# Don't eat at Chili's on Monday **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 5, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424 "2014-04-05T17:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/61 "2014-04-07T20:27:16Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Now can we go after the view? I won’t watch that show anymore with the twit Jenny McCarthy on there. Hey, don’t dis Jenny McCarthy. She’s smart enough to have a degree from the University of Google, and still writes for the common people, and had the courage to publish a book with the work “fuck” on almost every page. She’s Henry Miller and Stephen Jay Gould all at once. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/62 "2014-04-08T00:54:09Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Will you settle for a gay vaccinated autistic pony with a side of fries? Are you saying Chili’s serves horse meat? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/63 "2014-04-08T01:17:05Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Hey, don’t dis Jenny McCarthy. She’s smart enough to have a degree from the University of Google, and still writes for the common people, and had the courage to publish a book with the work “fuck” on almost every page. She’s Henry Miller and Stephen Jay Gould all at once. Okay. This is the hardest I laughed all day. Thanks. You win the internets. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/64 "2014-04-08T14:31:18Z")
It’s Tuesday. Is it OK if I don’t go to Chili’s today? I really don’t like the place. I think their food is terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/65 "2014-04-08T15:04:08Z")
All right, but if any autistic kids die today, it’s on your head. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/66 "2014-04-08T15:10:42Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > I believe the preferred term these days is “servo-American.” However much credit this was getting, it wasn’t enough. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/67 "2014-04-08T16:15:06Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I pretty much ignore all the bottom-tier chain “fun” restaurants - Chili’s, Applebee’s, Chevy’s, ten or fifteen variations of “cowboy grill,” half a dozen “Italian fusion” places… [Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=716573) a CS thread I started, wondering, what do they call that style of décor?! Suggested answers include “Random Crap Nailed to the Walls,” _“Pastiche Americana,”_ “Kind of Rustic or Something,” “Faux Americana,” “Ersatz Kitsch,” “Early American Yard Sale,” “Fauxlksy,” and “Warehouse Explosion.” ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/68 "2014-04-08T17:28:10Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The idea of donating 10% of receipts to the NAA apparently arose after a “heroic” Chili’s server repaired a “broken” cheeseburger for an autistic child, resulting in favorable publicity for the chain. > Now Chili’s can get to work repairing a corporate image broken by its foolish support of the NAA. It’s the nearest Chili’s to me. In the month or two after that story broke, we broke our usual blanket boycott of chain restaurants\* and went there twice with our autistic son. They were extremely good to him, and the food was a solid B-. 😛 Other than that, I have no dog in this fight. _Most_ autism charities and awareness groups suck, from the big daddy (Autism Speaks) on down. ☹ - Except when at rest stops on road trips. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/69 "2014-04-08T17:33:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Suggested answers include “Random Crap Nailed to the Walls,” _“Pastiche Americana,”_ “Kind of Rustic or Something,” “Faux Americana,” “Ersatz Kitsch,” “Early American Yard Sale,” “Fauxlksy,” and “Warehouse Explosion.” Antiques Roadshow Reject Storage. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/70 "2014-04-08T17:37:13Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Now can we go after the view? I won’t watch that show anymore with the twit Jenny McCarthy on there. Nitpick: you misspelled “twat.” ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/71 "2014-04-18T04:26:55Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I re-tweeted it. I plan to not go there on Monday. I might go there and tell them why they’re not getting my money. Come on, who are you going to tell? Do you believe that even the highest ranking official there will know what the fuck you’re on about? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/72 "2014-04-18T05:40:39Z")
[Megan Kelly Rips Jenny McCarthy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81X35O7bwaQ) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/73 "2014-04-18T16:11:21Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Hey, don’t dis Jenny McCarthy. She’s smart enough to have a degree from the University of Google, and still writes for the common people, and had the courage to publish a book with the work “fuck” on almost every page. She’s Henry Miller and Stephen Jay Gould all at once. I don’t know. Even on _Singled Out_ I always got the impression that Carmen Electra was the smart one. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/74 "2014-04-18T19:41:43Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > In the month or two after that story broke, we broke our usual blanket boycott of chain restaurants\* and went there twice with our autistic son. They were extremely good to him, and the food was a solid B-. 😛 Did he have a burger and did they serve it to him broken? Our Chili’s is a solid B/B+. And we don’t have many choices. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/75 "2014-04-18T20:02:56Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Are you saying Chili’s serves horse meat? You _wish_ it was horse. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/76 "2014-04-18T20:09:25Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Did he have a burger and did they serve it to him broken? > Our Chili’s is a solid B/B+. And we don’t have many choices. Cheese pizza, neatly cut into six slices. And exactly the way he expects a pizza to look, thus averting Aspergian meltdown. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/77 "2014-04-19T00:04:30Z")
Isn’t there enough dead bacteria in Chili’s food to act as a vaccine in its own right? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424/78 "2014-04-19T17:33:59Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > No damn it. It is April and I am freezing and it sucks. Be careful; I heard that being chilly can cause autism. Or maybe it was eating at Chili’s. Or traveling to Chile. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-eat-at-chilis-on-monday/685424.md?page=3)