2010, 07:04:20 am
the new ... golden coral is opening by the ... walmart..

Of course it is.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: 94CougarGrad on May 11, 2010, 01:40:21 pm
Ryan's... ugh. And I hate to admit it, but the Golden Corral in Denton was actually pretty good on the one occasion I went there. Which wasn't my choice, it was my father-in-law's- he just thought the fried shrimp sounded really good.
Title: Re: All For Around $10
Post by: loganck on May 11, 2010, 02:00:42 pm
The Golden Corral in Henderson, Texas is infinitely better than the Austin one I've been to.

They're both pretty nasty, though.