It’s still very easy to encounter dismal pub food. But, yes, it’s now easy to find good food in pubs - although many of the so-called gastropubs are, in reality, restaurants in buildings that used to be pubs. As ever, research is the key. FWIW, this place is one of regular lunch stops:
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Exxon? Barilla pasta?
Posting this is in itself seems like a political act to me. I do not understand why politics should not be part of talking about food for those who are interested in doing so anyway. There are plenty of food topics that are very political. Those who are not interested should probably not click on threads with titles such as this one.
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For your edification from the House Rules for the Site 10/29/2015:
- Excluded discussions – Please no discussions on the following topics: Policies, politics, racism, disability, religion, sexual orientation, discrimination.’
So while there are plenty of food topics which are very political, as part of the terms of service for this site it is specifically asked that politics be excluded from discussions. As is the case with this thread, you can easily support the cause of the article without having to get into any political details for supporting such. Again that has been and will remain the rules for this site.
Thank you.
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Additionally here is the link to the House Rules for your review:
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I agree with you. Those however are not the rules at HO. Be like Bob. Follow the rules.
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I have no problem following that rule since I mostly just lurk here anyhow but that advice is pretty funny coming from you.
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The first amendment does not guarantee the right to shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
Which circles me back to my earlier question. Does Chick-fil-A live up to the hype? Are they a self-fulfilling prophecy? I asked a similar question on the Impossible Burger/Beyond Burger thread and I got creamed (in a roux, milk, onions, and green peas) for daring to point out the nutritional information. Looking at the pictures of the Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich, the nutritional information, and with scar tissue of limp lettuce and woody tomatoes in other venues I have to ask why should I bother.
I don’t like the politics of Dominoes delivery pizza but I don’t like their pizza more. Ketchup on cardboard. It’s easy to blow them off without getting into politics because the products are horrible. I’m not impressed with the politics of Pizza Hut or Papa Johns either but again, no issue since I don’t like their products.
I am having a quiet boycott of Minneapolis MN. That’s much more work. Nothing to do with food. grin
So in my long and rambling route back to my question, is Chick-fil-A product worth the angst? If you don’t like their politics that’s your business. Isn’t it a bigger impact to say their products are bad than that you don’t like their politics? As long as you’re being truthful of course.
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And then of course, there’s the billionaire Mr Big Game Hunter who founded Jimmy John’s…
I am with you there. I don’t know if I don’t eat at Chik-fil-A because of their politics or because when I saw a picture of the food it did not really appeal to me. Same with the others you mention. I guess I will have to wait until someplace I like expresses politics I don’t agree with before I find out where my loyalty stands.
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Bob - I’m really not sure how you discuss an issue inherently political (or ethical, if you will) without discussing the political (or ethical) aspects. In this particular matter, the politics are at the root of the protests. If you feel the thread contravenes HO rules, then my apologies starting it and please feel free to close/delete it. Regardless of that decision, I heed your words of wisdom reminding us of the no politics rule, so I’ll make this my last contribution to the thread.
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What he said . . . .
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I’ll chime in with a general statement about politics, and without getting too much in the weeds or hopefully fluffing too many feathers. I like when corporations are more transparent about their politics, their causes, and their alliances. Regular citizens have precious little opportunity to influence the things that affect our daily lives because we have so little money and pull compared to corporations. Since everyone in politics is looking to be reelected, and money = ads/name recognition, corporations in the US are in a unique position to influence policy. How wonderful then, when we poor plebes can actually, collectively, put our support behind corporations that share our own values. Isn’t that democratic? We all know that sometimes there is a fairly sizeable sea change on the ground with respect to various social issues (LGBTQ, guns), but due to the strength of corporate or lobby interests, those don’t translate to a change in laws/regulations. But if enough of us put our money where our mouths are, then we can hope that eventually if a business falls too much out of line with its patrons’ world outlook, that business will be replaced by another that does better.
And yes, chic fil a’s chicken is that good. We wouldn’t be having this discussion if people didn’t think it was. There would be no hand wringing about their politics.
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Yours is an excellent post with which I agree wholeheartedly. And to expand on the question of politics yay or nay: as long as we remain reasonably respectful and refrain from ad hominem attacks, I see no reason why we can’t air our views here. Rules can be relaxed. Amended, even! If it’s good enough for the Constitution, it’s probably good enough for Hungry Onion. And - as people are not shy about telling me when I complain that a thread is redundant or annoying or useless - if ya don’t like it, you don’t hafta read it.
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Get Well Soon
When a thread starts out titled ‘Chick-Fil-A…you’re not welcome here’ and the lead in link is ‘First UK Chick-Fil-A to close in LGBT rights row’. What did everyone expect? Talk of how good the chicken and waffle fries are? Of course not. I think everyone has been pretty civil so far. But rules are rules and who am I to argue.
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That is the most lucid comment on this thread.
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Indeed. Moreover, does ‘supporting’ a person’s right to say things (without imprisonments, btw, not without consequences) extend to providing money for that speech to get a platform or to be implemented into some form of action. If someone says X, fine (ish) but what if they are using their profits to make X a reality? Is it really the same thing?
(I find the understanding of free speech by many to be compromised.)
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