Hey, if all you are doing is asking for rice instead of potatoes, then it is not a big deal at all & my longwinded response above is not for that kind of request, or the "can I have the sour cream on the side" sort, for that matter. :)

So many insane demons eat out.

Unless you have worked inside the actual kitchen of the restaurant you are ordering in, it's pretty damn hard to tell what is & isn't a "simple" request when you are talking about altering a menu item. Some are, of course, but lots are not ....& no, the customers cannot tell the difference because they are not in the…

yes, that's it exactly. If a black pres eats nice food or plays golf or takes a vacation then Fox flips out. And back in the 90's, Clinton was dissed for eating McDonald's because it was "low class". They are just playing up/against stereotypes because they are conservative & don't like dem's.

Yup. Only news because he's black & dem. but they are preaching to the choir ;(

omg this is stupid. Yes, $1000 meals are extravagant but if fox et al care about that, why not complain about everyone eating at them? (Wouldn't it be nice if fox turned into populists, and started complaining about wealthy extravagance 24/7 instead of this)? But no, it's only news for Fox if our black "liberal"…

O c'mon... He just wants to make it Safe For Men. Can't you respect that you lentil-eater????

Pictures of baby animals? Ok, I'll risk death for that. But what if I'm wrong?????

Congrats & have fun!

Yay for boys (I assume?) from the rest of gawker who come here & like it, instead of complaining about us lesbian shitasses! Thanks & glad to have you around!!! Happy new year :)

A great essay, thank you! And I think the author is way too gentle on one type of supposed GWP. A "'good' white person" would never say "why do black people always have to make it (fill in the blank) about race" ....A white person who actually gives a tiny shit about the inequality and racial injustices in every…

I wish.... ;)

Yes, wouldn't it?! Tell that to congress.....

exactly. If servers were considered regular employees, then on a slow shift they would still be ok. And, the restaurant could *fairly* expect them to do more than the typical side-work.

That assumes they are only putting in the effort for immediate personal gain, and in my experience, most servers & bartenders would love to (and often do) have a lot of camaraderie with their fellow staff. One of the many flaws I witness in our current (US) tip-based system is the way it pits all staff against each…

I love this:

Mushrooms are are pretty pricy! Don't know what that restaurant pays for product, or what goes into any of their recipes, but mushrooms are anywhere from $4 to $18 per lb depending on the type, and beef for burgers is going to definitely be less than $10 per pound. And while a burger could be just meat and salt &…

but it can be "oh, did you realize that's dangerous & stuff?" Lots of over-30-yo's smoked back when it was just what you did if ya smoked in the car (yuck anyway IMO!) But your old candy wrappers are a completely different level of not-cool

Yes, but were you around when this whole thing went down? She was completely trashed in print & online media for months, ridiculed for her appearance, naïveté, everything. They had the affair together, yet he was twice her age and married and the President so if anyone should be more at fault, you'd think it would be…