#58 – Order

Sometimes I’ll be out with a group of people and wind up at a restaurant I’ve never been to before. The first time I go through the menu nothing really catches my eye. The second time I go through it I start to get worried. “Oh no, I don’t want anything they have here.” I start to scavenge through the appetizers section to see if I can cobble something together. I hear the other people at the table excitedly discussing their choices. With no time left I choose one of the cheapest items available so I can go out and get something else later on my way home.

Today’s Biff is unleashed.

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25 thoughts on “#58 – Order”

  1. Chuck says:

    I thought chicken strips were safe to order anywhere. I was wrong. Yardhouse chicken strips are so gross.

    1. Tekaramity says:

      Chicken strips are quickly becoming a terrible option at many places. I have been continually disappointed over the past two years. What hope is left, if not strips?

      1. Mahnarch says:

        These comments are from 2011. I don’t remember if that’s before or after the pink goo “scandal”.

        It would be funny if chicken got worse because of a lack of pink goo that everyone yelled about.

  2. Radical Edward says:

    Rose thorn soup sounds weird. namely, how do you get cream of rose thorn?

    1. Chris says:

      Same way you get cream of broccoli.

    2. extremist343 says:

      there is a cream soup base recipe that can just have whatever flavour you want added to it, it’s not that hard to do.

  3. Ceyrus says:

    So, they serve Cap’n Crunch at that restaurant then? I’ll go with a bowl of that and a glass of salt and broken glass.

    1. Chris says:

      Yes! Cap’n Crunch with no milk!

  4. Dustin says:

    Favorite Mumble yet! made me laugh out loud!

  5. LibraryLady says:

    And to think I thought I was the only one that was terrified of new trendy restaurants with menu full of unedible food. Glad I’m not alone.

  6. The ones that get me are the trendy expensive places with a nicely displayed little array of almost nothing on a plate; then I realize that _was_ the entree!

    And I’ve been known to nibble on the breadstick, finally close the menu and walk out with my date.

    Sometimes it just doesn’t work out.

    1. Mahnarch says:

      Yeah. A single green bean with a swirl of ketchup on a china plate for $25?

      No thank you.

  7. Cholma says:

    I’ve also found that the fancier the restaurant, the more expensive it is and the portions are smaller while the taste is bland or nasty. Why the hell do rich people eat crap like that?

    1. Psychlycan says:

      Maybe they taste what normal “taste blasted” tongues can’t in these “delicacies”? Of course, I can’t talk, I grew up on frozen foods to the point where homemade food doesn’t sound as good.

      1. Mahnarch says:

        They don’t want the food the spoil the taste of their $3,000 bottle of Pinot.

  8. Calliopejane says:

    Where do you live, Cholma? Maybe it’s just that New Orleans is such a food-centered town, but our fancy restaurants are excellent. I mean, Commander’s Palace? Totally worth it! Of course, our cheap restaurants are pretty damn good too. I don’t think any restaurant can make it in this town if what they serve doesn’t taste good; pretentious alone just isn’t filling enough. (especially for a population as fat as we are)

  9. Radical Edward says:

    We have lots of Asian flavors throughout my area. When you live near Seattle and the majority of your “imported” employees are from Asia, there is usually a corollary that whatever they remember from their home country is usually part of their new home here in the US.

    Then again, the Chinatown in my region is actually a nihon-machi (Japan-town)

  10. Schmordy says:

    I’m a terribly picky eater, so I can really relate to this comic. I often have a bad habit of judging my liking of certain foods by how they look, what those brown cooked bits on it are or what the skin looks like.

    At least the waiter had the decency to tell him the nature of the restaurant.

  11. Caiti Voltaire says:

    Heh, Scottish food is crap for your health, but dude, does it taste good! Can’t really go anywheres and get a horrid meal, though I suppose there are a few mediocre ones. It really is a different culture back home in Scotland, compared to here in North America. I think of it as food being a commodity here whereas its more like an art form some places.

  12. Ptorq says:

    Living in California and not liking raw fish is kind of a social stigma. I have to keep telling people “No, it’s not just the idea of raw fish; I HAVE tried it; I don’t like the taste.”

    Once we went to a really fancy fish place for a company dinner, and I ordered the tuna steak without carefully reading the menu. It turns out they only cooked it long enough to cook the outside, so it looked and smelled great until you cut into it and there was that translucent raw tuna inside.

  13. jecca says:

    I live in a college town full of ethnic food and brewpubs. There’s always good, cheap things to eat… and most of them are reasonably healthy, too!

  14. Centaur71 says:

    What’s the POINT of this comic Chris? are you a STICKLER for deviation? 😉

  15. Dave says:

    Oh, Boy… Yep. Been there. Last time I wound up getting a cold pureed spinach “soup” I will never have the dubius honor of ever eating again. Ever.

  16. Todes says:

    look at that subtle off white coloring… the tasteful thickness of it. oh my god… it even has a watermark…

  17. Scia says:

    Technically, cactus pads ARE used in foods. They strip off the outside first, though. XD;

    (Similar with cactus “pears” – I hear the best way to get rid of the pokey parts is to burn them off.

    …can’t help but wonder what kind of comic-like metaphor [or whatever] might be made out of that.)

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