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Yes, but it isn't.
by IncreasePosts 3y ago
Yes, but it isn't.
- Kon-Peki 3y agoBourdain’s show was about traveling the world, eating cheap food with the local common man. He was good enough to cook in the kitchen at French Laundry and rich enough to eat in their dining room as often as he wanted. But he was very much anti food snobbery.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoIt's fine to be anti-food snobbery, but it doesn't change the facts, and to make a comment like that descends into reverse snobbery(which is just as ridiculous as snobbery but rarer) Maybe if he was as drunk at the French Laundry as he was at the Waffle House, he would rate it differently.
- lisper 3y agoBeing anti-food-snobbery is great. But let's be real: the Waffle House might be fantastic (I've never eaten at one so I wouldn't know), but there's still a reason that the Laundry can charge two orders of magnitude more for a meal than the Waffle House and still be sold out every single night.
- triceratops 3y agoCan the French Laundry serve as many customers as the Waffle House in the same night? Taste is a matter of taste. And there's a time and place for all foods.
- lisper 3y agoObviously the French laundry model doesn’t scale and obviously tastes vary. The Waffle House has its place. But better? Nah.
- js2 3y agoThis thread is ridiculous. First of all, better can mean many things. In some ways Waffle House is better and in others worse. Second of all, Bourdain's comment was obviously tongue-in-cheek. Lastly, despite the name sake, I never go to Waffle House for the waffles (the item Bourdain was eating —slathered in fake butter and fake maple syrup no less—when he made the comment). Obviously hash browns (smothered, diced, and peppered with two eggs over easy) are where it's at. HN will argue about anything, eh?
- westhanover 3y ago[dead]
- skyyler 3y agoBut can the waitstaff at the Laundry fight?
- wizerdrobe 3y agoIt’s simple comfort food consistently cooked by an often sassy staff. Sometimes that beats a Gucci plate with opaque aioli at absurd prices. If Bourdain says my old Waffle House beats a French laundromat who am I to argue? Cultural institutions are something to behold.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoSure, and if I say that my 4 year olds drawings are better than anything Van Gogh ever made, who could argue against that?
- triceratops 3y agoWhat if Damien Hirst said that about your 4 year old's drawings though?
- IncreasePosts 3y agoThen I would say there is some other game Mr Hirst is playing that isn't about judging the quality of art. And then I might tell him to put up or shut up - I'll believe it when I see hundreds of millions for these scribbles. I wonder if Bourdain ever returned to waffle house, despite his proclamations?
- triceratops 3y ago> I'll believe it when I see hundreds of millions for these scribbles. I mean, unless he's an idiot, he'll still pay the market-clearing price for the drawings. Quality and taste are subjective. Monetary value is not.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoWell, he clearly is an idiot if he thinks the paintings are better than Picasso's.