November is for Food

So I am noticing that on facebook everyone seems to be on this whole November being “30 days” of thankfulness and posting something that they are thankful for every day of the month, to see just how hard it is when you get to the end of the month…

I’m not doing that at all.

Google is one update away from skynet

This blog is all about food and not what kind of food you eat or even how much you eat of it, it is about where you eat it.  See I don’t know any other way to say it, so I will just go on out and express myself the only way I know how to on this subject:

EVERY CORPORATE RESTAURANT SUCKS(except the Waffle House, that’s my shit right der!)

It’s true.

What does not suck are the number of local restaurants in your area that you don’t go to cause you would rather have applebees 2 for 20 b.s. It bothers me that it looks like damn Occupy Wallstreet outside of Longhorn steakhouse, Ruby Tuesdays, Applebee’s, O’charlies, and The Olive Garden.

When you have some seriously awesome local action as an option!

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For instance, in the great metropolitan city of Carrollton, GA there is the downtown square and on the square there is a restaurant called Plates.  Most people will hang out and drink at the really awesome bar up top, but the menu is nothing short of amazing.  I am certain that aside from the two and a half Japanese steakhouses, this is the only other place where you can get fried rice made to order.  The menu is this Asian, Polynisan, American, Fusion with a good atmosphere. Seriously, you can come in with shorts and a t-shirt or in a suit and tie and not feel out of place at any point of the day. I can tell you that General Tso, would be pleased at his favorite meals representation at this establishment, and if you never had elk meatloaf, with the homemade ketchup, then your life is without meaning, and you don’t even know it.

That is just sad.

What about the PRICE?

That is not the point, see if you are going to go eat at any of the above corporate chuck wagons, then you have already allocated the money from your budget to eating out. This money is going to be spent and I am just asking the question: “Why spend it there and not local”

Let’s go back to the waiting line issue.

If you wait outside of here it is because you are stupid not
hungry.

Why would you wait in line at a restaurant when there is better dining options at a comparable price in the same town, this makes no sense to me and I know it makes no sense to restaurant owners in the local community. We tell our kids to try new things, we tell our kids to not be a follower be a leader, to take inititive, and what do we do instead? We stick to our routines, listen to commercials, wait for someone else to tell us what something is like, and we fall for the corporate Okey-doke.

What you do is more important than what you say, so I am saying get out there and eat something new this November.

So this month, I am going to write about how awesome a local restaurant is in my community and share it with the world in hopes that my super awesome diverse readership will forgo restaurants with commercials, download Scoutmob on your smartphones, and spend the money that you are going to spend already at a local spot.

Oh and on a side note, for all you parents out there that are/were on this whole I'm glad it rained on Halloween  cause Halloween is the devil and all that non-sense. I got a conversation for you on the 24 of this month and I am going to finish it up in December.