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[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

She has another article about spending $460 on a dinner. Does shilling for chain restaurants pay that well?

https://www.businessinsider.com/review-is-the-capital-grille-worth-it-for-family-2024-2

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A filet mignon is one of my 13-year-old daughter's favorite dinners, so she was thrilled to find one on the menu.

At $58, it was about the same price as my steak entrée. She ate nearly all of it, only taking a little home as leftovers.

The price of one of her kid's meals costs more than an average restaurant meal for my family che-laughgui-better

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

You could buy the filet from a grocery store, grill it at home, and feed the whole family for that same price PLUS there's a very good chance it'll taste better.

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That shit doesn't even look good. $460 could literally get you a Michelin star tasting menu dinner for two.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once went on a date to a place that had a Michelin star and it wasn't that expensive. I think I made it out under $70.

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

That's why I specified the tasting menu part. With those you're essentially getting a show for two plus hours and like a dozen different small plates of the best food you've ever had.

[–] buttwater@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Terri Peters lives in Florida

Florida minimum wage: $12

$165 meal ÷ $12/hr = 13.75 hours worked to pay for one family meal (pretax)

[–] NESSI3 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Let's just be more honest: if you're the sole breadwinner for a family of four and making $12 an hour, the only thing on the menu is starvation. Meat is unthinkable.

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

literally just an ad for outback

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if your 13 year old declares filet mignon is their favorite dish, you have fucked up your child.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

My in laws have a kid way younger than the others, he gets the most expensive stuff off the menu everywhere they go, literally lobster and filet mignon and shit. Little weirdo goes on about wanting a Lamborghini and a Tesla. It's so wild to see.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

filet mignon seems like a boomer food to me

it's like mowing the lawn excessively (also a boomer habit), you pay a lot and spend a lot of effort for nothing. It's the chicken breast of the cow.

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I could cook you up some steaks, french fries, and a bottle of cheap wine for under $20 lady

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But can you turn an onion into a 1320 calorie monstrosity?

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

anything's possible with the power of a deep fryer

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

And a heaping scoop of flavored lmayo

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

god those things are good, i wish there was a different place that did them *near me that i knew abt

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry bub I'm already married happily to my cat

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Soros and Softie underneath the tree

P-O-S-T-I-N-G

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I will never understand the appeal of Outback

It was literally made by a couple rich dudes from California to ride the back of the Crocodile Dundee craze

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

outback is hard carried by the bloomin onion. i don't think there's any other reason to go

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not even Australian. We don't even know what a bloomin onion is

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's called a fuckin onion there I think

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[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm legitimately trying to figure out how anyone could willingly pay nearly $60 for a single portion of filet mignon from fucking Outback. I've gone to nice steakhouses for dates that charged less than that.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think the $60 filet was at capital grille (lol). The filet at outback looks like it's $26 on the receipt in the screenshot. Even then that seems pricey.

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[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

That's like three weeks of groceries for my wife and I, but whatever

American journalism at its finest.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Steak is literally one of the easiest things to cook. You can easily buy a nice USDA prime steak from a local butcher, pay 25% the cost, and cook it in 20-30 minutes. If you're fancy, and it's a thick cut, dry brine it overnight with salt, and then sous vide or bake in oven at like 250, then finish by searing in a hot pan with butter (or ghee) that was infused with rosemary and crushed garlic. Still stupid easy to do.

I only go out to eat for things that are a pain to make, like many Indian dishes.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

cw: meatI find choice is just fine if you’re not fucking up the cooking

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I only go out to eat for things that are a pain to make, like many Indian dishes.

I posted this take on reddit once and got hit with frothing mayo
Only things I go out for are certain Indian dishes, the forbidden noodle of Gansu, and pizza

and cook it in 20-30 minutes

Steak takes around 10 minutes to cook

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's actually not good, I got a similar spread from an actually nice local restaurant for about $20 less the other day. Why would I spend that much at a chain?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It costs big money to maintain that fake Aussie veneer

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it even count if they don't say "mate"?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When they asked me if I was ready to order and I said "Well, we're not here to fuck spiders" they politely asked me to leave

Absolutely deplorable

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Why are you posting ads to hexbear stalin-stressed

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yes $3.49 for a can of coke is an amazing deal

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

If I"m paying that much at a restaurant, I'm going to a good place.

[–] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uncle Xi cooks up HUMONGOUS bowl of noodles and feeds entirety of Hunnan province for just 10 yuan

[–] NPa@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The sino-soviet split happened because Stalin tried to eat Maos big bowl of noodles with his big spoon stalin-comical-spoon landlord-spotted

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's close to what you'd have to pay at a shitty steakhouse here in my Nordic workers' welfare paradise. Wasn't the social contract of America that you don't get healthcare or a union or a living wage or safety or culture or education or anything but at least the treats are cheap?

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[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Outback is the hardee's of steakhouses

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

porky-scared-flipped "How dare you impugn our journalistic integrity?! This is a review by a professional to help people learn about obscure things like ubiquitous chain restaurants and steak! It is certainly not, 'an advertisement so shamelessly blatant that uBlock should prevent me from seeing it'!"

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

$37.5/ea for badly cooked steaks and a deep fried onion.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if you think that's good, me and my owner went to burger king and ate a whole meal for only $62!!!!

[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

okay i know now how they become so completely fine with this shitshow they live in

they've completely and utterly deluded themselves into thinking its fucking sunshine and daisies

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