https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_point

A suburb (or suburban area or suburbia) is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

Sounds like you purchased rancid oil? Cause I got no clue what you’re talking about.

The vast majority of people below boomer age regularly play games. Most households these days have at least one gaming device. This isn’t a niche.

Well that’s an incredibly stable market to focus on. Not like those people are apt to die, retire far away, or end up on a restricted income.

My bigger problem is that in presenting the response as being from an active restaurant worker. The often wonky as fuck answers will give readers the wrong impression.

“NYC tried it within the past 5 years and every single place went back to the old system.”

Don’t do this. It’s impossible to avoid the implication that you’re attempting buy better service. Mentioning the tip, drawing attention to the tip is profoundly awkward and often insulting. Passing notes to restaurant workers is weird.

It won’t even cut a pickup truck in half! Cheap foreign manufacturing. 

I’ve seen some Cutco sales materials out there. They have a thing about quality knife brands, especially Wustoff for some reason.

IIRC the proposed sales pitch was to hammer a buy American line, and some how wrangle your way to cutting bricks with this poor person’s Wustoff.

Epic salesmanship really. 

I too got some ginsu knives as a gag, and for trash knives they’re weren’t half bad. Much sharper than Cutco.

But they were only really, really, sharp by standards of dirt cheap serrated knives. Even a $20 restaurant beater is sharper out of the box. As far as the steak knives in the set I had? Bit better than most…

I think you’re giving Cutco’s knives too much credit.

By that standard Magnolia bakery is the greatest bakery that ever baked. And Nickelback is one of history’s greatest bands.

Oh ok. I misunderstood and thought you were describing American retailers dealing directly with Europe to get their stock. And things being generally hard to get.

US suppliers have gotten hit pretty hard in other directions. Like increased aluminum can prices (and reduced supply) caused by a similar set of tariffs. For producers of spirits a huge part of the market is in exports, and a lot of equipment tools and ingredients come out of Europe.

That’s not generally how it works. Retailers do not convince producers to send things to them, or generally deal with the at all. And European retailers shouldn’t be involved at all, as re-retailing product purchased retail is illegal.

Not mentioned is that with Brexit finally going down the UK (where Scotland be) is currently operating without a trade deal with the US. Pretty sure it defaults to WTO base rules once we're not coasting on the old rules. And with the logistical fuck show in the UK driving prices up in both directions among other…

There’s little reason to buy the other stuff for sauteeing or cooking. Everything but unfiltered, first press, early season olive oil has a smoke point of at least 400f. And it’s traditionally used for straight up frying all over the Mediterranean.

The only other thing you tend to run into in the US is “pure olive oil". Near as I can tell this is the sub version, refined, neutral version. 

Lord of Ducks has it about right. Flavor. Other grades of olive oil are basically no different than any other neutral cooking oil, but tend to be more expensive.