Woah. Are you me?
Except I actually do watch NASCAR. On 2 tvs at once.
Platinum? >yawn< Titanium’s the way to go.
Titanium? :rolleyes:
Try my aluminum foil card. 
You’re right. I really don’t understand. A friend’s parent once took us out to a $30/plate restaurant. That’s the most expensive place I ever ate. Not wanting to drain the poor lady’s wallet even more than it was already going to be, I ordered an $11 (!) bowl of soup. I guess it was pretty good, but if it was my money, I’d have just bought 11 cans of Campbell’s. Is that soup really 11 times better than Campbell’s? Hell, no. So, in my eyes, it’s a fucking rip-off.
To each his own, indeed. You keep choosing your restaurants and automobiles based on what Biff and Muffy think of them, and I’ll keep choosing mine based on actual content/value. 
Life’s too short to live cheaply. I don’t choose my restaurants and autos on what Biff and Muffy think. I choose them based on what I want to drive, where I want to eat and what I can afford.
I’m not driving Bentleys and Maseratis (yet), for Pete’s sake. You’re living within your means and I’m living within mine. I don’t want to look at the price of my meal and think I could have gotten a (seemingly) comparable item for cheaper if schleped to the Safeway. Where’s the fun in that?
lol @ World Eater, by the way.
Hell, did ya know they now have black American Express cards now? They come with a personal assistant via phone to make reservations and stuff for you…but the ctah is you don’t qualify till you spend $100,000 a year with their cards…
O and thanks for noticing me Mr. Eater, sir I took a month off, but I was drawn back lack a moth to the flame… (not sure if puns are intended or not) lol
Then who, exactly, is it that’s going to catch you dead eating at Ruth’s Chris?
Ah, I see. The ‘wouldn’t be caught dead’ expression is just a bit of hyperbole.
I explained the whole restaurant thing a couple posts back.
Ah, I see. Okay then.
Say, trade your a quarter pounder with cheese for a hunk of that filet mignon you got there?
Nope, you sure aren’t - I’ve been thinking of them throughout this thread.
Make it a double quarter pounder with cheese and it’s a deal, neutron star.
A double quarter pounder? Christ, the name’s “neutron star,” not “Nelson Rockefeller!”
Yup - they’re made by Volkswagon.
How much a person has certainly has no bearing on their schmuckitude. But if a person make 30k/year, and they are a schmuck, I dub them a ‘30k/year schmuck’.
neutron star, regarding the restaurants, it’s not how much they cost that matters; It’s just that a decent local restaurant blows any ‘chain’ restaurant out of the water, may Applebees and TGI-Fridays burn in ‘same bland menu’ hell.
Yeah, I kind of gathered that that’s what Juanita was referring to - perhaps a little too late, but I did. I was just kind of shocked to see someone claim they were too good for what is probably the most expensive restaurant in my city. I kind of see her point now.
Even if I someday become rich, I can’t see myself blowing that much money on food. Then again, I could see myself blowing a fortune on computer parts that I want but don’t need, so, diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks and all…
Sure!
The redneck part of me is reaching for the Jack Daniel’s comemrative holiday tin can full of cash under the bed and the yuppie part is drawing up the standard contract for 14% interest. 
Bruce, you ain’t me, but I know we would get alone over a beer and racin’ talk at the Martini bar. I’ve been to Greenville and found it quite nice, by the way.
She told me she loved me like a brother. She was from Arkansas, hence the Joy!
Not only the food, mind you, but the wine gets rather pricey, too. I’ve been to dinners where the combined cost of the meals has reached nearly $1K. And that’s dinner for four people.
But hey, if you have the money available, want food better than what Chili’s (and, as others have mentioned, we’re talking much, much better) has to offer (not to mention the improved atmosphere and professional wait staff), then I don’t think you’d blanch so easily and spending a lot of money. Especially if you’ve done it at least once before.
Which isn’t to say that Chili’s is horrible for food or wait staff–please don’t think that. It’s just that, in comparison, a non-chain, local restaurant (sometimes they even show up as hole-in-the-walls… and have the prices to match, too, luckily enough) will almost always beat out a national chain in terms of food and enjoyment.
I may not be as picky about my eating places as auntie em (I’ll happily visit the chain restaurants of bland, casual dining, where auntie em will avoid them as much as possible), but I’d much rather spend my evenings at the Plaza III here in Kansas City. Best steaks, EVAH!
Diff’rent strokes, indeed. For example, I once made the mistake of trying on some really expensive clothes. Whoa. It ain’t always just the “label” that makes the difference. Those suckers are made better, out of better stuff and fit and feel better. I never realized just how uncomfortable cheap clothes really are.
My bunny don’t got wheels, but that’s what I’d spend a bundle on if I could.
:GAG: That French advertising thing is so done!
:eek: Are there restaurants without those words in their titles?