also isn't it standard to pick the name of another animal even it's just a minor variation of another game named after an animal?

He'll visit it, obv.

might be missing a ldo level here, but were you ok with it when I called him an unapologetic dick?

Aardvark?

Just fulfilled an utterly bourgeois bucket list item and booked a table at the Fat Duck. Very excited.

your bucket list item was to book the table?

Yes, yes it was. Now that's done the thrill has gone.

£255 plus drinks plus service?!

**** off with your bourgeois nonsense. I could raise a family of ducks for that...

FYP

Yeah, but you couldn't make them taste the same way a world class chef can. What, do you expect the top talents in the world to charge the same for dinner as a TGIFridays?!!

Not once in my entire life have I ever regretted spending money on a world class chef. I think you think you're spending it on the food! Wrong!

1 bajillion dollars for a Picasso?!

I could buy a gazillion paint tubes for that!

Said nobody ever


I need to take you to a fancy dinner appparently, roo

You visited all 13.500.000?

The world of art buying is really interesting. If I was being charitable I'd say it's less about the paintings themselves and more about the history and people behind them. But in reality I think it's more a giant, arbitrary circlejerk.

Do most of the people who look at the Mona Lisa know why they're looking at it? Do they know that if they turn around one hundred and eighty degrees they'll see (IMO) a far more impressive painting? Probably not...


I'm sure Heston Blumenthal's restaurant is a fantastic experience, I'm just salty that it'll likely be years before I have that kind of disposable income. And I'll take any shot at Bloo I can


You would be shocked and appalled if you saw the places and food my parents choose to eat on the reg. Like, not even good guilty-pleasure fast food. It's like they try to find the worst bottom rung places to go to and then go to the same ones with no variation. Both of them would consider TGI Fridays "expensive" or "a treat". I'm a product of their upbringing (and cooking), so I don't value food as highly as most people do. I'm improving on my own, but it takes time.

I don't judge you, roobear! I was once like you, I even ate my meat well-done

The folly of youth, eh?!

But srsly, high end food is the tits, I promise its not a scam. I'd choose a meal from Joel Robuchon over a night with Brad Pitt, and it wouldn't be close..

My dad only ever orders steak well-done, due to a fundamental misunderstanding of food safety.

Over Christmas, my stepdad bought some decent steaks (by my standards at least, more expensive than I would buy), but he cooked them at too low a temperature. They were gray, completely gray. Looked more like badly cooked pork than beef. I've never seen anything like it. He said 'they were spitting too much' (used the wrong kind of oil and the wrong kind of pan, they only own one pan!).

He said 'well that wasn't the worst steak I've ever had' and I was thinking 'where the hell are you getting your steaks?!'. It was so sad.

Even I might go for Brad Pitt there.

My mum doesn't eat anything that contains garlic or chili, which I attribute as responsible for me being a bit of an addict to both.

So just boiled meat and unseasoned potatoes?

I come from a family of food heathens and have changed to the extent that I really like good food.

I'm sure the fat duck will be pretty amazing. But £255pp is pretty extreme. I've eaten at Raymond Blanc's Manoir Aux Quatre Saisons, which is in the region of half that price (probably less, since that included wine iirc), and it was pretty jaw dropping. And we ate at a random French restaurant in the middle of regional France last week that was 20% of the fat duck price and was amazing. I dunno.

I saw Joel Robuchon in Vegas once and almost lost my mind. Nobody else knew who he was..

Chefs are my celebrities

I don't know why, but I can listen to food disaster stories all day. I absolutely love them, no joke. To some extent I enjoy being a part of them. I never complain or get annoyed with bad service at restaurants like a lot of people do, I just enjoy the experience. Similar with airports/airplanes. The worse the experience, the greater the guilty enjoyment I feel

You guys who are poopooing the expensive meals need to TRY the expensive meals first before criticizing!

I tried!

this was also quite humorous

I have, I like them.